How Smoked Salmon Is Made

Here's how traditional London cure smoked salmon is made. H. Forman & Son has been smoking fish since 1905. Lance Forman, owner, discusses the history of smoked salmon.

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[wparo]

They sell 4 tons of fish a day, and still costs me my life's saving to buy a packet with 2 paper-thin slices.

[kyojin_]

I was expecting to see how the salmon is smoked
I didn’t

[alancao]

are we not gonna talk about how that guy removed the bones??

[glg]

This salmon is delicious. I used to work for an online fine food retailer and we got half off everything on the website. I always got this company's smoked salmon and real French hot chocolate powder from France. Memories....😍

[MoxieBeast]

all of the handiwork is already super impressive but 0:26 got me 😳😱😍

[fionnsomers]

Did it really tell us how smoked salmon is made or just the backstory of smoked salmon?

[arizexas]

Smoked salmon on a bagel with cream cheese 🤤

[Tibbles]

The ending when it said it was the last surviving smoke house in East London got me. I bet most companies just try to completely automate the process as much as they can.

[Krispe]

Salmon is the best fish on the planet, hands down

[leftyla]

“How to”? This looks more like an advert for the company that makes the smoke salmon. We see what you did there Insider.

[krockettz]

When you ask your dealer for some of that good smoke and he brings you salmon

[billwessels]

I come from the Pacific Northwest. The Salmon runs were killed off by the dams up and down the Snake and Columbia Rivers. Prior to that it was the 3rd largest industry behind timber and agriculture in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. Salmon are Anadromous fish, this means they lay their eggs upstream and after hatching and maturing a bit they make their way downstream to the Ocean and grow to enormous proportions over 3-5 years and then make their way back to the same place they were hatched, lay their eggs and die. Their used to be canneries all around the mouth of the Columbia and every few miles apart all the way up the Columbia and Snake rivers. They are pretty much all gone now. One of the dams was built without a fish ladder (now way for the returning fish to move forward). Only one dam had screens in front of the power generating turbines to keep the fry from being killed as they journeyed to the sea.

[BobMcCoy]

*I thought dragons just breathe on it*

[Jartisann]

Been there inside that factory watching how they do it. Lance walked me through. Fantastic. Was delicious. Gave me good knowledge.

[algebruh_m]

Kids vape/do weed, Adults smoke cigarettes. Legends smoke fish

[neverdiminished]

Based on the cost of raw and smoked salmon in the supermarket the mark up is around 150%-200% for something you can easily do at home (assuming you have space for a bbq)

[zimzimma]

I love me some smoked salmon, personally though I like a deep Oak taste, I find lightly smoked salmons like the one shown here can lack a bit of complexity for my tastes My favorite smoked salmon comes from Nicky's plaice, Howth, Co Dublin, Ireland. Their regular salmon is great, but they do a wild version when available that's just off the charts.

[garycook]

He says last surviving but im willing to bet its more like the monopolized the industry in that area and ran out the others hahaha just a guess

[pamagee]

“Smoked” salmon is really salt cured salmon with (maybe) a touch of cold smoke. Gravlax (lox) isn’t smoked at all.

[chrisbird]

Why is smoking so bad if it cures fish?