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all right
today we're gonna grill some salmon
we're gonna show you the best way to
cook
salmon uh and the importance of indirect
heat
on cooking salmon uh versus uh a lot of
the ways people show you to cook salmon
is with direct heat over a flame or in
an
oven and uh they you know maybe some of
their youtube channels they pronounce
salmon
salmon you know but uh but in the
pacific northwest
uh we're gonna show you the best way uh
to cook a nice
thick piece of king salmon
uh we're gonna start here by picking out
our filet
and uh we've had a good year this year
this is one of our freezers
packed full of salmon and all kinds of
other stuff
um but i'm gonna go with this uh this
king
that uh king i caught on the bogey
um last year 2019 nice thick
piece here and a nice nice belly piece
even though this has been in here for a
year i'm just going to cook up
fantastic using using the method we use
to cook a quick salmon on the grill in
the silk northwest
so here we go i want to show you
indirect heat
method of cooking uh a really nice filet
account
but i don't know if you can get closer
on this but this is
you know this is uh about uh maybe an
inch and a half
two inches thickness in this fillet
and uh there's a big difference between
this part of the meat
and this part of the meat and the
thickness the belly versus the the top
of the salmon
and this came off of a big probably 20
pound plus king salmon we got
um on the olympic peninsula last year
you know
if you cook this over direct tea if you
put this on the grill and cook this
thing
and you need it to be done and all the
way in the thickest part
uh the texture is gonna be all off it's
gonna be
dry it's gonna be uh chewy and just kind
of like
you know just not uh not what we
associate with great tasting salmon this
could be a
great tasting uh salmon meal
with the the quality of this king salmon
so many times people
when they don't like salmon it's because
uh someone's just kind of throwing it on
the grill or they throw it in the oven
and they just cook it until it's
you know just done it's really easy to
overcook especially
big thick pieces of salmon and then you
know they
they baste it with all kinds of crazy
you know spices
and sugary stuff and it's basically uh
you know it's like eating uh nicely
seasoned cardboard it's uh and they
associate that with
with uh with salmon they go oh i don't
really like salmon but there's a better
way to cook
uh your your good sam you can even cook
a smaller fillet like this it's going to
taste i think better
than um than the than the direct heat
method
and that's what we're going to show you
so uh
if you're out there and you're skeptical
and you don't you you don't like salmon
and you've never had it this way
you got to give this a try you got to
keep watching and watch what we do with
the salmon because it's going to taste
absolutely amazing it's going to take a
little bit longer to cook this way
but it's going to taste just absolutely
awesome so so this is a much smaller
uh whole fillet this is on a smaller
resident coho we caught back in june
and um you can get away with direct heat
cooking a fillet like this you know this
might be
more of what you'll see in the grocery
store you buy some some wild caught
uh coho salmon or maybe sockeye salmon
you know you can
you can get the grill marks on it and
cook it over direct heat
uh and like broiler in the oven uh
baking
frying pan or on the grill felix
get out now out
ethan just sprayed that whole area now
the dog's in it
hey guys the dog needs a bath now
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it won't stop that fast keep watching
all right so here we've got our
beautiful
piece of king salmon fillet
we're going to cook over a grill with
indirect heat and
again when it's cooked the correct way
you really don't need a whole lot of
seasoning so we're going to use
a little bit of uh old bay
um you can use i mean you can go simple
as
um you know like uh salt pepper
um butter i mean you can go that simple
and a good piece of meat is gonna
is is um it's gonna
it's gonna turn out really really good
you don't you don't need a whole lot um
you need a big complex recipe and
marinade we got some good flavor on the
outside we're gonna put a little bit of
a little bit of johnny seasoning salt
just a dash of that
a little bit of salt make a seafood one
that's really good salt on here
um all right and then we're just gonna
finish it off by putting a little slab
of butter on there that'll melt and uh
keep it nice and moist as we're
cooking it for probably 45 minutes or
now or something like that
all right we're going to cover in tin
foil now if i had a um
if i was gonna do this with a smoker or
like a traeger
uh something like that um that i could
get some good smoke
uh i would uh i wouldn't be covering it
entirely
um but i'm just using a propane um
barbecue
um not my favorite but i just want to
show an incredibly simple
easy way to do it you don't need some
you know fancy smoker
uh to do it uh uh really well so
i'm just gonna show you with the propane
grill here we go we are ready to
uh get this onto the grill one burner on
the other two off and remember this is
my
uh belly side this is my thinner side so
i'm gonna
position that away from the heat
source closest to the thickest part of
salmon
the same i'm going to close this uh and
again we're going to cook this for about
an hour 45 minutes
like that we'll probably check in about
half an hour see how we're doing
um when you know that your salmon's done
we're checking on this it's about dinner
time
and it is looking good
oh my goodness see when it's done i'll
have this white stuff coming out
and it'll just be kind of flaky see that
flakiness
that's just perfect on this right there
with uh
see how juicy it is you're not going to
get that with direct heat
that you lose so much flavor and
moisture
this is the bomb all right now you can
see it's a little bit better light
this is uh almost perfect doneness
we got the white fat coming out
different areas we got flakiness
here um this what we're looking for
this is uh all cooked uh
uh indirect heat to uh to perfect
doneness it's gonna be super juicy
flavorful let's get a little uh
corner of this here
oh my gosh
man so good
just cooked up with fat a little bit of
salt
about fantastic