Clyde Sisler wrote: >I've been looking for a method of sun drying fish while on a trip so you could catch a fish one day and have some of it on the second or third days. I imagine the recipe is lots of sun, air and dryness. Don't know if you have to cook/boil it first or hang them out raw. From the pictures I've seen, native Americans just hang salmon out to dry & cure and just saw off a chunk in the winter as needed.< I've found when drying meat outdoors that probably the most critical thing is keeping flies and other insects off until the outer surface has dried sufficiently that it is no longer attractive to them. I've used combinations of brine solutions and smoke from a slow burning hardwood fire successfully in the past. The degree of humidity can be a big factor in the speed and success or failure of outdoor drying also. I'm not certain that you could dry fish effectively while moving from place to place on a trip - especially on the water. Sun drying in the areas that I've lived - upper midwest - generally has taken three to fours days (for beef or venison) of good dry sunny weather - along with a slow, dry smoke fire for the first day. I wouldn't even begin to try it here in rainy Juneau. Dave David Seng / david_at_wainet.com Wostmann & Associates / phone - 907.586.6167 223 Seward St. / fax - 907.586.2996 Juneau, Alaska 99801 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Apr 17 1998 - 12:11:25 PDT
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