Smokehouse Recipes

This jerky recipe has been a staple in our family for generations. Every fall, after hunting season, it's tradition to get the family together and spend a day or two making our favorite jerky and sausage recipes. We have found that the key to consistent quality when it comes to this Killer Jerky Recipe is that you need to have consistent, steady heat which is why we always put our faith in the Big Chief and Little Chief smokers. So I couldn't tell you how many batches of jerky have gone through my Big Chief, but after a few generations,...

This recipe is perhaps the best smoked salmon recipe we have discovered in over 40 years of making smoked salmon with our Big Chief and Little Chief Electric Smokers. It’s basic, it’s simple, and it consistently makes absolutely mouth-watering smoked salmon. With just two ingredients, salt and brown sugar, it couldn’t be any easier to produce the best smoked salmon recipe you’ve ever made.

Salmon fishing legend Herb Good demonstrates how to fillet a salmon in less than a minute. He will show you two different techniques to fillet a salmon, one with a gutted fish and the other technique with a whole fish. Each technique to fillet a salmon will show you how to cut off the fins, including the dorsal, adipose and other fins, plus how to handle the rib bones, cartilage areas and other details so that you end up with a beautiful fillet without hack marks. Herb will also show you how to cut and prepare the salmon for any...

By: Buzz Ramsey Originally printed in the Northwest Steelheader Magazine in 2013. When was the last time you took inventory of the fish population in your freezer? Unfortunately, fish doesn't keep very well when frozen. The more time they spend in the freezer the less desirable they become. And while there are ways to make fish last in the freezer for six to twelve months, dropping fillets in a zip-top bag won’t get you much past 60 days. Surprisingly to some, fresh frozen fish lend themselves particularly well to the smoking process; you see, freezing causes cell tissue to burst,...

  This weekend we made smoked polish sausage using the Smokehouse Products sausage kit along with the Big Chief Front Load Electric Smoker. The result was some tasty elk sausage and a polish sausage recipe with the Big Chief that you'll have to try.