Hi Chris have you thought about digging another lake, and diverting your stream into it. Then you could get a fish farm on the go. Self sustaining food source.
SirVixIsVexed Thanks, but no, no heartbreak here 😊 We are just friends and all that's happened is my business has been much busier and I haven't been able to make it over. I'm also having lots of summer adventures of my own 😊
-wish i could make a fully functional dam Kris: here you go brother -thanks, now if someone could teach me how to make a smoker Kris: you're not gonna believe this...
Kris sushi looked awsome i have only cold smoked cheese and it was ace. I know u get your power for free but i think if you fit an air vent on the bottom of the door the wood chips will burn better. I use a old tube filter i got through work it is basically 8mm perforated plate rolled 10" long with a end cap at one end burns for about 3 hours.
How convenient that the batteries went flat, catching little brown trout, then cut to a plate full of sea trout, or Sewin as they are known in that part of the country, good angling Chris. 🤔🤫😂😂.
Kris, love your projects and been watching a while. For your workbench, have you thought about drilling some holes for bench dogs to act as a backstop for your projects? Watching you put your hands on the frame to hold it still made me think you might benefit from some home-made bench dogs...
enamel bowl on top of the hot-plate set to low will work great. I use old fridge as a smoker. hotplate goes on the very bottom. and another bawl just with water to catch drip and keep the food you are smoking moist and tender. you best to use chips instead of saw-dust or shavings. apple wood goes great with fish. you need to soak chips for half-hour prior to putting them on the fire this will create much better thicker smoke. also hot-smoked white fish is delicious. thick fillets make for nicer tender meat as suppose more dried up small pieces. you can dry-salt it or soak in brine. if smoking for flavor and salting/brining beforehand then you only need 30 min to 2 hours of smoke depending on the wood type used and smoke strength. some wood smokes are more intense than others. you only need to smoke for a long periods if you are doing straight no salt route (primitive method). you can smoke brisket, pork/beef ribs, bird, cheese. some people like smoked nuts. i like to smoke chicken thighs. i first rub them with garlic/pepper/lemon/dill/olive oil paste mixture let them sit in it overnight then, then slow cook em in the oven uncovered for 1:30 minutes and them smoke them for 30 min. that stuff is made quick and easy (with some proper planning) and served with mashed taters and steamed seasonal veggies under hot souse is to die for.
That's a neat looking little smokehouse you made. I always soaked my wood chips or pieces in alcohol to get them started burning but I had to watch out for the fire blazing and burning part of what I was trying to smoke plus sometimes I had to watch it to make sure it was still burning and smoking.
Kris I'm a trout angler who didn't like trout , so curing and cold smoking it was somthing I tried and I loved it much better than smoked salmon , I uploaded my first setup onto RUclips it worked a treat ! Have a look if you can ! A cutlery holder works fine ..
Awsome build Kris. What i would do though is put another rail above the top rail and move the bottom rack to the top and go find a old hot plate that you can control the temp with and use a metal pan for the chips. That way you can do more hot or cold smoke and the element will last longer than a soldering iron lol
Try skipping the sugar and use sea salt. Then after rinsing it put it in a bowl of clean water for half an hour to even out the saltiness. This will make the fish not to salty. Now dry it out as you did. I do not know what wood you used for smoking but beach wood is my favorite for trout and salmon. Also you can buy very nice cold smoke generators for fine sawdust in your next grill shop.
chris, a friend of mine in florida built a smoker like a small shed/it was made like a log cabin w/a stove pipe in the roof & shelves built along the back wall, three shelves & one or two windows in it. They would put left over wood shavings/wood dust on the floor(which they got from a local carpenters shop) & set the wood shavings on fire & he would keep it going for a week to smoke the mullet they caught cast net fishing. You reminded me of this by you building your little wood smoker. (Just an idea for you for the future)ty for the video!
sheep milk cheese is really healthy if grass fed...yum to cold smoking cheese 2 wonder if you can catch fish using a 🐉 throw net...seen videos of taking hooks out of sharks by scuba divers & trying to do same for little freshwater fish but not easy to do 🍣🍙🐟
Excellent smoke house. You might try giving it a bit of a chimney to draw the smoke out, and keep it fresh and burning. Maybe some bourbon soaked chips on top of dry chips in your soldering can wiff a screen. 😉💚💚👍👍🙇
Reserve that liquid from the trout cure and add it to your water for a feed of rice. boil it first for 2 minutes to sanitize then lower to simmer and do the usual 2 parts water one part rice 20 minutes, shazam. Salinity and flavor will already be infused, so good.
Omg, your little red knife! I have one of them. Was a present from my Godmother who is sadly no longer with us. Along with a serrated one. They are just insane sharp! Have never seen them for sale anywhere! Go figure. Loving your videos, very inspiring.
The sieve method does work. I use it all the time. I have a small pot under the middle and have the dust in a horseshoe shape. Put a night light under one end and it will take hours. It looks like you were using wood shavings not saw dust and they behave differently. I haven't finished watching yet but that was a lot of salt. Usually a light dusting on each fillet is enough.
Well done, that smoker worked a treat, little victories like that are good for the soul, hot smoker next maybe? I haven't seen anything on Craig's channel for a while
Oh I say, living the posh life. Smoked Welsh Brown Trout for Tea. Welsh Water and the Llangefni industrial estate have polluted the rivers with diesel oil and other contaminants. I don't fly fish anymore on Anglesey because of the red algae in the lakes that can cause brain damage. Very sad. I only fish for Mackerel and Herring now. and avoid shellfish. The closer to the source the less contaminated fish will be.
Hi Chris having watch tv programmes that show you smoke houses they always hang the fish by the tale end from wire etc apparently this gives it a more even smoked flavour, try that and let us know which you found best. P.s sorry I hate smoked meat,fish etc but still love to know the results!
Finally got a chance to watch this! You should have done my idea first ;P I enjoyed you saying "pretty good for someone who doesn't know what he's doing" too :P
Dude, I love your life, but what do you to cover the cost for those things you can't make? how do you cover the taxes for the land? do you still maintain a job? I am in the States and we would get taxed off the land if we don't have some kind of income to pay the taxes... did the laws in your land dictate how you built your house.... I love the vids....
pretty sure the local govt is paying him to plant trees, or something like that, he may be a custodian of the land, i think it is his but maybe all the land around it is govt, i remember it being something like that
zztechs depends on where you live in the US. Where I live (NH) "living off the land" isn't feasible because we have high property taxes (because we have no income or sales tax). In other states that might have a high sales tax, but low property tax it is possible.
I believe he is part of the 'one planet' scheme in Wales, I think they do have a say in how you build your homestead yes, and reguarly check your progress. RUclips ad revenue may pay enough to cover his liviing costs? Would love to hear Kris' response though...
this guy and his girl friend come from money, have you seen the tools he has ?.. and the land he's on, he bought it off Ebay !!..., and yes it doesn't matter where you live in the UK the councils ALWAYS tax you unless you can hide builds for seven years and it's a permanent structure.. The rubbish part about it all is that poor people in this country would want to live like this to live more cheaply but they can't afford it, pretty ironic really, only people with money can afford to live for next to nothing.lol
@@cantcomprehend1 What a load of shit this comment is. Kris was featured in a documentary where he very openly talked about his past. He worked his ass off as a blue collar worker in London. His girlfriend he only just met.
One day you must do a video detailing where you have learned all the many and varied skills you show in each type of video, nevertheless, you have kept me entertained for quite a while now and still finding your very early ones, keep on keeping on Kris. Post a Paypal address and I'll chuck a bob or three your way when I can spare it, but I don't do Patreon.
👍👌👏 Simply fantastic, dish looks extremely delicious (although I don't like fish). Thanks a lot for making teaching recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck health and wisdom to all involved life forms.
For one min i thought how big are those " birds " ... then ja said smoker ha, Kris it looks cool , rustic , and functional , what sawdust were you using ie oak, etc. thinking if can find old whisky barrels cut and milled down to sawdust would be the best flavour? but each to their own . tho this was built as a smoker can see those Bee hive all having their unique style ?
Hi Chris have you thought about digging another lake, and diverting your stream into it. Then you could get a fish farm on the go. Self sustaining food source.
Can't wait to watch this when I get home! Also to eat some of that smoked fish. Smoked sushi sounds perfect to me!
SirVixIsVexed Thanks, but no, no heartbreak here 😊 We are just friends and all that's happened is my business has been much busier and I haven't been able to make it over. I'm also having lots of summer adventures of my own 😊
Wish you the best of luck then!
Hannah Buddle You sound absolutely amazing!
-wish i could make a fully functional dam
Kris: here you go brother
-thanks, now if someone could teach me how to make a smoker
Kris: you're not gonna believe this...
Kris sushi looked awsome i have only cold smoked cheese and it was ace. I know u get your power for free but i think if you fit an air vent on the bottom of the door the wood chips will burn better. I use a old tube filter i got through work it is basically 8mm perforated plate rolled 10" long with a end cap at one end burns for about 3 hours.
The tiled floor was awesome :)
These Videos bring me so much joy
How convenient that the batteries went flat, catching little brown trout, then cut to a plate full of sea trout, or Sewin as they are known in that part of the country, good angling Chris. 🤔🤫😂😂.
Kris, love your projects and been watching a while. For your workbench, have you thought about drilling some holes for bench dogs to act as a backstop for your projects? Watching you put your hands on the frame to hold it still made me think you might benefit from some home-made bench dogs...
enamel bowl on top of the hot-plate set to low will work great. I use old fridge as a smoker. hotplate goes on the very bottom. and another bawl just with water to catch drip and keep the food you are smoking moist and tender. you best to use chips instead of saw-dust or shavings. apple wood goes great with fish. you need to soak chips for half-hour prior to putting them on the fire this will create much better thicker smoke. also hot-smoked white fish is delicious. thick fillets make for nicer tender meat as suppose more dried up small pieces. you can dry-salt it or soak in brine. if smoking for flavor and salting/brining beforehand then you only need 30 min to 2 hours of smoke depending on the wood type used and smoke strength. some wood smokes are more intense than others. you only need to smoke for a long periods if you are doing straight no salt route (primitive method). you can smoke brisket, pork/beef ribs, bird, cheese. some people like smoked nuts. i like to smoke chicken thighs. i first rub them with garlic/pepper/lemon/dill/olive oil paste mixture let them sit in it overnight then, then slow cook em in the oven uncovered for 1:30 minutes and them smoke them for 30 min. that stuff is made quick and easy (with some proper planning) and served with mashed taters and steamed seasonal veggies under hot souse is to die for.
I really liked this smoker you made and showing how to cure fish thanx.
Mmmmm I can almost smell it here across the water! Nice smoker......
That looks really appetising Kris! Love your smoker; within everybody's range, and could be the basis of a home business. Kudos!
That's a neat looking little smokehouse you made. I always soaked my wood chips or pieces in alcohol to get them started burning but I had to watch out for the fire blazing and burning part of what I was trying to smoke plus sometimes I had to watch it to make sure it was still burning and smoking.
Kris I'm a trout angler who didn't like trout , so curing and cold smoking it was somthing I tried and I loved it much better than smoked salmon , I uploaded my first setup onto RUclips it worked a treat ! Have a look if you can !
A cutlery holder works fine ..
Awsome build Kris. What i would do though is put another rail above the top rail and move the bottom rack to the top and go find a old hot plate that you can control the temp with and use a metal pan for the chips. That way you can do more hot or cold smoke and the element will last longer than a soldering iron lol
Try skipping the sugar and use sea salt. Then after rinsing it put it in a bowl of clean water for half an hour to even out the saltiness. This will make the fish not to salty. Now dry it out as you did. I do not know what wood you used for smoking but beach wood is my favorite for trout and salmon.
Also you can buy very nice cold smoke generators for fine sawdust in your next grill shop.
chris, a friend of mine in florida built a smoker like a small shed/it was made like a log cabin w/a stove pipe in the roof & shelves built along the back wall, three shelves & one or two windows in it. They would put left over wood shavings/wood dust on the floor(which they got from a local carpenters shop) & set the wood shavings on fire & he would keep it going for a week to smoke the mullet they caught cast net fishing. You reminded me of this by you building your little wood smoker. (Just an idea for you for the future)ty for the video!
sheep milk cheese is really healthy if grass fed...yum to cold smoking cheese 2
wonder if you can catch fish using a 🐉 throw net...seen videos of taking hooks out of sharks by scuba divers & trying to do same for little freshwater fish but not easy to do 🍣🍙🐟
Two excellent books: Salt by Kurlansky and Art of Fermentation by Katz.
Excellent smoke house. You might try giving it a bit of a chimney to draw the smoke out, and keep it fresh and burning. Maybe some bourbon soaked chips on top of dry chips in your soldering can wiff a screen. 😉💚💚👍👍🙇
So basically this is cold smoked somewhat "gravad" (swedish, not sure on the english word) trout. Cool!
Reserve that liquid from the trout cure and add it to your water for a feed of rice. boil it first for 2 minutes to sanitize then lower to simmer and do the usual 2 parts water one part rice 20 minutes, shazam. Salinity and flavor will already be infused, so good.
As always, you never cease to amaze .. and, that sushi looked delish & lovely ❣
Omg, your little red knife! I have one of them. Was a present from my Godmother who is sadly no longer with us. Along with a serrated one. They are just insane sharp! Have never seen them for sale anywhere! Go figure. Loving your videos, very inspiring.
'Kris Ikea' - love it 😃😃
The sieve method does work. I use it all the time. I have a small pot under the middle and have the dust in a horseshoe shape. Put a night light under one end and it will take hours. It looks like you were using wood shavings not saw dust and they behave differently. I haven't finished watching yet but that was a lot of salt. Usually a light dusting on each fillet is enough.
Well done, that smoker worked a treat, little victories like that are good for the soul, hot smoker next maybe? I haven't seen anything on Craig's channel for a while
6:12 I said "Bless you" out of instinct.
Lookin good. If you put some sand on the floor and chuck on a few coals in the middle of the strainer, you could perhaps keep it going.
very nice little building, although I'm not much for fish it did look good when you had it all made up.
I hope we get to meet the lady some day.
Oh I say, living the posh life. Smoked Welsh Brown Trout for Tea. Welsh Water and the Llangefni industrial estate have polluted the rivers with diesel oil and other contaminants. I don't fly fish anymore on Anglesey because of the red algae in the lakes that can cause brain damage. Very sad. I only fish for Mackerel and Herring now. and avoid shellfish. The closer to the source the less contaminated fish will be.
Hi Chris having watch tv programmes that show you smoke houses they always hang the fish by the tale end from wire etc apparently this gives it a more even smoked flavour, try that and let us know which you found best.
P.s sorry I hate smoked meat,fish etc but still love to know the results!
However you prepare it Kris, there is little more satisfying than eating what you've caught or grown.
Finally got a chance to watch this! You should have done my idea first ;P I enjoyed you saying "pretty good for someone who doesn't know what he's doing" too :P
Love the look of the smoker!
Dude, I love your life, but what do you to cover the cost for those things you can't make? how do you cover the taxes for the land? do you still maintain a job? I am in the States and we would get taxed off the land if we don't have some kind of income to pay the taxes... did the laws in your land dictate how you built your house....
I love the vids....
pretty sure the local govt is paying him to plant trees, or something like that, he may be a custodian of the land, i think it is his but maybe all the land around it is govt, i remember it being something like that
zztechs depends on where you live in the US. Where I live (NH) "living off the land" isn't feasible because we have high property taxes (because we have no income or sales tax). In other states that might have a high sales tax, but low property tax it is possible.
I believe he is part of the 'one planet' scheme in Wales, I think they do have a say in how you build your homestead yes, and reguarly check your progress. RUclips ad revenue may pay enough to cover his liviing costs? Would love to hear Kris' response though...
this guy and his girl friend come from money, have you seen the tools he has ?.. and the land he's on, he bought it off Ebay !!..., and yes it doesn't matter where you live in the UK the councils ALWAYS tax you unless you can hide builds for seven years and it's a permanent structure.. The rubbish part about it all is that poor people in this country would want to live like this to live more cheaply but they can't afford it, pretty ironic really, only people with money can afford to live for next to nothing.lol
@@cantcomprehend1 What a load of shit this comment is. Kris was featured in a documentary where he very openly talked about his past. He worked his ass off as a blue collar worker in London. His girlfriend he only just met.
Great smoker house. 👍
If you haven't got one - make one! Well done. Dave
Nicely done Kris! Bet it is delicious!
bee hive next buddy!!
One day you must do a video detailing where you have learned all the many and varied skills you show in each type of video, nevertheless, you have kept me entertained for quite a while now and still finding your very early ones, keep on keeping on Kris.
Post a Paypal address and I'll chuck a bob or three your way when I can spare it, but I don't do Patreon.
You know those small fish you're catching you should put them in a bucket throw them in your pond
I don’t think there’s anything you can’t do! Yum! Blessings..
do you have any ventilation holes in the smoker ?
love sushi! I'm really impressed!
👍👌👏 Simply fantastic, dish looks extremely delicious (although I don't like fish).
Thanks a lot for making teaching recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck health and wisdom to all involved life forms.
Dude...you are living the dream nice 1.
Super posh, super cool.
U sure this worked..... it looks different from what i have seen in terms of stiffness and moisture.
It was still 100% raw lol it definitely didn’t work! You’re not suppose to use just any old saw dust either 😅
@@IamBATMAN2024 I think raw was intended
For one min i thought how big are those " birds " ... then ja said smoker ha, Kris it looks cool , rustic , and functional , what sawdust were you using ie oak, etc. thinking if can find old whisky barrels cut and milled down to sawdust would be the best flavour? but each to their own . tho this was built as a smoker can see those Bee hive all having their unique style ?
Awesome Kris. Great vid.
Good stuff Man! How do you know when it is fully smoked? Is it possible to over smoke it? What are your thoughts on creating a better smoking unit?
They' look tasty.
Omg I want sushi!!!!!!
Good job!!☺️
When we make sushi at home it's "what's in the fridge?" Sushi
Love it!
loved this video bro
Nice!
b.s. for Bob sagat!
What happened to the soldering iron? It started off Red then it turned Blue. LOL.
are the skins for broth or fish sauce mebbeh?
For the bin lol
Yeah, that would be nice or he could just fry them crisp and eat them. They are delicious that way :-)
I'll give you a thumbs up for smoked trout. I would give you TWO thumbs up for smoked eel (Unagi) :)
Dead jealous 🙂
Did it seem raw? Looked raw
It is raw.
I thought the thumbnail was an outhouse on fire until I read the title..
What has happened to Hannah
No smoke coming out
I don't see a picture.
where is the wassabi?
I did it too. This is what I used Woodprix designs for
凄い 日本人でも川魚で燻製で寿司は作れない
美味そう
we haven't seen the new woman yet - are you hiding her away? is she imaginary? is she shy? ;-)
I think we have I think it’s the blonde woman we’ve seen in some of his earlier vids? Maybe it’s not though!?
TaNkSaLoT100 I have seen her in some other videos, only for a few seconds but it don't matter anyway.
Hannah?
Uh.... That's no where near smoked and dried lol.
Ha...ha...ha... Nice joke! Where did you buy the sushi? :D
First
This is not right at all
Cool smoker, too bad that it´s almost impossible to hear what you´re saying here :-(