Robert, you mention dry salting on racks. So assuming the fish are not in a
container, try dry salting in water tight tubs so that the fish rest in
saturated salt brine produced by the moisture extracted from the fish. You
will get better contact between fish and salt that way. Use an excess of
salt. Layer the fish loins with about 1/8th to 1/4 inch salt between layers.
As a control measure weigh the fish before and after salting so that once
you get adequate salting you can establish a QC check by just weighing the
fish and controlling to a specific weight loss.
You can accelerate the salting process by flooding the fish/salt mix with
fully saturated salt brine.
Ken Hilderbrand
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Subject: Fw: Water Phase salt in smoked Albacore Tuna
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From: Ocean Trader <stone@is.com.fj>
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Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:31 PM
Subject: Water Phase salt in smoked Albacore Tuna
> Everybody
> We cold smoke Albacore and Blue Marlin. The loins are dry salted for 14
hrs
> in a chiller on racks. New Zealand insist on a WPS of 3.4.
> Marlin at 5 hrs was under 3 but at 12 hrs was 5.5 wps. A very salty
critter.
> Albacore at 5 hrs was 2.5 and at 14hrs was not much better, and in some
> cases less. We fail for the NZ market.
> Spanish Mackerel when subjected to the same salting experiments produced a
> linear result and at 14 hrs had a wps of 7
> Ok, comes back to loin size. Spanish mackerel is skinny. However the
Marlin
> and Alb. were the same dia. so that surface area to mass was equal. We now
> want to know why we cannot reach the 3.4 wps in Alb. that is required. We
> can look at fat content but remember how fat salmon is compared to Alb.
> Fiji's Dept of Agriculture tests our product regularly and to date with
any
> amount of salting and waiting the Alb. does not want to comply with the NZ
> limit.
> Help!
> Robert Stone
> Ocean Trader
> Fiji Islands
>
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