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Strange that the article didn’t mention gravlax[1]. It’s a salt and sugar cured salmon that melts in your mouth if done right and, at least to my taste, doesn’t overwhelmed you with salt. Of course last time I tried to make this I got salmon jerky, but that’s user error.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravlax

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Agreed. And, no insult intended, but it is not hard to do it right. It has one of the food world's highest result/effort ratios.

This comment and the parent between them strongly suggest to me I'm going to end up with salmon jerky at least once but I should seriously consider trying it anyway.

Salmon jerky is pretty good in its own right!

Yeah salmon jerky is not bad and the one I made was eaten fully. That said, gravlax is sooooo much better than jerky!

No offense taken - it was a pretty simple error of too much salt and waiting for too long, which produced quite edible salt cured salmon, but it was super dry (and gravlax is not supposed to be dry).

Grandma does it perfectly every time, just have to be patient and follow her directions :)

Tip: overcuring (too salty or too dry) can be reversed just by soaking in fresh water! Often just five minutes is enough.

It's saved my butt more than once.

I made it once. You have to put a weight on it while it's curing, like a gallon bottle of water. Did you do that?

Nope, that might be part of it. Also likely put way too much salt and held it for too long. Thanks for the tip!

Smoked salmon is gravlax (brine of sugar and salt) + cold smoke.

Was the salmon jerky at least any good?

I bet you could make a great fish pie with salmon jerky

> Strange that the article didn’t mention gravlax

Maybe because it was an article about lox.

Russ and Daughters also sells gravlax.

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