Comments on: Cooking on a Cedar Plank: Miso-Honey Glazed Salmon

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:43:31 +0000

The plank is a great method, for sure.

But if you saw how salmon going upstream to spawn look (think beaten, bruised, and ragged), you’d understand why they die after that, and why you only see bears, and not people, taking them out of the water at that time.

By: LisaJulie

LisaJulie — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:27:11 +0000

And..., if you get reincarnated as a bear in Alaska, you also have the opportunity to get things, ummm, pre-marinated in red pepper. See also, bear repellent, i.e. pepper spray. Seems when it first came out, people equated it with bug repellent and sprayed it on themselves. This site (which is a condensation of the first site I saw) explains why that might be a bad idea. http://explorenorth.com/library/misc/bl-pepper.htm Basically, the term is "pre-marinated".

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:51:07 +0000

I don’t think that the cedar will be harmed by soaking for longer than three hours. The reason is that there is only so much water a bit of wood can absorb. Three hours is the minimum, I suspect, not the maximum.

By: Kati

Kati — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:32:20 +0000

This seems like it would be a great weeknight dinner… if I can soak the cedar plank for longer than 3 hours. Is that advisable? I could set it up to soak before leaving in the morning. This (with maybe some grilled asparagus and baby potatoes) would be easy to throw together (and I’m always searching for great weeknight options).

By: Fuzzy Chef

Fuzzy Chef — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:24:25 +0000

Barbara,

On a completely different topic, I wanted to ask your help with my Preethi. Mine came without any kind of instructions — I got the impression that yours had a user guide?

Two questions:
1. My Preethi came with two alternate blades … one which looks kind of like a blender blade, and one white plastic disk with bumps on it. What are these for?

2. You said “added the ingredients in the order in the instructions.”. What order would that be? I didn’t get any instructions on the order in which to put stuff in the Preethi for grinding.

Thanks for any advice! I’ve written the vendor, but heard nothing back.