re: Cooking salmon on a BGE

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What temp do you cook it at? Below 300 degrees?

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I agree with Gris Gris that low is slow is the way to go. But yea, you want the cedar plant to smoke a bit. You can put the plank in early and let it start smoking and then get the temp down to 250 or so then put salmon on the plank. But it may be difficult working with charcoal. You can also drop a few small pieces of cedar onto the charcoal to get the smoke flavor....which defeats the purpose of the cedar plank. So, I would shoot for 350 so the plank smokes. Just watch the salmon carefully. Another clue the salmon is done is when you see white "goo" starting to ooze out. This is a blood protein called albumen. Now....it really only is apparent when cooking Pacific Northwest Salmon (Coho, Copper river, King, Sockeye,etc.). Personally, I don't care for Atlantic Salmon....or its not as tasty as PNW Salmon.