Effects of Smoking With Different Wood Chips and Barbecuing on Some Properties of Salmon Fish

Abstract

In the present study, the effects of smoking with different wood chips and barbecuing on some properties (moisture content, pH value and lipid oxidation) of salmon fish were investigated. The smoking process was carried out by cold smoking method using five different wood chips: oak, apple, bourbon soaked oak, cherry and hickory. The lowest moisture content was determined in the samples smoked with bourbon soaked oak wood chips. Smoking and barbecuing caused an increase in the pH values and the highest pH value was determined in the samples smoked with hickory wood chips. In addition, both processes had a significant effect on TBARS value of salmon (P <0.05). Wood chip types showed both antioxidant and prooxidant effects in the present study. The lowest TBARS values in smoking and barbecuing processes were determined in the samples smoked with hickory wood chips.