Researchers at the University of Toronto's Quality of Life Research Unit define quality of life as The degree to which a person enjoys the important possibilities of his or her life (UofT).
The shelf life of cold-smoked salmon is very short, one to two weeks in the refrigerator and about one month in the freezer. Storage time is another critical factor in the proliferation of Listeria bacteria since it can grow at low temperatures.
I do salmon alot, but smoke it on the gas grill, indirect, lowest setting, with a foil pouch of wood chips over the flame. I know by exerience of smoking salmon this way it will take about 45 min (one of these days I'm gonna stick a thermometer in there). I also go be looks. Check out our mom's (DeejayDebi) temp chart in her site. Great place loaded with tons of info. www.deejayssmokepit.net.