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Learn something new - removing skin from a purchased fish fillet - Cooking, Cookbooks, Ingredients - Hungry Onion
Main Post: Learn something new - removing skin from a purchased fish fillet - Cooking, Cookbooks, Ingredients - Hungry Onion
Top Comment: But when my husband saw me attempting it (swearing under my breath) with a walleye fillet yesterday he coached me with the skill he learned from fishing with his Dad. For me, the key points I’d gotten wrong from just reading about it - Put the fish SKIN SIDE DOWN on a FLAT ...
Why does it seem that in the Western cultures, people avoid eating fish skins? I'm from an Eastern culture, and we love fish skin. What are the reasons for not eating fish skin?
Main Post: Why does it seem that in the Western cultures, people avoid eating fish skins? I'm from an Eastern culture, and we love fish skin. What are the reasons for not eating fish skin?
Top Comment: It's just cultural. At least in the US, seafood in general isn't common in a lot of areas. Big areas of the country are land locked, so until recently they had very little access to fresh seafood. And even now most frozen seafood is shipped already butchered - you can easily get frozen salmon fillets, but not necessarily a whole salmon. And the US developed food taboos around a lot of once-common but cheap foods. Organ meat, feet/hooves, skin, etc., were poverty foods, eaten by desperately poor and often enslaved people. They became associated with immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities. Plus in the US there's something of a taboo against eating meat that still looks like a recognizable animal. A fish fillet has broader appeal than a whole fish. It is starting to change now though. Organ meats have become a bit trendy, and fish skin is being seen more. Salmon skin sushi, or fried/roasted fish with crispy skin. It's still not super common, but it's less stigmatized than it used to be.
Scaling vs filet with skin?
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Complete newbie here. I’m unsure when you have to scale and when you can just filet and cut the meat back from the skin.
Top Comment: I prefer to fillet fish. The few times I've scaled fish because I wanted to cook them whole I found it such an annoying, time consuming, and messy task. I'm sure my technique was bad. I am much faster and cleaner with a fillet knife. Ultimately it comes down to personal preference and how you plan to cook the fish though. Both methods are valid.
Are people crisping up fish skin to eat it?
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I get the visual/textural appeal of uniformly crispy skin, but do people actually eat the skin on a piece of salmon or sea bass? Personally I find it inedible.
Edit: thanks for the responses y’all; seems I may be in the minority opinion on this one!
Top Comment: You need to scale the salmon first
I love white fish with crispy edible skin. What’s the secret to cooking fish this way?
Main Post: I love white fish with crispy edible skin. What’s the secret to cooking fish this way?
Top Comment: Cooking it on one side 90% of the time and making sure the skin is in contact with the pan.
should fish and chips have the skin taken off?
Main Post: should fish and chips have the skin taken off?
Top Comment: The skin is only good if it is crispy, its not going to be it's covered in batter . Skin off for chippy fish
Do you guys eat the salmon skin ?
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Had a dinner party last night and from all 10 guests I was the only one that ate the skin. Is it bad for health or just people find it gross ?
Top Comment: If it's well seasoned and a bit crispy yes. If they've not seasoned it or cooked it nicely it's just a tasteless slimy mess.
Does salmon skin HAVE to be crispy to indicate it’s been cooked? Or can it be cooked at soft?
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Sorry that might sound really silly.
I recently moved out and I’m learned to to cook salmon tonight, I’m also pregnant so want it cooked through out.
I made a thick sauce first by using butter oil and garlic in a saucepan, then added made sauce out of honey, soy sauce, Siracha and lemon juice and water. The salmon was seasoned with , paprika, salt, pepper.
The sauce had to be added first in the recipie and then I added the salmon skin down. The sauce came half way up to the salmon.
After cooking on the stove for 4 minutes I added it to the oven. I covered in foil and cooked on a low heat 140c for about 20 minutes because my rice was taking ages to cook.
Then I took the aluminium off and cooked it for another 8 mins on 200.
Once I took it out and ate it the salmon was falling apart when I grabbed it with the tongs. Some parts of it felt tough like it had be cooked well through the hot sauce.
The skin was a bit floppy and had some tiny slime bits on it (maybe fat?)
I’m worried with the salmon as it wasn’t crispy and being at the bottom of the pan and being a tougher part of the fish That maybe it didn’t have the opportunity cook through as well?
Or is it ok for the salmon skin to be floppy and can it still be cooked even if it’s not crispy?
I’m assuming since the rest of the salmon fell apart from being so cooked the salmon skin should be ok.
Top Comment: Crispiness and being cooked through are completely independent of each other. You can have crispy skin on nearly raw fish or you can overcook it within an inch of its life and still not be crispy
Is fish skin nutritious?
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Just as we eat chicken skin and maybe some others, is fish skin also something people eat? Is there anything nutritious about it? If so, how should it be prepared? Or is it just eaten whenever the fish is cooked/baked?
Top Comment: I eat the skin off salmon when I fry it in a pan
The skin of a fish actually tastes pretty good
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The people in my life are always surprised when I eat the skin on the fish in front of them, judging with their unknowing eyes, I feel like its the bacon of the sea when the skin on the fish is fried properly. Don’t kick it until you try it🤷🏾♂️
Top Comment: I like it crispy
When you eat fish do you eat the fish skin or do you just scrape it off to the side?
Main Post: When you eat fish do you eat the fish skin or do you just scrape it off to the side?
Top Comment: You have to eat the skin, that’s where the nutrients are. Fins too.
Can you eat fish skin?
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I love to grill salmon; when I do, I end up with nice crispy skin. It looks like it would be good to eat ... can I eat it?
Top Comment: Of course! Crispy salmon skin is great. If you're into sushi, try a salmon skin handroll with a little ponzu sauce. Yum! I also might add that I grew up eating freshly caught brook trout, which my parents would fry for breakfast. My favorite part was to chew on the crispy tail fin. The skin was great too!