TheLostBigBoss
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It's how nearly all sushi is prepped as well.
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Did I just eat undercooked Salmon?
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It's how nearly all sushi is prepped as well.
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I cook salmon somewhat often, and I usually do it medium rare. I'm assuming every piece of store-bought salmon I encounter was frozen at some point.
Isn't harmful bacteria only really an major concern if you catch a whole, live salmon to clean and cook yourself? I mean, I'm sure most of us here have eaten "raw" salmon before, although that's been treated by flash freezing it in most cases.
Isn't harmful bacteria only really an major concern if you catch a whole, live salmon to clean and cook yourself? I mean, I'm sure most of us here have eaten "raw" salmon before, although that's been treated by flash freezing it in most cases.
Lucky Forward
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Buy one of these and take the worry out of cooking fish or any other meat:
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It sounds like you're used to overcooked salmon. I haaate over cooked salmon. Leave it pink in the middle. i rarely eat salmon out cause everybody overdoes it. Plus as has been mentioned, as long as it was once frozen it should be fine. Remember, people eat raw salmon all the time.
SolVanderlyn
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It wasn't frozen when I bought it, I got it from a Japanese market, it was just refrigerated. I'm wondering if I was supposed to freeze it first? Or do they normally do that before putting it out to sell?
Astral Dog
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In all likelihood it was shipped frozen and arrived at the store frozen, and then thawed and put in the display case. If it's a Japanese store they're more likely to know the "do's and don'ts" of handling "raw" fish.
Westbahnhof
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Do you live anywhere where they'd catch salmon? If not, I'm pretty sure it was frozen at some point.
That'd be a horrible way to tell if your fish is done as many fish fillets are too thin and even "instant" read thermometers can take too long to give an accurate reading relative to the cook time of a delicate piece of fish, not to mention all the calibration issues low cost instant reads have.Buy one of these and take the worry out of cooking fish or any other meat:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0021AEAG2/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Eric Ripert (head chef of Le Bernardin, probably the best seafood restaurant in the US) suggests a thin metal skewer you poke into the fish for 3-4 seconds, then place it just below your lower lip or on the back of your hand. The temperature you feel is basically the temperature of the fish. Is that the temp you want the inside of your food to be while eating it (warm but not burning hot)? Good, take it out of the pan.
People eat salmon raw all the time, the risks are pretty damn low even if not frozen.
Westbahnhof
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it has to do with parasites .
That's why sushi grade fish is expensive cause they have to do a special type of freezing that doesn't do that... but if you don't want parasites (especially from salmon who are prone to have these worms that like to infect seals but will make you sick if you get them, not sure about other fish), you want your fish frozen first if you are going to eat it raw. Edit: Correction, after looking it up it's certain kinds of fishes that this is a problem with (I know salmon and apparently some others).
Fresh and not frozen may be fine if you are cooking it. This is just if you are going to make sushi out of it.
Also: http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/07/29/raw-fish-around-world
Wag
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Get one of those terrible old toilets we got here in Austria (and Germany, AFAIK):
Holy shit! A toilet with a viewing shelf? Where can I get one?
Coriolanus
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unless you're buying it from some fishers that go and get the product themselves, good odds that the "fresh" fish you're eating was frozen the moment it was caught.
Westbahnhof
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Find any sufficiently old(before 1990 usually) toilet in Austria, and it has that. "Flachspüler", it's called.
Pros: Easy to take samples, check for parasites, and so on. Still popular in Hospitals I believe.
It's gonna smell much worse than the usual toilets, though.
I think they were popular because of parasites being much more common back in the day.
Anyway, I'm sure you can find them if you really want them.