Comments on: Alaskan Salmon: Flash-Frozen and Flown-In http://www.smorgasbite.com/2009/11/alaskan-salmon-flash-frozen-and-flown-in/ A tasty, colorful sampling of food products, recipes, nutrition & organic living Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:42:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hilary http://www.smorgasbite.com/2009/11/alaskan-salmon-flash-frozen-and-flown-in/comment-page-1/#comment-7023 Hilary Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:53:38 +0000 http://www.smorgasbite.com/?p=1346#comment-7023 Hi Kim, Thanks for your comment. I guess I'd always assumed that others' grumblings about fishy fish was just a difference in their taste buds, but maybe it's that I'm picky about the quality of the fish that I eat, which results in superior product and better taste. Thanks for reading Smorgasbite! Hilary Hi Kim,
Thanks for your comment. I guess I’d always assumed that others’ grumblings about fishy fish was just a difference in their taste buds, but maybe it’s that I’m picky about the quality of the fish that I eat, which results in superior product and better taste.
Thanks for reading Smorgasbite!
Hilary

]]> By: Kim http://www.smorgasbite.com/2009/11/alaskan-salmon-flash-frozen-and-flown-in/comment-page-1/#comment-7019 Kim Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:41:30 +0000 http://www.smorgasbite.com/?p=1346#comment-7019 So happy you got to enjoy some fresh Alaskan salmon! There are few things better in this world! I have to say though- as someone who is lucky enough to be an Alaskan and thus have eaten salmon so fresh that it's cooking two hours after I caught it- I disagree that salmon is SUPPOSED TO taste "more fishy" than other types of fish. In fact, it's really kind of a pet peeve of mine to hear people say that. In my experience, any time ANY fish tastes more fishy, it's because of the time between it being caught (dying) and it being processed...namely having the guts and such pulled out. If you fillet a fish and put it on ice immediately after catching it, it won't have any of that increased fishy taste. If it sits for too long with out getting ice into its inner cavity and having the viscera pulled out, it'll start to taste more and more fishy... Don't get me wrong. I LOVE Alaskan seafoods, I have some very close friends who are commercial fisherpeople and I fully support their products getting out there...But I think that fishy taste is an unfortunate consequence of what it takes to catch fish enmasse and get them ready for sending out around the country. So happy you got to enjoy some fresh Alaskan salmon! There are few things better in this world!

I have to say though- as someone who is lucky enough to be an Alaskan and thus have eaten salmon so fresh that it’s cooking two hours after I caught it- I disagree that salmon is SUPPOSED TO taste “more fishy” than other types of fish. In fact, it’s really kind of a pet peeve of mine to hear people say that.

In my experience, any time ANY fish tastes more fishy, it’s because of the time between it being caught (dying) and it being processed…namely having the guts and such pulled out. If you fillet a fish and put it on ice immediately after catching it, it won’t have any of that increased fishy taste. If it sits for too long with out getting ice into its inner cavity and having the viscera pulled out, it’ll start to taste more and more fishy…

Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE Alaskan seafoods, I have some very close friends who are commercial fisherpeople and I fully support their products getting out there…But I think that fishy taste is an unfortunate consequence of what it takes to catch fish enmasse and get them ready for sending out around the country.

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