Whew! Who knew all that? Super helpful!!

@BrianLagerstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Haha Glad it was helpful! Happy birthday, btw!!

Love how you go into details because I am trying to make salmon sashimi and so confused about all types of salmon! Thank you so much

This is an excellent review of the basics of salmon and general salmon considerations, what to buy, and what's most appropriate for your needs, tastes, and lifestyle. Although I already knew something about salmon, this video solidified some of my knowledge and filled in some gaps that I wasn't sure about. I'll probably see this vid at least one or two times more and refer to it from time to time, but for now, I'll go with wild-caught sockeye and later maybe a few other types just to explore and try some less-well-known salmon tastes. Thanks, Brian, for an excellent overview of an important dietary and gustatory topic!

This is a great breakdown of salmon. Thanks for taking the time.

I really appreciate the reliability and high quality of work you do. This is fabulous, thanks.

I've rewatched this like 4 times now and have shared widely with everyone I know because the information is so good. This is beautifully explained, is succinct, and yet still has the perfect amount of info I need to make decisions. Thanks Bri! Would you consider doing one for cuts of beef / steak as well? Beef is incredibly confusing. Also interested in the differences between meat counter/butcher vs. buying prepackaged sealed stuff.

Thanks, Bri. Easily one of the most interesting and useful food videos I've seen. You really rock! I'm thrilled that I found your channel!

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Glad your here. Welcome

Excellent presentation & info-thanks!

This video is annoyingly underrated. He keeps this insightful info interesting and I’m enjoying learning about this! Great video, Brian!!!

Fascinating. Love the knowledge and the details 🐟

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Brian, that was great to watch, thanks loads for the info & really interesting.

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it thanks for the comment.

Great info, thanks 👍🏻

I really enjoyed this, very informative. 👍

I always buy frozen, wild Alaskan sockeye salmon from Trader Joe's. About $8 for 2 servings. I totally agree with your note about frozen being superior!

@pricillaburgos8783

2 жыл бұрын

I’m going to get some rightnow better be good lol

@terenarosa4790

Жыл бұрын

@@pricillaburgos8783 was it?

@micah1754

Жыл бұрын

Not in New Zealand, fresh stuff is very good here

@RX7MAN27

Жыл бұрын

Another trader joe ass boy

@RX7MAN27

Жыл бұрын

If you don’t know all the y do is rebrand shit that’s already being sold by other companies 😂😂😂😂

I’m so grateful i found this video! I wanted to buy salmon bc i want to stop eating poultry and red meat for awhile but always cancel bc i don’t know which one to buy lol thank you so so much! You’re a lifesaver!

wow!! thank you for this video really well explained thank you

Great info in this video. For salmon, I think frozen sockeye is a great choice. It's interesting that you mentioned pink salmon as tasting more like trout - and liking that. A similar fish that we've grown to love is arctic char. It has a milder taste than most salmon, and is great sautéed and even simply poached.

This really helped me to understand about salmon. thank you.

Great video - very helpful!

My teen son and I were just sitting at the table eating salmon for dinner. We randomly searched for information about the different types is salmon because we were curious. This video came up first. It was extremely informative, and we enjoyed your enthusiasm! Thanks for sharing!

Been using Sitka Salmon Shares and was stoked this summer when they sent a bunch of King over. Definitely a treat! I’m a Coho guy whenever possible. Thanks for the great video, as always!

We have a farm raised Atlantic salmon. Costco or Winco. I have a few friends who fish Alaskan waters so I do get King & Coho on occasion. We love salmon 🍣 period. We love it Grilled, smoked, poached, steamed, baked & raw. We love salmon 🐟. Great vid Bri….love the content. We’re subscribers for life. We’re both 60 so that means we’ll be watching at least another 20 years. Cheers and God bless. 🙏🏼❤️😎

This video should have millions of views, thank you so much for your wonderful insight!

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank you so much for the very useful video! I bought a package of pink salmon without knowing much about it, and good to learn 👍

Loved this video thank you❤️❤️

You never disappoint, brother!

Great information as I do buy a lot of salmon! thank you for being so knowledgeable!

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful. Thanks!

I love trout. So pink salmon would be fine. Really appreciate informative videos. Thank you 🙏

You deserve more than 1m subs. Very well articulated.

Aloha from the 808 Brian. Best review on my favorite fish, I'm glad I found your channel. Keep up the great videos.

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for being here...from Hawaii?

Very informative! Thank you!

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Very welcome! Thanks for watching

Hi, greetings from rural Norway! I really enjoy your videos dude! Very easy explained, and down to point! Keep up the good work!

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I hope to visit your fine country some day.

Super interesting and helpful! Eat lots of salmon out here in Japan but mostly in sushi variety... looking forward to the salmon recipe video in the future 👍🏻

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful!

Thank you for this informative video. I would love for this to be a series that dispells a lot of myths.

That really was a BLAST! Thanks for the info :D

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, and for taking the time to comment.

Super informative! Sockeye and coho are my go to.

Thanks! Quality content as usual. I’ve been cooking a lot of salmon lately at least 3 times a month.

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Salmon good

Just tried Sockeye for the first time and did not realize it was this healthy.. unbelievable content what a gem

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Sockeye is very very good.

Great video on salmon! I remember you from Union Loafers and am subscribing to your channel right now. You have some awesome, helpful videos!

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and subscribing. I appreciate it!

Masterpiece of a video on the given subject🎉👏👍🙏

Great salmon primer!

Okay Brian...IMO this is your best video that I have seen so far. Fabulous! Before becoming a dentist, I had about 15 years of restaurant experience from dishwasher to manager, in some fairly high end midwest businesses. I never knew this much about salmon. I eat Chilean lox almost every day for breakfast and smoked or oven baked salmon several times weekly. Thank you for educating me on what I am eating!! Really enjoying your channel!!!

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it. And thank you so much for watching and commenting. It has been great seeing your comments pop up over the past week.

Thanks for this Brian, I love salmon but stopped eating it for awhile because I wasn't sure what was going on with it. I do like the sockeye now, I like the texture and flavor over pink salmon.

My gf recently bought skin on frozen sockeye salmon, we usually buy Wegmans farm raised Atlantic salmon. I gotta say, I’m digging the sockeye salmon, a little more flavorful and I love doing it crispy skin style in the pan! Awesome video, thanks for all the in depth information!

@ramiere1412

9 ай бұрын

same

I highly appreciate this info, thx s'much.

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked!

Thanks for all the info about salmon. Someday if you come to Japan you should try Japanese salted salmon, which is salmon that is heavily salted for a few days and then grilled. It used to be so heavily salted that it did not need refrigeration. But people don’t like to have that much salt these days. You eat small bites of it with unseasoned rice. It’s really good. Frozen salmon in Japan is frozen at -60°C which is -76°F, that’s MINUS 76 DEGRESS. Food scientists have found that at that temperature fish is just like fresh when properly thawed. Just about all sushi fish in Japan is kept at that temperature.

I love salmon! I was at my local grocery store and they had some that said Imported from Norway and it was marked down so I bought it. BEST SALMON I’VE EVER HAD!! Now I look for it specifically. And I found out leftover salmon makes superior salmon cakes to the canned version. Who knew? Great video! I’m seafood gal and this kind of information is gold! Thanks B-man! ❤️❤️

@martinwilliams9866

7 ай бұрын

Most of the Norwegian salmon is infected with sea lice & has high levels of pesticides.

t Thank you for your concise, and easy to understand description of Norwegian and Scottish Salmon. I am living in Northern Portugal and have only been familiar with the fabulous FRESH salmon from the Pac Northwest in Oregon and WA. I will buy the frozen with confidence thanks to your summary. Obrigda !

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Thank you for watching.

Mind blown that pink salmon is a bit more like trout than the other salmons mentioned. Changes my expectation of it! Agree about frozen being fresher than fresh. Thx for putting this together!

Thanks for making this. It was very informative. Today I bought some Steelhead Trout for a fish en papillote dinner tonight. Seems to be closely related to Pacific Salmon. About the same price.

Great video Brian! You answered a lot of questions I’ve had for ages. I found some frozen salmon filets from the Faroe Islands that are deeelicious. Very moist, flavorful and consistent quality. Got them at Restaurant Depot.

@mrsiz218

2 жыл бұрын

Ooooh Faroe Isle!! I found some at Lidl from Faroe Islands. Gonna make it this week!

@aptmix

Жыл бұрын

I am a professional seafood buyer/fishmonger, Faroe island salmon is top quality. It is the best Atlantic salmon on the market without question. Their aquaculture has some of the most high quality practices when it comes to ethical farming. Cheers!

This was pure awesomeness✊

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks!

Some of the best thing about living in Vancouver Canada, Fresh Sockeye and Spot Prawns of the boat! I’m will go lengths to get fresh frozen Sockeye now that I’m on the east coast.

We're fortunate that we live on the Oregon coast and have access to great seafood - especially salmon. Our go-to is Sockeye or Coho - usually from Costco. We prefer wild over farmed, in fact, I can't remember the last time we bought farmed salmon. Thank you for the salmon primer! Time to go make Japanese milk buns for a hot dog lunch!

@tomlam3680

7 ай бұрын

Coho vs Sockeye, which fish tastes better

Great review. I have to confess I am spoiled because I lived for 7 years in Seattle. Now that I am in L.A., it looks like I have to jump to frozen or other fish. At least I am often enough in Santa Barbara to shot in the harbor there.

Great video, thank you! I can clearly see why you have 333K Subs. Now you have one more Brian.

BC gal here. My personal fav is fresh Coho. The play is nice in the catch, and it's a great-tasting fish.

12:23 I think you meant to say 'frozen' not 'fresh'. Great video, I didn't know what way was up when looking at salmon in the store before. Thanks for all the tips.

Aha. With this video newly watched I was at Costco in Champaign and searched out their salmon offerings, both fresh and frozen. I saw frozen a bag of Atlantic Salmon from Norway (skinless and boneless) and was $5 off for low price of $21.99 for 3 pounds. There were other frozen offerings but only this one from Norway. Glad for newfound knowledge. Thanks.

Very informative stuff B. I’ve never been a super fan of fish outside of fish sticks and fried catfish because of the fishiness lol. In recent years have expanded to cod lions which are relatively flavorless (could do a whole video on the ways to improve cod) and now have learned to enjoy salmon. I buy the frozen “wild salmon” at my local schnucks but now I need to look more closely to see what I’m actually getting.

@BrianLagerstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Good stuff. Working on a cod fish taco today, but i'm adding that cod fish video to the list.

@scottgellerman8554

2 жыл бұрын

if you can find halibut or rockfish, I think you will find that they have a much milder "fish" flavor that might be more to your liking.

In South Africa their pushing a lot of Norwegian...This type of thing is awesome, thanks Brian!

We buy it off of the boats here in the San Juan Islands in the PNW, but the Atlantic salmon pens are everywhere around the islands. The farmed fish are sterile which is good since the pens fail all the time. So potluck! All salmon is great! You are right on about the "pinks" prepare them like trout with almonds and butter.

Very informative. My preference is Atlantic salmon, fattier. It's more moist than the sockeye salmon.

Brian, I was looking for the weed and sardine recipes but could not find any aside from a kale salad and spinach artichoke dip. I hope to see some innovative recipes for weeds (greens). This is always a fun section of the produce shelf and it would be nice to see recipes besides southern style collards. I also love fish and while fresh sardines are hard to find in the midwest, there are plenty of tinned options for sardines and other seafood. I would find that interesting. As for Salmon, I love eating Salmon. I hate the high prices of premium Salmon. While you mention North Atlantic and South Pacific farm raised varieties, How about the New Zealand varieties? I've had several including Ora King and while its very tasty, it could run $25/40 per pound. That's quite the luxury. That's also the range for many other premium fish like Halibut. Maybe if I knew more about why its worth the cost I'd be more inclined to add it to the regular routine. Lat for now, how about fish roe. Salmon roe is very tasty but also very expensive. But even Tobiko can be tasty. It would be fun to see you navigate the fish roe universe. Keep up the good work and enjoyable format.

I was born and raised in Nova Scotia and thought I knew salmon. Woops! I've tended towards Atlantic salmon, I guess out of piscine patriotism, but have always preferred darker sockeye and coho. I do prefer fresh or previously frozen over frozen - I've generally found frozen to be dry and flavourless. This was very informative and has caused me to consider more closely what I'll choose moving forward. Keep doing what you do so well!

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@alfredkay3210

2 жыл бұрын

@Alan - Do Canadian grocery stores carry Canadian wild caught Salmon, and who do you know this is from Canada? Which company that package and sells Canadian fish in Canada?

@alannolet3109

2 жыл бұрын

@@alfredkay3210 Frankly, I couldn't say with any degree of certainty whether the salmon in our grocery stores is wild or farmed, or whether it comes from Canadian waters. I would expect that you could get wild Canadian salmon from a proper fish monger during the peak season.

Fridays and Saturdays dinner are a sockeye salmon for me ! 😋👏

Yo Bri, another valuable piece of content. Thanks. I didn't know about Atlantic (Farm) vs. Pacific (Wild). We have noticed a substantial flavor difference between Chilean and Norwegian farmed salmon, with the latter tasting "richer" to us. Gonna peruse the frozen section at Whole Paycheck, sorry I meant Whole Foods, for some salmon now. On a technical note, your intro lighting and proboscis-enhancing camera work has drastically improved. I think you've figured out that jamming a wide-angle up in your grill is no bueno. Unless you're tryna look like Jimmy Durante or Winston Churchill.

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I have a large nose as is. This was beginner level content for sure but thanks so much for watching!

Made me realize how good we have it on the shore of Lake Michigan! Catch my own Chinook (King), Coho , Rainbow, Lake and Brown trout. My wife gives me the look of love when I bring home more fish! I give most of it away to my neighbors. In my opinion Coho is the best but they are all very good.

As a former Copper River delta resident, great video!

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Love that product.

Dude great stuff and super knowledgeable guide. I feel a lot more confident about price to quality to environmental impact when looking at my options now. I'm trying to create a fish based diet and wondering how I can get the cheapest portions (anything but Wild Pink). I see fresh whole salmons being sold at my Asian grocery stores and wondering if its cheaper fileting my own cuts vs. getting the prepackaged bags?

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

At least in the US, whole sides of Salmon to the consumer are only about 20 percent cheaper than buying portions. Thanks for watching.

@severts58, Thank you for sharing you knowledge of salmon...your so informative.

I just found your channel and I have binged all Memorial Day. This video is quite informative, especially the info on the higher quality farmed salmon of the northern atlantic. I typically go for the wild stuff with the mad flavor, but maybe I'll try some farmed stuff from the northern atlantic in a pinch.

Given the thumbnail, I though this was going to be some sort of Halloween themed video lol

Got some pink salmon, thought it was bad because the meat looked weird. Looked all mushed up. Seen your video and it looked just like yours. Not afraid to eat it any more. Just got an Atlantic, never frozen salmon today. it was affordable and looked appealing. Thanks for posting, learned much about salmon.

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck with the salmon!

@Sushihunter250

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who catches my own Salmon, I have to say that Pink Salmon are the bottom of the barrel. About 20 years ago, one of our local grocery stores would have a freezer full of whole Pink Salmon for $2 each. It's fine if you want to make Salmon Salad Sandwiches, or smoke it, but i wouldn't give you the time of day for Pink Salmon. By far, the best Salmon is Wild Sockeye, especially if you want to eat it raw as sushi or sashimi. We catch a lot of Chinook (King) salmon here, (BC, Canada). You can also get it as farmed fish, but I try to avoid farmed fish when possible. Coho is great when available. Also, when talking about farmed Salmon, you showed video of Chum Salmon, pretty sure they don't farm those. You may also see farmed Steelhead Salmon/Trout in the stores, that can be very good.

Frozen Wild Alaskan Sockeye from Costco eater checking in. (another great video)

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

I love that stuff. Thanks!

I inject my sockeye with grass fed butter and olive oil while it's fairly cold so the oil solidifies and stays until cooking. Strange method, but it works like a charm for great moisture and flavor.

In Michigan we have steel head salmon and king just got to be the right time of year catching off the shore best you can eat

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

I love steelhead. Thanks for watching.

@rlb2444

2 жыл бұрын

fish is not a . A is a type of trout, a completely different fish type but from the fish family with salmons. A starts its life as a rainbow trout, but a is always a

Hard to ever get fresh in tucson az (sigh says the kid from Queens) so frozen sockeye or will splurge for fresh during the summer months. my ceiling is usually 12.99. I usually load up when Kroger's has it frozen for 4.99-5.99 a lb.

Great video, but where or what grocery store can I get quality salmon from? Walmart, Sam’s, Kroger? Publix?

I just got some coho and will be trying it for the first time tonight. I prefer king salmon but can't always find it. So my default is sockeye. I have tried Norwegian before but I don't recall anything great about it. Never tried Scottish before.

Hey Brian, great content here. After my career in the kitchen I spent about five years working in a seafood market in NJ. Everything you tell us here is what I learned in those years. One major difference is that my boss would not let Chilean farmed salmon in his store. We sold Canadian farmed Atlantic exclusively. Thers a good reason why there are not any salmon living in the south Pacific.

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Chilean isn’t my favorite for sure

@TheRobotAttack

2 жыл бұрын

There are always exceptions, try Verlasso out of Chile, they tick all the sustainability boxes and the flavor is incredible, nothing like the commodity stuff. For sockeye, Bristol Bay all the way. Pink salmon is best from the artificial reef-net fishery on Lummi Island, mad good. Thanks for your videos, my two sons and I have a blast getting hungry watching you cook haha!

@luxbeauty4952

2 жыл бұрын

There’s salmon in the South Pacific, why would you randomly say that there’s good reason there isn’t?

@danjv

2 жыл бұрын

The natural habitat of Pacific salmon is the Coast of North America as far south as Southern California. In Asia from Siberia down to Japan. Salon living in the South Pacific have been unnaturally introduced.

Well done

Do you have a recipe for salmon patties? It's one of my favorite quick meals but I'm interested to see your take on it.

I love fresh catch coho or king salmon 🍣 I catch it my self at Lake Michigan near chicago Te best!

That was super helpful. Any chance you have a great salmon salad recipe you could add to my favorite KZread channel?

@BrianLagerstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I actually do have a smoked salmon salad recipe already up, but i like your style! It's hidden in this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/gH12rMqdj8LJZpc.html

I think I mostly end up with Atlantic salmon where I shop but if I see that there is buzz word salmon on the shelf like Sockeye or King I will buy it. I like the option of skin on when I buy frozen because 9 times out of 10 I like to eat crispy skin even if my lady is not feeling it. Very informative Chef!! Thank you.

@BrianLagerstrom

4 жыл бұрын

"buzz word salmon" haha i like that

Im spoiled living here in the northwest and happen too be a fisherman. I am super picky on my salmon, will not eat farmed unless its from New Zealand(Chinook), but would never buy it but it is the most sustainable and highest quality. Spring run chinook salmon or krill fed ocean salmon are the best eating salmon in the world, followed by sockeye and coho. Columbia spring run has some of the highest fat content out of any of them, it melts on your mouth!

Such a great video. I watched the whole thing. I eat a lot of Trader Joe’s Norwegian farm salmon. I know you said that’s the best bang for your buck but do you see any long term health effects from eating Norwegian farm salmon from TJ’s? Thanks so much!

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

I dont see any long term effects, but I am def not a doc. There are tradeoffs with almost any food choice. But I like Norwegian. Thanks for watching.

Check out Loch Duart Scottish salmon. Their hot smoked is amazing and well priced. Lucky enough to stop off and buy some when I was up there

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know thanks

Love the channel: fun, informative, irreverant. Excellent stuff. But these: "I'm not against fresh salmon" and "pink salmon is worth a look". I'm biased by never having had to buy salmon in the first 25 years of my life. Then I moved to eastern Europe -- where, if it says "Norwegian" on the sign you can be sure it was farmed in a slough in Kyiv -- and now I'm crushed by the thought of all those reds slipping up the Kenai and me 7,000 miles away from having a line in the water. But I digress. Humpy (aka, Pink) isn't worth a look if you can get red (Sockeye) or silver (Coho) for a few extra bucks. For flavor, firmness, versatility, Omega-3s and more there's no comparison. Yeah, Humpy smokes up real nice, but there's some local Alaskan wisdom that shouldn't be ignored. "When you smoke dogshite all you've got is smoked dogshite." (Again, wisdom from people who fish where the runs are so abundant that you could walk across the river on the backs of the reds if you felt the urge.) Good video. A blessing to the flatlanders, just buy the red, and fresh, every time.

here in Sweden we can regularly get fresh Norwegian farmed whole side C-cut fillets @ 99SEK/kg ( about $5.50/lb ) so we eat that every few days in my house

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

Nice. I love the stuff

Thanks for sharing this. I wonder, why there isn't more higher quality farms for salmon? theoretically, if we control the environment, give fish good food, we know exactly what the fish eats vs. wild salmon can eat anything in the ocean, and we know our ocean isn't exactly clean today. How about the overfishing we heard? I am curious what your thoughts are. Thank you!

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

There are some nicer wholesome farmed salmon out there but n one of it really makes it to the consumer. Even the Scottish and Norwegian stuff trash the fjords and coastal waters I hear. But the good stuff needs to be ordered online... I think the catch for wild salmon is becoming increasingly regulated, at least in the us so that is a good thing in terms of overfishing going down i think

By far the best is spring Chinook salmon that are so chrome that sunglasses are needed. I enjoy fishing in the Pacific NW and harvest about 15 fish a year, the reward is immersible but the cost is not cheap. Any salmon is better than no salmon but local fresh fish is always best regardless of the species

I usually go for wild over farmed, for another reason. As someone who is prone to vitamin D deficiency in winter, I try to eat a lot of fish during that time of year as it can be a great source of vitamin D. However, farmed fish generally contains way less of this compared to its wild counterpart, sometimes less than half. So I'm willing to spend the extra bucks for more of that good sunny stuff.

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Good point

Fresh fish, especially salmon, is one of the things I truly miss about living in the PNW.

where is the teriyaki salmon recipe my brother! im sure a lot of us would love to see it HOPE IT COME SOON im OG from weeds and sardine days!!

I live in Alaska. I caught a 22 pound King yesterday in downtown Anchorage. I feel like I won the lottery after watching this!! Bri, have you ever heard of dipnetting?

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

I have. I watch another channel on KZread called simple living Alaska and they introduced it to me. Was that how you caught?

Great info! I'm curious: all your footage here shows you starting skin-side down in the pan. I always start flesh-side down to hopefully get that nice crispy crust on my salmon. Are you prioritizing crispy skin over crust on the meat, or does it really not matter that much?

@BrianLagerstrom

3 жыл бұрын

I usually prioritize skin crispness, its how I learned to cook fish in restaurant, Cooking too hard on flesh side can dry out. That being said, I like it all. I saw Ragusea sear flesh side first and It got me trying it.

@scottgellerman8554

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrianLagerstrom we dont eat the skin, so always grill or pan fry skin side down first, and then slide a spatula between the flesh and the skin, flip, and season the fat side. if grilling, we put skin side down on aluminum foil. the skin will stick to the foil, and after the grill cools down, you can just roll up the foil and nasty skin, and throw away. nothing stuck to the grill!

Hey Brian. I just started following you last week and have watched maybe 12-15 videos. So, I live in Brazil, where I can only get farm raised Atlantic salmon from Chile on a regular basis. IMO, and sorry in advance if I am offending anyone, but that stuff is pink slime. I eat it (force fed, my wife likes it) maybe 4x a year, and vow to never eat it again. And then invariably do so anyway. I can occasionally get frozen sockeye, and it's not bad, but it's nothing like fresh. Now, for my CV... I was born and raised and lived for 30 years in Seattle, possibly the fresh seafood capital of the world. In addition, I am an avid salmon fisherman (Puget Sound). As my ace up the sleeve, I also worked my college summers in Alaska. 1 year on a "slime line" processing king (Chinook) and dog (chum) salmon, and three summers on a commercial purse seiner out of Kodiak, Alaska, fishing for sockeye and pinks. Fresh sockeye (I was also the cook on the boat, so I would grab a nice 7-8lb freshy for dinner 2 or 3x a week) simply grilled, is a sublime and potentially life changing experience. In comparison, pinks are, as you said, barely saltwater fish. They are soft, not very expressive on the palate, and in my book, barely a step above tilapia. I'm sure I sound like a salmon snob, and I guess I am. Comes with the PacNW genes. Ever had Dungeness crab? Nothing, anywhere, not even Alaskan king crab, comes close! Anyway, it pleases me that salmon can be bought for as low as 4 bucks a pound, even if I don't particularly care for it. That means that perhaps people who can't afford sockeye, foie gras, magret, Wagyu beef, etc., can still have protein in the middle of the plate! Keep up the great work. Congrats, and "abraços do Brasil"!

@BrianLagerstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching a bunch of these vids. I don’t eat Chilean that often. Can’t recommend

@Manseb

Жыл бұрын

I was just in Seattle and the Pacific north west and cooked up some dungeness crab and some king salmon. I agree with the dungeness crab comment it had the strongest crab flavour out of any other crab I've had.

I work at a fish market in Seattle. At metropolitan Market. So the best salmon is Icelandic salmon, silver salmon, Chinook salmon, and sockeye. And previous frozen Chinook and previous frozen sockeye. Watch alton brown about this. I gave you this list from best to worst, but basically farmed salmon is the future just like farmed land animals was thousands of yrs ago.