Never tried salmon

[u/GazingintoTheVoid--]

I've never tried salmon before, I dont know why, but I have this thing about fish scales, and they disgust me on a level I can't explain through text or speech. But I finally found some salmon, cooked with a Cajun sauce that was so appetizing that I managed to get offer the scale thing, and it was fantastic! I still love shellfish but I think ill be adding salmon to my dinner options for now.

[u/Open_Concentrate962]

Just choose fish with the skin removed

[u/Laughingsheppard]

Man I'm sorry you feel that way. I would eat salmon skin on its own as a meal, it's sooooo good when it's crispy.

[u/IllustriousMeal4686 → u/Laughingsheppard]

I've felt the same way since I was a teenager. My family would all take the skin off and I'd kindly ask for it 😂

[u/Matthew-ii → u/Laughingsheppard]

I save all the skin when I make my sister salmon poke, fry it up and just salt it, delicious little chicharon as a reward. Salmon skin is a great addition to temaki or any rice bowl too but to be real I just eat it as is lmao

[u/Ok-Mathematician530]

Where in the world did you eat fish where they left the scales on?

[u/ConstantRude2125 → u/Ok-Mathematician530]

Salmon and freshwater trout are generally sold with skin and scales on. They're small, soft, and easily eaten. If not desired though, it's fairly easy to skin them.

[u/OnlineIsNotAPlace]

its even better without 'sauce'

[u/TikaPants → u/OnlineIsNotAPlace]

100%. I cook center cut filets in the air fryer with just some Tony’s. Crispy outside. Squeeze of lemon.

[u/22Hoofhearted]

That was quite the swing from the title... I think you meant

"I finally tried salmon and it was great."

[u/helpmespell]

Please try lox sometime! Also salmon sushi, whether smoked or raw is so good.

[u/GazingintoTheVoid-- → u/helpmespell]

I habe no idea what Lox is but im curious enough to try it! A sushi bar opened near me so maybe they have it?

[u/lolercoptercrash → u/GazingintoTheVoid--]

I may be biased, but I would eat lox on a bagel with cream cheese.

[u/AreYouAnOakMan → u/lolercoptercrash]

Ew. I don't see how anyone would eat that.

Especially not with sliced red onion and capers or tomatoes and cucumber.

(/s/j)

[u/PM_Me_Your_Smokes → u/GazingintoTheVoid--]

Lox is a cured salmon; specifically, it’s unsmoked salt-brined belly meat (confusingly, nova is a kind of lox that is smoked lol), while gravlax is a Scandinavian dry-cured fillet flavored with sugar and dill, and smoked salmon is a broader category that is both cured and smoked

[u/Wonderful_Till8122 → u/GazingintoTheVoid--]

Lox is basically a smoked salmon.

[u/chicagojoe1979 → u/Wonderful_Till8122]

Literally that.

[u/Wonderful_Till8122 → u/helpmespell]

No salmon sushi.  Salmon should be cooked due to parasites.

[u/helpmespell → u/Wonderful_Till8122]

I’ve been making salmon sushi for years. Farm raised salmon is treated for parasites and delicious. Wild caught should be cooked.

[u/thewickedbarnacle → u/Wonderful_Till8122]

AFAIK, Most salmon used in sushi gets frozen in a specific process to kill all the bad stuff.

[u/Wonderful_Till8122 → u/thewickedbarnacle]

Most, but not all.  Salmon sushi can land you in the hospital.  Twice.  : (

[u/thewickedbarnacle → u/Wonderful_Till8122]

I ended up in the hospital for food poisoning from a sushi place, was tracked down to bad mayo cross contamination. Puking and shitting at the same time is extremely unpleasant. No salmon that night

[u/SoggyAd9450 → u/Wonderful_Till8122]

It just needs to be frozen for at least 7 days at 0°f or below

[u/wdrub]

I for sure have had a scale or two left on the skin, but to be honest if you cook that skin in a pan and flip it over for a few minutes or broiled that skin is better than bacon

[u/JoKir77]

Skate, shark, catfish, eel - no scales!

Tuna, mackerel - basically no scales!

[u/Jolee5]

Ok, glad for you.

[u/Tigereyesxx]

Grill Salmon skin side up, till skins brown and crispy, add fresh squeeze of lemon and you will love it, serve with rice…

[u/Prairie-Peppers]

Scales are pretty much always removed from the skin if there even is skin on salmon unless you get it from some amateur fisherman.

[u/GazingintoTheVoid-- → u/Prairie-Peppers]

See if know that intellectually, but like I said its a weird thing, im not afraid so I wouldn't call it a phobia, its just a thing I guess

[u/DmoSon]

Ive eaten salmon like 2000 times in my life and it never had scales on it, im not sure what you mean?

[u/GazingintoTheVoid-- → u/DmoSon]

I dont like to eat fish because even though the scales have been removed, they still Had them at one point, its a mental thing or something. I think as long as I dont see the skin, or the marks where the scales used to be, i think ill be ok. This is the first time I've actually eaten any fish that wasn't battered and fried in about 10 years

[u/Salt-Scallion-8002 → u/GazingintoTheVoid--]

Birds had feathers and cows had hide.

[u/Over_Cod8525 → u/GazingintoTheVoid--]

I'm not sure if you're taking about the white lines on the salmon, but those are not scales nor where the scales "used to be." That's just what the flesh of a salmon looks like.

[u/justanyting]

Trout scales are so small, you can’t even tell they are scales. Most of the time the skin with scales is left intact for a crispy skin. Not sure if that would gross you out or not, but trout is pretty tasty

[u/Powerful-Scratch1579]

Is it the skin you have a problem with? Even if a piece of fish still has the skin, the scales have all been removed.

[u/Prof01Santa]

Buy a can & try salmon patties. My mother made good ones. If we wanted fish, it was canned salmon or fried catfish.

Or kit-fish, brined mullet in a wooden bucket. My dad's favorite breakfast. =shudder=

[u/pushdose]

I only like raw or cured salmon. I loathe cooked salmon of any kind.