It's Wednesday night and you just can't make it to the harbor for fresh salmon. First of all "the harbors" are a three-hour drive from where you live. Secondly you'd rather just buy it at the same supermarket you go to several times a week thank you.
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HOW TO BUY SALMON? | Which salmon should you buy at the supermarket?
But choosing fish at the butcher is a confusing mix of options and most of them claim that this particular cut of fish is better than all the others. (Can they really all be better than all the others?) So what’s a poor harried home cook to do?
Simple: You need a comprehensive guide to choosing salmon at the grocery store. What are the differences between farmed and fresh salmon? Does it matter if it comes from New Zealand Iceland or Alaska? What’s with the different types cuts and skin? Should you ever try a whole salmon? And what does a good piece of salmon look like to the naked eye? In this guide you’ll learn the answers to these questions and more so you can feel confident about getting the best product the next time you walk into the store.
Although we don’t often think about the life cycle of say our asparagus that of salmon is of great importance to the environment. Salmon are anadromous meaning that they spend part of their time in fresh water where they are born hang out in salt water for a few years come home to breed and then die. Their life cycle is therefore delicate and regulated just like other wildlife meaning that non-farmed salmon can only be caught at certain times of the year. It is important not to fish them during the breeding season as some salmon species are endangered or protected by law.
