Killer salmon ideas?

[NaterGator]

Legion, you're an idiot. The title of the subforum uses alliteration to make it sound less boring, it is clearly not a commentary on the specific type of cooking that should be discussed. How are butter, salt, pepper, lemon & lemon zest, and 2 herbs at all sugary? Maybe it was the plank grilling?

That was my original and primary suggestion. I don't know how it gets much more basic or less sugary than that. You've derailed this thread enough, I'm done discussing it with you. If you want to talk about how plain food is better than everything else start a thread about it.

 

[legion]

****ing stupid.

Legion, you're an idiot.

Awesome. You are one articulate individual, Nate.

Legion, evidently you forgot to read the thread title.

You know you're in 'campfire cuisine', right?

The title of the subforum uses alliteration which allows me to be a raging dumbass but only me.

Stick with eating your roommate's burger. It's no doubt less revolting than salmon in a refined sugar slurry.

 

[Mace]

Salmon sucks..

 

['74 UA FJ]

obviously nate doesn't like the taste of fish. let him spice up his meat to make him happy.




Personally, I think people go too crazy to try to make something taste different than it is supposed to. Get a good cut of beef, pork, fish, etc. and just cook it and it is delicious.

 

[NaterGator]

You're out of your ******* mind, Bama boy. I live on the coast, I love fish. Salmon is a common farmed "trash fish", IMO. It can be good, but is more often than not just average and does not stand by itself. When was the last time you did nothing other than stick salmon over some heat and eat it?

Grouper, hogfish, snook, mullet, tuna, etc are all delicious staple fish in my diet, and deservedly so.

 

[Butt Ugly Chuck]

Farmed salmon sucks. No comparison to wild caught salmon.

 

[Atticus]

Agreed. Farm salmon and wild salmon have only a passing similarity to one another.

 

[tag3]

Would love to have some smoked.

 

[NaterGator]

Farmed salmon sucks. No comparison to wild caught salmon.

Unfortunately there's not a huge glut of fresh caught wild salmon in Florida.
Though I've had some fxxxing awesome salmon the one time I was in Washington.

 

[Urrrk]

Agreed. Farm salmon and wild salmon have only a passing similarity to one another.

And even that would be gone if not for the dye in the fish pellets they feed the farmed salmon.

The real color is gray--to match the taste.

Unfortunately there's not a huge glut of fresh caught wild salmon in Florida.
Though I've had some fxxxing awesome salmon the one time I was in Washington.

All farmed salmon are atlantic salmon. Atlantic salmon and pacific salmon aren't even the same genus of fish, which is one of the (many) arguments against farming them here on the west coast, cause the farmed atlantics might escape their pens and dilute the racial purity of our awesome pacific salmon.

Pacific salmon comes in four main species Chinook (or King), Sockeye, Coho, and Chum. Of these the Coho and the Chum are most in need of additional cooking treatment. I prefer Sockeye to King, but a lot of people like King the best. King salmon get frickin' huge.

The better (and fresher) the salmon, the more plain you can make the preparation. That said it is a stronger tasting fish and some more delicate palates may prefer a touch of sugar, or what have you in the preparation.

Smoking salmon is a whole nother thing, and I am not qualified to pontificate on that topic.

You're all correct. Party on.

 

[tag3]

Skip sugar, the closer to the "natural" flavor the better.

 

[Jomama]

Ditto, there is absolutely no comparison between Atlantic Farmed and Pacific Wild salmon..

Of these the Coho and the Chum are most in need of additional cooking treatment.

Its blasphemy even putting these two in the same sentence...

Chum are sometimes referred too as "Dog salmon" in AK, cause they are for the dog teams.

Silvers (Coho) are great, and the meat is nothing like a Chum, least not up here. I know many that prefer Silvers to Kings or Sockeyes...

Now Pinks, they belong in the Chum catagory, they have fleshy soft meat that just cant be preserved.. I tried it once to understand what people didn't like about them... Not very good. Most people don't eat chums and pinks.




Don't buy farmed!!

 

[Urrrk]

Its blasphemy even putting these two in the same sentence...

Chum are sometimes referred too as "Dog salmon" in AK, cause they are for the dog teams.

Silvers (Coho) are great, and the meat is nothing like a Chum, least not up here. I know many that prefer Silvers to Kings or Sockeyes...

Now Pinks, they belong in the Chum catagory, they have fleshy soft meat that just cant be preserved.. I tried it once to understand what people didn't like about them... Not very good. Most people don't eat chums and pinks.

It's been so long since I've seen chum, I'd kind forgotten about them, but you're right the Silvers are a whole lot better. I just really like sockeye.

Don't buy farmed!!

I'm just going to emphasis this point:

Lissen up, y'all: DON'T BUY FARMED SALMON!

 

[legion]

legion speaks the truth. Some of the best salmon I've ever had was cooked in a traditional Yurok method over fire with little in the way of spice (pepper only).
http://www.calsport.org/images/Salmon Baking.JPG

First salmon I can recall having was about 40 years ago. Our family was invited over to some friends of my folks. Log cabin, fireplace, salmon opened up and filled with onions, salt, pepper, a little lemon... and probably little else.

The salmon was wrapped in tin foil and tossed in the fireplace.

Outstanding.

 

[Cuerno Largo]

First salmon I can recall is a salmon croquette. About 30 years ago. Nasty s***.

I'm with Mace.........Salmon sucks.

 

[re_guderian]

Best salmon I remember was at the Salmon days festival in Issaquah, WA as a kid in the 70's. Hooked ever since. As to not buying farmed salmon...hard not to these days...

 

[NorCalDoug]

salmon?

 

[cruiseninak]

salmon?

Don't want to be a salmon snob but I think there is a real differance between store bought and self caught. I am finishing up the frozen stuff from last summer (vacuum packed and frozen same day as caught) and think that it is better than store stuff.

 

[monniepoo]

Salmon sucks..

I agree... Smoked Tuna is the bomb!

 

[MarcoPolo]

Best salmon I remember was at the Salmon days festival in Issaquah, WA as a kid in the 70's. Hooked ever since.

I'll bet it was!

For me.. it was out at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe. Also in the 70's.
Not sure which tribe it was, but they were there every year. Alder smoked.