Does anybody have experience ordering wild salmon this way? I’d bet it’s a pretty cheap way to get it. I found this site and it looks pretty cheap, for example:
$7.65 a pound plus shipping for Sockeye fillets indivdually vacuum packed with pin bones out. 英国bet356亚洲版-欢迎您
That’s pretty cheap but probably may not be worth the extra costs and hassle when you include shipping. I’m looking for a place with bulk pricing though and their site didn’t mention whether or not they had such pricing.
Ever looked at CostCo? I don’t remember the prices, but they have frozen wild salmon fillets with the pin bones removed. I bought mine from there, and I remember them being pretty decent.
Of course, Costco! Thanks for the response Smartass (no pun intended). I buy canned salmon from there but haven’t bought the frozen stuff, but I’m sure it’s under $10 a pound. Thanks.
…I’ll still keep my eyes peeled for some Alaskan stuff.
By the way, in Whittier CA I saw fresh Alaskan Wild Salmon sold at Costco in their little ice tanks.
I remember Alton Brown (Host of Good Eats) saying that flash frozen Wild Salmon may actually be better than fresh because it’s frozen VERY quickly as soon as it’s ready for consumption, preserving the freshness. He says that the “fresh” stuff may not be as fresh as you think due to natural aging during shipping, etc.
Tiger, if you’re in CA, surely a Trader Joe’s can’t be too far away. I buy frozen wild Alaskan Silver Coho salmon, pin bones removed, from TJ’s for $7.99/lb. No shipping of course. This is my current favorite of their many varieties.
Smartass is right, and Alton Brown knows his stuff. ALWAYS buy frozen seafood, not “fresh.” Flash-freezing on the boat as soon as the seafood is harvested keeps it much fresher than the many days of decay the “fresh” undergoes before you have a chance to buy it. Plus, “fresh” is often partially frozen anyway. The “fresh” sold in cases at the market is almost always thawed from frozen before they put it on ice to display. Keeping it frozen until you are ready to cook it is much better.
Always trim off all freezer burn before cooking seafood (or any other food for that matter). Even a little freezer burn destroys the flavor.
[quote]andersons wrote:
Tiger, if you’re in CA, surely a Trader Joe’s can’t be too far away. I buy frozen wild Alaskan Silver Coho salmon, pin bones removed, from TJ’s for $7.99/lb. No shipping of course. This is my current favorite of their many varieties.
Smartass is right, and Alton Brown knows his stuff. ALWAYS buy frozen seafood, not “fresh.” Flash-freezing on the boat as soon as the seafood is harvested keeps it much fresher than the many days of decay the “fresh” undergoes before you have a chance to buy it. Plus, “fresh” is often partially frozen anyway. The “fresh” sold in cases at the market is almost always thawed from frozen before they put it on ice to display. Keeping it frozen until you are ready to cook it is much better.
Always trim off all freezer burn before cooking seafood (or any other food for that matter). Even a little freezer burn destroys the flavor. [/quote]
I totally forgot about that. I tried some from TJ’s before, not sure what variety salmon it was but it wasn’t all that great. Guess I’ll give that silver Coho a try : )
[quote]philipj wrote:
Where do you guys live, that you do not fish yourselves? Many of us from the Great Lakes have fish er caught three times a week.[/quote]
But they’re not wild Alaskan salmon.
We do fish here in SoCal, got some yellowtail a couple weeks ago – first of the season. Since then, though, no one’s seen a thing.
Hopefully by September, though, we’ll have the freezer in the garage full of the season’s catch.
That’s a great price for Sockeye; definitely check your local Costco or Sam’s Club; I’m in a Sam’s Club area, and the salmon is both inexpensive and excellent. They keep frozen salmon in their coolers (including excellent Sockeye) as well as previously-frozen Norwegian salmon and Steelhead (an excellent cheaper alternative with similar fatty acid content) over ice.
