How to Buy Salmon

Video Transcript

"Hi, Bill Lyons here on behalf of Expert Village and tonight we're preparing the miso ginger salmon. Now let's talk about the salmon that we're going to use. I've gone to my favorite big box store in the last day or two and picked up some fresh salmon. This particular salmon that I've selected for today, is fresh, farm raised, Atlantic salmon. Now depending on the time of the year and where you're located, you can of course get different varieties of salmon. This time of the year that I'm preparing this, fresh salmon is only farm raised. We're not able to get wild salmon. Wild salmon is seasonal. Wild salmon is lovely salmon because it has a deeper richer color. It also has a nice milder, slightly earthy flavor to it. Salmon can come different ways. Either skin off, which this is, or skin on. When you're buying fish of any kind and salmon of course, it's important that when you select it that it be nice and bright be no smell from it and it be clean and well prepared and kept refrigerated. On the west coast of course you're going to get pacific salmon and on the east coast we'll get the Atlantic salmon. It's good to always make sure that the salmon is clean, that it's well marbled. Wild salmon will be a much darker color. This is kind of a rosy pink color whereas a wild salmon will be a very dark color. But again it's just because of the type of salmon and how the fish is actually raised. What we're going to be doing now is portioning up our salmon, so that we have several nice pieces for our meal today. There's obviously ample here for a dinner party. Or you could actually take some of this, segment it up and freeze it for another meal. Fresh salmon is much nicer than buying frozen or flash frozen salmon. That tends to have a stronger flavor. Buy your salmon fresh, know what you've bought, freeze it and prepare it yourself, then you really know what you have to work with down the road. In a minute, we'll be back."