Is the right salmon bad? They are from the same bag
Is the right salmon bad? They are from the same bag
by woodlandfairyvibes
13 Comments
SDJellyBean
Does it smell okay? Color can vary, especially in wild caught salmon.
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MadameBlue42
You say same bag, but the 2 filets look like they’re from different fish. Are they both king (Chinook) salmon? The one on the right looks like a white salmon – indistinguishable from the outside, but the meat is a paler color due to higher fat content. It will cook the same, and some people swear the flavor is better. Source: my husband and I fish for salmon, and have caught our fair share of white Chinook 🙂
SpicyDopamineTaco
Trust your nose 👃
EntertainmentOwn1641
I learned that when you first smell that funky smell, trust it. I used to find myself sniffing it over and over until I convinced myself that it ain’t that bad. If you just opened it and the first smell wasn’t funky, it’s good. Salmon is a lot of different colors.
R12Labs
Is this wild or farmed?
WhiskyWisdom
I wouldn’t eat the one on the right, something definitely happened to it.
Electronic-Mine1724
Why are you getting down voted?? I definitely read about this quality check method in America’s test kitchen?? 😂
Effective_Roof2026
FDA is really doing their best to get people to throw out perfectly good fish with the smell advice so be careful not to follow that too closely 🙂 Sour/rancid/soapy/ammonia smells are all bad and you throw it out for sure.
The fishy smell though isn’t caused by the bacteria that cause illness, its naturally occurring bacteria found on the fish which break down trimethylamine. The bad bacteria break down proteins into ammonia compounds and oxidize the PUFAs producing an ammonia/soapy smell. I guess they just default assume people have a terrible sense of smell which makes sense, but I hate to think how much deliciously aged fish has been wasted.
Both should smell similar and have a similar texture, that color isn’t of particular concern as it’s still a natural color for salmon and its consistent. If this is farm raised the fish just ate less of the pigments they add to salmon feed. If its wild I would probably switch up where I get it from as salmon caught in the same area of the same species should be the same color, at best they have a quality control issue and at worst they are batch processing fish which means more handling.
13 Comments
Does it smell okay? Color can vary, especially in wild caught salmon.
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You say same bag, but the 2 filets look like they’re from different fish. Are they both king (Chinook) salmon? The one on the right looks like a white salmon – indistinguishable from the outside, but the meat is a paler color due to higher fat content. It will cook the same, and some people swear the flavor is better. Source: my husband and I fish for salmon, and have caught our fair share of white Chinook 🙂
Trust your nose 👃
I learned that when you first smell that funky smell, trust it. I used to find myself sniffing it over and over until I convinced myself that it ain’t that bad. If you just opened it and the first smell wasn’t funky, it’s good. Salmon is a lot of different colors.
Is this wild or farmed?
I wouldn’t eat the one on the right, something definitely happened to it.
Why are you getting down voted?? I definitely read about this quality check method in America’s test kitchen?? 😂
FDA is really doing their best to get people to throw out perfectly good fish with the smell advice so be careful not to follow that too closely 🙂 Sour/rancid/soapy/ammonia smells are all bad and you throw it out for sure.
The fishy smell though isn’t caused by the bacteria that cause illness, its naturally occurring bacteria found on the fish which break down trimethylamine. The bad bacteria break down proteins into ammonia compounds and oxidize the PUFAs producing an ammonia/soapy smell. I guess they just default assume people have a terrible sense of smell which makes sense, but I hate to think how much deliciously aged fish has been wasted.
Both should smell similar and have a similar texture, that color isn’t of particular concern as it’s still a natural color for salmon and its consistent. If this is farm raised the fish just ate less of the pigments they add to salmon feed. If its wild I would probably switch up where I get it from as salmon caught in the same area of the same species should be the same color, at best they have a quality control issue and at worst they are batch processing fish which means more handling.
They are different fish entirely
It it does not smell of fish it is not bad.
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That is one sweet knife