Tools for Preparing the Best Fish
Cooking fresh-caught fish can be a bit adventurous, but no worries! You can master every challenge by supplying your kitchen with the right tools for preparing the best fish. City Fish Market customers have discovered the greatest motivation for becoming a bona fide home seafood chef.
Our seafood products and impressive retail counters provide all the inspiration needed to begin eating the healthiest protein at home more frequently. If it helps, imagine putting on a Caribbean-esque pirate hat as you boldly pursue the culinary bounty from the seas. The following will give you sway over your tetchy treasure!
A Large Cutting Board
A sizeable cutting board is needed when cooking a whole fish, which is an excellent way to preserve moisture. Why is this a good thing? The very delicate texture of fish is due to low connective tissue. Therefore, it can instantly become dry and tough if overcooked.
Carefully controlling the heat and time helps prevent the fish’s natural oils and moisture from evaporating. However, cooking the fish whole is an even greater assurance of success in achieving tenderness and flakiness. Your skill could earn you a “well done, Matie!” from the finickiest member of your galley crew.
Additionally, cooking a fish whole allows flavor from the skin and bones to be transferred to the meat, which results in a moist and toothsome dish. Of course, you need to lay out and prep your fish on a cutting board large enough to accommodate its girth.
Fish Spatula
Fish spatulas are also known as “fish turners” and “slotted offset spatulas.” The most significant thing to note is that a fish spatula has specific features that will give you much greater success when it is time to flip or remove your fish. This also applies to delicate crab cakes.
When you are poaching fish, using a slotted offset fish spatula with long slots is ideal because it allows liquid to drain off when you are moving it. A fish spatula should be large enough to fit under a flounder fillet, for example. Make a clean, decisive flip when it is time to cook the other side of a fish fillet, seafood pancake, or salmon steak. Avoid moving fish around too much; otherwise, it may evoke a dreadful “Aaargh!” from the cook as the delicacy breaks apart in the pan.
Fishbone Tweezers
To avoid potential mutiny, include fishbone tweezers in your repertoire of tools for preparing the best fish. Common types of bony fish you can find at City Fish Market include salmon, catfish, cod, flounder, and mackerel. The design of fishbone tweezers allows for:
- Minimal damage was done to the delicate fish meat
- A quicker, more precise process of deboning
- Getting a firm grip on small bones
- A safer, final product of higher quality
- Fewer nightmares about a motley crew drawing swords
City Fish Market has the Best Fish to Cook for “Me Hearties”
The tools for preparing the best fish should be used on a fresh catch from City Fish Market. Check out a more comprehensive list of Must-Have Tools for Meat Anglers. When you get our fresh seafood for your home table, you increase the likelihood of colorful enthusiasm from the crew, such as “Avast ye, Buckos! Time for grub!” We offer the freshest sea bass (branzino), trout, snapper, cod, and so much more!
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