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Do you descale salmon fillets? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by denton@lemm.ee to c/askuk

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So all (that I've bought from) supermarkets sell their salmon fillets with scales on. Do you descale it before pan frying?

Sainsbury's; morrisons; tesco are the supermarkets I've bought salmon fillets from mainly

Edit: Please stop assuming I'm a dumbass who doesn't know what scales look like. We have established that YES, SCALES ARE PRESENT, I AM NOT MISTAKING SKIN FOR SCALES BECAUSE I HAVE EYES. They are on the fillets, and if you haven't noticed them, then feel free to not participate in this post.

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[–] Shepstr 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leave them on. The skin will pretty much fall off after cooking and it holds a lot of flavour, like the fat on a steak.

Personally I leave the skin (with scales) on, best bit of the fillet.

Morrisons still have their counter so you can always ask the fishmonger to descale the salmon.

[–] denton@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I eat the skin, just not the scales. But it does annoy me having to spend time descaling each time