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New its not a sablefish its a ling cod unless its in freshwater
then its a burbot. Thats not a sole but a flounder.
thanx,
bill
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New Black Cod = Sablefish is not a Lingcod
Sablefish is family Anoploponatidae, Lingcod is family Hexagrammidae - not related.

European Dover Sole (Common Sole) is a sole, West Coast Dover Sole is a flounder. Rex Sole and Petrale Sole are also West Coast flounders but they're good eating and Petrale can stand in for European sole just fine.

In Europe flounders are called flounders and sole are called sole but in North America any flounder on the menu is called a sole because that sounds classy and European.
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New That's a shame
... in North America any flounder on the menu is called a sole because that sounds classy and European.
I grew up liking flounder. I haven't seen it on a menu in probably a decade or more.



While reading that thoroughly hilarious rant, I wondered just how much confusion comes from three (I'm presuming) facts:
  1. We still don't know 80% of the shit that's down there.
  2. There's so much variety that no one person is able to identify more than half of what might be found in any commercial fishing range.
  3. For all we know, fish species are able to cross-breed much more than is common among mammals, and there may not be such clear distinctions between breeds.
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New I'm not sure that cross breeding is much of a factor . . .
. . but the others definitely are.

There are so many fish and so little knowledge about them variations within a species aren't even being considered yet.

Some fish can appear quite different depending on their age which adds more confusion.

Then there's communication problem with marine biologists (which the Internet is starting to fix to some extent). For instance the Pacific and Atlantic species of Crevalle Jack are probably minor variations of the same species (the Atlantic one grows a bit bigger). There are lots of fish with two, three, four or even more "official scientific names".

Biologists can't agree even on fairly major issues. For instance some divide Pacific Rockfish into two orders and some say they're all scorpionfish and don't recognize the naming conventions of the other camp.

Reclassification and renaming is continuous as well. Even so well known a species as the Rainbow Trout (known as Steelhead in it's seagoing form) was recently reclassified from being an Atlantic salmon to being a Pacific trout.

And, of course, the persistent problem of local names being used for different fish in different areas and the same fish being called different names in different areas. For it's 29,300 species of fish Fishbase lists 217,200 Common names.

Pile on top of this deliberately misleading marketing names and you have something approximating chaos.

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New *boggle*
Even so well known a species as the Rainbow Trout (known as Steelhead in it's seagoing form) was recently reclassified from being an Atlantic salmon to being a Pacific trout.
Excuse my naivete, but isn't that a fairly significant difference? Does this now mean that all that trout my grandfather caught -- my father ate so much as a child that to this day he gets nauseous when he smells fish -- I was actually eating salmon? (Except that now I wasn't. [WTF is the appropriate tense for that sentence?])
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New s /wasn't/wouldn't have been/ maybe?
You probably need some sort of [link|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive|subjunctive] there.

Maybe. :-)

Cheers,
Scott.
New Not a problem.
They're all family Salmonidae. Should a rainbow trout chose to go to sea and become a steelhead (some do, some don't), the only difference is that s/he can swim back up-river and spawn without dying. If you have near 100% fatality at spawning you're a salmon, if you have a decent chance of surviving it you're a trout.

As with everything else relating to fish there's some confusion - a few Atlantic salmon survive spawning. "You've spawned and are now heading down-river? Sorry guy, I've got to revoke your salmon license and issue you a provisional trout license".
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Expand Edited by Andrew Grygus July 24, 2006, 01:21:15 PM EDT
New Nitty gritty time
Would the salmon I'd find at the grocery store today taste like the stream-caught[1] rainbow trout I ate as a kid? Are the salmon steaks larger simply because, like goldfish, they grew to fill a larger habitat?


[1] Yes, they stocked the stream, so it was probably farmed fish. I doubt it ever spawned in the wild.
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New Salmon / trout
I suspect a salmon that hasn't yet been to sea will be pretty much like a trout in all respects, and will not be red. I may be able to confirm this since my local fish market has "baby salmon" right now, which look like oversize trout, but I'll have to figure out if it really is a salmon.

Salmon picks up its unique flavor and red color (which has nothing to do with quality or flavor) by eating crustaceans in the oceans.

The same goes for rainbow trout that choose to become steelhead, they also pick up the red coloring and a different flavor during their saltwater adventure.

Yes, salmon are larger because of their larger environment. Same with steelhead which get much larger than they would have as rainbow trout.

Store bought salmon would not taste the same as the trout of your youth. Farm raised salmon is raised in ocean water (and has the same dye wild salmon collect added to their food for color). Most farm raised salmon is Atlantic salmon even when grown on the Pacific coast because Atlantic salmon tolerate crowding better.

Wild salmon has better flavor and texture than farmed salmon but at several times the price. There isn't nearly enough of it to meet the demand for salmon.
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New Cool, just like flamingos
They're pink because they eat shrimp. Dying the food is a cheap hack, but not really surprising I guess.

So other than "not the same", how would you compare the taste of salmon vs. trout? I remember the stuff I ate as a kid being OK, but have since decided/realized that mom was not the world's best cook. It's entirely possible I'd really like it if done well.

I haven't particularly liked the salmon I've had as an adult. But the two or three times I've tried it were either at a buffet -- an environment not noted for great seafood -- or grilled by someone who might not have had that much experience with it.
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New Good salmon is to die for.
We get a lot of it in Seattle, and I just outright avoid the farmed stuff because it is so obviously inferior in flavor (not to mention having all kinds of toxins in it, and being horribly environmentally damaging) it's just not worth it to me.

I couldn't give you a good recipe, but there are a ton out there.
Hurt me if you must, but let the duckie go!
New Especially for the salmon...
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Salmon is a very intensely flavored fish.
Salmon's strong flavor and oiliness makes it suitable for grilling and broiling combined with fairly strong seasonings and sauces, though you have to be careful or it'll get dry. Even poached it's quite strong in flavor.

While definitely not bland, trout doesn't have that overbearing salmony flavor and is a more suitable fish for subtle and refined sauces and treatments. With a very long body cavity trout is a favorite for stuffing and has just enough flavor of it's own to complement mushrooms, sausage and other stuffings.

I like salmon now and then but more as an accent than as a feature. Actually, I like salmon best raw, sliced thin and draped over a lump of seasoned rice. Full speed ahead [link|http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/seafish.html#worm|and damn the worms]!
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New As an accent, not a feature ... sounds good
It was, as you said, overbearing.
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New get thee to your local walmart supercenter
they might have some Alaskan salmon. Here we are paying $4.29 a lb and we buy whole filets (feeds 3 cost $13.00) Its packed by Icicle Seafoods out of Seward. Should be able to get it for about 1 more month
thanx,
bill
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New Re: Nitty gritty time - in many more ways than One
Dunno about the taste buds' take - but last I heard (in some detail) - the cubic-closest-packing of farmed any-fish -- produces a diseased fish / or somewhat 'mutated', in any event. It would be wishful to imagine that taste wouldn't alter, along with the rest of its biochem.

IIRC.. the red color of er, free-ranging salmon is merely the visual cue of the necessity of this spcies feeding across a variety of natural critters. (The farmed stuff has red dye added - read label. If they supply one.) The crowding effect on disease transmission odds was likened to the difference of

One person with a cold, in a room you visit for several minutes VS
same snuffler in an elevator, stopped between floors, for hours

(a simile for those who don't do stats, I guess.)

Overall effect of listening to many biologists in recent years; then this summary of a couple hours, with significant data: I've eschewed farm-raised salmon for some time; that meant le$$-salmon for moi :-/ (which I happen to love, not merely for its bitchin source of decent-grade Omega-3s to balance out all those 6s n'such.)

Most every story about Our Model of entrepreneurial exploitation demonstrates a similar degree of utter cluelessness (but mostly: could-care-Less-ness) - none surprises, any more. We have yet to learn to think properly, of Scale. 'Wise' has no relationship whatsoever to, CIEIO-dom's vision of Success.

Amidst the religio-warz, who has time to think of paramecia?
(Or ponder how the antibiotics used to control the diseases-of-confinement.. and fish-farmers are using lots of those, too - join the chem-factory beef, and other Wonders of Pharmchem + Capitalism: inside our cells.)

Then there are the dioxins produced increasingly/alarmingly in farmed-fish
(as soon may be extended to way-off-coast 'farms': with ~huge nets for containment.)
As we finish off the oceans, intensely. Too. There's a whole sub-category about the "junk-fish" used for pets and.. as diet of the wretched who outnumber US: the nutritional qualities are falling there, too.

We can always hope that we won't ever need an antibiotic to work, on millions - for the next 1918 flu. Maybe if we've been very very Good for a few generations..?
Tuna? Hydrargyrum.. ain't that a euphonious name? You don't feed tuna-mixes to your cat, now! who needs radioactive isotopes when plain bloody chemistry does the job?

Jeez, let's not even Think about the chickens..

We're Sick.
Stay rich and you can select-out the edible stuff, for a time..
But Gaia as MD-in-Charge, just may not have old copies of Better 4000' Starter Homes and Gardens in Her waiting room..




Ashleigh Brilliant, as usual pegs the species and its planning -
In the final analysis everything depends on everything else
(But it's so much Trouble to think that hard. Let's just market, instead.)
New ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #262525 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=262525|ICLRPD]
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     Taxonomy, thy name is Confusion! - (Andrew Grygus) - (23)
         :-) Where's Linnaeus when you need him? - (Another Scott) - (1)
             Yeah, that's just what we needed . . . - (Andrew Grygus)
         its not a sablefish its a ling cod unless its in freshwater - (boxley) - (16)
             Black Cod = Sablefish is not a Lingcod - (Andrew Grygus) - (15)
                 That's a shame - (drewk) - (14)
                     I'm not sure that cross breeding is much of a factor . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (13)
                         *boggle* - (drewk) - (11)
                             s /wasn't/wouldn't have been/ maybe? - (Another Scott)
                             Not a problem. - (Andrew Grygus) - (9)
                                 Nitty gritty time - (drewk) - (8)
                                     Salmon / trout - (Andrew Grygus) - (6)
                                         Cool, just like flamingos - (drewk) - (5)
                                             Good salmon is to die for. - (inthane-chan) - (1)
                                                 Especially for the salmon... -NT - (admin)
                                             Salmon is a very intensely flavored fish. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                                                 As an accent, not a feature ... sounds good - (drewk)
                                             get thee to your local walmart supercenter - (boxley)
                                     Re: Nitty gritty time - in many more ways than One - (Ashton)
                         ICLRPD (new thread) - (drewk)
         Perhaps you should visit Boston and get scrod! :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (3)
             Underage cod are not on my list of perversions to do . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                 Polite? Sure. Sincere? Never. -NT - (drewk)
             MMMM! Boston Scrod! - (imqwerky)

Erm, jb......that already IS a Lerpadism.
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