Passionate About Fish - How to fillet a whole Salmon

Duncan Lucas of Passionate About Fish demonstrates how to fillet and skin whole Scottish Salmon

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[jameswray50]

The "silver flesh" you were talking about while before you deboned it was fat, very bitter and gross.

[Suelucas1965]

@jameswray50 Hello! It all depends on the species of salmon. We were working on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and the silver skin is very neutral and helps to keep the flesh from breaking during cooking. Some other species of salmon have a different texture and deep 'fat-lines' through the brown meat, so would be best removed. We 'deep-skin' these fish, and therefore remove the silver skin. Sorry for the confusion x

[stupidintellect90]

You're a life saver! I'm hosting a dinner party and I've got 2 salmons. I've completely butchered the 1st(I'll probably be giving those peices to the people I find irritating :)) so here's hoping I could fillet the second one properly. You make it looks so easy!Thank you

[Suelucas1965]

@stupidintellect90 Good Luck! Take it slow, and you'll be fine x

[0asian1nvasion0]

best vid demo for this IMO, better than the tesco one anyway.

[Suelucas1965]

@0asian1nvasion0 Thanks for the comment! Haven't seen the Tesco one, but might have a sneaky peek :)

[dudespin]

I tried it on Pink Salmon today. I got a small nick on my finger, and I ended up with one a half a fillet and a lot of fish bits, LOL! I need to get the technique down and let the fish thaw out a little more (I bought a frozen whole fish). I leave the skin on because the wife and I actually like to pan fry in olive oil and eat the skin somewhat crispy. Thank you for posting this!

[Ozmentations]

Magnifisently instructed video. Going to try it out on my fabulous species now.

[2write2sing2dance]

amazinggggg

[aidor55]

nice work

[321pagani]

I'm hungry now...lol



[cprobosteuribe]

Awesome vid, really useful, specially for me because I didnt know how to do it, now I know, merci :D