r/Seafood

I want to try my hand at making homemade ikura for sushi.

It seems like I just need a wire mesh screen to separate the roe from the membrane?

I can't seem to find a source for raw salmon skeins that doesn't require buying like 10+ lb all at once, and there are other sources that label the skeins as for use as bait. Anyone have a source?

What's the difference between the bait skein variety and the unprocessed variety for human consumption? Are the bait ones processed with chemicals or something?

I recently took a frozen fillet out of our chest freezer that had a deep red color, little fat, and a wonderful crustacean flavor from the fish's diet of krill. I have no idea where I bought it as it was unlabeled.

Since then I've tried both Costco fresh and frozen wild Sockeye salmon and Walmart frozen wild salmon and neither of them have had that deep red color nor crustacean taste... which is odd because that's normally where we would have gotten the salmon I had just ate.

Judging from the Costco Sockeye not being special, and guessing that what I had previously was Sockeye, I'm guessing that not all Sockeye are created equal.

So is there a trick (like a proper season?) to getting this or an established grocery chain that regularly stocks that deep red wild salmon? Right now it seems like it's kind of a random thing?

i wake up and i think about eating some sort of seafood. i go to sleep thinking about seafood. i eat shrimp almost every day and still crave it. my desire for shrimp and various animals of the sea is legitimately insatiable. this has been going on for two months. this all began with a canned tuna fixation, then a general tinned seafood fixation, then a shrimp fixation, and then an everything fixation. i wish to consume every form of seafood possible. i want to eat an entire raw salmon. i want a big bowl of ceviche. i want 100 fried oysters and 100 raw oysters with a side of 50 lemons. i want 100 cocktail shrimp. 100 exactly. i legitimately believe i could eat 100 cocktail shrimp in one sitting and maybe 200 oysters. i may or may not become the first human to turn pink from shrimp consumption. i want raw shrimp sashimi. i want seafood dip. tuna salad. tinned mussels in oil. raw marinated crab. kani salad. steamed tilapia. i want to rip into a lobster with my teeth and go to town (with two whole lemons and some butter). sometimes i wish i was a brown bear so i could tear into 40 raw salmon a day. i can eat seafood for each of my three square meals and still crave seafood. i crave seafood irrationally and constantly. i don't even care for beef or chicken anymore. i could become pescatarian right now and not even notice.

just thought somebody here may resonate! have a good day

went to a sushi place in vegas and saw uni on the menu. it looked delicious and seemed exotic so i was game. unfortunately, it tasted overwhelmingly like a well loved porta potty, and the person i was with agreed. i will admit the flavors did develop the more i chewed but it was still a difficult bite to swallow. looking through this sub, uni gets a lot of love. is it possible i got a bad batch? or does the taste really vary this much person to person?

I love tilapia and cod but often get told both are dirty trash. I find them delicious nonetheless.

Please no shellfish.