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May 3Liked by Nicola Fairbrother

One of the most comprehensive guides I've ever seen! Thanks for putting so much time and thought into it 👏🏻

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May 3Liked by Nicola Fairbrother

100% agree! Thank you, Nicola. Whole fish in salt sounds great, but so do healthy pancakes. Could you do both, separately, in the upcoming weeks/months?

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Hi Portia....so glad you liked the Crispy Fish Skin guide and found it useful, let me know if you have a go won't you. I will try to cover both topics in coming months for sure... and some more too.

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Thank you! It did take awhile to write so I appreciate that. So glad you liked it.

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Brilliant piece! So clear! But have you tried a prospector pan from the Netherton Foundry? The spun iron gets so hot, and it works as well as any non-stick pan!

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I haven’t but it sounds like I should, I will check it out. Yes, any decent pan will work. I have cast iron also and they work like a dream, trick is getting them hot enough

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The thing I love about them, apart from the fact they get really hot, really quickly, is that they are light!

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That’s a big bonus, thanks for the tip, I will check them out

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Hey Nicola, lovely guide! One method I also like, and find works especially well for thicker cuts of salmon and trout, is to pre-heat your oven to 375-400(F), letting the fish do a quick dry brine or marinade, then getting a cast iron pan ripping hot and doing a quick sear of the flesh side in butter. Then move the pan to oven, skin up, and switch to a broil for 5 minutes. This gets super crispy skin and a perfectly cooked fish almost every time.

(May need, of course, to adjust for fish thickness and other variabilities!)

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Hey Lou, I’m going to try that!! Sounds great. crispy salmon skin is just the best. Maybe less oily too in the oven?

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I would think so! Plus you don’t need to worry about the skin sticking — though it can smoke up the oven if you get too close to the broiler!

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Thanks NikVery interesting!! Y muy rica la piel que muchas veces tiramos 😋

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😘 no more throwing away of fish skin for us

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