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Unless you’re buying your fish every morning in the fish market at the harbor, it’s probably been frozen. Even wild caught is typically frozen as soon as it’s h
by nkrisc 5y ago
Unless you’re buying your fish every morning in the fish market at the harbor, it’s probably been frozen. Even wild caught is typically frozen as soon as it’s hauled aboard.
This will vary around the world, of course.
- ckastner 5y agoSupposedly, flash freezing (which is distinct from your average home freezer unit) preserves quality such that even trained sushi chefs can't tell the difference between fresh and previously flash-frozen fish. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/sushi-fresh-from-the-deep-the-deep-freeze.html https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/sushi-fresh-from...
- el_benhameen 5y agoIndeed, there are some types of fish that are safe for "raw" consumption only after being flash frozen, due to parasites that live in the fish.