How to crisp salmon skin
What separates OK cooks from Really Great cooks? Not what you might think. No, it’s not the ability to whip up a croquembouche like it’s a reflex action, or craft a molecularly gastronomic dinner party menu on the turn of a dime. It’s actually the little things. The smallest masteries of techniques. The tiny refinements. These are what give you an edge in the kitchen. The details. Details like… achieving Peak Crisp when you’re cooking salmon.
And can we just pause to get a ‘Yum’ from the crowd for crispy salmon skin? How ridiculously delicious is it? When you’re pan-frying some jolly good fish, you simply do not want flaccid skin so let’s look at how we can avoid that particular hot mess.
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