So all (that I’ve bought from) supermarkets sell their salmon fillets with scales on. Do you descale it before pan frying?

Sainsbury’s; morrisons; tesco are the supermarkets I’ve bought salmon fillets from mainly

Edit: Please stop assuming I’m a dumbass who doesn’t know what scales look like. We have established that YES, SCALES ARE PRESENT, I AM NOT MISTAKING SKIN FOR SCALES BECAUSE I HAVE EYES. They are on the fillets, and if you haven’t noticed them, then feel free to not participate in this post.

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    1 year ago

    Leave them on. The skin will pretty much fall off after cooking and it holds a lot of flavour, like the fat on a steak.

    Personally I leave the skin (with scales) on, best bit of the fillet.

    Morrisons still have their counter so you can always ask the fishmonger to descale the salmon.

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      1 year ago

      I eat the skin, just not the scales. But it does annoy me having to spend time descaling each time