October
12, 2005:
How Do You Like Your Fish - Fresh Or Frozen?
Interview
with Dr. Douglas Archer, Professor of Food Science, University
Of Florida |
Mike
Carruthers:
Is the fish fresh or frozen? People ask that a lot in restaurants
as if there were something wrong with frozen fish. Is there?
Dr. Douglas
Archer:
I guess it depends upon your taste. You can't always get fresh
and sometimes frozen is not only a good substitute it's the
only substitute and it's of superior quality.
Dr. Doug Archer,
Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University
of Florida…
If I see something
that says previously frozen it doesn't bother me at all. In
fact it means to me that the freshness was locked in at the
time of freezing. And one of my favorite fish is halibut and
it's very hard to get here in Florida unless you have it frozen
and shipped down here from Alaska. And I don't mind that at
all.
The fact is you'd
be hard pressed to tell the difference between fresh and frozen
fish and fresh fish can spoil.
Fish is one of
the most delicate things in terms of its shelf life and it can
spoil pretty quickly. So, if you're buying Chilean sea bass
from a factory ship that's catching it and freezing it within
hours, you're buying a very fresh piece of fish when you thaw
it.
And certainly
most of the shrimp you eat has been frozen.
A lot of shrimp
come into this country frozen. Is it nice to buy fresh shrimp,
sure when we're over at St. Augustine or somewhere on the coast
we love to buy fresh shrimp, it's kind of nice. But for the
most part if you're inland you're probably going to buy frozen
shrimp and you're probably not going to tell much of a difference
if any.
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