Sea Lice in Salmon?

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Tom Nakashima wrote:

Not sure if I would be happy to view sea lice.
A photo of sea lice cluster in wild salmon:
http://www.watershed-watch.org/ww/Photos/lice16.htm
-tom

If you truly want to be grossed out, check out this video clip:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/13/e12/DC1

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Ok rw, I must admit, that was far worst than sea lice.
-tom

Allways pass on the salmon sushi. Eating raw salmon can lead to tapeworms.
The species that are carried by Pacific salmon are some of ( if not the
longest). I am reaching back a bit to my zoology class butI think it was
King salmon that had the 40' tapeworms. IF you have to pass a 40' tapeworm
I sure you will evaluate the Sushi bar very carefully.

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"rw" wrote in message
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Tom Nakashima wrote:

Not sure if I would be happy to view sea lice.
A photo of sea lice cluster in wild salmon:
http://www.watershed-watch.org/ww/Photos/lice16.htm
-tom

If you truly want to be grossed out, check out this video clip:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/13/e12/DC1

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Ok rw, I must admit, that was far worst than sea lice.
-tom

In article 0Y_Wf.11860$Od7.6647@trnddc06, Warthog
wrote:

Allways pass on the salmon sushi. Eating raw salmon can lead to tapeworms.

No, stick with the sushi. Because of the risk, salmon, like mackeral
(sp??) is lightly cooked - or is it salted? - before being served in a
sushi bar.

Lazarus

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Allways pass on the salmon sushi. Eating raw salmon can lead to
tapeworms. The species that are carried by Pacific salmon are some of ( if
not the longest). I am reaching back a bit to my zoology class butI think
it was King salmon that had the 40' tapeworms. IF you have to pass a 40'
tapeworm I sure you will evaluate the Sushi bar very carefully.


You sorta take the fun out of salmon sashimi,
I generally opt for the yellow fin, as salmon can be quite chewy, but I must
admit a certain fondness for sushi ikura, if only for the looks you get
while downing those succulent salmon eggs.

Skwala wrote:

You sorta take the fun out of salmon sashimi,
I generally opt for the yellow fin, as salmon can be quite chewy, but I must
admit a certain fondness for sushi ikura, if only for the looks you get
while downing those succulent salmon eggs.

Yellow fin (Ahi) is sometimes passed off as Maguro, but true Maguro is
top-loin blue fin tuna. I prefer yellow tail -- Hamachi, which is
lighter in color and has a more delicate taste. If you like Ikura
(salmon roe) try Tobikko -- flying fish roe, often served with a raw
quail egg on top. My personal favorite sushi is a tie between two kinds,
often not available -- Uni (sea urchin roe) and Toro (fatty tuna).

I've been eating self-prepared salmon sashimi for years. No tape worms
so far -- keeping my fingers crossed, because I'm not going to stop. I
buy only wild Alaskan chinook, and I look it over pretty carefully. It's
not chewy if you slice it thinly.

Salmon skin makes a great hand roll, but I don't know how to prepare it.

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Skwala wrote:

You sorta take the fun out of salmon sashimi,
I generally opt for the yellow fin, as salmon can be quite chewy, but I must
admit a certain fondness for sushi ikura, if only for the looks you get
while downing those succulent salmon eggs.

Yellow fin (Ahi) is sometimes passed off as Maguro, but true Maguro is
top-loin blue fin tuna. I prefer yellow tail -- Hamachi, which is
lighter in color and has a more delicate taste. If you like Ikura
(salmon roe) try Tobikko -- flying fish roe, often served with a raw
quail egg on top. My personal favorite sushi is a tie between two kinds,
often not available -- Uni (sea urchin roe) and Toro (fatty tuna).

I've been eating self-prepared salmon sashimi for years. No tape worms
so far -- keeping my fingers crossed, because I'm not going to stop. I
buy only wild Alaskan chinook, and I look it over pretty carefully. It's
not chewy if you slice it thinly.

I always keep a container of flying fish roe in the freezer.
Not just for sushi, but for the impromptu scallops in wasabi cream
sauce, and the like.

I haven't had Maguro so far (next time I'm in San Fran, maybe), but
after ahi, I like the robust smokiness of unagi (smoked eel), available
almost anywhere that sushi is served.

No sushi for me this weekend, as tomorrow I hit the Bitterroot for some
quality Skwala action... woot!

Skwala

In article 0Y_Wf.11860$Od7.6647@trnddc06,
"Warthog" wrote:

Allways pass on the salmon sushi. Eating raw salmon can lead to tapeworms.
The species that are carried by Pacific salmon are some of ( if not the
longest). I am reaching back a bit to my zoology class butI think it was
King salmon that had the 40' tapeworms. IF you have to pass a 40' tapeworm
I sure you will evaluate the Sushi bar very carefully.

I caught some california valley salmon that I Cooked up. Apparently I
didnt cook it good enough (it was not a chromer as well, had a bit of
red) a couple hours after all my number 2's were liquid. For 2 weeks
if I heard my tummy rumble it was a race to the bathroom to squirt
liquid out my butt.

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Somewhere in Texas a village is missing their Idiot.

Fish used in commercially prepared sushi and sashimi is always flash frozen
for 24 hours prior to preparation which is sure to clean any parasitic worm
cysts in the flesh. Most live active worms are in the fish gut. Sushi chefs
are also trained to spot infestations. The chance of getting a parastic worm
infestation from sushi are very low.


"Warthog" wrote in message
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Allways pass on the salmon sushi. Eating raw salmon can lead to
tapeworms. The species that are carried by Pacific salmon are some of ( if
not the longest). I am reaching back a bit to my zoology class butI think
it was King salmon that had the 40' tapeworms. IF you have to pass a 40'
tapeworm I sure you will evaluate the Sushi bar very carefully.

"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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"rw" wrote in message
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Tom Nakashima wrote:

Not sure if I would be happy to view sea lice.
A photo of sea lice cluster in wild salmon:
http://www.watershed-watch.org/ww/Photos/lice16.htm
-tom

If you truly want to be grossed out, check out this video clip:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/13/e12/DC1

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Ok rw, I must admit, that was far worst than sea lice.
-tom