Sea Snacks Dried Hake fillet strips

Sea Snacks Dried Hake Fillet Strips — the mild one you start with

Dried hake fillet strips are about as gentle as a dried fish snack gets. Sea Snacks takes Argentine hake (Merluccius hubbsi) landed in the Southwest Atlantic, salts it lightly, air-dries it and seals it in a flat 30 g pouch you can eat out of with one hand. If the words "dried fish" make you hesitate slightly, start here rather than with the squid.

Why this one

• The quiet end of the range: hake is one of the milder white fish in the sea, and drying concentrates that mildness instead of sharpening it.
• Named catch: Merluccius hubbsi from the Southwest Atlantic, so you know which fish and which ocean before you open it.
• Protein-dense: fillet with the water taken out and nothing put back in.
• Packs flat: thin enough to live in a glovebox for a month without anyone noticing.

How Sea Snacks makes it

Whole hake fillets are lightly salted and air-dried. It is the oldest preservation trick on that coast and it has not needed improving: take the water out and the flavour that stays behind is more concentrated than the one you started with. Nothing is added after drying.

Taste and texture

Firm, with a bit of give at the torn edges rather than a hard snap. The flavour is clean and faintly sweet, closer to a good fish stock than to anything smoky, and the salt stays in the background where it belongs. Against the rest of the Sea Snacks shelf, hake is the understated one — cod shatters more, redfish tastes bigger, squid demands jaw work.

When to reach for it

Motorway stretches where the alternative is a service station sandwich. The dead hour between a late lunch and a later dinner. Anywhere you want something savoury that will not leave your fingers greasy or your bag smelling of crisps.

Frequently asked

Does it need refrigerating? No — the sealed pouch is shelf-stable and lives in a cupboard or a rucksack quite happily. Once it is open, fold the top over and finish it within a few days while the texture is still worth having.

How is it different from the Sea Snacks cod? Cod dries brittle and shatters when you bite it. Hake holds together and chews. Both are mild; hake has a little more body behind the flavour.

What is the 20-pack? Twenty 30 g pouches in one case, for households where a single pouch has never once made it home intact.

Order Sea Snacks Dried Hake Fillet Strips at Jerky Store Europe

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