Sea Snacks Dried Pink Salmon fillet strips

Sea Snacks Dried Pink Salmon Fillet Strips — salmon that travels

Dried pink salmon fillet strips have more body to them than any other ocean-caught strip in the Sea Snacks range, and it shows in the chew. The fillets are trawl-caught in the cold Northeast Pacific, given sea salt and dried under protective atmosphere, which keeps both the colour and the flavour where they should be. The 30 g pack holds a high-protein snack that tastes unmistakably of salmon and survives a week in a bag, which fresh salmon has never once managed.

Why this one

• The mildest salmon there is: pink salmon carries less of the oily punch of its cousins, so the flavour reads as clean rather than heavy.
• Cold-water catch: trawled in the Northeast Pacific, filleted and dried with no spicing anywhere in sight.
• Protein-dense: salmon fillet with the water removed, which is the whole trick.
• It behaves at room temperature: the one form of salmon you can carry around all day and still want to eat.

How Sea Snacks makes it

Strips are cut from the fillet, salted and dried under protective atmosphere rather than blasted with heat or smoke. That matters for a fish this oily: hot-drying would push the fat to the surface and flatten the flavour, and smoking would simply take the whole thing over.

Taste and texture

Dense and slightly oily on the tongue, with a proper chew rather than a crack. The flavour is salmon first and salt second, with a faintly buttery finish that lingers longer than any of the white fish in this range. It is the strip that most resembles a cured meat snack in the mouth, which is probably why it disappears fastest at a table.

Who it is for

Cheese boards that need something from the sea and do not want a tin of anything. A glass of dry white on a Friday. Hotel rooms after a late flight, when room service has closed and the minibar is a disgrace.

Frequently asked

Is it smoked? No. There is no smoking stage at all, which is exactly why it tastes of fish instead of a barbecue.

Why is it chewier than the cod or hake strips? Oil. White fish dries thin and brittle; salmon holds more fat in the flesh, so it dries into something with body.

Where does it sit against the Sea Snacks rainbow trout? Trout is rounder and crunchier; salmon is deeper, chewier and more obviously oceanic.

Order Sea Snacks Dried Pink Salmon Fillet Strips at Jerky Store Europe

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