| September
12, 2008
How Do You Like Your Fish - Fresh Or Frozen?
Interview
with Dr. Douglas Archer Professor of Food Sciences, 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
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