Eating fish skins?

[laterade]

I tried some smoked fish skins over the weekend and loved them!
They were the bellies so they are much softer than the top.
I was wondering if anyone has enjoyed eating them raw?

[SteakNchop]

I have eaten them raw, though I didn't enjoy them. Tasted kind of nasty to me. Maybe if you combine the fish and the skin together they would taste better raw.

[yuli]

I tried eating raw salmon skin but its too tough and unappetizing: starvation food.
Sometimes we buy cold smoked salted cods and the skin on those I do eat, as well as the thin bones, chew them up and swallow.
I tried eating some raw ocean smelts whole but they didn't taste good and made me woozy after - perhaps the smelts wern't good but I got them fresh so I dunno.

I tried some smoked fish skins over the weekend and loved them!
They were the bellies so they are much softer than the top.
I was wondering if anyone has enjoyed eating them raw?

[TylerDurden]

I eat fish-skins sometimes such as mackerel skin. It's OK, nothing special, being a bit bland. I wouldn't bother with smoked skin of fish, of course.

[King Salmon]

I tried salmon skin as well.Too tough and scaly I'm not that freaking radical

[RawZi]

    Yes, I've eaten them raw, along with the raw salmon meat.  It was ok.  It was healthy for me.  I'm not doing it now.  It never gave me a problem, I just don't bother.  When I was eating it, I was cutting it up small with a knife.

[ForTheHunt]

Aajonus says not to. Says it's too hard to digest.

[subfarm]

No matter how fresh the fish is, I find the skin normally has a really strong odor that I don't like. I just can't bring myself to eat it.

[laterade]

Tried it... I won't be doing that again anytime soon. No ill effects to speak of, but it was gross.

I tried eating raw salmon skin but its too tough and unappetizing: starvation food.

I agree, I'd only eat it if I felt I had to.


Thanks for the input everyone.

[bharminder]

I sometimes ate the salmon skin, after I de-scaled it of course. I would never want to eat the scales of fish if I had a choice.

I used to cut it up into small pieces with scissors or a knife, and eat them. However, at some point it became nauseating to eat the skin, and I had a gag reflex when I tried to. This started to make me feel averse towards fish in general. So, I stopped eating the skins raw.


Interestingly, I've found that if I cook the skin by steaming it, it tastes much better. However, I believe cooking fish skins creates unhealthy compounds that when consumed can damage the body. So I avoid them now.

[SteakNchop]

Maybe if you wrap salmon skins around something else to get rid of the taste it won't be so bad.

[miles]

Why would you do that? If it tastes bad there's a reason.

[deletemyaccount]

I tried some smoked fish skins over the weekend and loved them!
They were the bellies so they are much softer than the top.
I was wondering if anyone has enjoyed eating them raw?

Fish skins are the most delicious food in the world. This morning, I had one pound of whole raw mackerel with the skin, bones, eyes and everything. I love the skin of raw salmon and I always ask the fishmonger for any extra skins if people decide to skin their fish. Eat the skin bro... it's awesome! Shame on anyone who throws away the skin :-) Send it over to me and I'll savour every single bite :-)

[laterade]

Fish skins are the most delicious food in the world. This morning, I had one pound of whole raw mackerel with the skin, bones, eyes and everything. I love the skin of raw salmon and I always ask the fishmonger for any extra skins if people decide to skin their fish. Eat the skin bro... it's awesome! Shame on anyone who throws away the skin :-) Send it over to me and I'll savour every single bite :-)

High five for conservation!
Do you prepare them in any way? Or do you just gulp them down?

[deletemyaccount]

High five for conservation!
Do you prepare them in any way? Or do you just gulp them down?

Just cut them into smaller pieces and enjoy them raw

[KD]

hah, I just had some mackys. I not much of a skin guy but you are minus a few eyeballs. UPS or DHL?

[bharminder]

Contrary to my last post in this thread about personally avoiding fish skins, today I ate salmon with the skin.
Whereas before I would eat the skin separately from the meat out of convenience, today I ate the skin with the meat. I did make sure to descale it very carefully. It tasted good! I will now start eating salmon with the skins, provided I don't get any nausea.

I think what made the difference this time was that I ate the skin with the meat instead of at a separate time. I was also very careful to not eat any scales, as I remember feeling nausea(Gag reflex) when some of the scales pieces were in my mouth.