How Smoked Salmon Is Made

[Music] [Music] [Music] a lot of people think that smoked salmon is about taking salmon and applying this smoky flavor to it but if you go back to the origins of smoked salmon the reason it's developed is because a hundred years ago refrigeration was very basic and curing of fish and then smoking of fish was a way of preserving it what we refer to today as London clear smoked salmon really barely tastes of smoked at all [Music] [Music] [Music] smoked salmon was brought over to the East End of London by Jewish immigrants in the late 19th century the smoking of fish was something they were familiar with they used a pickle fish and smoked fish so they were shipping over salmon from the Baltic and it was only when they went to the fish market at Billingsgate and they saw these beautiful wild salmon coming down from Scotland and they thought why are we wasting our time with a Baltic fish we can use Scottish salmon spoiler salmon always had this reputation of being the king of fish and by concentrating that flavour such an extraordinary flavor people fell in love with it [Music] thirty years ago there were about a dozen salmon smoke houses in the East End of London and we are now the last surviving of those smoke houses [Music]

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Length: 3min 21sec (201 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 18 2018