/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Try cooking for longer before trying to flip

Medium heat, enough oil to make the pan look slick, make sure the oil has actually heated up before adding the fish, give the fish a bit of time before you move it. Gently tap the side when you think it's time, and it should move freely. If not, wait a little longer.

I don't know whether putting one side or the other first makes a difference. I've never noticed one.

>>10702766
Who's the girl in that image?

>>10702833
>girl

>>10702766
Skin side down get the oil hot like screaming hot, don't fuck with it. Let it sear until jostling the pan makes the fish move around on it's own. If it is snapper or another kind of fish that curls up press down with a spatula. Same shit for grilling fish or scallops oil them and season them get your grill hot and brush it spray a little oil on the grill too. Lay them down and don't fuck with them. If you wait until they come up on their own. They won't tear or flake on you.

>>10702766
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>>10702766
high heat initially, place fish skin side down, immediately reduce heat to med-low, do each side for a couple minutes appropriate to thickness of fish.
High heat is just gonna burn/dry out your din dins if you're not used to that cooking method.
Also, its gonna cook the outside much quicker than the inside. You have to account for the heat transfer within whatever you are cooking. Searing is okay for steak, but I wouldn't eat seafood that is not completely cooked in the center.
Remember that your food is still hot when you turn the heat off, and will continue to cook a bit more due to the residual heat in the foood.

>>10703131
Also, the skin side is a barrier to heat flow more than the non-skin side. They will cook at different rates.

>>10702766
Shake it around in flour before it hits the pan you goddamn hillbilly.