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Saltwater Aquariums: Saltwater Aquarium Basics
Saltwater aquariums , also called marine aquariums , offer an ocean environment within your home. They are more challenging to set up than freshwater aquariums, but you’ll likely find that ...
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Planning Meals: How to Plan Healthy Meals
Since no single food provides all the nutrition a human body requires, the healthiest meals feature a balanced variety of different types of foods. The food pyramid , which was developed by the U. ...
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Making Sushi: Sushi Seafood
The most prominent ingredient in most sushi (and the only ingredient in sashimi) is seafood , primarily fish . Different types of fish will lend very different flavors and textures to the sushi yo ...
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Fish: Fish Basics
Fish have always been a staple of the human diet, especially among coastal populations. As the human population has grown, its impact on fish in the wild has been significant—during the 20t ...
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Fish: Nutritional Information: Fish
For nutritional purposes, the best way to break down fish into different categories is by how much fat they contain. Fish can be lean, moderately fatty, or fatty. Lean fish , such as plaice, haddo ...
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Fish: How to Buy Fish
Fish is sold in a variety of different ways, including as whole fresh fish, fresh fish cut into pieces, frozen fish, salted fish, and smoked fish. The criteria for buying fish vary slightly depend ...
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Fish: How to Prepare Fish
If you buy fish that is already scaled, trimmed, gutted, and filleted, then you won’t need to do any of that preparation yourself. However, if you buy or catch whole fish, you should know h ...
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Fish: How to Kill and Bleed a Fish
If you have just caught a fish, it’s essential to kill and bleed (remove the blood from) the fish as quickly as possible. How to Kill or Stun a Fish Killing or stunning the fish reduces the ...
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Fish: How to Remove Muddy Odor from a Fish
Fish that live in muddy waters sometimes have a muddy odor. This odor does not at all indicate that the fish has gone bad, but many people do prefer to remove the odor. You can use one of th ...
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Fish: How to Scale a Fish
The first step in preparing a whole fish for cooking is to scale it, or remove its scales. Fish are easier to scale before they are gutted, when the ventral walls are still rounded. Some stores se ...
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Fish: How to Trim a Fish
Trimming a fish involves removing its fins. This is a nonessential procedure, and, in fact, leaving the dorsal fins (fins along the fish’s back) actually helps hold the fish together as it ...
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Fish: How to Gut a Fish
Gutting a fish refers to the process of removing the fish’s entrails. Many stores do this themselves before selling whole fish to you. If you’re buying a whole fish, ask whether it&# ...
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Fish: How to Fillet a Fish
Filleting a fish involves cutting it in such a way that the two (or in the case of flatfish, four) resulting pieces of fish don’t contain any bones. Fish may be filleted before it’s ...
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Fish: How to Cook Fish
Though fish is regularly eaten raw in the form of sushi or ceviche, in Western countries in particular it is more often eaten cooked. It can be cooked whole ( gutted ), in pieces, in steaks, or in ...
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Fish: How to Bake Fish
To bake fish, follow these guidelines. Preheat the oven to 450°F. If the fish is covered with a sauce containing milk, eggs, and cheese, cook it at a lower temperature (350°F) to ensure ...
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Fish: How to Grill or Broil Fish
Grilling and broiling are similar cooking methods with one major difference: in grilling, the heat comes from below the food, whereas in broiling, the heat source is above the food. Note that gril ...
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Fish: How to Poach Fish
Poaching fish involves cooking it gently in a simmering liquid. This method of cooking is particularly appropriate for firm fillets, such as salmon fillets, and small whole fish. The Poaching Liqu ...
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Fish: How to Steam Fish
Steaming fish involves cooking it with steam produced by boiling liquid in the bottom of a saucepan. The fish should not come into contact with this liquid. Steaming is one of the easiest ways to ...
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Fish: How to Cook Fish in Foil
This method of cooking involves sealing the fish in an airtight package so that it’s cooked by the steam produced by the fish’s natural juices (and those of any added vegetables or l ...
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Fish: How to Braise Fish
Braising involves cooking food slowly at low temperatures in a closed dish containing a very small amount of liquid. It is a particularly good cooking method for fish with firm flesh. Place the fi ...
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Fish: How to Microwave Fish
Fish cooks well in the microwave, because unlike meat it’s best when cooked rapidly at high temperatures. Microwaving enhances the delicate flavor of fish and gives it a moist, light textur ...
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