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Salmon poaching

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CoolNavyTraybake · 23/01/2025 22:20

Hi,
looking for tips on poaching a 7lbs salmon in an Aga without a fish kettle. Any tips much appreciated!! Birthday party on Saturday and can’t get a fish kettle in time!!

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ARealitycheck · 24/01/2025 01:49

I started my working life as a chef. I still very much enjoy well cooked food. As far as I'm concerned with salmon the secret is keep it simple. Salt, pepper, a bit of lemon/lemon juice, butter and wrap it in foil and oven bake. Serve it with salad and crusty bread and butter.

EBearhug · 24/01/2025 01:29

Saz12 · 23/01/2025 23:28

Huh, I thought trout was the fish to tickle.

Salmon are basically big trout.

My mum used to have a big fish kettle she did salmon in, but I don't know where you get one.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/01/2025 00:45

Is there a particular reason you want to poach it? Roasting seems more practical if you don't have a big enough pan for poaching, and IME tastier anyway. This looks simple

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/cookingawholesalmon_1916

ErrolTheDragon · 24/01/2025 00:37

CoolNavyTraybake · 24/01/2025 00:23

Ok.. am a little bit scared of this forum now..😂

Welcome to MumsNet!Grin

Youngheartsalittletogetherness · 24/01/2025 00:26

Yeah,the fish ticklers have taken over 😁

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CoolNavyTraybake · 24/01/2025 00:23

Ok.. am a little bit scared of this forum now..😂

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Saz12 · 23/01/2025 23:28

Huh, I thought trout was the fish to tickle.

Youngheartsalittletogetherness · 23/01/2025 23:23

Newyearsametroubles · 23/01/2025 22:21

Oh! I thought this was about stealing…

Same I thought it was how do you nick a fish 🎣

Calochortus · 23/01/2025 23:22

Cleanlines · 23/01/2025 22:41

Oz and Barry on Auf Weidersehen Pet tickled the salmon when they were poaching. Not much help in this situation though.

I admit to watching my FIL tickling salmon. He never poached though, he had rights over the stretch of river as it ran through his land and refused to have rods and hooks.

KnickerlessParsons · 23/01/2025 23:18

Seal it in foil and stick it in the oven.
Unless you've caught it yourself, it will have had enough water pumped into it to make it look plump and succulent for it to poach in its own juices.

AdaColeman · 23/01/2025 23:04

Wrap in double foil, add lemon, herbs, knob of butter, some white wine (I use Noilly Prat) seal the foil tightly and bake in the lower oven. Delicious!

Rumpoleoftheballet · 23/01/2025 22:47

CoolNavyTraybake · 23/01/2025 22:20

Hi,
looking for tips on poaching a 7lbs salmon in an Aga without a fish kettle. Any tips much appreciated!! Birthday party on Saturday and can’t get a fish kettle in time!!

I haven't poached in the Aga but I have wrapped a whole salmon in foil with lemon, dill and white wine and it was delicious. Did a short burst in the roasting oven before transferring to the simmering oven for 40 mins or so.

Cleanlines · 23/01/2025 22:41

Oz and Barry on Auf Weidersehen Pet tickled the salmon when they were poaching. Not much help in this situation though.

BeaAndBen · 23/01/2025 22:40

murasaki · 23/01/2025 22:22

Also, how long until someone says they've successfully done it in a dishwasher.

Guilty as charged! I’ve done it numerous times.

Put lemon slices and herbs of your choice in the cavity, wrap it 4 times in foil, put it on the top shelf and run the cycle.

Iwantmyoldnameback · 23/01/2025 22:38

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 23/01/2025 22:23

I recall someone saying you can poach a salmon by wrapping it in foil and putting in the dishwasher (don't add a dishwasher tablet!)
(I've never tried it though. )

I've never done it but I have eaten one cooked that way, absolutely beautiful.

SleepToad · 23/01/2025 22:36

You wade out into the water and hold a net across the salmon run...or so I am told. Wouldn't do it myself as a) only just learnt to swim b) can't stand fish

lilythesheep · 23/01/2025 22:32

Dammit, I was also hoping for an exciting thread where everyone piled into the OP for asking if it was unreasonable to steal the local laird’s fish. Or where the OP has a river running through her garden and is convinced the neighbours are jumping over the fence to get the salmon.

bluesatin · 23/01/2025 22:31

Don't know about a whole salmon, but Mary Berry has recipes for big bits of it, eg. https://www.maryberry.co.uk/recipes/recipe/side-of-salmon-with-hoisin-vegetables

Surely you can just poach it in a big roasting pan covered with foil?

Mary Berry

Mary Berry

https://www.maryberry.co.uk/recipes/recipe/side-of-salmon-with-hoisin-vegetables

Talipesmum · 23/01/2025 22:29

Ask around on your local Facebook group, see if anyone has one you can borrow?
Or could you fit it sideways in a large roasting dish, wrapped round with foil?

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CoolNavyTraybake · 23/01/2025 22:29

New to mumsnet!! 🙈. Trying to figure out how to change message title!!!

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HansHolbein · 23/01/2025 22:27

There I was, worried about poor salmon Grin

Skibadeedoo · 23/01/2025 22:26

I read the title as salmon punching. Thought you’d invented a new sport.

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CoolNavyTraybake · 23/01/2025 22:25

Haha! No, definitely a legit salmon!!! Just want to cook it like my mum did when they use to be catchable in the wild rivers of scotland…. Sadly not really possible now.., 😞

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nocoolnamesleft · 23/01/2025 22:25

Yeah, I was also expecting this to be about nefarious angling.

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