Do I thaw frozen sea food before cooking?

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Do I need to keep prepared frozen sea food frozen before cooking? I purchased cod, shrimp, and scallops.

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If this is just raw seafood, and not already prepared, heat and serve meals, keep frozen until use. Thaw (ideally in the refrigerator), then cook. If they are meals already prepared (with other ingredients), simply follow the package directions. Many of these items are cooked from frozen.



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Can frozen seafood be cooked from frozen?

According to the USDA, it is completely acceptable to cook raw foods from frozen, but you need to increase your cooking time (about 50%). You can try almost any technique \u2013 sauteeing, pan-searing, roasting, broiling, grilling, or steaming \u2013 with tips from our friends at Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

How should you correctly thaw frozen seafood?

Key Takeaways
  • Start with the fish solidly frozen. Don't pre-thaw in the fridge.
  • Don't remove the vacuum-packaging before thawing. Thawing fish \u201cnaked\u201d under water makes it waterlogged.
  • Use only cold tap water to thaw as this minimizes the risk of bacterial growth.
  • Use the thawed fish immediately to ensure best results!


    • Should seafood be defrosted?

    Today, most fish and seafood is flash frozen right on the boat within minutes after it's caught, preserving its peak freshness and ensuring that it stays fresh all the way to your kitchen. It's even packaged in vacuum sealed portions, for extra convenience. All you need to do is defrost the fish and cook it.

    How do you cook frozen shellfish?

    There's no big fuss about cooking frozen seafood. Just add your seafood to a warmed pan and consider cooking off any excess water or ice before adding your seasonings and oil. Or, you can also pat dry your fish to ensure it will form a crisp crust after cooking.


    How to Properly Thaw Frozen Seafood



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    Answer 2

    I thaw frozen seafood in a bowl of hot tap water.

    Some frozen stuff like Lean Cuisines are meant to go freezer to microwave. I don't mean those. I mean bags of frozen fish or shrimp, cooked or uncooked.

    If it is in plastic, I leave it in plastic. If it is not, I put it in a plastic bag. If there is enough frozen seafood to cool the water down, I put in more. I like the hot water because the fish thaws fast and will not get overcooked, and we always have hot water.

    Thawing it in the refrigerator is theoretically a good idea except I either don't think of it the day before, or I do and it is still not thawed and it goes into the hot water anyway.

    Cooked cocktail shrimp for stirfry are an exception. I think the ice in those bags of cooked cocktail shrimp have shrimp flavor and so the whole thing goes in after the stirfry is done, and the hot vegetables thaw the shrimp and the shrimp cools down the vegetables and I don't have to wait as long to eat.

    Answer 3

    Scientifically, cooking any frozen food directly should waste some of its value and change the taste and seafood is not an exception.

    Reference:

    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_food#Quality

    2. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5fa4/7b747878f686a658134760b7811b0e2172d1.pdf

    3. http://www.adafsa.gov.ae/English/Awareness/topics/Pages/ThawingFrozenFood.aspx -Look at Cook it frozen method

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