If you don't want to eat the skin attached to the meat then first remove the skin from the fillet of salmon. Do this when the fillet is partially frozen. It will allow the sharp fillet knife to get between the skin and meat nicely without ruinining any meat. Then just slide the fillet knife along the skin where it meets the meat and remove all the skin. The pin bones are attached to the skin. When you are pulling on the pin bones and they break instead of coming out it's usually because of two reasons..either the meat is too frozen or the bones have grown very attached to the skin. After removing the skin, continue thawing out the meat before pulling the pin bones out. When the fillet is thawed and has no skin on it the pin bones slide out very easily. I do this for all my sushi/sashimi cuts etc.. If I want to make a meal with skin on then I do it with fish pin bone pliers (Japanese Stainless ones) when the fillet is thawed.
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