The lazy way to cook salmon I know is to wrap it in foil and bake it in the oven for a bit. Wrapping it means that there is no surface browning and I imagine it cooks very similarly to microwaving. It’s not like meat or bread where you want to sear the outside, or sauce or soup where a longer cooking time imparts a deeper flavour - raw salmon is tasty after all.
I haven’t tried it, but I also suspect everyone horrified by this also hasn’t tried it, and it seems like it would work just fine. Microwaving fish is such a meme at this point that I think there’s a short circuit in people’s brains where they think it magically ruins food and creates a smell that would not be created by heating it equivalently using some other method.
So does anyone know for a fact whether this is terrible?
The lazy way to cook salmon I know is to wrap it in foil and bake it in the oven for a bit. Wrapping it means that there is no surface browning and I imagine it cooks very similarly to microwaving. It’s not like meat or bread where you want to sear the outside, or sauce or soup where a longer cooking time imparts a deeper flavour - raw salmon is tasty after all.
I haven’t tried it, but I also suspect everyone horrified by this also hasn’t tried it, and it seems like it would work just fine. Microwaving fish is such a meme at this point that I think there’s a short circuit in people’s brains where they think it magically ruins food and creates a smell that would not be created by heating it equivalently using some other method.
So does anyone know for a fact whether this is terrible?
The salmon will be fine, pretty much the same as steam-cooking it. Just put some spices and a lot of lemon so it would not be bland.
The microwave, on the other hand, will gain a subtle and mysterious fish aroma, that will only become stronger with the passage of time.
Sounds suspicious 🤔
Just have it for lunch at work.