The fish has a rather delicate structure and requires a delicate approach to defrosting. The best place to thaw a frozen fish carcass is the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. This process takes an average of 5-6 hours. If there is no time to wait, defrosting can be accelerated.
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You will need
- - a deep bowl;
- - cold water;
- - plastic bags;
- - microwave;
- - dishes for the microwave.
Instruction manual
1
Remove the fish from the freezer. Wrap the carcass or steaks in several plastic bags so that when thawing the fish does not stain the sink, and the taste of the product does not suffer from excessive moisture. Place the bundle in a sink or deep bowl about half full of water. Turn on the cold water and keep the fish under running until it is ready to be chopped. On average, the process takes 1.5 hours depending on the size of the fish.
2
If you have to save water, leave the fish in a container filled with cold liquid. Replace the water completely in the sink or bowl every half hour. This method will slightly increase the thaw time of the product. Do not use hot or warm liquids to defrost fish. Otherwise, most of the useful substances contained in the product will disappear, and its taste will significantly deteriorate. Fish fillet and minced meat in water do not defrost.
3
Quickly defrost fish and fish products in the microwave. Put the right amount of fish in the dish designed for use in the microwave. Select the defrost mode with the subsection "fish", indicate the amount of product and turn on the device. Do not forget to periodically remove the dish from the oven and shift the pieces for more uniform thawing. A significant drawback of this technique is that the size of the microwave does not allow to defrost large carcasses of fish in it.
4
You should not thaw the whole fish to the end, slightly frozen carcass is cleaned much easier and faster. In some cases, frozen pieces of fish can be cooked without thawing. In this case, add a few additional minutes to the time of its heat treatment. Thawed fish should not be re-frozen, this will significantly worsen its nutritional value.