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Taking inspiration from Southern cooks, give this trick a try next time seafood is on the menu! In this video, learn why soaking your salmon fillet in milk helps give it a distinctly crispy crust you’ve never seen before. This technique pulls inspiration from soaking chicken in buttermilk to help make it juicy, so why can't it work for salmon?
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00:00Did y'all know some people out there
00:01are soaking their salmon in milk?
00:03So I'll admit y'all, when I first heard about this,
00:06I was like, what are you talking about?
00:09But if you think about it,
00:10Southerners have been soaking chicken in buttermilk
00:11to make it juicy and delicious for generations.
00:13And so it starts to make a little bit of sense.
00:15Okay y'all, I was genuinely shocked
00:17when I got these out of the pan.
00:18This guy is the one that was just plain.
00:21This is the one that soaked in milk.
00:23Milk may not have changed the flavor,
00:25but it absolutely gave this the best crust
00:27I've ever seen on a piece of salmon.
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