[Sca-cooks] Lox::: was::: smoked fishies

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Philippa Alderton:
>--- Seton1355 at aol.com wrote:
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>>  Interesting experiment , Phlip, but I would hesitate
>>  to eat  raw fish that
>>  was only marinated.  I would still think of it as
>>  raw.  And what if there
>>  were some little microbes of
>>  germs.... would the marinade kill them?
>
>Probably yes. If the fish is truly fresh, there are
>very few bacteria on it, and bacteria tend not to be
>internal to the flesh. The bacteria on it would be
>those which require a low-acid environment, and the
>high acid in the lime juice would tend at worst, to
>inhibit their growth, at best to kill most of them

I'm with Phlip on this one. The other thing that might upset
Phillipa's stomach (or most other people's, ultimately, if not doing
a lot worse) in raw fish would be intramuscular parasites, most of
which are pretty easily detectable if you know what to look for.

Adamantius