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How long to cook salmon fillet

Three things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 8:00

How thick is the fillet?

Skin on?

Skin down for most of the cook. It protects the flesh and crisps while it does.

How do you want the centre?

How to tell without a timer

Serve now. It carries on cooking on the plate.

Served translucent, salmon is below the 63°C / 145°F food-safety figure. Commercially frozen fish has had any parasites killed by the freezing, which is why restaurants serve it pink — fish that has never been frozen is the one to cook through.

How it goes

  1. Skin side down. Press it flat for the first few seconds.
  2. Flip. Just to finish.
Every combination, as a table
How thick is the fillet?Skin on?How do you want the centre?Time
Tail end / thin Skin on Just translucent 4:00
Tail end / thin Skin on Medium 5:00
Tail end / thin Skin on Cooked through 6:15
Tail end / thin Skinless Just translucent 3:40
Tail end / thin Skinless Medium 4:35
Tail end / thin Skinless Cooked through 5:45
Medium Skin on Just translucent 6:30
Medium Skin on Medium 8:00
Medium Skin on Cooked through 10:00
Medium Skinless Just translucent 5:45
Medium Skinless Medium 7:15
Medium Skinless Cooked through 9:00
Thick centre cut Skin on Just translucent 8:45
Thick centre cut Skin on Medium 10:45
Thick centre cut Skin on Cooked through 13:30
Thick centre cut Skinless Just translucent 7:45
Thick centre cut Skinless Medium 9:45
Thick centre cut Skinless Cooked through 12:15

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

Cooked the same way

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