New to cooking seafood? Start here to find advice on choosing fish at the grocery store, as well as tips on how to safely prepare and store seafood at home.
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overhead of hands peeling seafood at seafood boil
How to Throw a Restaurant-Style Seafood Feast at Home
Plate of Oysters
How to Shuck Oysters
Baked whole fish in garlic-chili sauce
A Beginner's Guide to Cooking Great Fish and Seafood
Clams in pan
Preparing and Cooking Fresh Clams
A cook shucking oysters
Sauces for Fresh Oysters
A pair of fried white fish
How to Pan-Fry Fish Fillets
Plated smoked salmon
How to Smoke Salmon
Salad with steamed tomato and fish on plate
Learn How to Perfectly Poach Fish
Grilled swordfish
Cooking Swordfish
Serve with favorite sauce
How to Buy and Cook Fish for Perfect Results Every Time
Broiled tilapia with lemon and butter
Lemon and Butter Broiled Tilapia Fillets
22 mins
Deep-fried scallops in a white serving bowl
Deep-Fried Scallops
35 mins
Classic Shrimp Scampi in a bowl
The Difference Between Shrimp and Prawns
Rock shrimp with garnish
What Are Rock Shrimp?
Place fish on cutting board
Tips and Methods on How to Freeze Fish
Mussels In a Bowl
How to Cook Mussels
Slow cooker clam chowder in bowls with crackers
Crock Pot Clam Chowder
4 hrs
Fish brine recipe
Fish Brine Recipe for Flavor and Moisture
15 mins
Frying fish
The Best Oil For Frying Fish
Close-up of Manila clams in a pile
What Are Manila Clams?
Fried calamari recipe
What Is Calamari?
mercury levels in common fish illustration
Mercury Levels in Fish
Simple crab salad recipe
Simple Crab Salad with Mayonnaise
35 mins
Men choosing fish at a fish market
Signs of Fresh Fish or Shellfish
What Are Mussels?
Fresh Steamed Crab on the Table
How to Make a Crab Boil
Fresh Head-On Carolina Brown on plateShrimp
How to Remove the Heads From Shrimp
Raw shrimp and a lemon wedge
What Is Shrimp?
How to Humanely Kill a Lobster for Cooking
Oysters on the half shell
How to Tell If It's Oyster Season
Hands holding a live striped bass
What Is Striped Bass?
Cooked petrale sole in parchment paper
How to Bake Fish in Parchment or Foil
Types of clams
Types of Clams
Baked Redfish Fillets
Baked Redfish Fillets
30 mins
Smoked salmon
How to Make Salmon Jerky
8 hrs
Crab Quiche With Cheese
Crab Quiche with Swiss Cheese
45 mins
Fish stock in glass jars
Homemade Fish Stock
60 mins
Pacific rockfish
What Is Pacific Rockfish?
Fish on ice in the Mercat de la Boqueria
Store Fresh Fish at Home
John Dory Fish on parchment
What Is John Dory Fish?
sardines
What Are Sardines?
Salmon on a plank with spices
What Is Sockeye Salmon?
Cornmeal Fried Shrimp Recipe
Easy Cornmeal Fried Shrimp
30 mins
Loin of Tuna and Tuna Steak
Tuna Selection and Storage
A serving of braised spiny sea cucumber in a broth
What Is Sea Cucumber?
Steamed mussels in white wine
Steamed Mussels in White Wine
35 mins
An illustration showing varieties of salmon showing Chinook, Coco, Pink, Sockeye, Salmo, and Keta salmon
Yes, There's More Than One Type of Salmon—Here's What You Need to Know
Easy Oyster Stew
Easy Oyster Stew
20 mins
salmon, lemon, garlic on parchment paper
Is Fresh Salmon Always Better Than Frozen?
Potted Shrimp
What Are Potted Shrimps?
Simple Oven-Fried Tilapia
Simple Oven-Fried Tilapia
30 mins
caviar, recipes, black, lumpfish, salmon, whitefish, fish, roe, eggs
Overview of Caviar Varieties and Terms
Roasted Salmon Fillets with potatoes
6-Ingredient Roasted Salmon Fillets
20 mins
Shrimp salad sandwiches on a marble counter
Shrimp Salad Sandwich
45 mins
Chicken Étouffée
Chicken Étouffée
60 mins
cook sablefish
What Is Sablefish?
Ceviche
Ceviche Is More Than Just Raw Fish
Fried soft shell crab
How to Buy, Clean, and Cook Soft Shell Crabs
Bowl of crabmeat
How to Choose Crabmeat by Grade
Image of Sardines Curing
How to Cure Sardines
30 mins