

These charts cover three of the most popular styles of salmon, including skinless, skin-on salmon, and blackened salmon. Temperature and Timing Charts for Pan Searing Atlantic Salmon To do this we cook our salmon longer on the first side to ensure we can build color and texture, or for skin-on salmon, crispness then we finish the salmon by cooking it lightly on the second side, so that most of the salmon can stay tender and flaky. If your salmon had one homogenous texture you would be eating lox or sushi, but pan seared salmon is supposed to be hot and delicious, and a big part of that is texture.

Texture! Texture is the difference between a brilliant well cooked piece of salmon and a drab monochromatic dinner. Why cook for a different time per side, you may ask? This in not an exact solution, but it will greatly benefit your outcome.


For this reason, we recommend selecting the cook times corresponding to a ¼” less than your actual measured fillet. Cooking Times for Pan-Seared Salmonįrom our extensive research we have found that other types of salmon cook at a faster rate than Atlantic. This is why we ask for the thickness of your fish, not the weight. A nice thick center cut salmon fillet will take much longer to cook than a thinner tail cut fillet, even though they are the same weight. Similarly two 5 ounce salmon fillets could cook completely different. For instance, if you were cooking a pot roast that was 10” thick by 10” long, or 14” long, it would still cook for the same amount of time because the thickness is the same, even though one must clearly weigh more like everything else, heat will always take the path of least resistance. While cooking the heat from your oven is trying to work all the way through your protein. In reality, it is not the weight that is making your food cook slower, it is the physical size. We’re sure you have read oven recipes that offer recommended times based on the size of your chicken, fish, or even pot roast, this is because the dimensions of these cuts roughly scale with weight. While this is an effective measure for gauging portion size, it is not the best tool for cooking. Most protein is sold in the store by weight. The Importance of Measuring the Thickness of Your Salmon Fillet Unlike grilling or roasting in the oven, pan searing is fast and it allows you to dial in your fish to your favorite doneness, with precise temperature and timing, you can avoid error and nail it every time. We've all been there, but we don't have to stand for it. Unless, of course, that flaky fillet turns out dry and overcooked. What's not to love about a fresh and flaky fillet of this fish? Not much. >Download the Printable Hestan Cue Time & Temp Chart for Pan-Seared Salmon<- Cooking Salmon in a Pan Read on, folks, we've got a boat load of info below to help you achieve flaky, mouthwatering salmon with Cue or a standard built-in stove. More than 550 fillets of salmon later and countless hours adjusting temperatures, flip methods, and timings, we've done just that. To minimize error (and eliminate it entirely with Cue), we set out to find the perfect time and temp for every thickness of Atlantic salmon. Most recipes will give you a wide range of cooking times for the stove, but this leaves a lot of room for error, not to mention results aren't predictable or repeatable. You can bake it, fry it, grill it, roast it hell, you don’t even have to cook it! Aside from not cooking it at all, the next easiest and fastest way to get delicious salmon at home is definitely to pan searing. It stems from the delicious fragrance wafting from the pan as you sear, and that texture, flavor, and versatility that makes it so easy to cook and enjoy.
