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How to Cure Roe the Easy Way

October 17, 2012 By JD 18 Comments


Okay, so curing roe is a bit of a mystery to many anglers. I feel your pain…I struggled with it for years and ruined many a good skein in the old days. Eggs that turned out rock hard or too juicy…or both at the same time…I’ve done it all!

Luckily, you don’t have to trash a bunch of eggs these days thanks to the wizardry of the mad scientists at Atlas-Mike’s. Their new Brite & Tight Cluster-Skein liquid egg cure is as easy as it gets! In a nutshell, you just marinate your roe in the liquid and it does all the work from there! Now more of that endless sprinkle-sprinkle-sprinkle, make sure you get the cure into all the folds, and then sprinkle so more. This cure is super easy and firms/dyes your eggs and adds scent. Brite & Tight is Oregon legal, too, because it is sulfite free.

Here’s a quick how-to pictorial on curing eggs with this stuff…Click here to read more…

Filed Under: Salmon, Steelhead Tagged With: egg cures, egg curing, roe, Salmon, Steelhead

Cured salmon eggs toxic to baby salmon?

December 26, 2009 By JD Leave a Comment

A recent study by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says that some commercially-available cured salmon eggs are harmful to juvenile salmon and steelhead. ODFW and Oregon State University scientists tested a random sample of commercially-available cured eggs and found that some juvenile fish died after ingesting some brands. Specific mortality levels varied among products and ranged from 0 to 30 percent.
Click here to read more…

Filed Under: uncategorized Tagged With: egg cures, salmon eggs, smolts, sodium sulfite

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