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How much did you say you paid for salmon and where are you able to get it that cheaply?
I forgot exactly, but I live in NYC and there is more competiton so most kosher items are cheaper. I buy them at the Kosher Supermarket (As opposed to the Kosher Fish Store (We have fully kosher Supermarkets in NYC))
KRM is one of the cheapest places to buy stuff
6.99 in Jewel
I am not poskening for you, but Fish isnt like meat, I do not do this, but there is opinions (and not conservative, reform or OO either) that you can buy Salmon from a non jewish fish store especially if you give them your own knife , Fish does not have to be kashered like Meat and there is no reason fish from a kosher store should cost more than than non-kosher store. If you do not have a fish knife, they can cut it for you and you just shave off the edges where their knife touched
If the Mods allow this , the OU website says about bringing your own knife and cutting board to the Non-kosher fish store
Ask OU Kosher: May 2011, Nothing Fishy About OU Fish Standards
Bingo price – side of salmon 7.49/LB Salmon Fillets – 7.99/LB
Sales prices in other stores (ShopRite, Glatt mart) are ~6.99/LB
There is no Forest in Marianos.
ZD: What’s more is that I hear even the Kosher fish markets just buy salmon from regular goyishe sources (as is mutar as stated above), slap a hechsher on it and mark up the price. People pay a huge premium just to have someone else rely on the heter that they don’t feel comfortable using themselves. By the way, I say “heter,” but I think it’s actually totally mutar l’hatchilah.
What’s more is that I hear even the Kosher fish markets just buy salmon from regular goyishe sources (as is mutar as stated above), slap a hechsher on it and mark up the price.
Do you really think Ossie’s, Freund’s, etc. buy their fish in supermarkets? That’s ridiculous.
They go to the fish market, buy whole fish and clean and cut it in their own facilities.
If you want to do that and save money, you could. Maybe you should do your own fishing and save even more.
People pay a huge premium just to have someone else rely on the heter that they don’t feel comfortable using themselves.
What does salmon cost in a non-kosher fish store?
There are different qualities of salmon, so you’d need to make a comparison based on that.
Ive seen Salmon in the chinese Fish markets for about $3 a lb.
Fish is not like Meat where it has to be Kashered, It just has to be cleaned and its the same cleaning from a Kosher Place or a Chinese fish market.
BTW according to that OU website its just doesnt ave to be Salmon, It can be other fish too as long as you see the Skin and can identify it. Flounder is actually pretty easy to indentity as long as you see the fish whole as its a Flat Fish and its eyes on the top of it rather than the sides (Flat Fish do not swim like you think, they swim on the bottom of the ocean sort of like a floppy Pizza)
What does salmon cost in a non-kosher fish store?
Fresh and frozen kosher fish are seldom available to me, so I buy canned fish. A 14.75 oz. can of pink salmon with the OU hecksher costs me about $2.50. A 5 oz. can of tuna with the OU hecksher costs about $0.75.
DY
Dont assume that Ossies uses better quality fish than the Chinese fish sellers, It very well might be the other way around
DovidBT
I dont know where you live, but if you read, you can buy Salmon and other kinds of fish that you can indentify from a non-kosher fish store, Ask your local rabbi how to do it
I think they do use better quality fish.
When they first started selling Kosher sushi, One of the most popular ones was Yellowtail, Yellowtail is a kosher fish, but was not sold by the kosher fish distributers at that time (I dont know if they do it now) because it generally was not eaten by jews. The Restaurant asked I think it was Ossies to get it for them and they got what the chef called lousy fish. The Chef went down himself with the owner to South St Fish market (The Main wholesale market in NYC) to get the Yellow Tail Fish and taught the owner how to buy it
I know that there are places that sell “a kosher batch” with just a kosher knife that the mashgiach has a key to
DovidBT
I dont know where you live, but if you read, you can buy Salmon and other kinds of fish that you can indentify from a non-kosher fish store, Ask your local rabbi how to do itActually, I looked into buying whole fish and cleaning/skinning/cutting it myself. But I couldn’t find any stores that have whole fish. Apparently it’s already processed when they receive it from their suppliers.
There are fishing spots in the area where I might be able to catch kosher fish, but that’s not practical for me at the moment.
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