I thought I'd share some Costco wisdom with fellow fish lovers. Here in Vermont buying store-bought fresh fish is a roll of the dice - sometimes it'll be fresh, other times it'll stink up the kitchen when it cooks. Fresh fish, of course, has nearly no smell to it, and it does not stink up your kitchen when it cooks. Here's the secret for buying fresh fish at Costco: My Costco gets fish 3 times a week. You have to learn which days your Costco gets it. Then you go only on those days for fish, and you look for fish that was packaged *that day*. But by itself, the packaged date still is not enough - they could have gotten it two days ago and packaged it that day, and it'll stink up your kitchen when you cook it. So you look for fish that was packaged *that day* AND has a sell by date that is 7 days down the road. That tells you they got the fish that day. Follow these steps, and you'll get fish that has nearly no smell if you cook it that day, e.g., fresh. It all sounds obvious, but it took me too long to connect all 3 dots to decode the system!
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