How To Buy Fresh Seafood Online

By Carolyn Anderson


One of the jewels of the sea is its abundant resources, especially when it comes to food. Many people buy their seafood from a local grocer, but those could have been sitting around for days before you actually buy them. If you want really fresh fish but live nowhere near the ocean, you should buy fresh seafood online to get the freshest catch shipped directly to your front door.

You may think that the seafood you buy from the case at the grocery store is fresh, but that is simply not always the case. In some cases, the fish will sit for days before anyone buys it. When you order online, you are getting food that was packed and frozen at peak freshness to ensure it tastes like it was just pulled from the sea.

Once you place your order, your choices are packed in a disposable cooler with ice packs or dried ice. This is plenty of ice to keep everything frozen until it gets to you. Nothing will melt, so the integrity of all your food will be kept intact and there are no worries about food poisoning or anything like that.

Once you place your order, it is then packed in the cooler and shipped as soon as possible. It will usually arrive within two days, though you can pay extra for overnight shipping. The only exception to this rule is a weekend order. After a certain hour on Friday and through the weekend, orders will be held for packing and shipping until Monday. This is because of limited or no delivery service on weekends. This ensures your fish does not stay in a warehouse getting warm all weekend.

As for what you can order, you can get anything that is available at a grocery store, plus lots of rare or specialty foods that you may not be able to get any other way. First there is whole fish, which allow you to practice your deboning and filet skills. It also saves you money, since whole fish are generally cheaper than fish that have already been cut and cleaned, since there is less labor involved. As a bonus you can use the bones and some other pieces to make fish stock.

They may cost a little more than whole fish, but you can order cuts that have already been cleaned and boned. These are ready to cook and eat with no other prep necessary. You can order with or without the skin on, depending on which kind of fish you are ordering and how you want to prepare the fish.

Shellfish are quite popular, especially shrimp and prawns. Oysters and scallops are other examples of highly popular and tasty fare that you can easily purchase online. Lobster and crabs are also available, though some varieties may be a seasonal offering only.

Many internet stores also have prepared dishes made of seafood. These are very convenient because you just need to heat and eat or serve. These are also great for dinner parties to impress your guests and make you the hero. All of this with very little work on your part, aside from putting them in an oven or microwave.




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