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Sea bass

A thin skin-on fillet that crisps better here than in a pan, and overcooks in about ninety seconds.

What it does in fast-moving hot air

Sea bass flesh is fine-flaked, lean and thin, so heat reaches the centre almost immediately and the published six-to-eight-minute figure is mostly about the skin. That skin is thin and high in collagen and crisps beautifully in moving air — better than in a pan, because the air dries it from above while nothing is pressing it into a wet surface. The flesh gives no warning: it is translucent, then it flakes, then it is dry, and those three states are about a minute apart.

Why the cut matters

Sea bass is recorded separately from the general white-fish record because the cut people buy is different: a thin skin-on fillet rather than a thick loin, and the skin is most of the reason to cook it this way at all.

Cooking pages

  • Sea bass fillet — Six to eight minutes for thin skin-on fillets, and the skin is the reason to bother.

There is deliberately no cooking time on this page. A food does not have one — a cut, at a thickness, in a state, at a loading, in a particular appliance does. That is what the pages above are for.