How to cook the perfect Salmon

Hello and welcome back to another Mystic

Cooking with Daniel video. So today we're

going to be making fried salmon with

mushrooms and green onions.

Okay, so first of all, we need to prepare

the vegetables. We've got this lovely

bundle of green onions,

and how many do we want?

Hmm, I think we'll just cut it in half

like this. Oh Yeah,

I love that sound. And then you want to

give them a quick wash and

then cut them in half again.

Now we have to prepare the mushrooms.

I think 4 mushrooms should be good.

Yeah, 4 is a good number.

And then we're just going to roughly cut

them into smaller pieces.

And that's it, really. First of all,

add some sesame oil to your frying pan.

Not too much. And you want to spread the

oil around the frying pan a little bit so

that you can make like a little pattern.

If you feel artistic.

What does it look like? Oh look, that

looks like a scary face. Can you see it?

It's like an evil bird. That's the eye and

that's his beak. Ha! And next,

get your salmon and you want to place it

down skin side down away

from you like that. And I think we're

gonna have 2 salmons. Now the reason why I

put the salmon in first before the

vegetables is because last night I put the

vegetables in first and the bloody onions

got burnt. Look at my candles,

look at my candles.

And now we're going to take some

Tafelsalz, which is table salt in

German. Sprinkle some of that on top.

Not too much, not too much.

Oh, splashed me! Don't splash

me.

Ow! Next, we want to flip it over.

It's kind of hard to do this with one

hand. Flip it over.

Like that.

And then we put in the onions and the

mushrooms, and we're

just going to take some water,

sprinkle some of that on.

Whoa!

Bit more salt for seasoning.

That'll be fine.

And then we just let that cook in the pan

for a little bit. The reason why we add

water is so it doesn't burn, and it kind

of steams it as well as frying it at the

same time. And as you can see,

the salmon has cooked perfectly,

nice and brown.

Now if it's pink in the middle, it means

you didn't follow the steps properly and

it's not cooked in the middle. So yeah,

it's still a little bit pink, so we'll

leave it in there for a few more minutes.

And that is how you make the Perfect

salmon with mushrooms and onions with

rice. I think that's a pretty

well-balanced meal. We've got

carbohydrates and we've got greens and

we've got protein with omega-3

oils and we've got mushrooms. I don't know

what they have, but I'm sure it's good.

Okay, so let's give it a try. Hopefully

it's good. Look, it's kind of like a

little sushi. We've got rice and salmon,

but the salmon's cooked instead of raw.

Look at that cooked sushi on a spoon.

Mm, wow, that's pretty good. The salmon

is so creamy.

I think adding the water really helped.

Last night when I cooked it, the onions

were burning.

Mm, much better than the fried rice.

I don't understand why you'd want

to eat salmon raw when you could just cook

it and it tastes so much better.

There's just a certain flavor That salmon

has only when you cook it. If you don't

cook it, you don't really get that that

same taste. When it's raw, it's just kind

of slimy.

I guess it's okay raw, but when it's

cooked, it's just so much better.

So recently I've been doing a lot of

thinking about Airbnb,

and people say, oh, it's so expensive to

live in an Airbnb. And I guess it is

compared to what a normal person does,

which would be— I think a normal person

would just get normal apartment which is

completely empty,

and then they pay rent. But if you think

about it, an Airbnb is fully furnished,

has all of the furniture. It's got a

massive TV, huge sofa. All of this

furniture is really nice. It's not cheap

stuff. The TV alone must have cost at

least, I don't know, $600. The sofa

must have been at least $2,000. You know,

sofas are really expensive. You've got

fully furnished kitchen, got all of the

equipment, cooking stuff, glasses,

plates, pots, pans, knives. You have

everything in the Airbnb that

you would have to buy yourself if you were

just moving into a normal apartment. So

you save a lot of money from not having to

buy stuff. And then if you bought your own

stuff in a normal apartment Um, what are

you gonna do when you move? You can't just

leave it behind. You would have to either

sell it all or take it with you. So if you

suddenly want to, to go traveling 2 months

in, in the middle of Africa,

what are you gonna do? You have to get rid

of all your stuff, don't you? But Airbnb,

you just use the stuff that's already

here. Another good thing is you don't

really have extra bills to pay. So you

don't have to pay water bills,

electricity bills. I can have a hot bath

every single night and I'm not going to

have to pay extra.

I think there's a lot of benefits to

Airbnb versus a normal apartment.

Because you're not just getting the

Airbnb, you're also getting to use all of

the stuff in the Airbnb.

Plus you get free Wi-Fi.

Sometimes they give you free food in the

I remember when I used to work at the

petrol station, I used to like having a

hot bath every night before I went to work

to wake me up. And then my dad started

moaning at me saying, Daniel, you can't

have a bath every night because it's,

it's, um, making the water bill very

expensive. No, not the water bill,

the gas bill, because we had to use oil to

heat up the water in the water tank.

And then in Japan, the electricity bill

would be really expensive because either

it was freezing cold in winter and I had

the heating on all day long,

or it was really hot in summer and I had

the air conditioning on all day.

Here I can leave the lights on all day

long and I don't have to pay any extra. I

can have a hot bath every night.

So I think Airbnb is actually quite good,

even though it's expensive, more expensive

than a normal place would be.

Hmm, yeah, those are my

thoughts of today. That's all I had to say

really, so goodbye.