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A fish once discarded, now one of the world’s most premium ingredients. A texture that melts like butter, fat that explodes with aroma when it meets heat. That’s how it earned the name “Butterfish.” But this fish wasn’t always loved. Once, it was a nuisance to fishermen, rejected because of its name, and discarded by the millions of pounds. That same sablefish, through the hands of immigrants, a single name change, and the choice of one chef, was given a completely different fate. In this video, we walk through the full journey of sablefish— from its dramatic backstory to preparation, aging, and final dishes. ✔ Why sablefish is called “Butterfish” ✔ The moment its value changed through a name ✔ The origin of miso-yaki ✔ Key techniques from thawing to preparation ✔ The best ways to cook it: braised and pot rice Watch how what was once considered a flaw—its high fat content— becomes its greatest strength. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍣 Key Points ✔ What sablefish really is (completely different from cod) ✔ Why it was once discarded ✔ The impact of renaming “Black Cod” to “Sablefish” ✔ How miso curing enhances umami ✔ Maillard reaction and fat-driven flavor development ✔ Two cooking approaches → Braised sablefish → Sablefish pot rice ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Essential Info ✔ Names Korean: Eundaegu English: Sablefish / Black Cod Japanese: Gindara (銀ダラ) ✔ Characteristics Extremely high fat content (deep-sea fish) Buttery, soft texture Flavor intensifies when heated ✔ Habitat / Structure North Pacific deep sea (Alaska, Canada) Depth: ~1,500m High pressure + low temperature → fat accumulation ✔ History Past: Low commercial value, widely discarded 1916: Renamed to “Sablefish” After: Demand surged, became a premium ingredient ✔ Cooking Traits Not suitable for sushi (too fatty) → Ideal for braising, grilling, and rice dishes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Core Techniques 40°C saltwater thawing → Faster thawing + moisture retention Salt pre-treatment → Removes excess moisture + odor control Shimofuri (hot water blanching) → Surface protein coagulation → texture stability Miso curing → Protein breakdown → enhanced umami Aburi (torch searing) → Activates fat + maximizes aroma ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 Opening 00:50 What is sablefish 01:12 Its past as a discarded fish 02:14 Birth of miso-yaki 02:47 Name that changed its fate 03:23 Chef Nobu’s turning point 04:00 Thawing method 04:48 Preparation process 07:30 Miso sauce & curing 10:02 Braising prep 11:21 Sablefish pot rice 15:51 Ending ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 Sushi One Bite A cinematic sushi documentary by a sushi chef who’s eaten so much sushi his pronunciation slipped 📧 Business inquiries: [email protected] 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch seasonal ingredients first ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Production: Billion View Supported by: Mikado Sushi Executive Producer: Han Sang-gyun Filming & Editing: Jo Byung-ha ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Sablefish #Butterfish #BlackCod #MisoYaki #BraisedFish #PotRice #Omakase #Sushi #JapaneseCuisine #SushiOneBite