The Real Deal:
Cochrane Seafood guarantees you will never see our smoked goods in a faux gold foil retort pack, the likes of which you often see sold in gift baskets to unsuspecting tourists. For the unfamiliar, retort packages are nothing more than flexible “tuna cans” in which a fish fillet is packed with chemical liquid smoke and cooked, resulting in a “smoke-flavored” boiled fillet with an unlimited shelf-life. This is not smoked seafood.
Nor will we ever use chemical smoke in any of our products, or as described by the US federal government: “…liquid smoke (or artificial smoke)…this type of smoke (as a fine aerosol) can be introduced into a smokehouse through the air recirculation system, can be mixed or injected into the meat, or can be applied by drenching, spraying, or dipping.” Yum-yum—Bon Appetit!
We are not a front for a large multi-national seafood conglomerate with a folksy name incorporating an animal image or a quaint-sounding water body. We are a family of fishmongers doing what we do best: providing the customer with the best in smoked, dried, and naturally preserved seafood--pure and simple.