stockfish

Air-cured unsalted cod

Stockfish is fish—traditionally cod—preserved by air-drying on wooden racks without salt.

The drying process produces a hard, shelf-stable product that must be soaked before cooking: Stockfish has been a staple of Norwegian cuisine for centuries.

The name comes from the stock or stick on which the fish is dried.

Separately, Stockfish is a powerful open-source chess engine, among the strongest in the world.

preservation

air-dried

Moisture removed by atmosphere

dried · desiccated · dehydrated · hardened · leathery · brittle · reconstituted · soaking · softening · preserved

Nordic

Norway

Scandinavian coastal kingdom

  • BergenNorwegian coastal city
  • VikingsMedieval Scandinavian seafarers
  • NorseAncient Scandinavian civilization

Nordic · Scandinavia · Tromsø · Arctic · fjord · lutefisk · Hanseatic · medieval · saga

cuisine

bacalao

Spanish dried cod

rehydrating · soaking · poaching · Nigerian · Caribbean · Portuguese · Italian · Spanish · traditional · recipe

fish

cod

Cold-water food fish

tusk · whitefish · clipfish · bacalao · groundfish · catch · fillet

trade

Hanseatic

Of medieval trading alliance

medieval · Bergen · shipping · merchant · exchange · market · supply · demand · wholesale

nutrition

protein

Folded amino chain

rations · provisions · seafarer · concentrated · lightweight · portable · durable · staple

Categories
Opposites
preservation method

stockfishsalt cod

Cured, dried whitefish

bacalao · smoked fish · kippered herring · gravlax · pickled herring

freshness/preservation state

stockfishfresh fish

Recently caught seafood

raw fish · fresh catch · wet fish

Family

fish, stock, stocks, stocky, livestock, stockpile, stockroom, stockbroker, stockholder

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G