Not too high, not to lowthis is the temperature that’s just right.

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Back in my 20s, I thought I knew a lot about cooking.

The reality was that I didnt know much.

Overhead view of four raw salmon fillets in a baking dish

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I landed on broiled salmon.

The recipe in question had some kind of mustard topping andbread crumbsand seemed like something I could replicate.

A few years later, I decided to attend culinary school.

A bright pink fillet of raw salmon on a plate next to a lemon half and a bunch of dill

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It was there that I truly learned about cooking and why patience was so important.

Some foods, we were taught, simply needed more time for preparing and cooking.

I learned that the unsightly white stuff on my ill-fated salmon was actually a protein known as albumin.

The result is an ultra-moist, flaky fish that melts in your mouth when you eat it.

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