What is the difference between yellowtail tuna, yellowfin tuna, bluefin? Specifically with sushi or sashimi?

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What is the difference between yellowtail tuna, yellowfin tuna, bluefin? Specifically with sushi or sashimi?

Answer 1

They are different species of tuna . I'm not familiar with yellow tail, but Yellow Fin is a reasonably good quality of tuna that is still fairly common. When you see tuna steaks in the seafood department, its usually Yellow Fin. It has a good taste and texture when used in sushi. Blue Fin OTOH, is much a rarer Tuna, partly due to over fishing. Blue Fin is HIDEOUSLY expensive. It is supposedly the best tasting tuna with the best texture, and by far the best tuna for sushi because of these characteristics. I don't do sushi, so I cannot comment personally. I LOVE tuna steaks on the grill, but I've never has Blue Fin, because I've never seen it. Its rare, and the vast majority of it goes to Japan. Even here in the US, most Blue Fin caught ends up as sushi.

HTH

Answer 2

Yellowtail Tuna

Answer 3

Bluefish description: http://all-fish-seafood-recipes.com/index.cfm/fish/Bluefish/

Tuna description: http://all-fish-seafood-recipes.com/index.cfm/fish/Tuna/



Japanese Rolled Sushi (Hosomaki) Recipe: http://all-fish-seafood-recipes.com/index.cfm/recipe/Japanese_Rolled_Sushi_(Hosomaki)

Answer 4

How to start. Yellow tail is not a tuna but instead is in the Jack family. We fish for them here in california and is my favorite fish. It has a rich, mildly oily flesh very different in flavor than tuna.

Yellow fin tuna is a smaller tuna species with a lighter colored flesh with a nice firm texture and a fairly high oil content.

Blue fin is the king of tuna, they can get into the range of hundreds of pounds. The flesh is deep red, very rich and fatty with a high oil content. It is most sought after for sashimi. The first 2 are good as sashimi but I normally order them as sushi. The best of the best is Toro, the fatty belly meat of the blue fin.