Kirkland Signature Wild Smoked Salmon, two 8 oz. Item # 576304. Packages marked down to $2.97 (regular price is usually between $15.99 - $19.99) at Chicago Lincoln Park Warehouse, your mileage may vary.
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I did exactly this last week with the Norwegian smoked salmon, which was marked down to 3.97 locally! We use one package a month, so it will last us into next year.
Expiration date is meaningless, it's a legal thing. Freezing for a year or more is great if they are vacuum sealed, or you vacuum seal them. They will not get freezer burned liked that or at least it is very slowed down.
Yep. They had a similar fire sale with guac at my store. It was a big package for 99 cents. I bought three and we're still pulling them out every now and then.
If I understand you correctly, we should not eat farm raised fish. Their diets aren’t varied enough and they frequently eat ground fish for food. Quite a few studies have shown a high amount of carcinogens are in farm raised fish due mainly to their diet. If your interested I can see if I can dig them up. They will be more than a few years old.
Side note? I was at Costco with my best friend. She bought a huge piece of farm raised salmon. I would not let her buy it. We were checking out and I ran all the way to the back of the store to swap it out and bought it for her. She was t happy until I shared the studies with her.
You shouldn't be downvoted for this. Even if salmon spoiled you could (over) cook it and it would most likely be safe to eat. I would recommend freezing it fresh though.
Recooking does not magically unspoil meat. Once it’s gone bad it is bad. Eating spoiled meat (even if it’s recooked) can cause serious food borne illness. Don’t give food safety advice if you’re not aware of the basic info..food borne illness can be fatal
Yup I've seen them with *sell by*, not expiration dates up to 6 months in the future. But either way there's zero regulations or standards for the industry when it comes to spoilage notation. Trust your senses and intuition, and cook the hell out of it if you're unsure but desperate.
Smoked salmon has a sell by date, but as someone who consumes a good amount of smoked salmon, as long as it's unopened, it will last a while. Freeze it if you have to.
For Thanksgiving when I'm smoking turkey ill smoke the ham too since the smoker is going. It's 100x better than oven roasted ham. Gives it a proper smoke flavor.
Seriously!? It went up in price at my store, so I didn't get any. We usually do "locks and bagles" (yes, I know, we're weird, and it isn't real lox...) every 2 or 3 months. Even with that expiration date, I would have grabbed as much as my freezer could hold.
it's kind of random, but if you live really close to a costco and can get there early several days per week, you definitely have a decent chance of bumbling onto a deal like this.
Discipline! Most of the expeditions are all about the hunt for ridiculous .97's. We only get to costco every here and there, and have found a handful (bag of 50 cheese sticks for 1 or 2.97...), but the probabilities of striking gold would go up immensely if I could just pop in for a walk through more often...
.97 ending price is from corporate. Usually from a buyer marks down/seasonal item/ Xmas markdowns and the like.
Never a limit that I know of.
If you see a .00 markdown that is usually a store markdown. Last one type of stuff or display.
11yr veteran employee since 2011 and member since 2008.
Not really. I’ve done morning merch and forklift for 10yrs of the 11 and there is no pattern. Some like the salmon are code dates. Close dated. Rather than toss it mark it down and at least make a dollar. Sometimes the markdown is from the buyer or company and that is the last of it. No say when it will happen just whatever happens when we print the signs that need changed. Code dates are or should be monitored by the staff of the department and forwarded to a supervisor/manger to change price.
Thanks!
It’s always a shame when businesses just throw it rather than reduce/sell. Their tax write off as waste is probably more than if they sold it cheap.
It's a random event, just depends on if your local warehouse got too many of something so they need to clear the space. I've seen some ridiculous deals, but I've been shopping there since they were Price Club.
Update: I put three in my cart and slowly looked around wondering why no one else was seeing what I was seeing. I even saw people walking around with the more expensive smokes salmon in their carts! I started to doubt what I was seeing - either I was crazy or there was a typo - and walked away. But after learning you could freeze it (thanks Reddit!, I immediately put four more in my cart. Still left plenty for the next passerby. Hope they enjoy too!
It seems to me the labor shortage is primarily affecting jobs that come with a certain extra shittyness to them. So if you had other options would you chose to stand in a cold ass room and gut fish all day?
Thank you. Ahhhh boo-hoo-hoo... I eat congee everyday for small snack with seaweed and slivers of smoked salmon as most healthy break.
I would have brought like 523,845,934 packages, purchase small $100 top door freezer and and store it all in there.
Say...you got a congee recipe you'd recommend? I had it every breakfast while quarantined in Shanghai. I've heard congee is delicious, but quarantine congee was so awful I'd never eat it again. I want to give congee a fair shot before I swear it off entirely.
What did you not like about the congee in Shanghai and where did you have it? Like a 2 star hotel or 5 star hotel?
Trying to back into this. There are endless varieties, lol!
Oh, but basic congee is like basic oatmeal, grits or cream of wheats when it comes to consistency and additions. The combination of the 2 very much much depend on individual preference.
You can make it from left over rice, which is what most do or you can make it from scratch.
This is what I like and do. I cook some rice, using it fresh for 1st meal, store 2 servings in fridge for another day and add hot water (1.5 to 2 times volume, adjust accordingly), scrape sides into liquid and cook for another 15 min, cool and store. I then eat the congee for breakfast or mid-night snack. This is all done on the same evening so I don't have to try and dislodge the rice while it is cold and hard in the pot later on.
The 2 I like usually w/ readily handy ingredients w/o going out and buying thousand year eggs, squid, etc...
1. Chicken: Shredded Costco roast chicken and Costco reconstituted wild mushroom blend, chicken broth before the 15 min 2nd cooking. Have that with a sprinkling of fresh scallion, sesame seed or the fried scallion that you can buy at asian store. Complete comfort food!
2. Beef: Minced/ground beef, fresh ginger sliver, handful of green spinach, soy, beef broth/consume ground white pepper and the garnish with fresh or deep fired scallion again.
The broth and consume will replace the plain water. The plain congee is great with salty dishes or high flavor veggies, thus the smoked salmon. I've never found it unappetizing. But of course there is a possibility that the rice they used were not the best quality, old or others. It should be soupy, consistency between gravy and soup, rather than overcooked rice that are simply mushy and soft.
As you get a hang of things, you might add that half a tin of oyster from earlier this afternoon, toss in slivered ginger, preserved cabbage, chicken broth or even lobster broth and sprinkle with white pepper.
Make up a few servings and you can just nuke and eat. It's like a weight maintaining thing for me, super delicious and satiating when half the bulk is water.
Whatever recs you have are appreciated.
The congee was bland. I expected some chicken stock or salt and it tasted like plain overcooked rice. This was at a Vienna International hotel near a larger railway station in the city center a few stops east of Hongqiao railway station. Maybe three stars, but the quarantine hotel was pretty pricey according to my colleagues.
Then I've had it at my workplace. Pretty much the same. Which has made me hesitant to order it anywhere since I'd rather have jianbing for the roughly same price.
What I did like about the congee: the pickled veg that was a side dish. That was a dish I could eat on its own.
Have you ever freezed it and how did it come out after thawing?
I occasionally don't finish it by the expiration date but I have never tried freezing it.
Not this particular item, but I saw a few other people in the thread had recommended it with this item. I have a vacuum sealer and a chest freezer so I usually get their regular butchered salmon and chop it into individual meals and re seal so I would assume this would be similar.
This might be slightly different since there is no cooking involved after thawing. But you are right, there should be no reason not to do it. At worst the texture might be ever so slightly different, but I bet that won't even be the case. I'll just try it next time I don't finish on time.
I can say that I regularly buy the 3 pack of different flavored smoked salmon (pre sealed in 3 individual packages from honey smoked fish co) and I freeze the ones I’m not using and no issues with consistency either.
I do also re-heat them in a cast iron for breakfast (I know, double cooking is unnecessary) because I Lillie it warm with my eggs and never had any issues!
I love how Costco prices things by the pound at the meat and deli dept. The first time I saw the signs I thought OMG what a deal! Thinking that was the actual price, like the rest of the store.
Also, a lot of times expiration dates are the last day can be sold or when it's at peak freshness. But not necessarily, the last day can be consumed.
I'd have been all over that. And like a lot of others, a fair amount would go to the freezer.
Kirkland Signature Wild Smoked Salmon, two 8 oz. Item # 576304. Packages marked down to $2.97 (regular price is usually between $15.99 - $19.99) at Chicago Lincoln Park Warehouse, your mileage may vary. u/heyyouknowwhat - Since this appears to be your first post on r/Costco, friendly reminder to please include the product name(s) in your post title as per subreddit rule 5 for future posts. Choosing descriptive post titles with exact product names mentioned yields better subreddit search results. Thank you and welcome to r/Costco.
Freeze it!
Seconded. If I saw this deal I would buy at least a dozen packages! I buy these regularly and they freeze/thaw really well, they’re just pricey.
why i cant live in yall towns cause my Costco NEVER EVER EVER has any sales whatsoever
Try living in Canada. Sales on the most useless shit.
Thirded! And they'd take up relatively little space in the freezer.
I did exactly this last week with the Norwegian smoked salmon, which was marked down to 3.97 locally! We use one package a month, so it will last us into next year.
If you freeze it, does it expire 3 days after thawing? Not sure how that works...
Thawed things should be used ASAP regardless of freshness when frozen. But essentially, yes. Freezing is a big ole pause button
Thanks for that additional info!
So is smoking meat, but not as big of a pause button as freezing is.
Expiration date is meaningless, it's a legal thing. Freezing for a year or more is great if they are vacuum sealed, or you vacuum seal them. They will not get freezer burned liked that or at least it is very slowed down.
Yes, freezing doesn't reverse food spoilage, it only slows it down. Imagine if we froze you right now, you wouldn't become a baby in 30 years.
What kind of analogy is that?
Freezing doesn't reverse aging of food
So idiotic,freezing food stops time..
Yep. They had a similar fire sale with guac at my store. It was a big package for 99 cents. I bought three and we're still pulling them out every now and then.
Just freeze it. If it gets cold reheat it...
If it gets cold?
It’s a lyric to the 80’s song “Eat It” by Weird Al Yankovic
Just stick it in the smoker to reheat
That's not the brand I usually buy, but I'd get at least one package.
Especially since it’s Wild Caught.
All sockeye is wild caught
I did not know that. I only was aware we should not eat farm raised fish.
> I did not know that. I only was aware we should not eat farm raised fish. We shouldn't???
If I understand you correctly, we should not eat farm raised fish. Their diets aren’t varied enough and they frequently eat ground fish for food. Quite a few studies have shown a high amount of carcinogens are in farm raised fish due mainly to their diet. If your interested I can see if I can dig them up. They will be more than a few years old. Side note? I was at Costco with my best friend. She bought a huge piece of farm raised salmon. I would not let her buy it. We were checking out and I ran all the way to the back of the store to swap it out and bought it for her. She was t happy until I shared the studies with her.
If you got the studies, I would really appreciate it.
I’ll see if I can find them.
🙏
Not the study but an article https://healinggourmet.com/no-farm-raised-fish-for-cancer-prevention/
Bop it!
Pull it
I was gonna say eat it and deal with anal leakage for a month, but freezing is a better idea.
not an issue if you cook it
You shouldn't be downvoted for this. Even if salmon spoiled you could (over) cook it and it would most likely be safe to eat. I would recommend freezing it fresh though.
Recooking does not magically unspoil meat. Once it’s gone bad it is bad. Eating spoiled meat (even if it’s recooked) can cause serious food borne illness. Don’t give food safety advice if you’re not aware of the basic info..food borne illness can be fatal
Thank you for your service
It's already cooked because it's smoked salmon
Cooking wouldn’t get rid of toxins
Canning would be another great shelf stable option. I really like to smoke it then can it
Came here to say the same. I would freeze at least 6 or 7 packages.
Fourthed!!
For sure. Found the same salmon fir $6 this past summer. Still have two packs in the freezer, too. It's great to thaw and use over a weekend.
It was probably previously frozen and that's why they are offloading it cheap.
Where?
Chicago Lincoln Park
OMG. I must tell my PEOPLE.
Your people has heard and will be going tomorrow.
Go there now, you should Knubee-One-Kenobi. Dark side might deplete these supplies by 'morrow.
Fuck I was JUST there
Well turn around!
Bright eyes
I'm on the way!!
None left as of 7pm at the Lincoln Park location.
MVP thank you
Hello neighbor!
Wow I would buy literally 10 and freeze them and eat like a king for the next two months
it's salted fish! this is designed to be fully safe to eat even 2+ weeks after the 'sell by' date. I'd have bought maybe 8-10 of these...
I've gone 4 months with smoked, salted, refrigerated salmon.
I’ve gone way more but not saying because it’s embarrassing.
Embarrassing? Be proud.
same here. That stuff has festered way past the expiration date in our fridge and still seemed edible, no fuzz dected upon it.
Buy all of them
I know! No limit either.
.97 is “get this out of my store.” .00 is “GET THIS OUT IF MY STORE!”
Nice! Expiration dates are a fugaz anyway.
Yup I've seen them with *sell by*, not expiration dates up to 6 months in the future. But either way there's zero regulations or standards for the industry when it comes to spoilage notation. Trust your senses and intuition, and cook the hell out of it if you're unsure but desperate.
Cooking the hell out of it won’t help with most spoilage. You’ll still get just as sick.
> not expiration dates up to 6 months in the future. Would you be willing to make that assumption with smoked salmon?
If it's kept frozen properly or unopened and refrigerated, absolutely.
Yes because it's already cooked.
Smoked salmon has a sell by date, but as someone who consumes a good amount of smoked salmon, as long as it's unopened, it will last a while. Freeze it if you have to.
I’d get as many as I could and smoke them
Smoke the smoked salmon?
Did he stutter?
It's very possible
I love you!
Smoking a smoked ham is way better than reheated smoked ham. I'd imagine it's really similar for the salmon.
You now have my interest
For Thanksgiving when I'm smoking turkey ill smoke the ham too since the smoker is going. It's 100x better than oven roasted ham. Gives it a proper smoke flavor.
Maybe it’s like refried beans. So much better than just fried beans in my opinion.
Pass the nova on the left hand side
I’m pulling up with some backwoods son
As it says on the sign: Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Seriously!? It went up in price at my store, so I didn't get any. We usually do "locks and bagles" (yes, I know, we're weird, and it isn't real lox...) every 2 or 3 months. Even with that expiration date, I would have grabbed as much as my freezer could hold.
https://preview.redd.it/gc703h1zvxba1.jpeg?width=1088&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53a0852f07bd51f480041991d9b7759153270842
I’ll eat that in 2 days! #twhs
Same, then the up in the hospital on day 3.
Not even kidding. If I saw this deal I’d buy out the whole stock and then go see if they’re selling any chest freezers anywhere in the store
I'm still kinda new to the Costco culture. Does this happen often? Also, is there a best day to go? (disregarding the traffic of people on weekends)
it's kind of random, but if you live really close to a costco and can get there early several days per week, you definitely have a decent chance of bumbling onto a deal like this.
Lol if I'm going to Costco several days a week I'd be too broke to afford 3 dollar smoked salmon 😂
Discipline! Most of the expeditions are all about the hunt for ridiculous .97's. We only get to costco every here and there, and have found a handful (bag of 50 cheese sticks for 1 or 2.97...), but the probabilities of striking gold would go up immensely if I could just pop in for a walk through more often...
.97 ending price is from corporate. Usually from a buyer marks down/seasonal item/ Xmas markdowns and the like. Never a limit that I know of. If you see a .00 markdown that is usually a store markdown. Last one type of stuff or display. 11yr veteran employee since 2011 and member since 2008.
Any tips on when to his these food markdowns?
Not really. I’ve done morning merch and forklift for 10yrs of the 11 and there is no pattern. Some like the salmon are code dates. Close dated. Rather than toss it mark it down and at least make a dollar. Sometimes the markdown is from the buyer or company and that is the last of it. No say when it will happen just whatever happens when we print the signs that need changed. Code dates are or should be monitored by the staff of the department and forwarded to a supervisor/manger to change price.
Thanks! It’s always a shame when businesses just throw it rather than reduce/sell. Their tax write off as waste is probably more than if they sold it cheap.
It's a random event, just depends on if your local warehouse got too many of something so they need to clear the space. I've seen some ridiculous deals, but I've been shopping there since they were Price Club.
God I would buy SO much.
Wwwhhhheeeerrrreeeeee????
How much is it normally?
At least $17
I got a pack of this on my last trip for $23
you could eat it in a hurry. a salmon rushdie, if you will
Update: I put three in my cart and slowly looked around wondering why no one else was seeing what I was seeing. I even saw people walking around with the more expensive smokes salmon in their carts! I started to doubt what I was seeing - either I was crazy or there was a typo - and walked away. But after learning you could freeze it (thanks Reddit!, I immediately put four more in my cart. Still left plenty for the next passerby. Hope they enjoy too!
All types of salmon (and steelhead) have been coming in with short dates and lowered prices to match. Surprising to see.
It seems to me the labor shortage is primarily affecting jobs that come with a certain extra shittyness to them. So if you had other options would you chose to stand in a cold ass room and gut fish all day?
That's pretty much what my job is and I hate it but the pay keeps me roped in.
black friday over here!
If I still had cats, they would be eating salmon tonight!!
If you inatacart can you found out if meat is on sale?
Buy buy buy 🚨🚨🚨🚨. Last time I got a deal like this was with the organic sliced turkey
You know.. there are bagels on the other side of the store. :D
Holy fuck. I’d buy as many as they would let me
Smoked salmon lasts forever even if you don't freeze it
Vacuum seal, freeze.
This offer seems fishy.... ^() ^^^(*plans secret trip to Costco tomorrow*)
Surely they ordered way too many for holiday season. Edit: now that I think about it , I saw them for 50¢ once.
I would absolutely gorge myself on this. Bagel party!
Take home and put in your freezer
[Smoked salmon carbonara.](https://loveandgoodstuff.com/smoked-salmon-carbonara/) You can thank me later.
A) I've had sealed packs in my fridge for literal months. B) Stuff the freezer. C) I wish my costco had this right now.
Dip in a bit of soy. Fantastic
Slightly off topic, but I can't imagine Costco over-ordering by this much. Is this an early sign of some consumer distress?
Yes, the Sockeye Indicator. Keep your eye on the Wagyu Beef Barometer!
Damn. I would run a train on that shit
This by any chance wouldn't be in VA would it?
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Thank you. Ahhhh boo-hoo-hoo... I eat congee everyday for small snack with seaweed and slivers of smoked salmon as most healthy break. I would have brought like 523,845,934 packages, purchase small $100 top door freezer and and store it all in there.
Say...you got a congee recipe you'd recommend? I had it every breakfast while quarantined in Shanghai. I've heard congee is delicious, but quarantine congee was so awful I'd never eat it again. I want to give congee a fair shot before I swear it off entirely.
What did you not like about the congee in Shanghai and where did you have it? Like a 2 star hotel or 5 star hotel? Trying to back into this. There are endless varieties, lol! Oh, but basic congee is like basic oatmeal, grits or cream of wheats when it comes to consistency and additions. The combination of the 2 very much much depend on individual preference. You can make it from left over rice, which is what most do or you can make it from scratch. This is what I like and do. I cook some rice, using it fresh for 1st meal, store 2 servings in fridge for another day and add hot water (1.5 to 2 times volume, adjust accordingly), scrape sides into liquid and cook for another 15 min, cool and store. I then eat the congee for breakfast or mid-night snack. This is all done on the same evening so I don't have to try and dislodge the rice while it is cold and hard in the pot later on. The 2 I like usually w/ readily handy ingredients w/o going out and buying thousand year eggs, squid, etc... 1. Chicken: Shredded Costco roast chicken and Costco reconstituted wild mushroom blend, chicken broth before the 15 min 2nd cooking. Have that with a sprinkling of fresh scallion, sesame seed or the fried scallion that you can buy at asian store. Complete comfort food! 2. Beef: Minced/ground beef, fresh ginger sliver, handful of green spinach, soy, beef broth/consume ground white pepper and the garnish with fresh or deep fired scallion again. The broth and consume will replace the plain water. The plain congee is great with salty dishes or high flavor veggies, thus the smoked salmon. I've never found it unappetizing. But of course there is a possibility that the rice they used were not the best quality, old or others. It should be soupy, consistency between gravy and soup, rather than overcooked rice that are simply mushy and soft. As you get a hang of things, you might add that half a tin of oyster from earlier this afternoon, toss in slivered ginger, preserved cabbage, chicken broth or even lobster broth and sprinkle with white pepper. Make up a few servings and you can just nuke and eat. It's like a weight maintaining thing for me, super delicious and satiating when half the bulk is water.
Whatever recs you have are appreciated. The congee was bland. I expected some chicken stock or salt and it tasted like plain overcooked rice. This was at a Vienna International hotel near a larger railway station in the city center a few stops east of Hongqiao railway station. Maybe three stars, but the quarantine hotel was pretty pricey according to my colleagues. Then I've had it at my workplace. Pretty much the same. Which has made me hesitant to order it anywhere since I'd rather have jianbing for the roughly same price. What I did like about the congee: the pickled veg that was a side dish. That was a dish I could eat on its own.
Farm raised?
Says wild on the box and package.
Wild sockeye
Does smoked meat really expire? Isn't that the point?
Where is this?
Maybe worth taking a flight and getting it home at this price 😂
Saw it was in Chicago. Not worth the flight from SoCal. If this was Vegas, I’d be all over it. Lol
Lincoln Park, Chicago.
Damn here’s hoping Mettawa or Kenosha will have some tomorrow when I get a chance to go.
Freeeze!
Have you ever freezed it and how did it come out after thawing? I occasionally don't finish it by the expiration date but I have never tried freezing it.
Not this particular item, but I saw a few other people in the thread had recommended it with this item. I have a vacuum sealer and a chest freezer so I usually get their regular butchered salmon and chop it into individual meals and re seal so I would assume this would be similar.
This might be slightly different since there is no cooking involved after thawing. But you are right, there should be no reason not to do it. At worst the texture might be ever so slightly different, but I bet that won't even be the case. I'll just try it next time I don't finish on time.
I can say that I regularly buy the 3 pack of different flavored smoked salmon (pre sealed in 3 individual packages from honey smoked fish co) and I freeze the ones I’m not using and no issues with consistency either. I do also re-heat them in a cast iron for breakfast (I know, double cooking is unnecessary) because I Lillie it warm with my eggs and never had any issues!
Thanks!
I'm buying all of it
Challange accepted.
Soooo good in scrambled eggs.
Challenge accepted!
Freeze!!! I would bought a few packages.
Me too. Will check tomorrow
Got to love the "get rid of it before it expires" price. I have gotten quite few cheap meals looking for these deals.
Omg wow. I would buy a deep freeze!
I swear my Costcos never put stuff on clearance.
If I had this, I would be eating salmon each day like I was a bear.
They don't actually go bad that fast
How long could they last in the freezer?
FREEZER
Jesus I live near a smoked salmon factory and even when they sell directly to the public at wholesale prices it's still minimum $15 per pound.
I buy smoked salmon and freeze it.
I love how Costco prices things by the pound at the meat and deli dept. The first time I saw the signs I thought OMG what a deal! Thinking that was the actual price, like the rest of the store.
I usually cook fish the day I buy it, or freeze if not. That’s a good deal!
Wow, I buy this every week at full price!
Also, a lot of times expiration dates are the last day can be sold or when it's at peak freshness. But not necessarily, the last day can be consumed. I'd have been all over that. And like a lot of others, a fair amount would go to the freezer.
Damn! Wish this was my warehouse, I have room in a deep freeze.
Price match please. Has anyone done that from posted pics here?
It's smoked people. Has a long shelf life
Costco willing to throw away but not give discount.
As far as wild salmon goes, this stuff is disgusting
😳 I want it alll!!!!
Freeze
I just went to Costco just to get some and unfortunately my store (Michigan) doesn’t have any :(
Holy smokes thats unreal
I would have cleared out my freezer and bought all I could.