My dad is thawing cod fillets on a pan lined and covered with

>>9120437
If you were thawing big ass chicken breasts or a whole frozen bird or something, thawing at room temperature would risk the outside being at room temp for a long time before the centre thawed.

For relatively thin fish fillets, it's no problem.

>>9120437
why not just nuke them? most microwaves have a defrost option.

>>9120437
You'll be fine. I actually just recently realized that my mom always thawed shit at room temperature, I've always heard it's fine as long as you don't do it more than like 2-3 hours

How did people do before fridge were invented?
Oh, that's right, they left everything at room temp. And they didn't all die.

>>9120769
In the US, they often had a cold spring where they dug out a short term space for cold storage. My grams told me about growing up with that kind of setup in the Ozarks. In fact, I looked at a piece of property in 2000 that actually had an old farmhouse built over a running cold spring and that was where they stored produce and fresh meat. If they didn't have a spring they had root cellars which were in the low 50F's. So it wasn't really room temp.

>>9120437
You'll be perfectly fine, though I prefer to thaw fish in (cold) water. It thaws faster than out in the air and the kitchen smells less (though cod fillets aren't a problem in this regard)

Why is the fagmo thawing a filet before thawing? Does he think it will be fresh again if body temperature is returned.

Batter it while frozen and fry immediately.