Easter Candy is Evil

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

thats how you tell if theyre fresh at the store. if it smells like a fish, its not fresh fish

odd, but its a good rule of thumb

A better test is flesh firmness. If you slightly press your finger into the flesh it should spring right back. If the indentation holds, that isn't good. Smell can be covered in several ways (but if it is there that isn't good). And don't necessarily use the smell of the entire establishment as a guide, the smell at the fish market generally isn't from the contents of the display cases.

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

A better test is flesh firmness. If you slightly press your finger into the flesh it should spring right back. If the indentation holds, that isn't good. Smell can be covered in several ways (but if it is there that isn't good). And don't necessarily use the smell of the entire establishment as a guide, the smell at the fish market generally isn't from the contents of the display cases.

good call. I'll remember that. I been having a massive craving for a really good halibut or shark steak.

[Alex]

Unless you watched it come out of the water took it immediately home and cooked it within minutes of still being alive you won't get really good halibut.

I thought I had had really good halibut until I had it that fresh and realized I'd bee wrong all my life. It is amazing how quickly halibut declines to a still good but significantly less good state.

The rate of decline varies quite a bit from species to species (red salmon holds much longer than pink or chum salmon, for example)

[Ponine]

Not to derail the fish eaters, but I am an avid peep, and Robin Egg consumer.
I need more Robin Eggs.

Who's going to bring Lash a nice new box of peeps to the meet? I wont be there to oblige.

And isnt Lani a big peep fan? Or is that Adrienne? Hmmm...

What else.... oh chocolate covered marshmallow bunnies... eggs.. you name it.

[Alex]

I don't think I've ever seen Lani eat a Peep. But that could just be selective memory.

I do believe that one of the Adrienne's is a fan (but not which one).

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I don't think I've ever seen Lani eat a Peep. But that could just be selective memory.

I do believe that one of the Adrienne's is a fan (but not which one).

That works. I brought them to a pre-MA meet once. There was another peep afficianado there.

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Unless you watched it come out of the water took it immediately home and cooked it within minutes of still being alive you won't get really good halibut.

I thought I had had really good halibut until I had it that fresh and realized I'd bee wrong all my life. It is amazing how quickly halibut declines to a still good but significantly less good state.

The rate of decline varies quite a bit from species to species (red salmon holds much longer than pink or chum salmon, for example)

I'm still not entirely sure how the thread got this diverted, but I must agree that fish, although it can be good later, is best right after the catch. I haven't had the pleasure of halibut fresh from the water, nor have I had most fish *that* fresh. My only experience is with trout. I'm not much of a trout eater, but having lived on a river, trout that comes directly out of the water, gutted immediately and thrown directly onto the grill is the only, I repeat, only way to do it. Otherwise, it's just gross to me.

And I probably just grossed a bunch of people out by talking about gutting a fish.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by blueerica

And I probably just grossed a bunch of people out by talking about gutting a fish.

Not at all. To derail further, my freshest catch of the day is sweet shrimp at a sushi bar. The Sushi Master went behind the green curtain to the tank (but I could see) grabbed a live shrimp out of the tank, decapitated it, passed the head off to an associate for the tempura battering and frying and brought the shrimp out, worked his magic with the rice and wasabi, that was probably less than a minute dead and utterly delicious!

One carton of Robin Eggs is gone already! Not just me, but it attracted the swarm of fellow Robin Egg lovers, it's like they had radar!

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

The Sushi Master went behind the green curtain to the tank (but I could see) grabbed a live shrimp out of the tank, decapitated it, passed the head off to an associate for the tempura battering and frying and brought the shrimp out, worked his magic with the rice and wasabi, that was probably less than a minute dead and utterly delicious!

um, what did they do with the head??????


Do people eat shrimp heads?

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

Do people eat shrimp heads?

Yes.