Easter Candy is Evil

[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.

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Yes.

Why?

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

Why?

Personally, I haven't done the shrimp head thing (although I adore sushi), but I know many people that swear that they are absolutely delicious. I just have a thing about eating anything with eyes staring at me.

I started to say "I have a problem eating anything with a head but knew I was setting myself up."

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

I started to say "I have a problem eating anything with a head but knew I was setting myself up."

nice save

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

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


Do people eat shrimp heads?

Oh yes! They dip the head in tempura batter, deep fry it and serve it up with lemon wedges (usually two of them, since two shrimp constitute an order of sweet shrimp).

Of course, you can elect not to eat the heads. Many people don't. I generally eat one and share the other since by the time I get to sweet shrimp I'm at the end of my sushi dinner and stuff to my own gills.

Go figure, the tamale and the though of eating similar bits of a lobster gross me out totally, but this I don't mind. And the shrimp is incredible, sweet and succulent.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by blueerica

. . . 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.

My mother grew up on a farm, and she always said there's nothing like a fresh killed chicken.

My wife grew up near a cornfield in New Jersey, and if you wanted to buy corn from the farmer, he insisted that you call ahead and tell him that the water on the pot was boiling so the sweetness would not convert to starch.

I can vouch for freshly picked tomatos and herbs, but that's about it.