Fish Taste Problem

Hi guys , latly it seems alot of fish i catch dhufish , queen snapper , snapper have a real ammonium taste / smell to the meat when cooked up . Just wondering why this is as it is top quality fish that are being caught and put on ice straight away .

would bleeding the fish would have a significant effect on this and is there other factors to include ? cant be the way that i am cooking it can it ? 

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the best way to treat your

Tue, 2010-09-28 22:02

the best way to treat your fish after capture is to spike then bleed, after bleeding them rinse the the blood off then into a ice and sea water slurry. other than that i cant see any reason why your fish taste like they do. removing the blood leaves a whiter flesh and not so strong taste.

PS . what sort of pan are you cooking your fish in as this can sometimes make a difference as well

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Hey  faulkner family i

Tue, 2010-09-28 22:41

Hey  faulkner family i think this might be the problem as i only sometimes bleed my fish however i have never really encountered the meat tasting so ammonium like. AN on another note we just realised that in our fry pan there is a crack through the bottom obviously been there for a while and when we decided to cook the fish oil an juice seeped through n everything went up lol

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???

Wed, 2010-09-29 17:20

Sometimes bleed your fish????????Undecided

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might have something to do

Tue, 2010-09-28 22:53

might have something to do with it, lol, to the shop to get a new frying pan then out on the water to get some more fish.

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don't get an aluminium

Wed, 2010-09-29 06:29

don't get an aluminium pan!

(unless you fancy alzheimers) Wink

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might wanna check your toothpaste as well

Fri, 2010-10-01 16:18

full of aluminium. Surprised 

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hey

Wed, 2010-09-29 13:34

what are we talking about again

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Mate, first bleed your fish,

Wed, 2010-09-29 17:17

Mate, first bleed your fish, then maybe try changing your pan, and last of all, if all else fails, try changing the recipe, (do one at a time, so you can pinpoint what the problem was). Good luck. Fab

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