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Carp?

Czechs and Poles smell anyway! ;)

No, all the family bathes before they buy the fish at a local market (big tubs on the twon sqzuare usually) and then no more bathing till the fish is killed on Christmas Eve.
 
Isambard said:
Czechs and Poles smell anyway! ;)

No, all the family bathes before they buy the fish at a local market (big tubs on the twon sqzuare usually) and then no more bathing till the fish is killed on Christmas Eve.
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I'll remember not to arrive before christmas eve when I'll go there for my holidays :D
 
Well at the moment I'm in Poland at my GF's parents and all I can say is, to those knocking the taste of carp, you haven't had it properly prepared. Firstly only eat young carp secondly carp has to sit in clean water for a while to clean it out and give it a good flavour before preparation. How you cook it plays a big role too, the baked carp that I've been eating over the last couple of days is unbeatable (much better than the usual stringy, tasteless turkey fare that you normally get in the UK) my 3rd Christmas over here and definately not my last. :D
 
Yuwipi Woman said:
The problem with carp is that they are full of tiny little bones that are almost impossible to remove. The only way we found it edible was when we canned it with a bit of vinegar and let it sit for several months to dissolve the bones.

I would suggest another fish.
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Cant say I've ever had a problem with small bones (there are some around the fins and towards the tail but no more than any other fish I've tried), they are quite boney but the bones they have are mainly very big and easy to remove, maybe we are talking about different types of carp or maybe those I've eaten have been correctly prepared.

I would suggest trying carp and making your own mind up. :D
 
Fuchs66 said:
Firstly only eat young carp secondly carp has to sit in clean water for a while to clean it out and give it a good flavour before preparation.
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So the bath idea is about cleaning out the fish, not just about having it very fresh.

IIRC from a telly programme i saw on it, commercially reared carp in Czech Rep in about 3 years old when you eat it.

Where are you in Poland Fuchs66 ?
 
farmerbarleymow said:
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I've never seen carp on sale anywhere, even in big fish markets I've been to - maybe there just isn't the demand for it in retail or public market terms.
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If you'd ever tasted carp you'd know why it's not on sale. Yuck!
 
Isambard said:
So the bath idea is about cleaning out the fish, not just about having it very fresh.
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall set up a tank fed with stream water ....

So maybe some serious aquarium air stones and frequent bath water changes are in order ...
 
Isambard said:
So the bath idea is about cleaning out the fish, not just about having it very fresh.
Where are you in Poland Fuchs66 ?
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So I've been told, apparently they dont taste too good if you eat them straight from catching, but these days it's rare that the family is banned from bathing :D although my gf can still remember having to go without a bath for a week before Christmas. The carp that you buy here on the market or from shops have usually already spent a week or so in clean tanks.

I'm in Silesia in a small town called Zawadskie which is near Opole, I'll be here or here abouts until the new year and then it's back to Germany.
 
I've eatern carp in france and it was divine
there's a whole load of fish that are considered inedible in england that people chow down on in france with no problem
Pike, which I had in france, is just lush and yet hardly anyone eats it here
 
Fuchs66 said:
Cant say I've ever had a problem with small bones (there are some around the fins and towards the tail but no more than any other fish I've tried), they are quite boney but the bones they have are mainly very big and easy to remove, maybe we are talking about different types of carp or maybe those I've eaten have been correctly prepared.

I would suggest trying carp and making your own mind up. :D
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Perhaps it is a different type. We have these huge, maneating mothers that look like goldfish subjected to some kind of radiation experiment. We usually just caught them, knocked them over the head and fried them up. Maybe we needed to put them in the tub for a while. We would eat them if we caught them. It would be wasteful if we didn't. Mostly we were after catfish and crappie.
 
In Australia they're an alien pest species - illegal to return them - on Rex Hunt's programme they made a point of turning the camera away while one was dispatched.
 
gentlegreen said:
In Australia they're an alien pest species - illegal to return them - on Rex Hunt's programme they made a point of turning the camera away while one was dispatched.
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They are an invasive species here too.
 
gentlegreen said:
In Australia they're an alien pest species - illegal to return them - on Rex Hunt's programme they made a point of turning the camera away while one was dispatched.
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I never understand that. It's quite alright to show a film full of people being killed but animals being killed is completely taboo.
 
General Ludd said:
I never understand that. It's quite alright to show a film full of people being killed but animals being killed is completely taboo.
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I think in this instance it was because the programme is marketed around the world - including the UK where sport-fishing for carp is something of a religion amongst anglers.

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You could go buy some gefilte fish, but I doubt that'd suit the recipe too well.
 
General Ludd said:
I never understand that. It's quite alright to show a film full of people being killed but animals being killed is completely taboo.
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They did show turkeys being forcibly shoved off their mortal coils the other week on channel 4,so the taboo is seemingly starting to be broken, which I think is a good thing (I've posted this on another thread somewhere I think).
 
carp fishermen very very strange folk
just don't get cornered by one and caught with a recipe book for carp and you wil be in big big trouble :rolleyes:
 
Epico said:
Can't you just eat chicken like the rest of us? :rolleyes: :D
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I like to be different :D

I'm into a fish mode at the moment - been eating loads of it recently, so hence my interest in all things fishy and water based :)

Next question - wonder where I can buy whale meat and coelacanth? :p
 
farmerbarleymow said:
I like to be different :D

I'm into a fish mode at the moment - been eating loads of it recently, so hence my interest in all things fishy and water based :)

Next question - wonder where I can buy whale meat and coelacanth? :p
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whale is not a fish! if you really want to buy (some people may be upset....), go off to Japan or somewhere. is it still available on icelandic menus?
 
I've just found a recipe in an old 1968 chinese cookbook for Live Carp with Chicken Fat :eek:

fortunately the author advises that the carp be purchased live but killed and gutted before being lowered into hot chicken fat
 
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