Cod or Haddock?

[pogofish]

Think Pollock was one of the species I used to catch around the city sewer outlet when I was a kid. Either way its no eating fish here - most goes for fish meal fertiliser.

Right you need to be near a port or use a chipper that gets a regular supply straight from a fish hoose. Freshness is everything & even fresh cod tastes good, if you can get it.

I'm surprised at the number of chippers who now sell Hoki instead of cod. It may be the same family but at best is shipped-in from the South Atlantic but increasingy, non-frozen fish are now airfrieghted instead.

Check how the fish is described very carefully on the chipper's board.

Lots of chippers here sell Lemon Sole & Skate instead of cod BTW.

 

[ajk]

Bah to the callig haterz! Coley's fucking rank though, mind.

 

[rioted]

Gurnet and Rock Salmon rule!

 

[ajk]

Shurely "Gurnard"? Not a pretty fish. But a very tasty fish.

 

[The Pious Pawn]

not fussed both nice .

 

[gentlegreen]

I found Gurnard to be rather poor - maybe it was the way I cooked it ...

Plaice for me - has more of a fishy flavour.

Bream is even tastier.

On a day to day basis I rate the sardine as the best fish of all.
(My mouth waters when I watch dolphins chasing them on TV).

 

[Sunray]

I found Gurnard to be rather poor - maybe it was the way I cooked it ...

Plaice for me - has more of a fishy flavour.

Bream is even tastier.

On a day to day basis I rate the sardine as the best fish of all.
(My mouth waters when I watch dolphins chasing them on TV).

I think trout is the only freshwater fish I have ever eaten. Bream is the staple of coarse fishermen. I always thought they threw them back.

 

[Idaho]

Gurnard is what fishermen call "real fish". It's lovely stuff. Lots of flavour.

Pollock isn't very nice, and cod and haddock taste exactly the same

 

[gentlegreen]

I think trout is the only freshwater fish I have ever eaten. Bream is the staple of coarse fishermen. I always thought they threw them back.

Nah, this was sea bream

The local canal has lots of freshwater bream in it but I don't fancy eating them ...

 

[Mallard]

I can't believe 'other' is beating Cod. People must go to more cosmopolitan chippies than me!

 

[May Kasahara]

Eating cod is like eating cotton wool soaked in grey water.

 

[Roadkill]

Cod is a bottom feeder, so eats all the shit, is near commercial extinction and tastes of next to nothing.

To be a bit more exact, Cod in the North Sea is at serious risk of commercial extinction. Icelandic and Barents Sea stocks are healthier, although far from perfect.

 

[soulman]

Haddock everytime.

 

[Idaho]

Eating cod is like eating cotton wool soaked in grey water.

Now there speaks someone who lives inland and only gets frozen cod. Frozen or old cod is rubbish. When it is fresh and at the right time of year (more watery in spring apparently) then it is damn good.

 

[Spion]

Cod is a bottom feeder, so eats all the shit, is near commercial extinction and tastes of next to nothing.

Haddock, while still over fished, isn't and tastes a whole lot more of something and is a fav of mine.

Cod and haddock are both bottom feeders. Most fish are, so it's a bit daft to complain about it

I put other. Cod's a bit tasteless for my liking (even when I've caught em myself). Now why don't they batter mackerel fillets at the chippy?

 

[Spion]

Pollock isn't very nice

I'd like to try it, but haven't, alas. In theory it should be tastier than cod/haddock as it's a faster moving more predatory relative of those two

 

[Roadkill]

Cod and haddock are both bottom feeders. Most fish are, so it's a bit daft to complain about it

I put other. Cod's a bit tasteless for my liking (even when I've caught em myself). Now why don't they batter mackerel fillets at the chippy?

Mackerel is a pelagic fish. These have never really been fried. My guess is that it's something to do with their being much oilier than demersal species (cod, haddock etc) and the flesh probably doesn't respond as well to frying. Or, on the other hand, it may just be that no-one's really tried...

 

[rioted]

Mackerel is a pelagic fish. These have never really been fried. .........

A local chippie used to do fried mackerel, and very nice it was too. Always in a quandary when they had that AND shark steaks on.

And its GurnET. You can keep your poncy posh gurnards.

I think pollock isnt more widely availabe because it frequents rocks and isnt easy to trawl.

 

[May Kasahara]

Now there speaks someone who lives inland and only gets frozen cod. Frozen or old cod is rubbish. When it is fresh and at the right time of year (more watery in spring apparently) then it is damn good.

My grandad was a pioneering fisherman who worked out of Grimsby docks. Whenever we visited him we would get the freshest fish of all kinds, and even then cod tasted of fuck all.

 

[chooch]

even then cod tasted of fuck all.

more about the texture though ain't it? it's the least fishy fish, probably.
It's a big favourite round here, and down Cadiz way, with varying degrees of freshness and saltiness.

 

[invisibleplanet]

Anarhichas lupus (Atlantic Catfish) is very tasty - it eats crabs and shells.
My friend in Norway eats that sometimes.

 

[May Kasahara]

it's the least fishy fish, probably.

Maybe that's it...my favourite fish is mackerel, so I do prefer my fish, um, fishy

 

[chooch]

my favourite fish is mackerel, so I do prefer my fish, um, fishy

Mackerel is the shit. Sliced in 'alf and slapped on a daft hot griddle. It really doesn't get much better.
Cod's the chicken of the sea, kind of, but better- versatile, takes a sauce well, difficult to make a complete arse of (as long as it's fresh enough), not too strong tasting. I can think of a couple of places where it's much much better than that, but it's probably surpassed by haddock in my favourite two or three chippies in Leeds and on the east coast, one of which I'll visit as soon as I get back to England

 

[Spion]

Anarhichas lupus

That sounds like it should mean 'anarchist wolf'

 

[Stigmata]

Gurnet and Rock Salmon rule!

Yeah. All the chippies in Canterbury served it, but none of the places here in Winchester do.

 

[invisibleplanet]

That sounds like it should mean 'anarchist wolf'

You can catch them off the coast of Whitby, apparently!
http://whitbyseaanglers.blogspot.com/2006/06/ugly-fish-for-paul-on-sea-otter-2.html

 

[geminisnake]

That sounds like it should mean 'anarchist wolf'

Well lupus is latin for wolf.

 

[Mallard]

Maybe that's it...my favourite fish is mackerel, so I do prefer my fish, um, fishy

Never seen mackerel in a chippie but I love a peppered mackerel for breakfast as a treat now and then.

 

[May Kasahara]

Mackerel rocks! I wouldn't want it battered and served up with chips, it's not really a chip shop food IMO, but otherwise it's the yummous. My other half doesn't like it though so I don't get to eat it as much as I'd like.

 

[Mallard]

Mackerel rocks! I wouldn't want it battered and served up with chips, it's not really a chip shop food IMO, but otherwise it's the yummous. My other half doesn't like it though so I don't get to eat it as much as I'd like.

It's real quick to grill as well. I prefer my haddock smoked with mash and mushy peas.