01-10-2012, 10:23 PM
Thankfully, I've been blessed with kids who like to go fishing with me. Most of the time. They want to bring everything home that they catch to show their mother. The problem is that I am the only one who will eat fish in the house. I like to eat fish, but I can only eat so much. Hoping to get some help, I got a smoker for Christmas. Either they will like smoked fish and be more willing to help, or I will like it enough and keep it all to myself.
I have never smoked anything in my life. Unless you count those barkeys on scout camps. I have always just fried up my fish whole on the grill. Using this method, I have never fileted a fish either. It seems to me, that I would want to filet my fish before smoking them. Is this what most people do? Is there a filet knife/system that you can recommend? Am I better off buying a more expensive knife, do I get a better knife by spending more?
I saw a cool video on youtube of a filet system that was called "unzipping". It looked pretty cool and removed the rib bones before fileting the meat off the skin. This way you get a boneless filet. This probably seems obvious, and is probably a stupid question, but the regular way of fileting where you just run your knife along the spine, doesn't that just cut off all the ribs and leave them in the meat? Do most people just cook them like that and pick the bones out while eating?
I realize that for most people these are probably obvious questions with obvious answers. I've been debating asking them or not. But if you never ask, you'll never know. Thanks for any info. that anyone wants to share with me.
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I have never smoked anything in my life. Unless you count those barkeys on scout camps. I have always just fried up my fish whole on the grill. Using this method, I have never fileted a fish either. It seems to me, that I would want to filet my fish before smoking them. Is this what most people do? Is there a filet knife/system that you can recommend? Am I better off buying a more expensive knife, do I get a better knife by spending more?
I saw a cool video on youtube of a filet system that was called "unzipping". It looked pretty cool and removed the rib bones before fileting the meat off the skin. This way you get a boneless filet. This probably seems obvious, and is probably a stupid question, but the regular way of fileting where you just run your knife along the spine, doesn't that just cut off all the ribs and leave them in the meat? Do most people just cook them like that and pick the bones out while eating?
I realize that for most people these are probably obvious questions with obvious answers. I've been debating asking them or not. But if you never ask, you'll never know. Thanks for any info. that anyone wants to share with me.
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