Does anyone else hate handling raw fish?

[Mill]

I have no problem with eating or handling sushi, or eating or handling cooked fish. I can't, however, stand to deal with something like raw Tilapia filets. To me it is just beyond nasty and I hate the smell and texture. I love seafood, but I really can never seriously prepare it without almost getting sick.

 

[fumbduck]

I grew up doing it. My grandfather owned a huge fish and shrimp company (with the actual boats that go out and get it) that was worth like 11 million when he sold it. I worked for him every summer doing it. On top of that, living in florida for the early years of my life, I did it much.

I do hate the smell on yours hands though, but there are ways to get it off.

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

*PowerMac4 slaps Mill with large trout

 

Why did you feel the need to add in the networth of your grandfathers company?

 

[beatle]

Not really, I just treat it as any other meat. If it really smells bad, you have spoiled fish. Fish should only smell like seawater, not fish.

If I can't find fresh fish, I buy it in vacuum sealed frozen packages.

 

[0roo0roo]

really? i've prepared other meats and they all feel totally disgusting, whole chickens, turkeys.. your holding a damn corpse.

 

[TubStain]

hmm...wonderful slimy raw fish. Sometimes I feel like biting a chunk out of it like Gollum.












😉

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: beatle
Not really, I just treat it as any other meat. If it really smells bad, you have spoiled fish. Fish should only smell like seawater, not fish.

If I can't find fresh fish, I buy it in vacuum sealed frozen packages.

or as asian peeps like it...,swimming just 1 minute ago!! 🙂 they have live tanks at asian markets.. and some restaurants. they just net it out, whack it unconscious and slice away.

 

[fumbduck]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Why did you feel the need to add in the networth of your grandfathers company?

lol. I'm not saying I am rich, far from it, just giving an idea of how big the company was, so I did a lot of fish handling.

 

[Brutuskend]

Don't fish much I would guess.

 

Originally posted by: fumbduck

Originally posted by: SampSon
Why did you feel the need to add in the networth of your grandfathers company?

lol. I'm not saying I am rich, far from it, just giving an idea of how big the company was, so I did a lot of fish handling.

Gotcha.

Fishy... 😉

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I once spent an entire day slicing a few hundred pounds of halibut into 6-oz portions after a successful fishing trip in Alaska. I actually kind of enjoyed it - fish seems really clean to me somehow.

 

[beatle]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
or as asian peeps like it...,swimming just 1 minute ago!! 🙂 they have live tanks at asian markets.. and some restaurants. they just net it out, whack it unconscious and slice away.

EAT FRESH! 😀

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Don_Vito
I once spent an entire day slicing a few hundred pounds of halibut into 6-oz portions after a successful fishing trip in Alaska. I actually kind of enjoyed it - fish seems really clean to me somehow.

Of course it's clean, it just came out of the water.

In fact most fish spend a lot of time there. 😉

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: Don_Vito
I once spent an entire day slicing a few hundred pounds of halibut into 6-oz portions after a successful fishing trip in Alaska. I actually kind of enjoyed it - fish seems really clean to me somehow.

Of course it's clean, it just came out of the water.

In fact most fish spend a lot of time there. 😉

I think he means that while he's handling it, life seems a lot simpler. 🙂

 

[Red Dawn]

When fishing I always hated getting fish slime on my cold beers!

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: beatle
Not really, I just treat it as any other meat. If it really smells bad, you have spoiled fish. Fish should only smell like seawater, not fish.

If I can't find fresh fish, I buy it in vacuum sealed frozen packages.

This is vacuum sealed frozen packages. 😉

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
*PowerMac4 slaps Mill with large trout

:beer:

 

[Capone]

I used to work in the seafood department at the market. So I'm used to it. I'd rather handle raw fish than meat.

 

[loup garou]

Nah, no problem here. I've cleaned so many fish in my life that it doesn't affect me.

 

[beatle]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: beatle
Not really, I just treat it as any other meat. If it really smells bad, you have spoiled fish. Fish should only smell like seawater, not fish.

If I can't find fresh fish, I buy it in vacuum sealed frozen packages.

This is vacuum sealed frozen packages. 😉

:Q

I haven't had a problem with it so far, but then I've only bought tuna, shark, swordfish, and salmon. White fish like tilapia might be a different story, but they should still never smell like anything but seawater.

 

[geno]

I've worked on a lobster boat before, I did nothing but scoop handfulls of dead herring into bait bags, so I think I'm over any raw fish issues 🙂

 

[WinkOsmosis]

I hate handling raw chicken. Feels just like our flesh. 🙁 Fish is fine.

I grew up around fish though. Trinidad.

 

[bradruth]

I'd much rather handle the filets than posing with a flopping walleye for a picture.

<-------- Not the most avid fisherman.

 

[neutralizer]

Raw fish smell sooooo bad. Ever go to azn fish markets...