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Post by janet100 on Jun 5, 2016 5:13:45 GMT
I love catfish. It is a wonderful fish, very tasty, and easy to grow. I love to fry it up, make it crunchy, breading it, seasoning it...drooling....
But there are many times that I find 'strands' located near the middle of a fillet of catfish, or near the backbone. I pull them, and they are rather elastic, tubular and white. I'm thinking worms. What do you think?
I have a cousin who is my fav relative, and she use to work in the Alaskan fisheries and canning houses. She told me they would get their knives ice cold and cut those fish up and stab the fillets with a super cold knife and the worms would wrap themselves around the tip of the cold knife. Consequently, she isn't into fish all that much. Most white flesh fish have tons of worms.
I'm having an EWW moment here. Is that what I think it is?
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Post by elaine on Jun 5, 2016 5:32:05 GMT
I only catch and release, so haven't cleaned a fish, but googling makes it sound like worms in catfish is not uncommon.
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Post by chaosisapony on Jun 5, 2016 5:51:31 GMT
Watching this thread so I know if I can ever eat fish again.  |
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Post by stittsygirl on Jun 5, 2016 6:01:43 GMT
Watching this thread so I know if I can ever eat fish again. This. DH has a couple of fresh trout in the freezer right now that I may have to take a pass on  . |
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Post by valincal on Jun 5, 2016 6:06:42 GMT
Gag.
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Jun 5, 2016 6:13:51 GMT
I opened this thread expecting a conversation about a completely different kind of catfish. In a way, just as wormy.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 6:19:54 GMT
Why?! Why did I open this thread?  |
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Post by Why on Jun 5, 2016 6:51:10 GMT
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Post by anniebygaslight on Jun 5, 2016 6:52:35 GMT
I opened this thread expecting a conversation about a completely different kind of catfish. In a way, just as wormy. Me too. I find find myself eternally grateful that catfish is not commonly available in the UK. |
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Post by miominmio on Jun 5, 2016 7:53:08 GMT
I feel sick.......
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Post by Lindarina on Jun 5, 2016 9:19:14 GMT
Thank you. That was the push I needed to go from slightly pescetarian to vegetarian   |
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Post by janet100 on Jun 5, 2016 14:40:21 GMT
Makes me think about sushi now... Course that fish is of the highest caliber and it tends to be thin enough that the chef should be able to hold it up to light and see any worms or cysts in the flesh.
The worms are the same color as the meat which makes it really hard to see them. I would not be so EEEWWWWed over this if I could see a dark worm in the pink flesh prior to cooking like Helen did in the video.
I am more careful to flake the catfish apart after it's been cooked. Breaking the fish into bite size pieces lets me see the 'strands' and then I can use a paper towel (for a better grip) to pull on it gently to get the rest of the worm out in one piece. Most of them are really long. I never knife my fish for this reason. I don't want to cut the worm up into bite sized pieces because they are the same color as the flesh.
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Post by perumbula on Jun 5, 2016 14:47:02 GMT
I have never been more grateful I don't eat fish. It's even less appealing now then it has ever been.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 15:01:55 GMT
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Post by Suziee2 on Jun 5, 2016 15:32:11 GMT
Absolutely NOT looking at that link!!! Another reason I can be glad that I cut fried foods out of my diet (the only way I could eat catfish and it is the only fish I used to eat.) *shudder* |
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Post by gryroagain on Jun 5, 2016 16:01:29 GMT
Oh for fs sake, I had sushi at the beach today. Gag.
Off to drink bleach and hope for the best.
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Post by beanbuddymom on Jun 5, 2016 16:03:41 GMT
I opened this thread expecting a conversation about a completely different kind of catfish. In a way, just as wormy. Me too I thought it was going to be a discussion about the show Catfish and all that entails. |
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Post by craftsbycarolyn on Jun 5, 2016 16:37:46 GMT
Well thanks for that! I'm not much of a seafood eater but I "did" like certain kinds of fish. I might have to rethink that.
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Post by katiekaty on Jun 5, 2016 16:46:32 GMT
I grew up eating catfish. Love it anyway its cooked! Even fileted it. I was always told those strands were nerve tissue and just pulled them out during fileting. If they are there after cooking, because they weren't removed, I just push them aside.
As far as the worm thing, all fish have worms, or so all the specials on TV say. They don't survive the acidic environment of the stomach and are destroyed on contact. I don't worry about since most of the shows I have seen show an endoscope showing the destruction on site!
Won't stop me eating fish. Just not sushi-I don't like raw fish!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 17:41:03 GMT
I'm so glad I've never eaten catfish
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