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Carps are actually very delicious. The texture is similar to a seabass and the flavor is not fishy at all since it's a fresh water fish.
The only problem with carp is that it's got a lot of bones and fins.
I too like carp, but here its only available at Christmas time. Carp from the Upper Mississippi River is a very good fish to eat ( and so is walleye). Used to buy it alive, but not in Texas.
I can cook several different dishes from it. It's very tasty in aspic, as a fish soup, cooked, broiled, baked and pan fried.
The bones are easy to remove if you know how to do it.
(see numerous YouTube tutorials)
I love pan fried, crispy fish skin. It has to be descaled first, which isn't rocket science either, at least to me - I saw it done many, many times at the fisher boats in my hometown.
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I eat fish all the time..........mostly canned and frozen. Most decent quality fresh-fish is too expensive for my budget.
I would love to find an affordable source of fresh-fish that has decent level
of Omega-3.....I would gladly buy and eat carp.
Keep an eye on the local news when they will open a H-Mart store in your town. Their fish is very fresh and affordable.
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I ate a lot of fish growing up (grew up part time in Italy) and have no problem eating whole fish and picking the bones out. A whole fish doesn't need to include the head if that's what turns people off. And BTW, $5.99 a pound for fish is cheap where I live. Any decent fish will cost twice that much.
I would love to try carp, but it's not sold here.
Same here and I agree that $5.99/lb fish is very affordable where I live. Decent fish cost 3x more.
Keep an eye on the local news when they will open a H-Mart store in your town. Their fish is very fresh and affordable.
Sadly, I've found H-Mart to be very expensive out by me (in the DMV area). There are much cheaper international supermarkets that serve fresh, high quality and cheap seafood. One is L.A. Mart in Alexandria. I may have to make a trip over there today, actually!
As a kid, I caught a lot of carp in the Potomac. My dad and uncles always ordered a summary execution. We usually brought them home to use as fertilizer in the garden.
One day I caught a good sized one and insisted we eat it. So we did.
Sadly, I've found H-Mart to be very expensive out by me (in the DMV area). There are much cheaper international supermarkets that serve fresh, high quality and cheap seafood. One is L.A. Mart in Alexandria. I may have to make a trip over there today, actually!
Looks like their prices vary depending on location. They are probably the cheapest trusted place to buy quality fresh fish where I live.
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As a kid, I caught a lot of carp in the Potomac. My dad and uncles always ordered a summary execution. We usually brought them home to use as fertilizer in the garden.
One day I caught a good sized one and insisted we eat it. So we did.
Tasted like mud.
That's the result of improper handling.
Freshly caught carp need to come straight out of the water and go onto ice immediately.
If that doesn't happen, that's where that muddy taste comes from. The muddy taste is actually the histamines within the fish. As the body temperature rises through stress the histamine levels get going up and produce muddy taste.
Keep the body temperature down right away and you will avoid the muddy taste.
To make the fish taste more delicate, you also could remove the mud vein (a dark band of flesh along the center of the fish)
A friend of mine runs three Greek restaurants in Chicagoland. He told me that the WORST mistake in his career was serving whole fish, head-on when he first started. A long-term customer sent it back as he hated his meal "looking back at him." He argues with the customer saying that he was wrong. He lost a good customer.
That is my view - no eyes looking back. I know the head and bones add a lot of flavor. Just remove the head before you serve it to me.
Likewise with pork. I love a whole hog pig picking, just leave off the head. It seems more respectable to the animal.
Why Americans not eating more Asian Carp Varieties? They are invasive. We need to do what we can to reduce them, instead of eating unsustainable ocean varieties like Yellow Fin Tunas, and Groupers, etc etc. We are depleting the oceans.
Eating carp would not reduce their populations. If carp became that popular, the species would be protected and stocked.
See also:
Pheasants (invasive from China)
Brown trout (invasive from Europe)
I don't want them in my area, but if I had access to them, my dogs would be eating a lot of fish. Fish makes great dog food, but is too expensive to feed to dogs except when the family fisherman brings home a bunch of kokanee. A lot of pounds of free carp would be put to good use.
I don't much like fish and a bunch of little bones in my dinner is a serious turnoff.
Somehow I never thought dogs could eat fish. Interesting. Adding as #17 reason to my get-a-boat-justification-list. Thanks!
Eating carp would not reduce their populations. If carp became that popular, the species would be protected and stocked.
See also:
Pheasants (invasive from China)
Brown trout (invasive from Europe)
Then how are we drastically reducing other fish by overfishing? Perhaps we cant farm those species. But anyways, we can certainly reduce unwanted species by just overfishing. Stocking and protecting wont come into play until after the population is reduced to acceptable levels.
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