Cod Troubles

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Cod Troubles

#1 Post by tripodterror »

Having fished on youghal beach Saturday night and not having much luck :roll: a kind man offered me some nice cod he had just caught, i killed them myself and put them into my cooler box and kept them refrigerated until Monday morning when i went to prepare them...

There was a strong smell of amonia from the flesh of the fish even though the fish were still stiff from rigor mortis and showed no other signs of decomposition.

It's a noodle scratcher because the fish were killed by myself and refrigerated by myself so they weren't exposed to anything that would bring on decomposition that quickly

Has anyone any answers for this coz I'm stumped :?
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#2 Post by ShaneH »

Did you bleed and gut them ?
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#3 Post by donal domeney »

ShaneH wrote:Did you bleed and gut them ?
Had the same reply.
I'll always gut and rinse within minutes of catching them.
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#4 Post by tripodterror »

No i didn't gut them i left them as they were and filleted them on Monday morning
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#5 Post by chuckaroo »

case solved

and when you do clean them out them try not to split the gut and let the contents contaminate the meat.. it can ruin it
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#6 Post by donal domeney »

tripodterror wrote:No i didn't gut them i left them as they were and filleted them on Monday morning
has the smell gone out of the house yet :(
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#7 Post by tripodterror »

The smell has just about left the building alright!
It's a rookie mistake on my part now that i think of it
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#8 Post by ste c »

Always gut a cod if being kept straight away or soon as id say that absolute stank!!
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#9 Post by Deise boy »

Thanks for that. [emoji106] good advise


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#10 Post by Tanglerat »

And scrape away that grey-white stomach lining too that's left behind after gutting.
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#11 Post by tripodterror »

On the ball lads nice one
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#12 Post by lad123 »

i always gut fish as soon as possible
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#13 Post by pajo »

Yeah I'd agree with the lads - gut and clean out cod as soon as possible. Not wanting to put anyone off their food but I read somewhere that the worms normally found in cod stomachs will migrate into the flesh soon after the fish dies. Any cod I've taken for the pot this year I've gutted them straight away after killing them. I haven't come across any worms in the flesh at all so there might be something in it...

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#14 Post by ShaneH »

pajo wrote:Yeah I'd agree with the lads - gut and clean out cod as soon as possible. Not wanting to put anyone off their food but I read somewhere that the worms normally found in cod stomachs will migrate into the flesh soon after the fish dies. Any cod I've taken for the pot this year I've gutted them straight away after killing them. I haven't come across any worms in the flesh at all so there might be something in it...

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#15 Post by hugo »

... and i was told by a doctor long ago that if those worms arent all killed in the cooking, they can get into your own gut and cause dangerous peritonitis. But I suspect most chipper "cod" these days is something else - usually pollock.
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