I've had people tell me about soaking them in milk. I was just wondering if this soaking was something that everybody did. Jennifer and I were fixing up some one night and we started talking about it. I've been camping and ate fish that I caught that day with no soaking. Don't remember nothing being wrong with them fishes. I do it now just because that's the way the Old Man does it.
I have soaked certain kinds of fish in salt water before. I only do this if blood is in the meat. Used to do the same with rabbits, squirrels, ducks, quail that were shot to remove the blood clots in the meat. Crappie dont have the blood in the meat so I only put them in a pan of cold water and put in the fridge until I plan on cooking 'em the next day or so.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
I soak mine in salt water if I'm not eating them right away. I dip them in a mixture of buttermilk and mustard then cornmeal when I cook them too. I always soak my steak before I cook that too in Dales and Montreal steak
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The only thing I soak crappie fillets in is OIL
Milk and Hot Sauce for maybe 30 minutes. . Then seasong the fish lightly but add ALOT of seasonings to my cornmeal mix.
I like a thicker crust on mine, just me I guess. Don't really matter what ya do to them cause the'll be fine anyway ya cook them
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DonDon, you da man with the hot sauce. I'll freeze crappie in bags with shot sauce and lemmon water after they sit for several hours. Folks think the hot sauce will be too hot for a weak gut, but it really just adds a little flavor to it. Nice for a change of pace.
My granddad would soak his fish in milk. Said it got the 'fishy' taste out of it, but he got most of his crappie from river bar pits and oxbows. They might have had that 'river' taste to them. He would put his river cats in a feeder tank of water and let a little trickel run in it for a couple days. Said it cleaned the river taste out of them. I don't ever remember crappie having a strong fishy taste, so I don't soak in anything except hot oil.
The few I clean and freeze, I'll soak em over night in a pan of water IF I don't have any bags, and don't feel like going to get any....Otherwise they go strait to the freezer...I can't tell any difference in taste....