Thread: Soaking fish.

Originally Posted by Grumpy

NEVER. Just wash them off real good in cold water and dip in cornmeal with salt and black pepper added and then drop into the deep fryer.

I'm with Grumpy, just soak them in cooking oil.:D

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.

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

Originally Posted by gabowman

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.

Exactly. There's nothing in a crappie fillet that needs to be removed, or "drawn out". It's one of the purest fish that can be eaten without a strong fishy taste. Soak lake catfish in salt? Maybe so,......but crappie?....No, just rinse and cook......or freeze.

Originally Posted by luvjign

Exactly. There's nothing in a crappie fillet that needs to be removed, or "drawn out". It's one of the purest fish that can be eaten without a strong fishy taste. Soak lake catfish in salt? Maybe so,......but crappie?....No, just rinse and cook......or freeze.

I second that, no sense soaking crappie,clean,wash and put it in the pan.

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

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.