Anyone else love fried catfish?

catfish tastes like shit

>>8039028
It's pretty much the best thing ever.

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>>8039028
It's awesome, but best made at home. Too many places now use swai and basa and charge you for American Catfish. Taste and texture are totally different.

lately I've been making catfish almondine.

I really want to try it but I don't live in the south so it hardly comes up anywhere, even in asian grocery stores.

>>8039028
no op you are the only person in all of the uk who likes catfish.

ayy i just had fried catfish with tabasco and lemon shit was delicious

[spoiler] wish they had habenero

>>8039028
fuck yes.

Flyover here. It's the only fish I can get that isn't previously frozen. So of course I do.

>>8039032
Shut your mouth before I fuck it

Central KY here, close to the river. Not crazy about it, but ours is probably mildly poisoned.

>>8039028
Work on your breading OP. Egg wash then cornmeal+flour mixture. You'll get a better breading.

Moving to suburban virginia soon, will be striking distance to the good fishing in the south, catfish is the big prize there.

Tell me everything you know...

>>8039445
They like to hide in the shade near the bank, and enjoy smelly cheese bait. Just walk up quietly, and slip your line into the water.

>>8039028
There are only two other dishes at Cracker Barrel that are acceptable when I'm meeting up with family there. It's the country-fried steak, grille chicken tenders, and catfish sandwich.

Catfish really lends itself to frying quite well. Impressive for a bottom-feeder.

>>8039445
>Moving to suburban virginia soon, will be striking distance to the good fishing in the south, catfish is the big prize there.
Google "noodling" videos.

>>8039028
Yes

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>>8039028
I do, but it's best when you catch the fish yourself.

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>>8039509
And make it into dinner at home.

>>8039028
No. Catfish is garbage

>>8039509
>>8039515
appaloosa?

>>8039520
Bullhead

Ugh, catfish is the absolute lowest tier in fish. There's a reason why "bottom feeders" carries meaning beyond talking about fish.
I'm all for low cost food without being pretentious, but catfish literally tastes bad, and has bad texture. There are no redeeming qualities. Its bad, and its bad.

>>8039515
People will actually eat a whole green bell pepper?

I mean, good on you, seems healthy, but that seems just so unappetizing.

>>8039543
Was going to mention this. WTF guy? Throw some onion in on it too or something.

>>8039543
I'm a graduate student, so I often grow/forage/catch my dinner to offset grocery costs. I usually try to eat healthy.

>>8039550
Just seems like the design of your dish is very unappealing. Say I have potato, chicken (if that's what the meat is), and green bell pepper; I would dice the pepper, dice and season the chicken, dice the potato and par-boil, then fry it all together as a nice type of scrambler (for lack of a better word).

>>8039593
OK

>>8039498

Just did, looks crazy fun. I'd like to do some regular fishing first though.

What do you think of this recipe?

>egg wash
>pork rinds crumbled
>fried in lard

Would work? Can I add in some other starch to make it stick better, would that hold? I am trying to avoid using grain, like wheat, rice, corn...

>>8039593
>the design of your dish
It's just a simple dinner

>>8039536

It doesn't taste like ocean fish but that's it's charm for me. Restaurants around here pass off tilapia as more expensive shit all the time because they both taste so subtle.

Orange roughy, the most expensive fish in my market, is prized for its "nothingness", so you can taste the sauce instead. Why pay for just texture? At least snapper and a couple others have a kind of sweetness, but otherwise, I want that strong flavor in a fried fish.

It's fishy and reminds me of where I got what I'm eating. Just like eating gator or frog, it's not reminding me of coastal city food, but then again I don't identify with limp wristed coastal city culture, so I don't care.

And for the record, Escoffier always said use the oldest bird for your dish, because it will carry the most flavor.

>>8039641
Very true. I was only cooking for myself.

>>8039032
>I thought you could cook fresh-caught catfish just like frozen salmon from the supermarket and it tasted bad the one time I tried
FTFY

>>8039641
Just sayin, for my preferences, it would be about 5 minutes more of prep. The idea of eating a whole green bell pepper just seems off putting to me; but if you like it, I don't care, go with God.

>>8039686
Have you ever been told that your preferences are off putting, and that in complete honesty, no one (other than the people you pay to cook your food) cares how you eat said food?

>>8039704
No, but I have a feeling that I'm being told that right now.

Guess I would just look at it as needing a small amount of effort to make it more appetizing. If you put it in the perspective to serving others (like I do because I usually cook fort the family), then it becomes a different story. I know when I make stuff for myself, I give much less of a fuck when it comes to that aspect.

But no matter, if you like it, you like it, and that's all that matters.

>>8039363
I use Planko. It's a better texture and healthier too.

>>8039812
no self respecting catfish would let it's self be caught to be fried in panko. corn meal/flour is the way.

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>>8039636
Well, I've only ever fried catfish with cornmeal and flour (40/60 ratio roughly). Pork rinds sounds like a meme t b h

Make it spicy, too. Like throw the usual seasonings into the cornmeal/flour mix, then toss some dried mustard, dried chili pepper, or whatever in there too. Shit's great.

I've had catfish a few times in po boys but until recently I hadn't had it on its own (mostly on its own anyway). It tasted like chemicals. Like someone cleaned it with bleach. Anyone ever had a bad experience like that?

I'm trying to figure out if it was the fish or the preparation but it's really discouraged me from eating it again.

>>8039991
where did you get that fish? was it a supermarket cut or a dish in a restaurant?

catfish isn't supposed to taste like that

>>8040002

A restaurant, it was new (weeks old) at the time

>>8039651
Fair enough. Its a greasy, non-uniform textured, off colored fish that takes on the local flavor of the flood reservoir in which it was caught.
Its loaded with pollution, and they are easy as fuck to catch. No fishing skills are required, you can literally take a shit on a hook, throw it in, and come out the next morning to find a catfish on the line.
Its not my idea of good food, but as long as someone can identify with it. At least no endangered species were harmed.

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>>8040006
It was probably previously frozen and old (and therefore soaked in preservatives at some point) and poorly sourced. When I worked in fish wholesale, some of the cheapest stuff we processed was farmed catfish from overseas. That shit's garbage.

Also, a newer restaurant might not have the money or smarts to source good fish. The guy responsible for that could have fucked up and got something shitty for what's supposed to be a good dish. Lack of funds or being dumb can make or break finicky dishes like fish.

Don't judge catfish by that guy's fuck-up

>>8040006
sounds like there might have been some sort of contamination. i've had chain restaurant catfish, fried fillets at a bar for a snack, catfish straight from the lake, blackened on a griddle in new orleans restaurant. it's always been excellent. i grew up going to fish frys every sunday. no catfish should taste like chemicals unless you live near homer in springfield.

>>8039028

If I want fish which eats garbage I prefer flatfish.

My cheap filets of choice are ocean cod though.

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>>8040030
>ocean cod
>implying there is such a thing as river cod

>>8039550
>offset grocery costs
>buys Miller lite
Faggot

>>8040031
>Not using Google before posting what was supposed to be a sarcastic answer
Seriously, look it up, asshole.

>>8040031
if there is a way to invent a breed of fish that does not exist and sell it, the fishing industry will find it and do it, and then charge premium for it.

>>8040037
You're the life of every party. You just angry that you're home alone, again, on /ck/?

>>8039636
>trying to avoid using grain, like wheat, rice, corn
Why?

Even Celliac fags can eat rice and corn

>>8040028
I still don't understand this one.

>>8040037
Sounds like a pretty cheap beer choice desu. Only way he could save more is if he went Budlite or Pabst

>>8040042
>home alone, again, on /ck/
The best nights

>>8040043
If you're going to try to insult someone, it's best to learn how to spell so you don't make yourself appear like an idiotic asshole as opposed to just an asshole.

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>>8040038
>some varieties of perch are called "cod" by alcoholic australians who don't know what words mean

Cod are saltwater you dingus

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>>8040044
>last night I double-O-hamburgled your sister

>>8039028
I do! I actually just made some for my parents last night. Catfish filets patted dry and then breaded in 50/50 flour and corn meal. Added salt, pepper, old bay, an extra paprika. Fried @ 325 for 7-8 minutes depending on thickness and I added some lemon juice before eating.

Added in some fresh cut fries, onion hushpuppies dipped in honey, and cole slaw. It was a damn good meal.

>>8040054
>Because I'm not Australian, I can pretend I still have a point and am correct by ignoring a whole group of freshwater fish called cod.

>>8040031

There's farmed cod. It's from western farmers, so I wouldn't mind trying it. I just don't see it in the freezers yet here, so ocean cod it is.

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>>8040069


Why can't you shitlords just agree with me when I say this is a Jay Z album??? I and some other people who have never heard a Jay Z album say that it is.

You're being really problematic when you try to categorize stuff. Just because Christopher Columbus didn't land in India doesn't mean it's retarded to call Native Americans "Indians" forever. Stop trying to tell me they're called something else just because everyone other than me and my neighbors think so.

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>>8040039
>>8040074
When farmed cod is marketable, it will still be ocean cod. It will have to be farmed in salt water, which necessitates big quantities of salt water and a lot of space, a la salmon farms.

No one thinks of farmed salmon and anadromous wild salmon as the same thing, you know.

>>8040084
Wow. You're really struggling with being wrong, aren't you?

>>8040096
Labels that don't make sense grind my gears, man ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's like a forbear of mine in ye olden days started calling Australia "The Islamic Republic of Iran" and got his descendants to call it that, too. Who are you to correct us?

>>8040130
Still going, huh?

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>>8040136
This is a picture of John Cena

>>8040145
So yes?

>>8040147
Have you ever had """river cod?"""

>>8040156
Yes, I'm Australian.

>>8040159
why does it make any sense to call something a type of cod when it isn't a type of cod?

>>8040171
But it is a cod.

>>8040174
It's a perch.

>>8040177
Then why isn't it called a perch? Because it's a cod.

>>8040181
>what is taxonomy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadidae

do all australians hate science?

>>8040196
I'll admit, anon, this has been good fun. But, I've tired of the screams of REEEEEE in my ears. Good luck in your struggles to cope with being wrong.

>>8040214
The Australians resort to frog meme references and tap out when confronted with their ignorance. You heard it here first, folks.

>>8040196
Your argument is invalid if you want to cite taxonomy. Perch are in family Percidae - not the same as river cod. So, river cod aren't perch. Try again, anon.

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>>8040242
I only attempted to prove that they weren't cod.

The term "perch-like" in taxonomy refer to large groups of fish species. Taxonomy is blurrier than it should be.

My point stands, though. Would you ever call a Thylacine a kind of tiger? It's still called the Tasmanian Tiger by some.

So why are Australian "freshwater cod" mentioned in the same sentence as cod? Most people, apart from Mick Dundee, understand that "cod" primarily refers to Gadus morhua and secondarily to its close relatives.

>>8040278
In all fairness, from my perspective, you calling river cod "perch" was you being wrong for the second time.

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>>8040288
I should absolutely have been more specific but chose to be confrontational. I am posting on 4chan.

I maintain that I'm not wrong about what kinds of cod exist, in the same way that people who talk about subspecies of tiger aren't wrong when they omit Tasmanian Tigers.

>>8040296
So you were wrong? And the screams of REEEEEE shall continue to resound across the board.

>>8040303
River cod =/= cod

in the same way that Tasmanian tigers =/= tigers as the rest of the world understands them


this is not tough man, c'mon

>>8040317
Yes but that doesn't mean saying ocean cod is unjustified.

>>8040384
What's the word for tiger that defines them separately from Tasmanian tigers?

>>8040395
Tasmanian Tigers aren't called tigers in local vernacular though. Plus they're official name isn't tasmanian tiger. River cod is literally called river cod.

>>8040017

Catfish is literally none of those things and you're pants on head retarded. I'm sorry you live in the Louisiana gulf fallout zone with BP chemicals everywhere, but if you river isn't polluted no fish should be like that.

Have fun sleeping with your sister I hope that makes up for it.

>>8039974

It's memey for sure but I've been on a no-grain diet and it's working real well for me. The tough things are burgers, sandwiches, and frying stuff.

>>8039028
>fried catfish
>collard greens
>fried plantains
fuck I miss it

>>8040044
Last night I pierced in and out of your sister

>>8040493
an old name for pollock is "boston bluefish." the color of the fish is a lot like the bluefish, so it isn't that weird that someone started calling it that.

does that make it a bluefish, even if that's the vernacular somewhere? nope.

I'm a saltwater angler and for the longest time I was like "who the fuck eats catfish" because all the saltwater cats are slimy and disgusting. But apparently the freshwater ones are tasty.

>>8039363
I actually prefer a lighter breading like my pic, I use cornmeal/flour but no egg dredge

>>8039068
>swai

Fuck that shit

>>8039028
That pic gave me a boner, thanks.