Time to turn vegetarian

[flemmings]

Well, that's definite. Am never cooking fresh fish again (ie not frozen when I buy it.) The haddock I poached Saturday night haunts my downstairs like a particularly smelly ghost. Cleaned all the pots and cutting boards, scrubbed the counters and stove top, opened windows, ran fan, washed floor, put garbage out just in case-- and still the smell is there. Worse, it's not in the kitchen but in the entrance hallway, do not ask me how.

Am burning Sabina's Aoyama incense to cover the persistence of Fish.

Comments

[unnique]

Ew. I suspect that smelly ghost is from a haddock that's been hanging out too close to the sea bottom. Where I come from, we have a name for that smell and taste ("grunnsmak"), and a common understaning that you do not use haddock (or any other fish) that has been thus afflicted. One little piece of bad haddock can foul up an entire big batch of fishcake farce (do you call it that? or minced fish?).

I still haven't forgiven the store that sold me bottom-fouled monikish (angler). I didn't insist on sniffing it there, since they're supposed to be professionals. More fool me.

[flemmings]

Lake-bordering Torontonians know very little about fish at all, is why I'm always suspicious of it, esp the 'best before' dates. But tasty shrimp live near sea bottoms. Why does it spoil haddock?

I think we'd call it 'minced fish'. And can believe that one bad fish spoils the whole lot.

[unnique]

I have no idea why haddock spoils like that. I googled just now, and they actually did a study of it back in the early 60s with no conclusive result. Sometimes haddock smells and tastes bad, the end. Le sigh. So whenever I buy fillets of that, I insist on sniffing them first, because I am Northener (hear me roar!) and I do not trust these southerners with fresh fish. Even the pros in the fresh fish specialty stores.

[incandescens]

Yuck, Definitely unwanted.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Definitely unpleasing - may the haunting have dissipated by this morning!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Open windows and high quality incense seem to have done the trick.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Unni's comments here (http://flemmings.dreamwidth.org/154084.html#comments) suggest an explanation. Some haddock are bottom feeders. Therefore stay away from haddock, I suppose...

[incandescens]

Dubious bottom-feeding haddock. That almost deserves to be a title or insult or something.