Eating Raw Tuna -- Advice

[sportfishingusa]

freeze it for a week, then defrost and enjoy but you need to freeze fast, like flash freeze. All sushi and sashimi comes frozen before they do anything with it.

Forget about the parasites and other garbage on it, i dont care what anyone says, fresh tuna front the dock when you are fishing or just getting back from fishing, smells and tastes like piss and ammonia

[Ol Pedro]

Originally Posted by sportfishingusa

forget about the parasites and other garbage on it, i dont care what anyone says, fresh tuna front the dock when you are fishing or just getting back from fishing, smells and tastes like piss and ammonia

Sportie , are you talking Blue Shark and not Tuna ? Our Tuna are bled and chilled/collered before loining .

[sportfishingusa]

Originally Posted by Ol Pedro

Sportie , are you talking Blue Shark and not Tuna ? Our Tuna are bled and chilled/collered before loining .

You can collar and prep it all you want. Unless it is thoroughly cleaned per loun after skinning it is disgusting. IMHO. I see guys do it every trip. Take pieces and eat it. I think it smells and tastes horrible. I rather eat it cooked or ice cold and cleaned. But that's just me. Everyone else seems to eat it all the time so maybe I smell like piss hahahahaha

[codbuster]

You must be talking about "catfish" if you get my drift!! The fresher the better with all the other types of fish!!

[EEL killer]

FDA says all fish in US to be eaten raw has to be flash frozen for at least two weeks to get rid of any bacteria that's in it.Personally I eat it while the tuna is still moving.Yesterday got back with Jersey Hooker with 3 big eyes and we were eating as it was being cut up.I don't know what your guys are eating but it did not taste like piss(who would know what that tastes like) or ammonia

[socks]

The freezing to kill parasites I believe must be done with a commercial freezer at a temp much lower than our freezers at home. Or flash froze with liquid nitrogen.

[NJ Dave]

Fri night I hit my local sushi joint. The sushi chef said tuna comes in flash frozen which is harder than cement and takes a few days to defrost.
However they do also get in fresh never frozen fish that "they" will only eat raw. It is sold them as the fish to cook but he said we don't cook it, we make sushi out of it.
He made me some tuna sashimi which was fresh and some that was frozen. To me it was similar in taste. The fresh one was lighter in color but the frozen one was a darker red.
The fresh one was firm while The frozen one tasted mushy.
All I know is sat when I get back in we are having fresh tuna sashimi as long as we catch em.

[Jlavine]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/ny...rtner=USERLAND

Interesting.

[Captain Rich]

Originally Posted by Ol Pedro

It was my understanding that parasites that live in Tuna/other saltwater fish can't live in our systems but , Freshwater and Saltwater fish that migrate from one to the other shouldn't be consumed raw . I never eat raw Salmon or Stripers . I love to eat the rack meat as we loin out the Tuna .

Pedro- the fish tapeworms can absolutely jump the genetic tree and live in people. I think everyone who works in the industry will at one time or another start nibbling on "rack meat" while cutting up the catch, that we don't get parasites is just plain good luck, before the FDA put in the frozen sushi rule, this issue was a lot more common with people who enjoyed sushi at restaurants.

[codbuster]

Originally Posted by Captain Rich Adler

Pedro- the fish tapeworms can absolutely jump the genetic tree and live in people. I think everyone who works in the industry will at one time or another start nibbling on "rack meat" while cutting up the catch, that we don't get parasites is just plain good luck, before the FDA put in the frozen sushi rule, this issue was a lot more common with people who enjoyed sushi at restaurants.

I've never heard anyone getting cod worm sickness or anything else like that!!Still some peeps are afraid to eat cod with worms even after cooking!! Just hand it over to me and I'll take care of it!!