I'm stupid so bear with me. The fish is in a bucket. It appears to be a perch or sunfish trout. I have a hankering for fish and want it cooked my way right away. So, do I just throw the seasoning on it and put it on the hot coals and roast it alive? Is this how it's done?

no! kill the fish first by beheading it with a sharp knife.

clean it from the head to the tail, with a long slit to remove entrails. best to remove the scales as well.

THEN you cook it. good luck

XxAxX said:

no! kill the fish first by beheading it with a sharp knife.

clean it from the head to the tail, with a long slit to remove entrails. best to remove the scales as well.

THEN you cook it. good luck

thank you. can i eat the tail too? the reason I ask about the tail is my buddy told me he would jizzle olive oil and sea salt on the tail and eat it like a potato chip. But he could be lying...

ihatephish said:

XxAxX said:

no! kill the fish first by beheading it with a sharp knife.

clean it from the head to the tail, with a long slit to remove entrails. best to remove the scales as well.

THEN you cook it. good luck

thank you. can i eat the tail too? the reason I ask about the tail is my buddy told me he would jizzle olive oil and sea salt on the tail and eat it like a potato chip. But he could be lying...

i've never done that, nor seen it done, but why not?

I haven't done anything with this fish yet. I am too scared to put a knife to it, yet I think it would be fine if I season it and hurl it onto the hot coals and put the lid back on. Probably the most humane way to cook the fish. But apparently this isn't proper as I will likely get a mouthful of poop. Am I understanding this right?

ihatephish said:

I haven't done anything with this fish yet. I am too scared to put a knife to it, yet I think it would be fine if I season it and hurl it onto the hot coals and put the lid back on. Probably the most humane way to cook the fish. But apparently this isn't proper as I will likely get a mouthful of poop. Am I understanding this right?

yes indeed. there is poo inside the fish. you can cook and eat it, or else clean the fish before cooking and eating it.

a guy with a user name of "Ihatephish" wants to know if he can just throw a live fish on the coals!

(I realize by phish you mean the musical group...but still)

XxAxX is steering you in the right direction. just take a cleaver to the head...whack! one fell swoop and it's a done deal. (the killing part anyway) putting it straight on the fire would be much more suffering for the fish...I'm guessing.

Being burned alive is significantly more painful than having your head chopped off. I would know this from experience, obviously.

just1lousydime said:

Being burned alive is significantly more painful than having your head chopped off. I would know this from experience, obviously.

good point. also, tossing the fish right onto a bed of hot coals will result in charring. that's not tasty. best wrap the fish in some aluminum foil first, or put it on some hot rocks in the fire.

how did your culinary adventure go, ihatephish?

XxAxX said:

ihatephish said:

I'm stupid so bear with me. The fish is in a bucket. It appears to be a perch or sunfish trout. I have a hankering for fish and want it cooked my way right away. So, do I just throw the seasoning on it and put it on the hot coals and roast it alive? Is this how it's done?

You don't want to do that.

You need to scale it, gut it and clean it before cooking it.

You could possibly get away with not scaling it, but you have to gut it and clean it at minimum.

And then I read the rest of the thread . . . . Oh well.

[Edited 5/17/11 21:26pm]

ihatephish said:

XxAxX said:

good point. also, tossing the fish right onto a bed of hot coals will result in charring. that's not tasty. best wrap the fish in some aluminum foil first, or put it on some hot rocks in the fire.

how did your culinary adventure go, ihatephish?

So I came out to see how my friend in the bucket was doing. Turns out he wasn't sleeping after all. He had perished last night in the bucket. Feels bad man, I know I should have gone with my gut feeling and just hurled him alive onto a bed of hot coal. Now I have to go catch another. I threw his stinky corpse out in my garden for the vultures. End well this story did not.

he likely perished within a few minutes of being brought out of the water, if that is any comfort.

i'm guessing you are not serious with this thread. pretty funny though

ihatephish said:

I'm stupid so bear with me. The fish is in a bucket. It appears to be a perch or sunfish trout. I have a hankering for fish and want it cooked my way right away. So, do I just throw the seasoning on it and put it on the hot coals and roast it alive? Is this how it's done?

Don't do that; it's inhumane.