Anything acidic will work to tenderize the liver and assist in bleeding the deer out. The bacon grease is the perfect touch. I’m a Costco shopper and use Montreal steak seasoning on just about everything and deer liver is no different. This is a great video gentlemen!!! Top notch recipe
Thanks for the saws-all tip! And instructing me to dice those suckers up. I watched 4 videos and you guys were the only one who told me to do that. As soon as i cut them i could see the marrow flowing out. Nom nom nom. Didnt have anyone to hold the bones, but i lost zero fingers! So win win. I also love that you can your bone broth! I always can mine too. Best solution ever.
I hope you guys keep grinding. The quality and information on the videos is fantastic can’t believe you guys don’t have a huge following. Hope you guys blow up. Definitely deserved
You guys are the worst advocates for this fish. Make fish cakes by putting the filets through a meat grinder also I pickle it too it gets rid of all bones after the pickling process is finished.....super good 👍 .
We will have to try that. We stated at the beginning that we have no experience with cooking carp. But that doesn’t mean we think it’s a garbage fish. This was more of an experiment and wanted other people (like you) to comment and leave recommendations. But overall we loved the taste!
On a paddle fish they have an oily substance of course cut the red meat off. Cold water then hot water rotation with salt will draw the oily substance out.
It's salty... that's because you used TWO CUPS of salt, and soaked it in that for a whole day. Wow. First, bled it by cutting through the "tongue" before it dies, then ensure ALL of the red meat is removed, and finally soak it for a few hours in clean water, stirring it several times and skimming off the oil, or refreshing the water and rinsing it, to remove all of the oil, (or I stick it in a bucket with the garden hose and leave the water running for an hour or so, stirring it a couple times). With the blood, red meat, and oil gone, the fish taste is dramatically reduced. If it's prepared right, you'll swear you're eating pork loins, not fish.
I see your point of view and actually it wasn’t that hard of a process. We actually liked the flavor of frying it so almost no preparation other then battering it.
We my brother and I fish for common carp every year and we do different types of food with it , i fillet some and make pepperoni sticks out of it and jerky also we grind some up and make fish balls too boys let me tell you what if you season it right its delicious 👍👍
Paddle fish has zero fishy taste if you bleed it correctly before it dies and you have to cut it in small nuggets and let it sit for 24 hours in salt water. Do it that way, it will taste like really tender chicken.
why didn't you rinse the fish coming out of the brine ? I thought that things coming out of brine always gets rinsed . I do with my buckboard bacon and chicken .
Well in america they eat tilapia... which is not a very good quality in terms of nutrition. this is a common fish in eastern Europe and in India. And fish will smell like "FISH" obviously. you wont smell roses when you process the fish. Secondly you cut the fish in cutlet like round shape with a bone in the middle and cook it in a curry. or fried fish. This is not a fillet fish.
Venison fat, unlike the fat from domesticated animals (beef, pork and poultry) tends to have a definitely gamy taste. Folks that have had venison and really not liked it I'd bet had meat that was not well trimmed of natural fat. Certainly, venison is very lean to start and adding some fat to it for cooking (bacon works well) is recommended.
Great video, I fished the Grand and the Mighty Mo but did not go in 2023, I have had some very special times on these rivers in the past and caught some heavy cats on bankpoles and throw lines, your success on big cats in these rivers lies in the art of having good livebait........
The common carp was imported into the United States around 1877. As a food source because it was requested by hundreds of thousands of immigrants. Back in Europe Comm Carp was a staple food for many people. It was so well loved that it made it's way into the European celebratory foods as well. You would have found it on almost every Christmas table, birthday dinner, and any other holiday of special event that was celebrated. When it first came here it's popularity immediately sored. But at first there weren't hundreds of thousands of Carp as they would be in a relatively short amount of time. And they immediately became a upper class food. With only a few people farming these fish in the early years of their introduction. Prices were fairly high. And so was the snob appeal. Carp regularly graced the menus of high class restaurants. Anybody who was anybody had at least one, if not five Carp on their dinner party tables to impress their guests. Carp was all the rage. It didn't take long before more and more people were jumping in the lucrative carp farming craze. But since an adult sized female common carp could produce over three hundred thousand eggs during each spawn. And considering that they could spawn three or even four times a year. It wasn't long before the market was bloated and the prices fell dramatically. Suddenly anyone could afford carp and it quickly lost it's snob appeal. And it didn't take long before farmers just went making enough money from their carp anymore and they simply opened the gates to whatever river was feeding water to their fish farms and released their entire stock into the river systems. Some had already made their way into the lakes and rivers through flooding during storms that caused the stocked ponds to simply overflow and allowed the carp to simply swim away into whatever water source was near. Soon people didn't need to buy them at all because they quickly became plentiful in many waters. Then during the depression their popularity rose once more. Simply because now they were so cheap and or easy to catch yourself. And because of their natural size that one fish could possibly feed an entire family. People quickly fell in love with the carp once more. Fast forward to just after the depression and WWII . When suddenly the American economy began to boom once more. Anything associated with the depression was shunned by many Americans. And carp was no exception. So that is how Carp became known as a trash fish. That and because so many people went so long without eating carp they even forgot how to kill and prepare it properly. So when anyone other than poor folks who never stopped eating carp. Tried to Cook and eat it. Because they were ignorant on it's proper preparation. It didn't taste very good at all.
Grass carp were definitely not imported here for food. They were brought here for weed control. Hence the name. Common carp were introduced here for food.
Common gentlemen! Do your due diligence and research your subject a little bit before putting out videos. Although a few people might eat grass carp. They were not broght to the United States for food. Origin and spread Grass carp are native to southeastern Russia and northwestern China. The species was imported to Arkansas in the 1960s to control aquatic plants in reservoirs and aquaculture farms. They have been purposely stocked in waters of other states. Originally the U.S. fish and wildlife service only allowed sterile Grass Carp into the States for weed control to avoid over population. But just like in the movie Jurassic Park. As Malcolm said, " Nature finds a way." And now they are a nuisance just because of their numbers. However they do still perform the necessary task of keeping certain aquatic plants to manageable levels. The common carp however was brought in by the United States Government for a food source. These were introduced into U S. Fisheries by the Federal Fish and wildlife services back in the 1800s. So neither grass or especially Common carp are technically " invasive species". Rather they are, Introduced, spices " or in Common Carps case , refered to more accurately, as naturalized species. Don't listen to all the misinformation from old timers. I too remember when I was informed as a kid that common carp were trash fish and should be killed and thrown out on the bank if caught. Same as Alligator and longnosed Gar were. Now Gar are actually considered a game fish and it's illegal to kill them and throw them away by most states laws. However. Common carp spawn three to four times a year. An adult female can lay over three hundred thousand eggs each spawn. This has been going on since the 1800s. And their fingerlings and eggs are an important food supply of every single one of our game fish. So to eliminate the common carp would be to severally deplete the gamefish population through starvation. That's a fact Jack! The common carp was introduced into our fisheries around the year 1877. The largemouth Bass wasn't introduced until 1893. So the common carp has a stronger right of naturalization than even our most popular game fish. Show some respect. BTW Carp are very good eating if you know how to prepare them. That's exactly why when they were first brought over. Only the upper classes could afford them. And they quickly became a way to show off your wealth at Dinner Parties and On the menus of the Fanciest Restaurants in the United States at that time. As well as their even longer history in Europe and Asia. They are one of the most consumed freshwater fish in the world. There's a reason for all of this. They are delicious.
