Cooking Carp with Luke Pearce, DPI Fisheries 

It is interesting to see how other cultures eat fish. I come from a tribe in Africa where our staple food is fish. We usually gut the fish then de-scale it. The fish is then either cooked whole (with the head still attached) or cut into pieces and stewed or fried We have a lot of bony fish, and part of the experience of eating fish in my culture is to get the bones out. As kids, the best part was watching adults throw in whole chunks and spitting bones out. As an adult now, i super enjoy amusing the kids that way

We cut carps into pieces right from top by just descaling them. We never worry about bones. We fry them and put in a mustard curry ! And enjoy with rice or bread !

I've eaten carp from my little pond in Montana. I've learned (from Utube) that they should be killed by icing, and that the small ones (10-11 inches) have fewer to no pin bones. Those smalls are delicious just fried in butter or olive oil after skinning (easily done)

It's great to see more people eating carp. They are an introduced species that is getting out of hand with their overpopulation. Sometimes I see hundreds of them swimming in the shallow water in the Spring with their tail and dorsal fins sticking out of the water.

I read in a fishing magazine that the way to improve the taste of carp is to drop the fish into an ice slurry bath as soon as it's off the hook. Good way to send the fish to 'fish heaven' quickly and humanely, but it also cancels out all the endorphins and stress that affects then taste. As for the kid - it's simply a case of ineffective parenting. It's not uncommon. Me, in a shopping center - "It must be terrible having a disabled child" Mother - "He is NOT disabled!!!" Me - "I'm sorry, I thought he's DEAF! Oh, I see now - he's just ignoring you when you keep on telling him to stop behaving like a lunatic"

I love this. Carp are delicious eating and if you do it wrong and don't like it? Don't stop. Try again. Different ways with different recipes. Sooner or later you'll pick a winner. Hell I've messed up cod recipes when I first cooked it. Keep trying

Thank you for the video and for the Recipe file. Here in the USA, carp are plenty and I have been looking for ways to utilize them, eat them. Thanks.

Nicely filleted, tried filleting a carp myself today not as good as you did though. Found it really hard to try and get the bones out and once I cooked the fillets there was still bones in them. Tastes nice just like almost any other fish.

Fish fingers anyone? Tommy?

Good and informative video! Thank you for sharing!

Soy Sauce, vinegar, some peppers, as sauce, you can just deep fry carp meat and hog on...if people are worried about how carp looks like, then they should look at what a halibut looks like....

Hi Luke great video and finally finally I have a cookbook on cooking Carp as in New Zealand we have Koi carp in some of our rivers and we bow fish for them. Ive always looked at them and said to people you must be able to eat these this..Ive always had a negative response from people so now armed with my bow and your cook book its game on... Thanks so much.

Good idea. Las Vegas lakes have a ton, literally millions of carps that most people find disgusting but in many other countries they eat them. Have you ever thought about soaking them in wine vinegar for a day and then deeo fry the filets? That is what we do with maqueral.

Thanks mate, we have carp running out our ears here in Texas , this was all good information. Most folks turn their nose up at carp , I won’t from now on.

Good Opinel knives. Always had one, never used mine on a fish, though, good job mate.

Very patient with little mate there.

Makes carp look delicious. A really big fish. Can make huge fillets

July 20, 2017Thanks for the video as this is the 2nd one I've watch on cooking them. Also downloaded it and the cookbook just to make sure I'm doing it right. The 1st video is young teenager from your country doing the same thing, but at some local park lake. I see he had 2 problems: he scaled the fish and didn't actually have a REALLY SHARP knife to fillet the fish with. Going to watch video again as I couldn't quite hear/understand the part where part of the fish is soaked in milk.

Put some food coloring and serve it as Salmon fillets.

looks good my mother used to preasure cook them tasted great. we are spoiled.

Nice opinel knives! Curious which sizes? Thanks for sharing

My grandfather use to catch carp and make a fish stew with bell peppers onion tomato paste he would cook it. And put the juice and all over rice. Very good I must say. Now we use halibut. When we can get it

There's a way to fillet carp to remove the extra set of bones they have called 'Y bones". It means the fillets will be smaller than you're used to with most fish but it can be done. I'm sure there's plenty of people that would like carp if they tried it. I've known lots of people that did like it. I'm also pretty sure that carp would have a strong flavor that turns some people off. My family was big fish eaters and strong fish didn't slow them down a bit. I'm not quite that way myself. My mother wanted to try carp and had never eaten it before. She decided this in her last days and I wish that I could have gotten some for her to try but I didn't. I'm sure she would have loved it. Her dad was the only person I ever knew that would eat these little fish back home we called horny heads. Very oily and strong fish. Loads of yellow oil would float to the top of the cleaning water I would have them in it after cleaning. But I kept him supplied in horny heads and my mom with trout but they were always happy with any kind of fish that I tool to them. Even shark and king mackerel. Yuck! lol

can you actually legally eat carp in Queensland? Fisheries website says you cannot?

I am a chef , and owned a Seafood Business fror 10 years. Any jobs going ?? LOL Great work guys! Now , if we could export them ?

Thank you

Thx info

Kids! Who’d have em!

Nice knives brother. Where can I get them?

Carp is good you get decent flesh off them more people should change their negative mindsets on carp, go down to the local waterways, catch carp you get a free feed and by removing pest carp you help the ecosystem so native fish can thrive instead of carp.

I understand you cook it on wood, eat the wood, and bury the carp in the garden for Vegetables to eat. my Forefathers were right.

Delicious fish! Rib meat with no bones is best!

is it good raw?

Love catching carp, great fighters! Eat them? Forgetaboutit!

They look good but did you take the mud vain out my dad use to soak fish in salt water I swear I have watched a lot of videos and no one took the damn mud vine out

Anyone have the fish cake recipe?

Nice Opinel No. 12?

Opinels! Good stuff

carp with flys , yummmmmmmmmm

@4:24 lol her face 🤣

Here, smell this! hahahahahahah good vid. thanks!

Get the kids hands out the way and tell him to stop reaching in before an accident happens.

carps are underrated...give it to a china man he will make some bomb ass carp dishes..

damn that's a beautiful slavic knife

Next, try eating a carp from muddy water. I bet it still tastes good.

Since carp eat mullberries and corn, that might help give em a good taste.

Smart man

Will it taste different when your boy gets his tiny fingers cut off

You can pull the skin off with pliers. We like to follow another youtube video and grind the flesh. The big rib bones make carp fries. The other part of the meat is grinder and either baked or fried. The bones are dissolved. This fish tastes better than most fresh water fish. They feed on vegetable matter or fresh fish. The meat taste so good. Americans have to try them.

You forgot to give us close ups of the fried fish cakes and boneless rib meat!

My son begged to try carp so finally I had him catch one out of the bayou were lived on in Western Michigan. Trying not to grin, I watched him very carefully filet and prepare the fish for frying. He didn't like the smell but again I managed to keep a straight face. While he was pan frying it it stunk up the house bad. Finally it was in nice small golden brown pieces. He did it the same way we did northern pike, perch, walleyes, etc.. I'll never forget the look on his face when he bit into that stuff. hahaha! I nearly fell on the floor laughing. He promptly threw it out and to this day he remembers that education.

I just spewed in my mouth a bit....

Don't know wether l could eat them caught plenty I think it's mind over matter

Oh man carp tartare. A little wasabi and soy sauce, and extreme fresh fish.

Delicate

human consumption is the biggest disaster to any animal species in this planet, so if you could turn this invasive species to something good for comsumption, they would be no more harmful species at all. Nice video!

That's not a knife this is a knife!!

Jessus... probably is the first yourr carp 😁 please search " filetare crap" .

I would love to see a version of this video that was in English.

That looks like an Opinel knife he's using.

0:28 wtf? he kisses it?

I am wondering here about the 750 likes here :))))))

usastart sale it take dark blood line in carp fish pick meat in carp

The skin an rest of the fish ya chuck it in a fire pit an cook them down to ashes an chuck the ashes in the garden.

Good info but the kid needs to be taught some manners and to keep his fingers away from knives. I found it distracting and so did they guy cutting fish as he had to repeat his self often.

ommaagad tis fish huh.i was a student at KU. Kansas river hv many..many. i saw friends fishing. somtimes i followed to play with them. nobody know wat to do with all thos big wet..slimy animals from big kansas river. we just looked and donno wat to do. i rmmber mom cooked fish. so..one day i decided to drag one. so heavy too. carried it...upon reaching at my apt..threw that heavy yellow fish into the sink. i remmber for hour washing it..but still its sooooo slimy..like glue. ooomaagad..the smell..!i cut my story..but till today i cannot...canot forget tis fish. how i removed the big strong scale..hour gone by..finally i won and hv that monster all cut up.its was than almost evening. one whole sunday with tis yellow kansas monster. i remember mom used lemon...onion..tis n that and water...boiling water. nite time came and ther....a pot of fish. with beautiful fresh herb..lemon..tomat. and i was thinking how stupit all my friend....loooook at my beauty dish....fishhh...wat u think ! god was kind to me. i thought why dont i eat some to try before i called all my friends. to eat it of course. i took a piece onto a tiny bowl...n start to forked on its meat und into my mouth... mashallllahhh....ooomaagad..the taste..! u ran to the sink n throw up. my head spinned. i sat on the chair at the table und cried....i cried becos i was shocked...ITS NOT FISH...und i dono wat it was ! and millions tiny hard hooks inside the meat. the meat is hard...tasteless.... und the...smell oooooh...nooo.the smell..! I locked my house...never answer any calls. many months later... kind kansas farmers love me much. they gave me some small bundle of beautiful linen clothes. some yellow stained..some looked slight burnt. its was called Higgins smoke house. the owner Ernie n Goldina told me..inside is fish.....catfish und guess wat ?...... CARP !!!!! I WAS SHAKING....I WENT SHOCKED....but kindly i took the bag with about 10 bundles of linens inside is that monster. put it in my car. drove...so shaking...so dont know...really..really dont know wat to do. till today...i ask Allah swt to forgive me....for throwing that gift. im so sorry. if you angry at my story....i can explain..just WA me +6 018 3546 902

Anyone watching this. Always remove the mud vein this is what gives it such a horrible taste. After removing season it and place in fridge without rinsing with water. Let it firm up and dry. For 30 min to an hour. If you don't have a fridge available just season. Then cook it.

Make fish cakes out of them

Don't they know the T is silent on Fillet?

I'm trying to watch this video. I'm trying to pay attention to what I'm being shown and all I see is a young child putting his hands all over the place. All the while an adult with a knife is trying to give cutting demonstration. This young boy needs to be told to sit down and shut up and wait his turn. There is absolutely no harm done in disciplining your child enough to say sit down, I'll deal with you in a minute.

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carps are good!

grill it

What normal person would eat Carp?

the Australian fisheries have done an excellent job in convincing people that carp are bad fish its not true, many species introduced to Australian waters are dangerous to native species, carp are good to eat ,try before you say yuckky

Here in America we are trying to eradicate 100% of all carp. Many get shipped to china, some to restaurants that will actually eat them. I'd say the amount of people here that actually eat carp though is less than .01%

get that kid out the way when your using knives & keep him quiet

First of all today's kids don't have to mind,That's "Child abuse😡", Second they're OBNOXIOUS!.

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Why would you wanna smell the skin lol

Clean it. Score and season it. Wire it to a slab of mesquite wood and smoke it for 3 hours. When it's done throw the fish away and eat the board.

You should clean it before you do anything with that carp ,Dude !!!!!

Thank god I don’t and will never have kids..

got fishy problem well dont eat fish buddy

Might as well have called this video "how to fillet a Carp" and not very well, at that! You showed 90% of him filleting, and for some unknown reason, letting people smell the skin (wtf - why?!) and then the next shot is of some amazing looking fish cakes on the frying pan....thanks for nothing really.

I have a a story how to cook carp I got from my grandpa you get your carp and 5lb of horse poop you cook the carp with the horse poop when it is done you throaway the carp and eat the horse poop

Let me guess, these so called by themself chefs wash their fillets or throw away the remains ? Thats why there is a huge difference between European, Asian and dont know USA and Australia chefs...IQ Usa and Australian chef < 50....IQ Asian/European chef > 130.

I thought i was the only one who's so annoyed by that kid. He need to be taught some manners.

yuck full of bone not for me

That kid is annoying AF.

Such a big carp and you just waisted to cut only 2 small fillets, what with the rest of the meat ,!!???

People like this guy here...have no clue about , how to clean or cook a carp fish !

Why do people not bleed their fish? Insane! SMH

If he only knew how to roperly fillet a fish he wouldn't have to worry about the pin bones. What a hack...

Or you could just eat a better fish

No thanks pass!

carp dont test good at al they are the worst fish to eat

You don"t know nothing about Carp...

U can't fucking eat carp