How To Blacken Fish [BUTTER vs OLIVE OIL CHALLENGE] 

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What's up with that magnificent cast iron cooker????

Oh, and nice freaking cast iron plancha, dude!!! So envious.

You should invest in an inexpensive light souce for your cooking videos. It would make a huge difference in your videos.

Thanks for the tip of coating the fish with oil or butter! Nice family!

Perfect. Now I just have to catch some!

Great challenge! I personally love both, but I've seen chefs say you need these things to have the best blackened fish: fish, blackened seasoning, cast iron, purified butter. Super simple!

I’m making this! Thanks for the butter idea… I’ve never done this for fish and I’m anxious to try it.

I have blackened with a butter and olive oil mix then season as you do, it works well

Mix the olive oil and the butter 3/4 oil, 1/4 butter get the flavor but not it's not near as bad for you And the Paul's blacking season is the only one to use. Now I'm hungry!

Can you also do a video on that cooking surface? It looks great.

Just did my 1st Blackened Redfish with same seasoning, cast iron skillet w/ a little olive oil & butter. Just barely smoking so I didn't burn the butter at 1.5 min on each side on a bed of wild rice. So damn good! That RiceORoni Wild Rice makes a huge difference in taste.

Can't believe I'm just seeing this. Thank you for this video. Fantastic!!

It’s great to know that your into cooking , Luke ..Ain’t eating wonderful..Now to have a few catch/cook outings for your viewers ..Many 🙏 thanks

Nice family god blessed 👍🏻 and nice cooking fish 🐠

I use avocado oil, tastes great and has a high smoke point around 500 Fahrenheit.

you said "available in most publixes" haha I thought that was funny. Thanks for the video, I am baking some flounder right now

Earth Balance vegan butter. Healthy and taste great!! I'm going to try your recipe....

Awesome video on the blackened fish. Makes me hungry.

I place those plastic stretch covers over the fire alarm so the smoke can’t reach the alarm! Lol

Great video!..was about to blacken some ribeye steaks and came across this and I will use your techniques going forward. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Yeah, I do butter and olive oil. Olive oil keeps it moist. I mix about 4 tablespoons of olive oil and the melted butter together. You can also use 2 spatulas to help flip over. Thanks!

Dang, Luke! You overcooked the lobster. It looks like sausage! Haha!

Interesting preparation. I'm about to try the Paul Prudhomme Magic Salmon seasoning tonight.

The trick to this is something that makes your cast iron 'non-stick'. *The Chinese call it **_"longyau"_** 热锅冷油* Translated, it's _"hot pan, cold oil"._ I use this with my wok and my cast iron. When done right it makes the cooking surface as slick as any Teflon coated surface.

Interesting flat iron cooker Luke. I use the old iron skillet.

I came here to look at different techniques for doing this. I'm going to try a lodge cast iron pizza pan put on my stovetop and heat it up really high. Just saw a recipie from a chef where he dips the fish in a mix of ketchup, hot sauce and mango chutney to make the seasoning stick really well instead of the usual butter. going to try it with some mahi mahi.

Nice tip on the butter knife. Everything's better with butter

Have you tried Ghee or clarified butter?

The reason the olive oil stuck while butter didn't is that you shouldn't use OO at high heat. You need Canola or something with high heat abilities. But...it is still better with butter 🙂

I use butter and olive oil together…and I add bread crumbs to the blackened seasoning for extra crunch!

Thanks for posting! Great video!

looks great ! thanks for the tips

Love a good blacken fish. Great vid.

Thanks

Take a little sauce bowl and chop fresh garlic into it, sprinkle with salt, then pour your olive oil over it. Let it sit on the counter a few days covered and then discard the garlic. The salt will help pull the garlic flavor out and infuse it with the olive oil.

I did pancakes with olive oil and it sticks but using the spray works so much better. Use a real good grass fed butter. I think you will enjoy more. But try pineapple with bacon fish!

Exactly what I was looking for as I am counting calories

Awesome. Thanks

Butter is full of vitamin A. The people who told us not to eat butter because it has saturated fat are the same people who created the obesity epidemic. I use Kerrygold Grass Fed Butter. Great flavor.

Thanks for the video 🙌💯🦈

With the olive oil route...you said some people use spray oil, but you don't think it necessary. Doesn't look like it is with the butter, but if for health you want to make it with olive oil, I would try greasing the plancha before putting the fish on. Mostly, you're not trying to stop the fish from sticking, rather you want the charred spice coating to come away from the cooking surface and stick to the fish. My hypothesis as to why the butter works better for non-stick is melting temperature: the butter is more solid at room temperature than the olive oil is, so it coats better. If that's true, and I bet it is, brushing, using a soaked towel, or spraying the plancha to coat it with oil will definitely help with this problem. It's essentially more fat to stop sticking...which is really about more even cooking. Also, when it comes to health and butter vs. olive oil, you're really talking about cholesterol. Pretty much all fats...butter, grease, oil, even shortening and lard...have the same amount of fat. The only difference is heart-healthy vs. heart-unhealthy oils. In a balanced diet, I don't think a bit of cholesterol in your frying fat (occasionally) is a problem.

You didn't pat the fillets dry before butter/oil

How do you guys freeze fish to make sure they stay good when ready to eat

This skillet 🔥

Thanks, that was nice and easy

Tell me more about the cooker. Is there a big gas burner under there?

Did you ever mention the TEMPERATURE of the griddle ???

What cast iron was that?

Looks amazing! Thanks for the recipe!

BTW, Love my SaltStrong sticker! Have y’all done any lobstering videos, day or night catching? Or fishing for Mahi?

Great video! Always have done butter but will give olive oil a try.

Why you didn't put the seasoning on both sides before cooking? 🤔

Very good video, informative and content!

Do you recommend patting dry the filets before you dip them in the butter or not? Great presentation!

Both look good. Last time I blackened I used sesame oil. That was good too.

What were you using to cook the fish?

Kinders Cali Blackend seasoning...you're welcome.

Great video. More of these please

Great video!!! Thanks for sharing!!! 🎉🎣🌴🎣🎉

Both! Olive Oil & Butter (more butter.)

Question. Could you use the Crawfish boil seasoning for blackened fish?

nice grill.

Ghee butter.. healthy and delicious

Butter is far better for you than OO.

A little butter increases the smoke point of the olive oil. Best of both worlds!

Butter is not bad for you.....don't be AFRAID to use it, especially grass fed butter!!!!

Butter for sure.

nobody uses PAM

Use both butter and olive oil for supremity

The fat in the butter makes it flip easier.

“just a cast iron skillet”,,,,, try a 3500 dollar EVO .....

If you blacken it correctly it shouldn’t stick to the iron. If the skillet is correctly heated the fish should naturally release from the pan itself. Please look into correctly cooking with iron skillets and the smoke points of oils before trying this technique, because you really can easily set an oil fire on your stove if you don’t know what you’re doing.