>dad says hes bringing fish for me to cook
>expect store bought filets
>its fresh caught and he expects ME to clean them (currently in the middle of a heatwave)
i dont care what sort of farm raised abomination injected with super steroids it is, i will take it any day over having my porch and myself smell like a harbor while finding fish scales for the next month. i just thank god there wasnt any catfish this time.

That's why you buy/keep the bigger fish. It's not so bad, I take a giant bag, go on the balcony and clean it there.

I'd do that task just so I can have tiktok-tier fish filleting skills to impress women

>>21478150
>I'd do that task
baste
>just so I can have tiktok-tier
gay
>fish filleting skills
basted
>to impress women
cringe

>>21478150
>to impress women
Maybe a tranny if you're lucky

You have to filet all the fish

>>21478157
>impressing a weeb transgirl with my sushiman skills
That would indeed be a lucky day

>>21478163
im a hick in a southern country so i only ever learned to scale, cut off the head, and gut the bitch before frying. i dont have the tools for fileting

>>21478145 (OP)
Skill issue.
Learn how to fillet a fish.

>>21478212
why when picrel
>>21478172
leave the heads on

>>21478217
Those are descaled and gutted.

Descaling is more work and messier than filleting.

>>21478212
Waste of fucking fish.
Get over your retarded fear of unitaskers and grab a scale rasp.

What's so bad about cleaning fish? Pair of scissors in the belly (for smaller fish, anyway; otherwise, use a knife), scoop out the innards, give it a rinse and scrape of the scales, if necessary. It takes just a few minutes per fish and smaller ones often don't need scaling

>>21478235
Nothig is bad about it except maybe the stench

>>21478145 (OP)
give them to somebody who cares then

>scrape scales off with back of knife
>cut belly
>pull out innards

that's literally all you need to do

This is why you dont fillet the fish yourself, catching them is a man's job, leave that to the women to scale and fillet the then to cook them

>>21478251
Fish shouldn't have one. Get better fish. Out do you mean specifically the smell of the fats in oily fish, like mackerel? Cuz I love mackerel and pilchards but I hate the smell of the oil on my hands after cleaning it because it lingers. The fish itself has no odour, though.

>>21478261
Oops leave that to the men to cook the fish, women never get it right

>>21478262
Why not wear gloves or does that not work?

>>21478261
lmao
I'm >>21478235
That's kinda how it was done in my family. That's why I recommended scissors; my mother was never comfortable gutting fish with a knife so she used surgical scissors my aunt, a surgeon, would bring her. I use s knife for medium sized and larger fish, like Atlantic blue or large mackerels but for something like a sardine, blowfish or fresh anchovy, I'm using scissors.

>>21478268
Tried. Doesn't seem to work.

>>21478235
prep and cleanup is just too much of a fucking hassle.

>>21478262
>fish dont have an odor
one of the most outstanding characteristics of fish is literally their smell

>>21478276
I can dig it if you're not usually cleaning fish. I eat lotsa fish so I'm always ready to hit that shit. Use a pair of stainless steel tubs, a rubbish bag and a sink full of water. Take fish from tub, gut it, discard into bag, shake the fish in the water to clean it and place in the opposite tub. Repeat as necessary. As for scaling, that can be messy without good technique and that sadly takes a while to learn with a knife. Get a rasp.
Or just don't bother if you don't wanna.
>>21478275
After posting this, I asked AI and apparently, it's because I wash with hot water, essentially cooking the smell into my hands

>>21478282
Depends what you mean. Good fish smells like seaweed. Honestly, I kinda smell cucumber sometimes as I prep fish. If the fish smells "fishy", it's not great quality. Does sushi smell?

>>21478293
yeah me and my family dont really fish as much as we used to so its not something i do very often anymore. the way my mom taught me was to take a big pot, some newspapers and a bag for the guts, go as far away from the house as possible, and start cleaning. i never bothered with a knife since the fins would poke me enough so id just use a spoon.
>Or just don't bother if you don't wanna
ive never met anyone who cooks fish without scaling them. from the few scales i would get i assumed it would have a weird texture.

>>21478145 (OP)
My pops taught me to filet with blue gill.
These days he doesn't scale them. Filets it then cuts the skin and scales in one slice.
I wish i had a mess of blue gill like that

>>21478307
>ive never met anyone who cooks fish without scaling them
No, I meant don't bother with whole fish altogether. They definitely need to be scaled first.

>>21478226
I'm aware they're descaled and gutted. I have working eyes, do you?

>>21478331
>why go through the trouble of filleting when you can do even more work!

>>21478336
>learn to filet
>implying learning a new skill is not more work than that anon already knows how to do
dumbass

>fish
Third world/poor people trash

No, I'm not white or lazy

>>21478385
Based whole grilled tilapia enjoyer

>>21478148
Is that sum fuarkin BLACK BREAM

>>21478145 (OP)
>It's so hot outside!
But you'd be inside, in the air conditioned kitchen.
Quit being a bitch and get your hands dirty. Your father is disappointed in you and wishes you would just move out already.

>>21478345
Take five minutes to watch a YouTube video, another five minutes to get a feel for it, bam, you can filet a fish. It's really not that much skill to it, get a sharp knife, keep it sharp, easy peasy.

>>21478385
>i'm not white
>i'm not lazy
the racial jokes say otherwise Jamal

>>21478385
What a fucking disaster site of a meal, you're a literal orc

Small fishes should be thrown back exactly because they are a bitch to prepare

>>21478385
I'm confused by the peanuts but the rest looks dank.

>>21478385
>fries
>sliced cucumbers with what looks like unions
>fried tortilla things (i forgot their name)
boiled nuts
theres a lot of shit going on in this picture but it probably taste good as shit high or drunk

>>21478902
>unions
Rugby or teachers?

>>21478145 (OP)
You call those fish? Now THIS is a fish!

>>21478157
>Maybe a tranny if you're lucky
she has to show me her top 10 favorite electronic albums and i'll consider it

>>21478145 (OP)
Holy fucking filtered!

>be served salmon
>has bones in it
>spend entire meal carefully picking out three dozen tiny bones
>manage to get some to slide out with my fingers before taking a bite
>many make it into my mouth and must be fished to the front via tongue
I'd rather not eat.

who the heck keeps sunfish? that's like some serious backwoods hillbilly shit

>>21478157
>impress a trans girl
I wish. Only girls I ever meet and fuck are slimers. Never even seen a dickgirl.

>>21478145 (OP)
when a man provides food, you submit and clean it like the bitch you are

>>21479099
im afraid of the open ocean so ill just stick to lakes and streams

>>21478385
Oh no... Aryanbros, our response???

>>21480483
Are you used to them?

>>21478831
It's different kids of Sea Bream caught in Greece. Not sure about the black part.

And one snapper - picrel

>>21478145 (OP)
>faggot flyover fish
Caught a 42 lb halibut last month, deckhand filleted it. I have meat for a month. Feels good to be a California chad

>>21480483
I'll give you a stream *unzips dick*

wish I still had my dad anon.

>>21478145 (OP)
Bro it's gutting a fish I literally learned how to do that on the side of a river when I was 5. Stop being a bitch and clean the fish. Use the heads and bones for stock, your father just gave you free fish stock.

>>21479278
But 100 Gecs only has 2 studio albums?

>>21478145 (OP)
Anon, you could have just dug in a dumpster and found something better than sunfish.

>>21478385
if that's tilapia then ur gona die if u eat it

>>21478217
this almost makes me want to give fish another try, for some reason i've never liked the taste, except for freshly smoked eel and trout.
once a year, during christmas, i give salmon a try and last time it felt like it tasted better.

>>21482173
Funny. I like most fish except eel. I really don't care for it. The preparation doesn't matter, either. We either flour and fry it where I'm from or jelly it to serve as a salad. I didn't like Japanese grilled eel. I don't like smoked eel. I don't like eel.
But I'll absolutely destroy some fresh pilchards, mackerel, catfish, anchovies and more but eel is just… no.

>>21482096
tbf only lazy pieces of shit gift entire uncleaned fish to others. someone did this to me with catfish once. OK great I got 4 shitty filets and now I have 2 smelly rotting catfish carcasses to dispose of in my residential neighborhood.

>>21479319
hell nah bruh fry them little bitches up for breakfast hella tasty salt & pepper put it on a plate

Too much effort indeed. The smell lingers forever, which is the worst part.

>>21478168
>weeb troon
That's literally all of them and they always look, walk and smell weird.

>>21479099
why does he wear the mask?

>>21483265
They're ice agents and that wahoo is an illegal.

>>21478145 (OP)
are you underage? I'd understand if you have a job but this sounds kino as fuck

>>21478145 (OP)
>>21478148
Descale the fish in a bucket of water. The scales won't go flying that way.

>>21483265
he's a big guy

>>21478385
>Corona

If soccer moms slaughtered and prepared their meat the world would be a much healthier place.

>>21483727
that is unequivocally 100% true and would make the best food porn known to man

>>21482375
yeah that is kind of fucked if I wanted to give someone some fish I would have cleaned and filleted it first