MeatEater's How To Clean A Catfish
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2016
- Mike Kumorek of E-Town River Restaurant knows how to filet a catfish, and here--he teaches us the ropes of how to get the best-tasting filet from this often mishandled fish.
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"Its my first fish of the day so Im a little slow"
Proceeds to absolutely blaze through it.
Before his strokes (when this video was recorded of him) him and I could take 500 to 600 lb of fish from the holding tanks to prepped to chill in the walk-in in one hour. Now that he has had his strokes we can knock out around 400-500 a hour.
In response to everyone that has said he should of killed it, the man in the video is my father and i can tell you that the catfish was electrocuted before it was cleaned. It is nerves that is still causing it to move, while washing them you can hold onto the fillet and feel the nerves still moving it around just as when you fry frog legs they will kick and try to "jump" outta the pan.
wyatt92562 you need to chill, there's nothing wrong with being concerned about an animal suffering, other hunters and fishermen will agree.
Thank you Jarrett for clearing that up. I agree with nikolas that wyatt needs to chill out and in addition to that, I think he needs to check himself ethically. I am an avid hunter and fisherman, and I would never want to cause needless suffering to an animal... it's wrong and inhumane. It's people that think it's okay to do stuff like that is the reason people who don't hunt and fish think we're all senseless killers that have no regard for an animals life, or even life in general.
You guys are right. I got carried away with all the uninformed and inexperienced comments. Thumbs up to all of you :-)
Fish do not feel pain the way humans do, according to a team of neurobiologists, behavioral ecologists and fishery scientists. The researchers conclude that fish do not have the neuro-physiological capacity for a conscious awareness of pain. The hook of a fishing lure is stuck in the upper jaw of this rainbow trout.8 Aug 2013
turtles also do this. My uncle was butchering a snapper the one day and it's legs kept moving hours after he chopped it's head off.
Nicely done!
Wait, I followed these directions for my pet catfish, and he is NOT clean! He was cleaner before I started. So was my kitchen! I should have just wiped him down with a damp sponge. He's just laying on the bottom of his tank now too
i lold
He wouldn't be laying on the bottom of his tank though, he'd be floating near the surface :D.
Triple070007 Man I laughed hard reading this comment. We'll played.
Must have done something wrong
It gets better when you keep reading
Love the "Public Land Owner" shirt, thanks for supporting BHA! Great video as usual!
As a chef .... you have no idea how much time you just saved me. Wow. Skin it like a salmon. Great job Chef.
You just don't know how hard it is to get a fillet that looks that good until you've done it. Pretty incredible!
This is at The Fish Market in Elizabethtown, IL. It's a restaurant that floats on the river just off the bank. Ate there many a time since I was a kid. Great food!
Thank God there is still a place on TH-cam that makes sense!
That shirt's pretty neat.
I've eaten several times at the E Town floating restaurant and you get a choice of pond raised or river caught catfish.. Nobody eats the pond raised...
It's neat when boats pull up and tie off to come in and eat.. It's an experience that's amazing and the food is delicious!!!!
Is that Etown, KY?
@@kevindillard3507 No, it's Etown, IL. About 45 minutes from Paducah.
Very small river town.
People who can work through a fish that fast boggle my mind! I grew up exclusively catch and release. Originally I though it was because my family was super conservation minded, but my mom admitted to me years later it was because nobody in my family could clean fish well.
That looks like great fillet. Great video and I really like you show Steven.
I always enjoy the music you play on ur vedios :D
Master at his craft. Really nice vid
cool channel man. I just saw a couple videos very informative and entertaining. Thanks for your content I am a new subscriber.
Now that's an instructive video! Save me a couple for supper!
The technique was good. But I would recommend bleeding the fish after caught. Maybe it’s a confirmation bias but I feel that it takes away that strong fish flavor and isn’t as messy.
Probably takes too long
@@aidenarkham literally take seconds. Cur the gills and the end of the tail and let it bleed in the water.
When they clean 2000-4000 lbs a day it gets a little time consuming to “bleed” each fish. Saves time and an extra step to just was them thoroughly as you see him do in the video.
Is it really necessary for all types of cat fish to be bled first? Or is it only apllied to a certain specie of cat fish?
I like your videos because the videos are short and the useless stuff are not added to make the video lengthy...
Keep it up...
Dude I love Rinella's t-shirt! where can i get one?
Thank you for sharing Mr. Rinellla! I enjoy your videos immensely. Glad you're able to sort through the negative commentary. The seasoned veteran at your side appeared to have an excellent skillset. Likely not limited to just cats. My question is if he ever likes to filet the cheeks and the belly? In a any event, my best to you and those involved with your show. Sam
The cheeks and belly is cleaned off of flatheads but not on blues and channels because of the fact that blues and channels are scavenger fish where as a flathead is a predator fish. The meat tastes completely different with a flathead bs the other two. Awesome question though sir!
My grandpa used to catch, clean and cook his own catfish. After he passed, I've never had catfish nearly as good as his. I miss it and I miss him dearly.
The video's kind of missing the cooking and supper scene!?
3:18 doesn't do it justice. I come from northern Dakota, we do pike and walleye by the boat load! I started fileting as a young boy of six. And we always do the dinner scene!
I’m really trying to get better at cleaning fish! It would help to have an awesome spot like that to do it!
love the shirt.
this man is an expert
lol, this is the best! Couple country boys sizin each other up on filete cutting technique
Awesome skills
Man, I could go for some fiddlers right about now.
Love the shirt
We been catching lots of channel Cats here on Lake Borgne lately. One thing my pa used to do is always whack em with a 2x4 before dropping them in the icebox. They dont gasp for breath when you filet them! This guy does it for a living and has probably been desensitized is all I can say to the folks who are upset.
if the fish was still alive it would jump and squirm when the knife was inserted just like a worm is when it is placed on a hook. the fish is dead and nerves are causing the movements
awesome!
I'd pay to get a hands-on lesson from this guy.
A good sharp knife works every time.
Yuuummm !!!! Great EATS !!! 5 stars for the vid as ususal !
Looks good
Steve seems like a hell of a nice guy.
He reminds me of my papa
Sacramento river California I fished a sturgeon, as soon as out of water I cook it. it was delicious! .
Any cat over 10lbs, cut the tail off, drink a beer and let it bleed out. Thank me later
Why? I'm obviously not a fisher. Looks to me like that thing was still breathing and alive when it was filleted, I could be wrong, but 00:49 looked like it was repetitively trying to breathe. Does this have something to do with it?
@@John-yg2rt makes meat taste better, removes the blood from the fish and makes it easier to clean in my opinion
John
I genuinely dont care if it were alive or not. Its a fish.
The fish is dead, just nerves making it seem alive
Remember seeing that done in one of Gordon's videos.
This is exactly how I do it. Too many people on TH-cam waste their time skinning the Catfish first and then pulling the meat off.
Ok I have a true story from my childhood. My father came home one day with a catfish he fought hours before. Well, he starts filleting the thing and it wouldn't stop breathing and kicking. Me being a kid I asked him to kill it so it wouldn't suffer, he said the heart is out its right there! The damn thing had no guts no heart and no meat left on it but was still moving!
why you guys don't eat the skin? , actually it tastes good when you deep fried it
Some good eatin right there!
Damn thats as fresh as fish gets. Awesome.
HEY I just saw that old guy in Sacramento, he has a Chevy Tahoe with the stickers of "Eat Sleep Bowhunt" and "Kuiu" right?
The "old guy" is not from Sacramento, he is from Southern Illinois. Haha
Great video. Next time include the cooking! Maybe one recipe you didn't record for the show.
Man we're dying for more content here.
Why you no give it?
He left some big chunks under the gills. Those are the best parts man.
Anyone else notice that the catfish is moving its mouth the whole time?
yes
BritishSuperHero catfish take forever to die
No...it stopped. haha
Peanutbudda it was saying "Ouch" over and over I think. Then again it's hard to read catfish lips since they don't have any.
ha Aaron Veikley
That is a friggin professional. He did a whole cat as fast as I do one side and his looks much better.
Just wondering, was the fish gutted before being fileted. I know that may seem dumb but it's not clear to me.
That’s a great question, the answer is no it was not gutted before cleaning.
There ain't nothin like some good cat fish!
Only other thing I do is bleed them out first, makes cleaner fillets. Cut the gills they bleed out in about 20-30 seconds, that way they aren't alive when you fillet them either. Also remove the large vein that runs through the fillet if pretty easy to see in cats that size it's about the size of pencil lead only white.
was just about to comment about the fish being alive.. but i guess i am a year over too late
that mans blade was just as fast as a hammer let it go.
What episode is this
Ever heard of bleeding the fish before you filet?
Hes definitely has had some practice. Makes it look easy
He has only cleaned over 4 million pounds in his 25 yrs of commercial fishing. ;) Yes I MILLION too. He may have a small amount of practice. Haha
Last catfish I cleaned I for sure thought was dead, but halfway through gutting him he jumped out of my hand and swam away with his guts trailing behind him! Dont clean your fish over the lake lol
We don't have catfish here in Vancouver Island BC, regardless, I don't pass on a meat eaters video.
There’s bullheads but those are like not edible😂
The fish r still alive
When he's removing the skin he's slightly angled up to take off the fat. He also removes the mud vein. If you're frying fish there's no reason to bleed it out. He's already removed any possible fishy taste.
Everyone know catties are still jumping when you're ready to get them it's nerves although catfish can stay alive longer than any other fish I've seen. It's crazy.
Milly the Moose!
No cooking!
That South Park intro
finally a vid where they don’t fricking care ab kill before u clean it’s a lot of work when there’s a lot of work and u hav to think of letting them all die first if ur ab kill first jus freeze them awhile get over it he’s doing his job
Willing to bet he cleans more fish in a week then 99% of the people, that have a negative comment on here, clean in 10 years
All those dummies thinking putting a knife through any fish's head will make it stop looking like it's alive...
I personally hate seeing all that good belly meat wasted.. a lot of people don’t mess with it but if you got 8 fish it’ll feed a couple!
Anyone heard of satisfying videos?(Not porn). It's the weird stuff where a person slowly slices soap, taps their fingernails, rake sand, or whatever stuff that is supposed to be oddly relaxing. My gf watches that stuff, and I never understood it. The crazy thing, is I'm getting the same sensation from watching skinning and fish cleaning videos. Problem is I want to be the one doing the slicing. Run the blade along the bone, trim the fat. I suppose that's just my particular form of OCD.
Come to the restaurant and he will let ya get that out of your system. Haha
Not much better eating than deep fried catfish IMHO. All you haters keep on hating as it messes your heads up LOL
Poderia ter sacrificado o peixe antes de cortar!
Not bad man. I usually skin em then filet em but to each his own. Come to Alabama anytime if you wanna jug some cats.
People make such a process out of cleaning catfish as though it's much different from any other fish. This man shows that all the scoring and skinning and such is unnecessary.
00:5 i respect the sharpening( and it's called a whetstone because it needs a wet surface), but that fish is alive on the table.
"so?"
Catfish billy
Steven is normally all about ethics, why is that fucking fish alive when the guy is filleting it?
fightington You can't be serious right? They electrocuted the fish, it is dead, it is the nerves that are causing the movement. Have a good day buddy
This man is a pro. Not bad at all I mean! Wish I could clean em that fast. To evbody asking why he didn't "kill" it first, I know in my heart if u ever eat catfish,you go directly to the person who cleaned it and asked " how was it killed?" You people need to get over yourselves. Go to a slaughterhouse and watch how beef is prepped,or pork...then go order a 100 dollar steak,and see if you can tell how it was processed. Bleeding heart idiots. Go get some skinny jeans on,put up your "man bun" and rush out for tofu.then complain bout how the soy beans were treated before it landed on your plates.get urself a life while ur there.
Ooooh catFISH.... fuck....
Screw pliers!
Steve did it better, but the old guy have to go over it just to make it look better for him! lmfao!
The “old guy” went over it to get the fishy taste out of it that is caused from the red “fatty” meat that’s in the middle.
Why didn’t you bleed it out first
*IM WITH PETA PEOPLE! PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS!*
hmmm i normally nail the fish to a tree and skin it with pliers.
I run lines every year and clean many many catfish you need to kill the fish properly. Electric shocked my ass it’s still breathing. I know what a dead catfish look like and that was a live fish being sliced open you can’t even put a knife through the head first? Then bleed it so you have clean meat
He has cleaned over 4 MILLION lbs and he would gladly show you how it’s all done anytime you would like to make the trip to Elizabethtown, Illinois and step into his office on the Ohio river. Never know ya may learn a thing or two.
If you cut its tail right after catching it, it bleeds out and there's no fishy smell or flavor..
This is a major production company that filmed this and I had to take a Dramamine half way thru because of all the shaking and zooming and awkward camera angles. Wth. I just wanted to see the fillet technique not a close up of either dudes face or angles from behind them etc. Next time just keep a steady camera angle on the fish being filleted. Thank you.
guys fish can't feel pain.. they don't have the same nerve endings we do! no need to worry
Q: Why didn't they bleed it... the meat is so much nicer if you do so.
His secret weapon is to WASH the fillet after you clean them and cut the red out of the center of the fillet after washing and your fillet will taste better then you could ever imagine. He cleans enough fish that “bleeding” them would add even more time onto the many hours of standing, rocking, sliding around all with a really sharp knife. He cleans these fish in a floating building so any boats that come by or a decent wind causes them to rock quiet a bit.
You lose less meat when you nail the fish's head to a board, slice around the neck, and pull the skin off with some pliers.
complete waste of time dude. the way he does it is the best I have seen. it's also the way I do it except for I chop the tail fin off about an inch above where the fin starts. and hang them up by the head for about a half hour to bleed them out. much tasty'r and not as messy.
LOlL cmon guys it was dead...Have you ever killed a snake or a chicken. Nerves are still firing long after being electrocuted, knocked out, or decapitated.
A lot idiots in the comments that don't know how fish work. They twitch after they're dead, just like a snake does.
If he bled the fish beforehand he would have a much cleaner filet and wouldn’t have an iron taste or a bad fishy taste to the fish.
His secret weapon is to WASH the fillet after you clean them and cut the red out of the center of the fillet after washing and your fillet will taste better then you could ever imagine. He cleans enough fish that “bleeding” them would add even more time onto the many hours of standing, rocking, sliding around all with a really sharp knife. He cleans these fish in a floating building so any boats that come by or a decent wind causes them to rock quiet a bit.
Yo, did he just toss all that meat away?!?!
He's worried about the fillet at the moment. Believe me he's going back for the rest of the meat
The fillet is all that is kept on blues and channels but flatheads the rest will be taken off as well. Blues and channels are scavenger fish but a flathead is a predator fish and the taste is hugely different.
Funny how people cry about gutting a fish, but why not cry over the bait fish that the hook went through? Geez grow a pair.
No difference with him gutting the catfish Alive and a bear eating a salmon alive.....
I hate living in NYC. The concrete jungle is bad for the soul.
Should bleed it first to get much whiter flesh
Bet ha wouldn’t get much whiter fillets then he gets and saves time not bleeding them.
Its alive.