How to clean Triggerfish
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- Learn how to clean Triggerfish like a pro in this full tutorial!
In this video, I'll show you how to fillet Triggerfish using simple, step-by-step instructions. This fish fillet tutorial is perfect if you're looking to start eating different species of fish and using different parts of a fish in your cuisine!
- Reed the Fishmonger
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"F"ing Nice!!!! 61yrs old and I still learn things from your channel!!!!!!!!
Heck yeah!! That’s freaking awesome man!
I’ve always filleted triggers using that method. Some old dude I know said to use a box cutter😂. Yeah, ok…Great tip on the throats! Can’t wait to try that! Thanks.
😂 Everyone has “a better way” 🤷♂️ I just know I’ve experimented and concluded I can clean them the most efficiently this way. Sounds like you’re doing it right brotha!!
This fish is amazing , pound for pound they are the best tasting saltwater fish a person can ever taste ...
Your videos are on point and high quality. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Thank you, and you're doing a great job.
Thank you for watching brotha! I love getting to share my passion with y’all! 🙏
Amen brother, I've been preaching at the people for years to never let your filets or any part of the cut fish touch freshwater.. I live across the street from the beach sometimes I'll fill up half of a 5-gallon bucket and rinse all my fish in the seawater. You always on point Reed🤙🏼👍🏼
Thank you Matt! You’re preaching it right brotha! 🙌🙏
I just found you a show. I think it’s phenomenal. I used to clean flounder up in Boston Harbour, thousands and thousands of them it’s definitely an art to clean fish like that. Congratulations son.
Awesome Video, and really like the bit about the brine! Can you do a short video one day on how you keep your knives so sharp? All i use is dexter knives but never can get the edge back on them when they get dull.
Thank you brotha! Absolutely, I’ll make sure to get a Dexter knife sharpening video up. I’ll film it with my dad who taught me and is still better than me! 😁
Yes, I would also really like to check out your honing techniques. That would be great. And just awesome vids man! I’ve only recently come across the channel, looks like TH-cam’s algorithm finally got one right. Lol
never heard of that saltwater brine slushy trick! thank you for the tip my dude!
Anytime brotha! Thank you for watching!
Being born in the Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 this is still my favorite fish to eat. Most of us here eat our fish whole and as a kid, the bones from this fish is super easy to remove when eating one of these.
Come on man yuh leave out the best part … we love our Old Wife !!🇻🇮🇻🇮🇻🇮
St. Kitts man here. Love we old wife
I've never caught a trigger fish but ever since following your channel Icome to learn a lot about cleaning fish ! Thank you for sharing how to clean fish .
Very timely video since I'll be fishing for Trigger out of NC in about two weeks. My Silver Stag knife should get the job done nicely. Thank you!
I look forward to these video's every day! Its become my favorite channel.
Wow! Thank you so much!!! 🙏
I’m 77, I believe I’m a little older than you. I never thought of chef is being Trash fish. But then again, I never listened to people when they said that certain fish was trash and not good eating. I always have to try for myself. Triggerfish is delicious, and it makes fantastic sashimi. I also eat and love skate, Ray, and numerous other fish some of whom are very bony. We in America just don’t realize how much we are missing.
Thank you for queue me in on triggerfish throat.
Very cool 👍 I've caught a boatload of those things when I worked in the Gulf of Mexico. Never considered eating them because I also could catch snapper and grouper. Thank you for sharing this 🙏
They’re so good bro!!
I hit on something like that method the last time I got a triggerfish. Very nice. Enthusiasm for your work is excellent.
Great video! I love the "throat" tip and can't wait to try it. And one other thing: Damn, those are some big Trigs!
Triggers a fantastic for beer batter deep frying. Perfect firmness, rich flavor.
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Great tips. Thanks
Thank you for watching! 🙏
I learned something new about the freshwater rinse. Thanks!
Thank you for watching! 🙏
Thanks great video. We catch and eat a lot of leatherjackets i Australia we chop the head off and peel back a bit of skin grab it with pliers and you can take the whole skin off in one go. You then get a whole fish with the fins but no skin. Leatherjackets are usually a lot smaller than trigger fish so it is a good technique for smaller fish. I'll give your method a try at some point. Interested to know if you have tried this skinning method on a trigger. Also good to hear you plugging alternate fish. I have noticed all over the world th at fish get ignored just because of historical reasons. I lived in dubai as a kid and there barracuda was considered a good catching and eating fish but here in Australia it is considered nuisance fish.
Wow! That was way faster than I've ever seen anyone clean a Trigger, great video!!
I caught a trigger fish once. Now, I can get them whole from my local market. I will try this soon!! Thank you.
You make me want to clean some fish lol. Awesome job!
Hahaha that’s awesome! Thank you for watching brotha!
Thank you! excellent video. cleaned a couple of triggers following you video and turned out great!
Heck yeah! Enjoy those Triggerfish brotha!!
Very nice 👍
Thanks
Beautiful clean shop
Thank you! We put a great deal of time and love into it! 🙏
Knowledge is power , this fishmonger knows what he's doing & what he's talking about
You’re a true craftsman Reed! Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Amazing. Thank you.
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Catch a ton on TF and never knew there was a good amount of meat on the throat. Great tip.
You're a majorly master monger my man!
Good stuff💯💯 Threw back a few i caught at the pier,
ABSOLUTELY AGREE! I discovered the Table Qualities of Trigger Fish back in the mid “90’s” on a Lark…
I had caught some especially large Triggers on a Headboat trip and asked the Fish Cutter (Mack The Knife) if they were worth taking home. The old man Looked Around, Leaned In, and said Conspiratorially… “Some of the Best…”. And then he showed me how to cut em. And they were AWESOME! GRILLED OF COURSE!
Side Question: do you also rinse Freshwater Fish in a Saltwater Brine?
Merry Christmas! From Southeast Texas! 😎👍
Thanks for posting the video.. I just realized where I went wrong in whacking the trigger fish ....Oopsss.... Thanks Bro once again
Thanks for watching brotha! Happy it helped!
For a while, in my retirement, I worked at a grocery store as a cashier. 99% of my customers were all dryland because that’s where I lived. They had seafood, shrimp, scallops, and ocean fish I would give them a hint on how to fix fish. Tell them to wash it in salt water before cooking. With shrimp you could add a little bit of lemon juice, but doesn’t need it. I would tell them that the saltwater brings out the flavor of the fish and removes any unpleasant flavors. Thank you for confirming what I’ve always known.
Pro tip on making that salt water slurry. It’s an important but often overlooked technique for processing fish. Great work, my man. Keep ‘em coming !
Perhaps an interesting tidbit, the stiff bone you removed from the throat can be made into a rustic letter opener. Remove as much flesh as you can then soak the bone in straight bleach until the bleach removes the remaining flesh and bleaches the bone to a nice white color. Then use the bone as a letter opener.
Great videos simple but very educational. Look forward to the video on knife sharpening and maintenance.
Good stuff man ! Well spoken words from a consummate professional.
Thank you brotha!
Very interesting... Thanks for sharing!
From the Cayman Islands, we strip the scales off like how you strip hide from deer. and eat them whole. didnt know you could just fillet it straight.
I would like to know how to keep your knives sharp! Your skill is very impressive, but WE NORMALS need to know how to keep our knives ready to try your instructions!
Thanks for considering this request!!!
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Sick video bro. Here in jersey I catch them occasionally while fishing for blackfish on the rocks. Always three then back bc I couldn’t filet them
On the way in on the boat I fill a bucket to rinse the filets Great video
I bought a fish like this for 2 usd. I removed the intestines then grilled. Dipped in soy sauce and flip lemon, ate with rice., perfection!
You're Fu...ing awesome bro
, thnx man
Thank you so much! 🙏🙌
This is AWESOME!
love your videos
Thank you brotha!!
Gotta give u a like, my man. Very useful tips❤
What a great content! Love these vids
Priceless 👍
I'm new to your channel, but I have been binge watching them! Amazing work, and I'm learning so much.
Quick question about the salt water rince. How many fish can you clean per bucket before you need to change it out?
Grat video like i said
Learn a lot with your videos 💪💪💪
Best eating fish in the world.
i need a vacation - the fishing kind
Would love to try those throats fried up like a cutlet with some pesto or marinara..they looked killer
Dude they’re so good! Juicy and flavorful, holds up to most cooking/seasoning styles
suggestion : triggerfish lasagna made with triggerfish filet, spaghetti or noodles and ricotta cheese. about 3 layers of those 3 ingredients, bake and eat.
Serrated knife, or if available, a battery-operated saws-all!😅
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@Reed_thefishmonger can you do flounder next?
I hold the record for the most number of boxes in one day I did 67 boxes mixed trawl fish I started the day with 40 boxes of flathead I was working for a busy shop in the markets we were on $10 a box the filleters don’t get as much now most get $170 a day for 11 hour day Xmas eve we start at midnight and work till 6 pm people ask silly questions one customer asked the girl where did that fish come from she promptly replied out of the cool room our cool room held 200 boxes of fish I am retired and have to have surgery for a hernia you have to eat well
Heck yeah brother
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easiest way i think, insert knife in pooper hold or just under the trigger and fillet as u would any other fish
This is one wheel that you cannot reinvent. Once you actually fillet a triggerfish then you will see this method is the right way. And this guy does it for a living. I filleted fish for donkey's years and I always learn something from Reed
There’s more than one way to skin a cat, I find this way the quickest and easiest 🤙
How are you sharpening your knives? Do you do it yourself or is it a service? I take pride in sharpening. But you have production so I understand why you would hire a service.
Love triggerfish but prices are crazy
Bro we need you to do a snook video pleaseeee
At 5:17, can you use this method on other fish like snapper, drum, grouper, etc? I always have a hard time going through that section of bone for the collar/wings of all the fish i catch
Have seen this fish grilled with the leather hide still on.
And once it's done.
Yessir! Pulls right off when it’s fully cooked 🤙
Weird question. What do yall do with the fish skins?
Can you just use gulf salt water to clean your fish?
i seen a blue fish bite off the trigger bbefore
And i threw all of my trigger fish back….damn. Are they good for ceviche or poke?
Just added another nugget of info to the salt water fishing game. Had no idea fresh water rinsing effects quality, now I do. As for the triggerfish cleaning, thank you. I love using trigger for ceviche but struggled with the cleaning. Can't wait to catch another one now and test this method out. As for the throats, that's a new one and be checking into that! My faith is restored in the internet lol
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Great info. Trigs also make the best ceviche.
1. Is that throat now boneless the way you did it??
2. Where the heck does one get TF that big?? In SW Florida, the legal minimum is 15" to the fork, but I'll catch 100 before I find a barely legal keeper.
Triggerfish is tha sh*t!!!
I agree!!
Chicken of the sea
Please, fillet a striper!!
I see guys constantly spraying down their fish with freshwater and it drives me crazy. People spend tons of time and money catching fish and they cant spend 30 seconds and a dollar to make a saltwater wash.
saltwater chicken breast !!!
Secrets out, lol
Now triggerfish will be fished out…boo
They’re already exploding in market value
I don't like the smell of them and trade them as fast as they come over the railing for Snapper on the middle ground trip. Trash smell