Milk
fish fresh is a nice choice when you want to eat
seafood with mild taste. Milkfish which popularly known as bandeng and bangus
is a tropical fish belongs to the family of Chanidae. The fish can grow up to
1.8 m but they are mostly found not more than 1 m. Milkfish is a toothless fish
but they have numerous bones and this is why when you want to purchase a whole
round fresh milkfish, you can ask the fishmonger to expertly deboned the fish
or simply buying milkfish that already pressure cooked to soften the bones.
Here are more information about how to pick the best
milk fish fresh.
Milk fish
fresh buying guides
Milk fish fresh can be cooked in many ways such as grilled, pan fried, smoked,
baked, and many more. The fish have soft white and pink flesh along with small
bones that need to be removed before you cook and eat them otherwise it will be
uncomfortable to eat the fish. Milk fish usually processed into wide range
seafood products, they are caught wildly at the ocean or harvested from fishing
farm. As for today, both Indonesia and Philippines are two largest producers
and exporters of milkfish fresh and the products are exported globally.
It will be so nice, if you can find fresh
milk fish and you have access to buy high quality fresh product, however not
all people can have that pleasure. And most of milk fish product that we can
find in the markets is sourced from far away fish pond and it is too much to
expect that the fish can survive such long distribution travel especially when
the fish is stored in metal buckets full of crushed ice. However, just because
the fish is no longer alive, it does not mean they are not longer a milk fish
fresh, it just mean that no bacterial contamination started to spoil the fish.
How to tell that the milk fish still as
fresh as possible? Okay since consumers are not going to the seafood markets
carrying instruments or tools to figuring out whether the fish has been
contaminated by bacterial and start to spoil, what they can do is to check the
freshness of the fish by appearance and smell. Here are some guides to find high quality milk fish
fresh:
1.
Are cloudy eyes a bad sign when
buying milk fish
Okay, maybe you always
hear people telling you to not or avoid purchasing fresh fish with cloudy eyes.
This rule seems prevail when you buy any fish and we bet that you often try
this method when looking for good fresh fish because cloudy eyes are sure sign
that the fish is no longer fresh. However, you need to know that milk fish
which is raised in farms are possible to be injured especially during the
process of moving the live milk fish from the pond to the vat. This is why,
cloudy eyes is not always become valid sign that the milk fish is no longer
fresh.
2.
You need to touch, smell, and
check the fish gills
The best way ensure that the
milk fish fresh still in good condition is
by touching, smelling, and checking the gills. Touch it to make sure the flesh
still firm and the looking inside to check the gills. The gills should have
fresh and bright and deep red colors with no sign of dried blood. Next, you
need to smell the fish, of course as a fish it has fishy smell but avoid buy
the milk fish if it smell rot and off-putting. The fish should smell like ocean
water. Moreover, when you give the flesh some pressure with your fingers, the
meats should spring back.
How if you want to buy milk fish fresh fillets? Since fillets are no longer have gills or
even head, the best way to know is that the flesh of the fish should intact and
when you lift it, the flesh will not separate in parts. Moreover, if there is
visible signs like yellowish spots or black rims along the edge of the fish
then you should not purchase the milk fish. Okay, that’s several things you
need to know which is very important when you want to buy fresh milk fish or
other types of fish.
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