Is there a way to cook grinner?

[Noelm]

A time in the not too distant future....How did you go? Well for crissake don't tell any one but I nailed three stud grinners. Yer jokin ...where...how???? Mate if I told you I'd have to kill you!!!!

kind of funny that you should say that I once remember when even big Sweep were looked on with about as much love as your Grinners, but now I often read the reports in the Local Paper and they mention getting a few good Sweep, my how things change! I guess in about 50 or so years our grand children will be relating stories to their kids about how Grandad used to go out in an old Petrol Powered Fibreglass Boat and caught a long forgotten Fish called a Snapper! as they clean their bag limit catch of Grinners and Pike, plus a trophy size Happy Moment.

[JIMBO99]

Jimbo99
well I eat grinner and it is excellent
1.Fillet the grinner
2. Skin the fillet it, is somewhat hard to skin because it breaks off
3. lay the fillet flat with the inside up and slice a strip off the top above the lateral bones
4. Slice another strip off below the lateral bone
5. Soak the fillet for ten minutes in very salty and i mean very salty water this will firm the flesh do not wash it in fresh water.
6. Mix self raising flour with a lot of salt and dip the wet fillet into the flour /salt mix and fry or deep fry the strip until it is crispy brown serve with chips and with a good mayonaise.
Of course they have bones, but if you crisp them you can eat them bones and all, and they are good chewing, try this method, you'll like them. other fish that fry well this way are whiting , garfish, in fact any of the fine fleshed fish. The heavily salted flour makes them brown and crisp. if you want you can dip the fillet in milk before you flour it but drip it dry before flouring. big grinner are better !! Small ones are a bit fiddly. jimbo99 has eaten everything in the sea (at least once).

[flybloke]

I eat Yakkas, Butterflyed and grilled on skewers. Cant see how grinners cant be done the same.

Base; Typical Greek salad base(no oil yet) Must have Avocado.

Top: Grilled Yakka on three skewers, Once grilled spread over fillets thinly with olive paste.
Dressing; 60/30/10 XXX virgin Olive oil, Red wine Viniger, Basalmic.

Finally; Place around the dish 3cm cubes of crispy roasted Pumpkin(Jap) And sprinkle with roasted slithered Almonds or Pine seeds.

Garnish; With fine diced oregano and parsley.


















Youll Never forget it

[Dean1]

The day I bring grinners home for a feed is the day i should give fishing away

[sid_fishes]

the only way i would cook them, an oxy set, flat out
cheers sid

[oldboot]

I am certainly not one keen on bones BUT I can remember being fed kippers.....I can not believe they could have more bones than kippers.

So if you come from old blighty....smoking might be a real option.

afterall in other countries they sell both carp and talapia commercilay.





I supose there is the ultimate test......see if a small gentleman in a yellow raincoat will eat one.......those fellas will eat anything that moves....if it doesn't move they will poke it with a stick first to make sure.


cheers

[Dean1]

the only way i would cook them, an oxy set, flat out
cheers sid

[GBC]

You wogs are fully sick !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




I'm part wog so I can get away with it.

[Madaddy]

I would like to try them myself due to the fact they are so plentiful.

A previous post mentioned lots of salt for grinners aswell as whiting and gar, ?
I would never ruin a quality whiting with any other ingredient other than a hot pan. Gar are also quite tasty as well, i generally run them over with a rolling pin to break down the bones, or butterfly them, a bit of lemon, sweet.
No one has yet properly described the taste of Grinners, if they are simply a bland tasting fish a couple spices or herbs may do the trick. I don't know myself but I am curious.
Maybe do a run around a few asian resturants and ask the question there. Them people have ways of turning anything nasty looking into something tasty. Heck they even buy jellyfish from us! or dress up sewerage polluted catfish!

[Noelm]

I reckon no one has told how they taste is because no one eats them, and they don't eat them because that's the way it has been for years!! I still reckon try them and see, don't take someones word for it, they have no more bones than any other fish, they have a backbone, rib/belly bones and fins, don't need an Xray to prove that, I have filleted some for bait, and they are a normal fish skeleton inside!

[oldboot]

So who is going to take one for the team and cook one up.



I'm waiting for the post...." I cooked and ate a grinner it was......"

cheers

[Bassmaster1]

I'm thinking of smoking one - and another I'm going to pickle

What size tally-ho papers are you thinking of using??

[BayBruiser]

Surely you would need to be smokin "somethin" before eatin grinner


They are one fish that never swim away alive....


hahaha great thread!

[tinman42]

I'm thinking of smoking one - and another I'm going to pickle

How do you light them?

[Angla]

Back in a time when I was new to fishing in Qld I caught like 70 of them and thought they must be of the flathead variety. I filleted a whole pile of them like flathead and tried to deep fry them in batter but found the batter did not stick to them and they tasted like shite and were full of bones. Went and got Pizza as an alternative for the guests.

They are off my catch and keep list

Cheers
Chris