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Posted: 4/26/2014 9:17:50 AM EDT

Last night I saw this piece on "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives" about a place in Nebraska called Joe Tess' Fish Place. The house specialty is locally-caught carp which is sliced thin and battered (like a Blooming Onion) to allow the hot fat to dissolve the pin bones.

I'd read years ago that the proper cooking method for carp is to gently poach it. The article went on to say "fry it, and it tasted like an old tire".

So maybe carp is edible.

Anyone?

http://joetessplace.com/

Posted: 4/26/2014 1:44:57 PM EDT

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Did some googling and it appears that carp is quite edible. The reluctance on the part of the American public is the reputation of the fish as a "trash species" and the "Y" bones.

Carp is a food source in many other countries.

Posted: 4/26/2014 1:47:59 PM EDT

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Grass carp is good.

Posted: 4/26/2014 2:23:43 PM EDT

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Enough batter spices and grease, anything is good.

Posted: 4/26/2014 5:03:48 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/26/2014 5:18:47 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/26/2014 5:34:59 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/26/2014 6:06:49 PM EDT

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Google "fried carp" all you want. The taste is not worth the effort. 'Possum is on that same list.

Posted: 4/26/2014 6:28:30 PM EDT

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When you clean them avoid the "mud vein",put chunks or fillets in a blender long enough to grind all the tiny bones,and make fish cakes it's actually pretty good.Add seasoning,some chopped celery,peppers,onion etc.

Posted: 4/26/2014 7:15:10 PM EDT

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you can deep fry a dog turd and someone will eat it and not complain..

Posted: 4/26/2014 7:17:37 PM EDT

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Kinda like popeye mullet....I always used it as a baitfish but some people eat it. Maybe it's good....I dunno.

Posted: 4/27/2014 1:23:40 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/27/2014 6:22:06 PM EDT

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I've never had carp but have heard it is good. Have eaten Buffalo (the fish) and it it quite delicious.

Posted: 4/28/2014 6:29:17 AM EDT

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I always heard it was in how you cleaned them...I just never wanted to try it

Posted: 4/28/2014 8:00:40 AM EDT

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I have been waiting on Carp to become the new fad. Tilapia is not the same but to me they are also a trash fish. Look how popular they have become. Once some chef figures out a way to make it taste good or people get hungry enough carp will be a regular item on the menu.

Posted: 4/28/2014 9:18:32 AM EDT

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I think it generally has to do with the waters the fish was living in. Carp is traditionally a fish that survives in muddy, silty water. Those can taste like crap. If you catch one in a steadily flowing stream with relativity clean water, those fish taste much better.

Posted: 5/6/2014 6:42:18 PM EDT

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I've tried and just didn't taste good. I use to fish with some old black guys that loved them though. Would take home every one we caught.

Posted: 5/8/2014 3:13:38 PM EDT

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They are pretty good canned and used like salmon to make fish patties.

They are also good smoked.

Posted: 5/12/2014 10:35:43 PM EDT

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Fried canned smoked or pickled its all good

Posted: 5/12/2014 10:47:15 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/14/2014 11:51:43 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/19/2014 5:53:23 PM EDT

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My parents are from Hungary and carp is commonly eaten there. They prepare it many ways, but the best is probably Fisherman's Soup or known in Hungarian as halászlé. It's originally a Hungarian dish but is eaten throughout Eastern Europe. It's delicious with carp raised in clean water, and even better when they're fed a good diet.

There is no good carp to be had here in the U.S., but the soup/stew can also be made with catfish, and in some regions of Hungary that's what it is made with only.

I've caught large carp in Canada where I grew up and the carp is so oily and fishy in taste that it is essentially inedible. Yes, you can eat it, but it's not something pleasant.

Posted: 5/25/2014 10:28:26 PM EDT

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Best way to cook carp.

Fillet it off the big bones, like the ribs and spine. Turn the skin down and slice to the skin about every 1/4 inch from top to bottom. We call that scoring in our area. Then deep fry it in hot vegetable oil with some type of cajun breading. Its not the best fish but you can get a lot of meat off of a couple big fish. If they are in a dirty river you have to cut the mud strip out of the meat, but that isn't hard to do. Drum fish is the same way, same prep. If you want some of the fishiness out of the meat soak it in salt water for 24 hours.

Posted: 5/31/2014 3:30:28 PM EDT

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There were places in Nebraska on the Missouri River when I lived in Yankton, South Dakota that served carp. I tried some smoked carp once but threw most of it away. Person I worked with had a father-in-law who raised carp in ponds and made bologna out of it.

Posted: 7/4/2014 9:54:19 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/10/2014 12:21:36 PM EDT

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I've tried it every way. It sucks.

Posted: 7/10/2014 12:29:45 PM EDT

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Only way i found Carp to be tasty is too shoot them, chop them up, bury in garden, eat delicious garden food

Posted: 7/10/2014 3:06:58 PM EDT

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There used to be a Carp Festival at the Coon Rapids damn in MN every year when I was a kid. They had it prepared every way you could think of. I was surprised it was any good but it was from the few varieties I tried.