A friend just dropped of a live fresh water eel about 1m+ with good girth in a bucket of creek water. Love eating eel. Questions: How best to kill it? Can I leave it in the water till Saturday to "cleanse"? How to prepare it, My smoker is too small to cope with it all. How shall I cook it? Look forward to your ideas. Barry
cookessentials,
May 27, 4:51pm
Eeeeew, that brings back memories of trying to kill one as a young teenager and it just would not die - it was awful.
cookessentials,
May 27, 4:53pm
Found this which may help http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/tan/x5915e/x5915e01.htm#Killing% 20and%20cleaning
cookessentials,
May 27, 4:54pm
or this one
http://www.nzfsa. govt.nz/industry/sectors/seafood/documents/ iais/3/003_4. pdf
bazzaw2,
May 27, 4:57pm
Thanks, good links, sounds like I got a mision on my hands. May need to take the day of work
beaker59,
May 27, 7:04pm
I used to just cut off head and gut then throw in a sack with salt next day strip all the slime off and butterfly rub with salt and brown sugar and hang to dry for about half a day or so sometimes longer then smoke My smoker isn't a hot one or a cold one but somewhere in the middle and takes about 4 hours. I haven't done it for a few years though more into trout these days must get out the Hinaki and go catch a few for old times sake.
whitehead.,
May 27, 7:22pm
you cant leave it in the bucket over night , ive seen them get out of a 44 gallon drum when the was only a third of it full of water they will move over the grass at night to find water . have not had eel for years i would put it in a sack and tie the top then replace in water
whitehead.,
May 27, 7:23pm
and dont take the sack in the morning and drop it into boiling water they hit the ceiling even if they are dead . but thats another story
karynjoy,
May 27, 8:45pm
Oh goodness I hope its a green one! ! ( the big black ones are the big breeders)
karynjoy,
May 27, 8:47pm
I like the green ones smoked. you cant beat it! !
cookessentials,
May 28, 5:15am
apparently putting them in the salted water removes the slime. You might have to put a lid on. Horrible, horrible things- wouldn't catch me within 10 ft of one.
bazzaw2,
May 28, 10:30am
As luck would have it work was snowed out this am. Tipped eel out of net into large bucket for salting and of it went across my back lawn much to the amusement of my dog and a couple of Wekas. Axe to head, gutted and into a lot of salt. Will fill my brazier with charcoal tomorrow morn, stuff with lemon cover with roasting pan and go and play golf. Will keep you posted.
babytears,
May 28, 10:44am
We smoke eel whenever we have the chance - put eel in a sack and sprinkle 'washing soda crystals' over it - perhaps 2 cups... . leave overnight and it will be dead and all you do is rinse it off as the crystals breakdown the slime.
purplegoanna,
May 28, 11:48am
DONT FEED leftover eel remains either cooked or raw to your chooks, it makes them go off the lay, (old maori man advised me years ago).
beaker59,
May 28, 4:37pm
I fed my chooks heaps of eel's and eel offal over the years and they were always good layers (chooks love any form of fish) maybe they hadn't met the same Maori chap. Sometimes I reckon you the eggs had a fishy taste if the kids had a big catch of sprats.
rog.e,
May 28, 4:59pm
Sgree with beaker59. My mother fed our fowls all the eels we kids caught and that was a few - some creek and some wharf. We didn't eat them except through the eggs, which sometimes had a taste I couldn't now define but whuch I disliked. Probably too much eel. lol. V
antoniab,
May 28, 5:01pm
Ive done a really nice Rick Stein recipe with fresh eel, could prob find it on google
abelco,
Jun 17, 4:08am
i eat ell a lot just cut head off and gut place in sink of warm water for a couple of minutes and scrape slime off with knife then cut up about 6inches long and place in smoker that you get from sportin store rub with salt and butter
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