I generally prefer filleting, then poaching the fish in a frypan with a touch of olive oil and salt for flavor. Sometimes, I'll add a mustard packet or dried dill.
Filleting takes time, but cleanup is a lot easier after cooking.
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Fuel efficient way to cook trout?
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Re: Fuel efficient way to cook trout?
Tried a few methods of trout cooking...Luckily have been able to hike with/ cook for Mike...a picky Old Fart - but, we may have caught more than our fair share over the years.
- Boiling or poaching - (yuck).
- Baking - did it once - (meh, oven too heavy),
- Carrying a small aluminum grill to be suspended over the fire - (too easily burned if not constantly attended or, when turning, the fish chunks fell right through...still, this way worked OK till I learned better).
- The single stick - (worked in a pinch but), inconsistent cooking; lot of burned or raw fish areas.
- Frying in oil; best if filleted - (Tasty, uses lots of oil, clean-up and prep, a real pain).
- Foil wrap method mostly now preferred. Uses but a little oil, Easy to add spices (IE - a little salami and hot pepper flakes inside?), Easy prep, easy clean, and can be done without worrying during that un-attentive twilight cocktail hour.
Just drop packets into the red-hot coals (if low enough), or pressed into a hot fry pan using any convenient granite. BTW, Why do you need to carry a fry pan lid?
- Boiling or poaching - (yuck).
- Baking - did it once - (meh, oven too heavy),
- Carrying a small aluminum grill to be suspended over the fire - (too easily burned if not constantly attended or, when turning, the fish chunks fell right through...still, this way worked OK till I learned better).
- The single stick - (worked in a pinch but), inconsistent cooking; lot of burned or raw fish areas.
- Frying in oil; best if filleted - (Tasty, uses lots of oil, clean-up and prep, a real pain).
- Foil wrap method mostly now preferred. Uses but a little oil, Easy to add spices (IE - a little salami and hot pepper flakes inside?), Easy prep, easy clean, and can be done without worrying during that un-attentive twilight cocktail hour.
Just drop packets into the red-hot coals (if low enough), or pressed into a hot fry pan using any convenient granite. BTW, Why do you need to carry a fry pan lid?
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Re: Fuel efficient way to cook trout?
A few times I boiled my fish and then used the fish filet and water to rehydrate a pre packaged meal. Almost always I use a small grill over an open fire and BBQed them for filet in the meal. I usually had some fish filet that didn't make it passed my mouth in the middle of cooking. I peele off the skin and ate it with one hand on the head and the other on the tail. This cooking method uses VERY LITTLE wood to cook them. I don't always drive my car under the speed limit either. Do you?
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Re: Fuel efficient way to cook trout?
Giving this thread another bump.
Has anyone tried cutting the trout in chunks, putting it in tin foil and then on a frying pan? Trying to avoid a mess/having my frying pan constantly smell like fish.
Also, any light frying pan recommendations?
Has anyone tried cutting the trout in chunks, putting it in tin foil and then on a frying pan? Trying to avoid a mess/having my frying pan constantly smell like fish.
Also, any light frying pan recommendations?
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Re: Fuel efficient way to cook trout?
Markskor posted a nice article on this at: http://www.highsierratopix.com/culinary ... g-methods/
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