soft-on Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 (edited) Has anyone had puffer fish which was professionally cooked? I was doing some reading as i didnt know much about the TTX poision. Pretty Lethal Stuff ****SORRY GUYS SHOULD HAVE STRESSED THAT THESE FISH A LETHAL TO EAT AND EVEN IF COOKED BY A PROFESSIONAL CHEF WHO IS HIGHLY TRAINED THERE IS A RISK YOU COULD BE POISIONED AND IT MIGHT BE FATAL**** SEE MORE Edited July 9, 2008 by soft-on
tumra Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 i had some puffer fish (or as they call it) Fugu in japan last week actually... it tastes ok but you eat it for the thrill factor.
soft-on Posted July 9, 2008 Author Posted July 9, 2008 i had some puffer fish (or as they call it) Fugu in japan last week actually... it tastes ok but you eat it for the thrill factor. What does it taste like? Is it good enough to take the risk?
tumra Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 What does it taste like? Is it good enough to take the risk? yeah its alright.... its something you would do once i guess.... it will cost you about $30 - $40 AUD for a standard meal.... The meal i had has fugu sashimi, fugu stips that you cook in a broth, a piece of fried fugu head and some fugu milt (which are its testicles i think). I had mine in Osaka which is know for its good fugu restaurants. but if you are in japan you are better off eating sashimi... its pretty cheap and excellent quality.
arpie Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 keep in mind that even in Japan, every now & then, even a good fugu meal will kill someone!!! Your life is in the chef's hands, literallly!! DON'T TRY IT YOURSELF!!! They are deadly poisonous! The Japanese chefs have about 5yrs of lessons before being allowed to serve the public!!! Some European tourists in Aussie (in the last 12 months) were very ill & lucky not to die when they ate their toadies!! Cheerio Roberta
jewgaffer Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 keep in mind that even in Japan, every now & then, even a good fugu meal will kill someone!!! Your life is in the chef's hands, literallly!! DON'T TRY IT YOURSELF!!! They are deadly poisonous! The Japanese chefs have about 5yrs of lessons before being allowed to serve the public!!! Some European tourists in Aussie (in the last 12 months) were very ill & lucky not to die when they ate their toadies!! Cheerio Roberta PHewwwwww !! Roberta I'm glad you reminded everyone that puffer fish are deadly poisonous !! In the seventies a family was wiped out after fishing at Tom Uglies and just sharing one puffer fish. A married couple met the same fate eating a small fish with a spike called a fortescue, another deadly poisonous fish. Cheers jewgaffer
tumra Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 (edited) sure its dangerous and i have heard of people even recently dying from eating puffer fish up in the northern territory... though the trill of eating puffer fish is the dangerous aspect of it.... i guess it depends on how risk adverse you are... I wouldnt do it again though... Edited July 9, 2008 by tumra
WillN Posted July 10, 2008 Posted July 10, 2008 don't know why anyone would want to eat a toadie...they look highly unpalatable! as for fugu...its one of those life experiences i guess. something you do...kind of like jumping out of a plane! what does a fortescue look like?
jewgaffer Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 ........what does a fortescue look like? A fortescue is a small two tone brown coloured rocky area fish with a predominant spike in the centre of its back and smaller sharp fins which also emit poison I think from memory. Fortescue are a highly poisonous fish and one of the hardiest of scavengers and were found in close to the rocks in the Georges in nasty weather and particulary in muddy water when everything else had shut down except for schools of small toadies which also seem to thrive in lousy conditions and dirty water. I believe both these scavengers seem to be the last to leave after a flood and the first to come back. Cheers jewgaffer
arpie Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 Hi Musty - Glad it caught your attention & perhaps got you to read to the end?? I sure wouldn't want anyone to try slicing one up themselves for a feed ....... it would be their last feed!! Anyway, I like Exclamation Marks ...... check out any of my posts!!! Cheerio Roberta
anthony f Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 (edited) Read somewhere that one got eaten by a Cpt Cook crew member (or first fleeter) with bad results. This made me wonder two things. Firstly, why would you think of eating something that looks like that, even if they are easy to catch. Secondly, did they have some sort of straw drawing comp. to see who got to try what? Edited July 15, 2008 by TDH
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