Kahawai – Food... or just cat food?

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    Posted: 18 Aug 2011 at 6:53pm
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Not sure if mods can make polls on here, be great if you could.

So, who eats (bled) Kahawai... and who turns their nose up at it?
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Fresh Kahawai...any style is great bled or not.
 
Kahawai frozen...nah becomes bait or cat food.
 
For us we prefer to smoke, sashimi, coconut marinade...Thumbs Up 
 
Don't forget the gills and guts removed staright away and rigged on big hooks makes for a premo big snapper bait.
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Love it.
Bleed it straight away and make sure I eat it within the day.

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bled and smoked fresh the same day, ........Thumbs Up
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I eat kaha, never frozen it b4 to busy eating emLOL 
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kill them outright with a knife to the brain when you first get them in then put them straight into an icey chilly bin, leave them there for 6 or more hours then fillet them.

I believe the strong taste/smell comes from lactic (or similar) acid build up from when the fish fights/goes nuts when hooked.  If they aren't killed quickly then chilled, or filleted to quickly, the acid doesn't have time to disperse.  Much like wild game.
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favourite fish taste wise
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I love it fresh (fried, BBQed, poached or smoked), but it sure doesn't freeze well.

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Love it, panfied, smoked, bbq, but allways....allways, same day. Got a cat that like it to though so...I eat firstWink
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Catch n release them for me and definetly no where near any cat.
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I think the popularity of salt-ice and good chillybins has improved the eating quality of kahawai as food in recent times.....the old sugar sack method did the species no favours imo and appears to have tainted people's views on the kahawai as food.

A nice hot maple smoke in the Bradley - 2nd only to spearfish/striped marlin....nana always used to poach it in milk and served with a white sauce....as delish and as comforting as her sunday roast.....tres bon.
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such an awesome underrated fish, i love to spear a few. Smoked!
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Interesting observation strx7
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i bleed mine asap and place them on ice. i then smoke them with manuka and then make smoked fish pie with them. damn good. all the neighbourhood gets some
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kahawai for the thai green curry. trim out any red bits and pop in at the end. we've tried other fish but this is world class. hot smoked is nice or smoked traditionally by uncle jake is superb. so yes, some great food in the kahawai for us.
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No thanks .... altho plenty of friends plus a wife that like it.
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x2 for smoked kahawai pie there Edge....really is the goods!

Reckon some of the hot smoked stuff i've done recently has come out like crayfish....
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nice mate. I make sure that I smoke them slowly ( like sometimes 6 hours or so) some people dont like them when they come out but they sure do make great pie!! just use the salt and brown sugar method for preparing them . nothing that flash really. they come out good though
 
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freshly killed bled gilled and gutted
smoked, flaked and mixed with cream cheese,onion,lemon juice,worcester sauce
mashed up together 1-1 ratio cream cheese to kahawai , other bits to taste
spread on crusty french bread
impossible to stop til its finished
 
 
 
 
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i find the same with large trevally, if left to die in the bin, when cooking they have a very strong odour which just about puts me off them, but it killed, chilled, left for 6 hours or so, then filleted, no cooking smell. 

Makes me wonder if kahawai and trevally that are killed outright with a spear and do not struggle on a line before being killed, have even better flesh & eating quality than line caught ones.
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