Butterfish, gutted1c Flour
1/2c Old Bay
Vegetable Oil, a shitload
Some people, stupid ones, overlook this fish every damn day of their lives due to its size. Surprisingly there is a large amount of meat on the butterfish and it has a very high fat content, hence the name. There is only one appropriate way to prepare this fish and apparently I'm the only one that knows it, as usual. Luckily for you, I don't believe in intellectual property and dumbass "secret recipes" so I share everything willingly. If I had a restaurant I would hand out my recipes to all my customers. Why? Because they still couldn't make it better than me. That's how fucking awesome I am.
Mix the flour and Old Bay in a glass pie pan. Dredge your gutted butterfish in the mixture and and set them on a baking sheet. Heat enough vegetable oil in a heavy pan so it will cover 60% of each fish when you drop them in the pan. Some people use butter because of the namesake but this is moronic since the butter will burn well before your fish is done. Frying butterfish in butter is as dumb as using allspice in everything you make. While the oil is heating up on the medium setting, keep dredging the fishies every few minutes so you get a nice solid layer on there. Fry each fish for about five minutes per side depending on their size.
If your end result does not look like this, you fucked up. Once again, I didn't. Eat it.
18 comments:
Old Bay is for pussies!
I'm going to go ahead and pretend you didn't say that..
Nicely done.
word of warning! the last time i had butterfish (escolar), i had an extremely nasty experience that i wish upon no one! apparently lots of other people have this reaction too...read all about it! http://gothamist.com/2008/02/13/beware_the_butt.php
I am out running errands right now and this is making me really nervous...
may the force be with you...
So far so good...
Okay, I think I'm in the clear and I think I know why. I gutted them properly and I fried them in hot ass oil which would kill anything that would make orange shit come out your ass. Baking and grilling not so much. I didn't do a bunch of research but I bet 95% of these cases are people who made the fish at home and baked or grilled it.
dude it was the most disgusting thing ever. at first, i had no idea wtf was going on - i thought it was the end times for me. the worst. then i started googling "oily orange shiz" and voila. gross. and i had that shit at a restaurant, btw.
How was it prepared?
pan fried? it was a few years ago.
God, that is so fucked up. I was at a bar tonight and I was scared to death the whole time that I was going to start leaking orange shit out my ass.
i think i read somewhere that it's more common in thin people. are you a fat ass?
Haha! Surprisingly, no. I'm only 185lbs.
You like to eat things with faces, do ya?
I was busting your balls about the Old Bay trying to ruffle your feathers a little.
I like to be reminded that it was once alive.
I figured as much.
It's pretty hard to fuck up good fish and Old Bay. But I never could understand why people think it's cool to have their food looking back at them. I'm not squeamish, and I'll show you my old taxidermy diploma to prove it if I have to. There's a time and a place for everything, and eyeballs and eating don't mix in my book. I've heard leaving the head on is a custom started along the Mediterranean many years ago because no one had a knife sharp enough to cut it off. Whatever. Who gives a shit. How hard is it nowdays to whack the stupid thing while you're gutting it? If you're French and you simply must eat the cheeks, then go fuck yourself.
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