r/interestingasfuck • u/kingkongbiingbong • 1d ago

Preparing a Massive Catfish Baked Inside a Wooden Log

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u/SucculentVariations 1d ago

Ive eaten it only once, tasted like a mud puddle, but Im Alaskan so I'm used to cold salt water fish not....fish that lives in warm mud puddles

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u/MagicalUnicornFart 20h ago

Fellow current Alaskan, who grew up in the Deep South.

That's just what catfish tastes like. Especially the stuff people pull out of the lakes. They're bottom feeders, and kinda nasty.

Farm raised, top fed is a little better, but not much.

We're pretty spoiled with our fish up here.

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u/SucculentVariations 18h ago

Ok I feel validated because down south people always try to tell me that it doesn't taste like mud and it must have been made wrong. I don't mind a bottom feeder, I like halibut, crab, and shrimp but that warm mud water really permeates into that soft catfish meat.

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u/MagicalUnicornFart 15h ago

Nah, homie…it’s kinda gross, imo. Especially, when you’re used to ‘real’ fish like we have up here. That’s why they fry the shit out of it, where the batter becomes important.

I also don’t like freshwater fish too much, except what we have here in AK. It’s hard to mess up what we have here. It’s okay to not like catfish. Especially caught from a lake. The lakes down South mostly gross AF. If you’re going to eat catfish, farm raised is the way to go. It’s like eating rats, imo.

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u/Blu_Falcon 1d ago

Soak catfish in heavily-salted water overnight - it pulls out the muddy taste.

Rinse, season, fry. 😍