Fish Cleaning Hell

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Originally Posted by Mr. NiceGuy

I have one question about your excellent waste-free cleaning and packaging job Tony:

It looks like there is meat missing from the bones that I don't see on the fillets.

After you cut off the fillets, do you scrape the bones with a spoon to remove the rest of the meat?

Is the meat on the tail not good? (OK, 2 questions)

Well first of all it’s not waste free...there always is some waste. There is a bit of meat missing, very observant of you to notice. I usually cut a little Off the ends of my fillets to make them square and as uniform as possible. That meat is not thrown away it’s an end cut so it gets used for other purposes like soup. As far as scraping the bones...no I don’t do that. If I want to recover that meat, it’s usually through boiling the bones for soups and or stock.

The tail meat is edible but I usually stay away from it due to the presence of thick tendons that are chewy and not all that good to eat.