Shark Meat...

[LWACE]

I was just shoppin and lookin at the sea food, (saw the other thread awhile back about salmon), i love sea food and that made me want some, anyways while lookin at the salmon, i noticed shark there to and decided id try it, grabbed the salmon to!:D

So has anyone tryd shark? anyone got an cookin ideas etc? thanks:aok

[Batz]

Blackened is always good.

[Reschke]

I have had it in the past and I like it. The last time I had it was before I got married and the g/f at the time loved seafood. Anyway we bought tuna, shark, salmon, Grouper and lots of shrimp and scallops then grilled it all with fresh vegetables. The shark was very good with just the right amount of olive oil and seasoning sprinkled on while grilling. It has a different texture and as you can imagine no fat whatsoever. Simply put it is worth the money if you want something good.

[Replicant]

It's just the Shark fin you eat, I've had it and swordfish and it was okay but I prefer seafood like squid, prawns etc., rather than fish like salmon etc.

[Lizking]

Actually, some of it is good and most of it is bad.  If you can get blacktip steaks, they rival swordfish or dolphin.

[RTR]

Nope It isn't just the fin you eat. You can get some pretty nice steaks off a shark.

Shark is very good.

swordfish is also very good and has a texture more like pork than fish, I think.


RTR

[Replicant]

Originally posted by RTR
Nope It isn't just the fin you eat. You can get some pretty nice steaks off a shark.

Shark is very good.

swordfish is also very good and has a texture more like pork than fish, I think.


RTR

Isn't shark steak just the fin though?  Fishermen simply cut the fins off and throw the rest of the shark back in the water, surely if there was money to be made from the rest of the fish they'd keep it?

[john9001]

i ate shark once....it tasted just like fish.

i ate wild boar...it tasted like tough pork.

i ate alligator......it tasted like alligator.

[Replicant]

Originally posted by john9001
i ate shark once....it tasted just like fish.

i ate wild boar...it tasted like tough pork.

i ate alligator......it tasted like alligator.

LOL

Only strange stuff I've eaten is kangaroo, ostrich and alligator.

[RTR]

There was a whole industry devoted to shark fins. Most were sold to Japan I believe  (sharkfin soup etc).

It caused wholesale slaughter of sharks and decimated populations in wide areas.

The belief that only the fin of the shark is good to eat is a common misconception, due in large part to the fact that people generally only hear about Shark Fin soup.

The shark is a fish, much like any other fish and has lots of very edible meat on it.  Taste is gonna vary depending on the type of shark of course.

I ate shark once too. It wasn't fishy at all to my recollection.

Alligator is good.

Swordfish is very good.

Ate a donkey steak once in Sardinia. Worst steak I have ever had.

Emu sucks

Bison is very good, and very lean.

Squirrel is kinda stringy though

RTR

[Ripsnort]

Rocky Mountain Oysters... MMMmmmm!

[Replicant]

I found this which I thought was quite amusing!

It is with immense interest that I have followed the correspondence re sharks in Diver's letters section. For months, I've bitten my tongue - not as convincingly as a bloody shark would have done, perhaps, but bitten it all the same. But now I feel I must speak out.
     I'm a reasonable, fair-minded, enlightened sort of fellow (as we divers go). But after long, sober reflection, it seems to me that the pro-shark lobby, as represented by your hello-clouds-hello-trees-weave-your-own-yoghurt brigade, should be strung up by the thumbs and machine-gunned.
     I say this with authority, because I have personally experienced the danger posed by sharks, as few of Diver's readership have done. You see, in 1976, when most of you were still in nappies, I saw Jaws.
     Many correspondents have dwelt on dwindling numbers of sharks, as if this were somehow to be deplored. But I learned from Steven Spielberg's admirable documentary, as did many of my generation, that you need only ONE of the bastards to wreak complete havoc.
     In the course of a holiday season, a single great white can bisect a score of attractive young women, ruin a perfectly sound hardboat and swallow distinguished marine biologists whole.
     In today's world, this sort of behaviour is simply unacceptable.
     In the May issue, Martin Leach protested that Jack's Fish & Chip Shop (Harpenden) was offering a free shark steak with every chicken dinner sold. This is blatantly unfair to chickens.
     Sharks are violently anti-social. Chickens, on the other hand, are generally peaceable and positively motivated creatures. When did you last hear of a diver being ripped limb from limb by a chicken?
     In my view, Jack should have been actively encouraged to extend the offer to two shark steaks with every carton of mushy peas.
     Sadly, it transpired that, far from cashing in on a promising market trend, Jack has ceased altogether to serve shark meat - not because he was converted by the bleeding-heart shark apologists, but simply because he couldn't obtain enough product.
     Why couldn't he? The Leaches of this world would claim, I'm sure, that over-fishing is threatening their beloved, sinister, blank-eyed alien killing machines with extinction.
     Bollocks. Sharks have been around for 400 million years (as argued by Lisa Chappell in the May issue). You don't imagine that a handful of Russian fish factories are going to put paid to the most successful creature on the planet after the red ant?
     When the puny little trawlers get within 100 miles of Shark City, the sharks know they're coming. That's because of the special audio-electronic smell sensors in their eyes.
     Sharks don't need passports. They don't have to put their houses up for sale. They don't have vanloads of furniture. Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered by water. When their electro-biochemical sense organs tell them that Harpenden Jack and his shark-steak hunters are only five days' sail away, what are they going to do?
     Exactly. They're going to move. My guess is that most of the sharks are now hanging out five miles down in the Marianas Trench, getting fat and happy on those freakish mutants with the traffic-light eyes and the teeth like Janet Street-Porter's.
     Make no mistake, Lisa - in a few million years' time, it's sharks who'll be buying fossilised human teeth, not the other way round.
     So I hope that's put the record straight. The guide books tell you that if a shark attacks you, thump it hard on the nose. My advice is, don't wait until it attacks - thump it anyway.

[midnight Target]

Shark is great on a BBQ, or in a skillet. Similar in taste to swordfish. Thresher is my favorite. I've seen steaks off of a thresher that are as big as any porterhouse. They hold together better than salmon on the grill.

[capt. apathy]

shark is great, very firm flesh like pork or turkeybreast (almost).
it's good fried in beer batter if you don't mind a fishy taste (stronger than halibut of cod, less than mackerel).

if you grill it just put a bit of lemon juice on it before you start, the oils will rise into a kinda foam on top that you scrape off, the fishy taste goes away with it.  it hold together on the grill much better than most fish.

however you cook it, cut all the skin off and take the first 1/8th" or so of meat with it. that's where most of the fishy taste comes from.

btw- it's deffinately not just the fins you eat (hell I always throw them away).  but aperently the asian market pays big bucks for fins so it's more profitable to just cut the fins off and move on if you're selling them.

[Lazerus]

Originally posted by midnight Target
They hold together better than salmon on the grill.

Shark steaks are great, and can be grilled with little fear of them breaking apart. I've never, ever eaten a shark fin, but have had the steaks grilled many times. A little bit of olive oil (they are very lean), and some herbs or spices, depending on what you are going for.

A tip if you are catching sharks. Bleed them fairly soon after you catch them to get rid of most of the fishy taste.


And take a gun:D