Filleting Bream

[char81]

Is it advisable to bother filleting a bream under 30cm, or just cook them whole and pick around the bones?

Thanks heaps!

Charlotte.

[AZZA]

It's best to throw them back in the drink to grow a bit bigger as not much meat om them at that size

[Mack_attack]

up to the person but if it were under 30cm i'd probably wrap it in some alfoil with some lemon slices and chuck it on the BBQ.

Make sure you remove all the guts and gills before you do and once steam starts coming out of the alfoil package it should be ready. If cooked properly the meat falls straight of the bones;)

[wiseguy]

yer im with mack pretty much... clean it, gutted it..

butter him up, garlic lemon parsely wat ever...

wrap him twice in alfoil (stops leakages)

chuck him in the over, its cooked when ur nice goes through and the flesh is bright white.

-Wiseguy

[Leighton]

herd that a Bream of 30 odd cm's can be up to 30 years old!

[Mack_attack]

The version that I've heard is that a kilo bream (about 40cm) is about 13 years old with a max lifetime of about 30years.

[adri4n]

I think bream cooks best on the bone, I'm chinese though so it fits right into my style of cooking/eating. I usually just chuck them in a steamer with garlic, ginger, spring onions, some cut chilli and soysauce. :woohoo:

[Dazzamcgee]

Clean it gill it stuff it.....

[benno573]

filetting any bream is a waste of time and effort. i know it is a lot easier to eat and all that but the recovery off a bream is bad at the best of times and no matter how good you are at filleting them, about 25-30% is all you get once filleted and skinned, not a lot of change from a 800g fish. if you want to eat bream, gut and scale, head off or on (if on take out gills), wrap in alfoil, some garlic, chilli, fresh coriander and lime onto the bbq grill, 5 min each side. goes good!

a small point - i know that the legal size for bream is 23cm, however, anything under about 28-30cm is not even worth the effort for the amount of meat you get. much better to let them get a bit bigger imho. not knocking you in any way if you do keep bream 23-28cm, it is well within the rules and that is all that matters to me!

hope this helps charlotte.

ben