Anyone here cook fish? I messed up and not sure where. The GF been trying to get fish onto our menu, but damn if talapia doesn't taste like dirt and most other stuff just rubbery. (And sushi just too damn expensive for more than once a year...lol)
So, Costco had some red snapper that looked like everything they tell you on cooking shows. Clear eyes, shiny scales, colorful undamaged fines. I figured I'd give it a go since snapper should be a nice clean white fish.
(I did NOT know that they were still scaley, haven't descaled a fish since boy scouts when I gave that up as a bad idea. Scales in hair, ears, shirt, yard, etc.)
I stuffed with some herbs and slices of grapefruit, salt and pepper on outside, tied it up and sprinkled (well more like poured) olive oil over it. After the grill had cooked up two chickens and a pork loin, the fish went onto the grill. They seemed to take a long time to cook (putting this in here in case it is relevant) and first turn happed at around 10 min. Then easily another 10 before the skin started to burst/crisp.
The fish was, well, cooked very badly. It was mushy with no texture, but it was cooked white. You could pull pieces off with your fingers and they looked ok, nice white color, but bleh they were mushy and flavorless when eaten. What with the texture and that the bones reminded me of the other reason I stopped fishing my own food as a boyscout, I couldn't finish my meal.
Was it me? Or is that really what red snapper on a grill is like?
