Anyone into Kippers?
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Yeah - I have them once or twice per month for lunch - The supermarket type - four bits of fish in a "boil in the bag" - knob of butter included. They STILL manage to smell a bit when they are cooking though 
Very cheap at 60 (ish) p.
I scrape off all the skin but everything else except the bag gets chewed and goes down.
Very cheap at 60 (ish) p.I scrape off all the skin but everything else except the bag gets chewed and goes down.
There is an art to eating kippers which involves inserting your fork under the back bone just behind the head and then gently lifting the whole structure out in one piece, keeping the structure intact. It's difficult to describe so it is best of you can find somone to show you, as I did when I was younger. Incidently, it may be easier to eat the kipper with 2 forks as this way you can get most of the flesh boneless, but really all of this depends on getting good, fresh, actually really smoked kippers.
BTW does anyone know if the swim flat or folded?
BTW does anyone know if the swim flat or folded?
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kippers are great. but in the microwave??
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Love 'em. Cheap as chips in Asda for a couple of "boil in the bag" kippers with butter included. Ten mins or so in the pan and om nom nom.
As said before, pity about the damn bones!
As said before, pity about the damn bones!
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I love Kippers, but the bones drive me mad.
Mmmmm kippers
I was told that burning a white candle whilst cooking fish prevents the smell. I don't see how this works but I do it anyway and think it does!
I just eat the tiny hair sized bones, and the last lot I got (Youngs, frozen in the bag) didn't have that many bones in them.
I was told that burning a white candle whilst cooking fish prevents the smell. I don't see how this works but I do it anyway and think it does!
I just eat the tiny hair sized bones, and the last lot I got (Youngs, frozen in the bag) didn't have that many bones in them.
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I find the undeyed, naturally smoked ones don't stink out the whole house. The chemically smoked ones seem to really reek for days though. They are a little more expensive but still cheap. I grill mine but another good way is to boil them in one of those zip lock bags with a little butter, this contains the aroma a bit better too, just remove most of the air as you close the seal though or it may explode.
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Fry the bloody things.
Putting them in the micro is equivalent to putting steak in the microwave! Its not like they take long to cook!
Putting them in the micro is equivalent to putting steak in the microwave! Its not like they take long to cook!
Kippers are great but I wouldn't go mad over them prefer smoked hot mackerel with salad in a bun, yum!
I kipper herrings, brine and smoke them at work. Get the natural ones not those nasty bright yellow dyed ones, same for haddock etc.
I kipper herrings, brine and smoke them at work. Get the natural ones not those nasty bright yellow dyed ones, same for haddock etc.
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