Can you eat Koi carp?

[The Dude]

Just one of those pub dilemas that crops up every now and then and I keep meaning to post it on here....so I have.

Can you eat them? Anyone eaten them? Wotsitlike? or

[slikk]

Yes, you can. The secret is in the preparation. Any Carp needs to be kept in a "clean water" environment for a couple of week prior to slaughter as the can be very "muddy" due to their bottom feeding (fnarr) habits. This cleanses them and makes them taste of fish as opposed to mud.

HTH

Kim

[saddle bum]

As a member of the Carp family, they should be edible. Damn expensive meal though.

[gretchen]

Far too beautiful to eat.

Would the Ghost Carp taste different from the regular orange ones?

[sleep envy]

how expensive are koi?

my cousin bought a house and the vendor left half a dozen in the pond

[gretchen]

sleep envy said:

how expensive are koi?

my cousin bought a house and the vendor left half a dozen in the pond

Prices can run into thousands!

[puffpuff]

gretchen said:

Far too beautiful to eat.

So are most animals, doesn't seem to stop people though.

[slikk]

gretchen said:

Far too beautiful to eat.

Would the Ghost Carp taste different from the regular orange ones?

I exspectre so.. .. ..

[The Dude]

It was something that came up a couple of years ago. A friend kept them and was left several more pretty big ones by a friend who no longer could keep them. He couldn't add them to his pond as he was already pretty much at the limit of water-to-fish and ended up giving them away to someone else. We always joked "They'd look even more beautiful on a plate of chips" etc. but nobody had ever heard of anyone eating them.

[sleep envy]

gretchen said:

Prices can run into thousands!

even for blotchy white and orange ones?

[gretchen]

I go here a few times a year

www.japanese-koi.co.uk/

Click fish for sale and individual image for prices.

[Fume troll]

All freshwater fish are edible. As above though, bottom dwelling fish can taste pretty muddy. Pike is a good example.

Cheers,

Tom.

[The Dude]

gretchen said:

sleep envy said:

how expensive are koi?

my cousin bought a house and the vendor left half a dozen in the pond

Prices can run into thousands!

Same for tuna that gets sold at auction in Japan.

It always seemed to me to be something the Japanese would eat were it not for their revered status.

[victormeldrew]

puffpuff said:

gretchen said:

Far too beautiful to eat.

So are most animals, doesn't seem to stop people though.

To quote Mr Murray; I eat cows, it's nothing personal, they just happen to be made of beef.

[Naughty Magpie]

gretchen said:

I go here a few times a year

www.japanese-koi.co.uk/

Click fish for sale and individual image for prices.

OMG they are expensive!

[gretchen]

sleep envy said:

gretchen said:

Prices can run into thousands!

even for blotchy white and orange ones?

The one I have was a couple of hundred, but then it's an inked one...

[mat205125]

sleep envy said:

gretchen said:

Prices can run into thousands!

even for blotchy white and orange ones?

One mans blotchy 'orible fish is another's Sarah Harding of the fish world (definitely eat her )

[gretchen]

Naughty Magpie said:

gretchen said:

I go here a few times a year

www.japanese-koi.co.uk/

Click fish for sale and individual image for prices.

OMG they are expensive!

Theres a 60cm female Hi Shusui there for £2655.

Edited by gretchen on Monday 23 April 14:24

[Nick P]

gretchen said:

Naughty Magpie said:

gretchen said:

I go here a few times a year

www.japanese-koi.co.uk/

Click fish for sale and individual image for prices.

OMG they are expensive!

Theres a 60cm female Hi Shusui there for £2655.

Edited by gretchen on Monday 23 April 14:24

gosh. he-shes are expensive aren't they?

[boozyhughesy]

It depends on the markings, just because they're big doesn't make them worth a lot. Uniform patterns, no marks on the fins etc adds to the value.

Never eaten one though!