Fishy Fish??

[cslgirl]

Bought 2 pieces of breaded haddock off the fresh fish counter in Waitrose. My husbands tasted lovely. Mine had a fishy smell and also had a nasty fishy aftertaste. Was mine sitting around for a while, hence it starting to smell? Just wondering how to avoid that happening again, as the cat ended up having a lovely dinner. Is it "bad" or "off" when it smells like that? or just not fresh enough.

[Melman Giraffe]

Fishy smelling fish avoid at all cost as its off

[Watch-Collector]

Sounds off to me, some fish has a discinct Amonia smell when it is past its natural!
You should have saved it and taken it back to Waitrose as they have a policy of refunding and also replacing at the same time!!
Hope your cat survived!!

[cslgirl]

Cheers!

Yup cat survived (unfortunately for my husband, cat still going strong at 19)

Have emailed Waitrose Customer Service and will see what they say. Have asked them how long they display the fish for.

I usually have nothing but praise for Waitrose but since moving to another town - the new branch I use is crap in comparison to the last.

[Nefarious]

Having made the mistake myself before with both mussels and lobster ("oh, it's not too bad, I'm sure it'll be fine"), I've learned the lesson - it's never worth taking the risk, especailly with (shell)fish. If in doubt, sling it out (and phone a take-away!).

[lingus75]

Agree about the fishy smell. It sounds weird as is should smell of fish but I find the fresher the fish the less it smells. At least the quality of the Waitrose response will be superior to that of 'inferior' purveyors of produce

[exgtt]

Ay that thar be ammonia smell. Not guaranteed food poisoning but anything fishy definatly isn't fresh. When smelling uncooked seafood it should smell of the sea it came from. Thats the best advice i've been given. Give a fresh uncooked piece of fish a sniff, should smell of sea water. If your paranoid buy loins fresh and bread them yourself. Not that much messing and you know the fish is right.

I'm very careful with mussels in paticular, i love them too much to risk eating a bad one and being put off for life!!

[BigLepton]

cslgirl said:

Mine had a fishy smell and also had a nasty fishy aftertaste. Was mine sitting around for a while, hence it starting to smell?

[cslgirl]

BigLepton said:

cslgirl said:

Mine had a fishy smell and also had a nasty fishy aftertaste. Was mine sitting around for a while, hence it starting to smell?

LOL I KNOW!!! When I was typing it I knew it sounded WRONG !