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I don’t have an industrial fish fryer.only a small pan...I’m thinking about buying a mini fryer, which is much bigger than my small pan.
Plus it was a small cod fillet, not a whole side of a fish.
Did you make those?

By the way, your chips look nowhere near as good as mine

Bit of a competition going on here,

Did you make that fish in batter from scratch?

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Those fish are a bit rare in our waters Bruce, but Haddock or Sea Bass (But sea bass is tasty but a bit small) is my fish of choice...

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Is that a “ NO” OGF?

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Sorry pauline....
Yes it's a NO, I haven't got time to fairy about when the best fish restaurant this side of the Mason Dixon line is just up the road....

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You can’t really compare my fish and chips to theirs, you have never tasted mine.


My son eats out a lot on business meetings...only a few restaurants have come up better than my cooking....which cost a fortune to dine at in London.

No one has come up to my homemade fish and chips he tells me......not yet..not even his partner who is a food critic for a famous company..

My strength has always been cooking..was a cook in residential/ nursing homes for a number of years.

Quite basic food cooked though...as their tummies couldn’t take a lot of spices etc.

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One of the great benefits of Flake (apart from the taste) is that there are never any bones

When I first came to Australia in the 60s fish and chips in more out of the way places along the Queensland coast was a bit of a gamble as to what colour it would be.

It was usually whatever was caught locally - I think I ate fish (and chips) of almost every colour of the rainbow in those days.

You get a fair choice these days unless you specify you will generally get Flake which is excellent (and my preference) but most places offer a choice of fish from Blue Grenadier to Flathead. My local favourite is Bream I used to catch them at my work many years ago

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I don't think we get those fish you mentioned here though, Bruce.

I had a lovely piece of Salmon last night with chips and a small salad. I wrapped it loosely in foil with a dob of butter and stuck it in the oven. Yummy.

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Same here Muddy.
The only time I have eaten battered fish is if I have cheated and bought it from the chippy.

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Yep, Salmon is very nice, I buy it from the fishmongers occasionally as a change but I was told our salmon is a different specie to the Atlantic Salmon which is probably the one you eat. I don't know what the difference is.

A lot of our fish have been renamed because they had different names in different states. The only one I can think of off hand is Jewfish which is now called Mulloway but was known as Butterfish is SA for example. It is pretty good eating too

I wish I was interested in fishing because I do like fish but frankly I find it a bit boring. I used to fish at one workplace because the fish liked the warm water and were easy to catch. I have all the gear I just don't do it

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I've never heard of Jewfish or Mulloway Bruce? How did you cook yours?

Seems daft changing fish names don't it. It is much like suddenly deciding to call a Canary a Budgie instead, or an apple a banana.