Ammonia and Lye Cured Skate
 

On 7/16/2011 3:51 PM, Brett_Delfs wrote:
> Have the opportunity to harvest some skate but its meat is generally
> poisonous so the accepted method is to soak it in ammonia and lye to
> leech out the toxins, then hang it out to dry in the sun for a few
> days before "reconstituting it" prior to preparation

Baloney. Skate is delicious but you have to get it very fresh. If it
starts to go bad, it will give off a faint smell like ammonia, Then you
throw it away.

Skin it, remove the single cartilaginous bone and use the meat as you
would scallops or squid.

When I was a kid living on Great South Bay in NY... we would often catch
skate while fishing for flounder. They were a treat.

George L

Ammonia and Lye Cured Skate
 

George Leppla > wrote:

>On 7/16/2011 3:51 PM, Brett_Delfs wrote:
>> Have the opportunity to harvest some skate but its meat is generally
>> poisonous so the accepted method is to soak it in ammonia and lye to
>> leech out the toxins, then hang it out to dry in the sun for a few
>> days before "reconstituting it" prior to preparation
>
>Baloney. Skate is delicious but you have to get it very fresh. If it
>starts to go bad, it will give off a faint smell like ammonia, Then you
>throw it away.
>
>Skin it, remove the single cartilaginous bone and use the meat as you
>would scallops or squid.
>
>When I was a kid living on Great South Bay in NY... we would often catch
>skate while fishing for flounder. They were a treat.

And if you cut them into circles you can sell them as sea scallops.<g>

Wonder if George has some weird skates where he lives. There are
some weird fishes in the sea-- and if there is one poisonous skate in
your waters it will give all of them a bad name.

Jim

Ammonia and Lye Cured Skate
 

On 7/16/2011 5:08 PM, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
> Wonder if George has some weird skates where he lives. There are
> some weird fishes in the sea-- and if there is one poisonous skate in
> your waters it will give all of them a bad name.

I now live in Louisiana. Catfish and crawfish are the strangest things
in the waters around here.

George L

Ammonia and Lye Cured Skate
 

On Jul 16, 3:08*pm, Jim Elbrecht > wrote:
> George Leppla > wrote:
> >On 7/16/2011 3:51 PM, Brett_Delfs wrote:
> >> Have the opportunity to harvest some skate but its meat is generally
> >> poisonous so the accepted method is to soak it in ammonia and lye to
> >> leech out the toxins, then hang it out to dry in the sun for a few
> >> days before "reconstituting it" prior to preparation
>
> >Baloney. *Skate is delicious but you have to get it very fresh. *If it
> >starts to go bad, it will give off a faint smell like ammonia, Then you
> >throw it away.
>
> >Skin it, remove the single cartilaginous bone and use the meat as you
> >would scallops or squid.
>
> >When I was a kid living on Great South Bay in NY... we would often catch
> >skate while fishing for flounder. *They were a treat.
>
> And if you cut them into circles you can sell them as sea scallops.<g>
>
> Wonder if George has some weird skates where he lives. * *There are
> some weird fishes in the sea-- and if there is one poisonous skate in
> your waters it will give all of them a bad name.
>
> Jim

****I think that's maybe what the question is referring to. I know
there is a shark preparation that is very similar in the Icelandic
region, that the meat is poisonous as well. I am not familiar with
eating things that could potentially kill you but you better have an
expert on hand to know what the heck they're doing. Not worth the risk
in my humble opinion.