Eating Raw Tuna -- Advice

[codbuster]

You must be talking about "catfish" if you get my drift!! The fresher the better with all the other types of fish!!

[EEL killer]

FDA says all fish in US to be eaten raw has to be flash frozen for at least two weeks to get rid of any bacteria that's in it.Personally I eat it while the tuna is still moving.Yesterday got back with Jersey Hooker with 3 big eyes and we were eating as it was being cut up.I don't know what your guys are eating but it did not taste like piss(who would know what that tastes like) or ammonia

[socks]

The freezing to kill parasites I believe must be done with a commercial freezer at a temp much lower than our freezers at home. Or flash froze with liquid nitrogen.

[NJ Dave]

Fri night I hit my local sushi joint. The sushi chef said tuna comes in flash frozen which is harder than cement and takes a few days to defrost.
However they do also get in fresh never frozen fish that "they" will only eat raw. It is sold them as the fish to cook but he said we don't cook it, we make sushi out of it.
He made me some tuna sashimi which was fresh and some that was frozen. To me it was similar in taste. The fresh one was lighter in color but the frozen one was a darker red.
The fresh one was firm while The frozen one tasted mushy.
All I know is sat when I get back in we are having fresh tuna sashimi as long as we catch em.

[Jlavine]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/ny...rtner=USERLAND

Interesting.