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Sting Ray Scallop myth

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Stingray and relatives do make good eating.
Next time you crank up a stingray instead of your intended catch, don’t cuss it, eat it. Yes, you can cook stingray and skates. As unappetizing as they look, and as weird as their anatomy seems, stingrays (skates too) aren’t much harder to clean than your usual table varieties. And, yes, they make delicious dinners.
Do they taste like scallops? You bet. Do some Florida restaurants serve them as scallops? I doubt it. The procurement of stingray “scallops” in restaurant quantity would cost more than buying the real thing. But it’s a good topic for debate at the dockside bar.

In my estimation, the perfect size stingray for the table is one with a wingspan of around 18 inches to two feet. Smaller ones don’t yield enough meat to make the effort worthwhile and those with a span much greater than two feet tend to be stringy and tough, although the fillets can still be quite good if parboiled or baked.

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and as for the myth here is another piece of information.

Originally Posted by AndrewL

Any scallop you buy at the store will be a real scallop, unless specifically marked as imitation scallop. Any reputable restaurant will serve scallop, not skate. Serving skate flesh as scallop is something that may have been done by shady sorts in the past, but it's going to be rare these litigous days.

It's pretty easy to tell by looking at the grain of the meat if it's real scallop or not. Real scallop muscle is composed of many short strands running paralell to the axis of the cylinder of meat, with no apparant side-to-side grain or flaking. Fish flesh will have a side-to-side grain and may be noticeably flaky.
This agrees with what I remember reading in William Poundstone's book Bigger Secrets. As I recall, he interviewed some sort of federal fish inspector who said that in many years of work, he had never found skate mislabeled as scallops. And they're really not hard to tell apart.

Conclusion we released a feast yesterday , won't happen again :y_yes_2:

 
Those poor things! I used to have one in my fountain and it swam to me at the edge of the pool to be fed worms...It was a fresh water Stingray.. It was so cute and you know what I named him??? Stingray...... LMAO! It was so fitting to do though. He was just like a dolphin at feeding time. He would swim up and hop onto the edge of my fountain, take his night crawler and drop backwards into the water. I did eventually let him go in Kankakee Lake if you would love to fish him out. he was pretty big 10 years ago when I let him go. The gators probably got him though. Do they taste like chicken?? LOL
 
None what so ever, no scales or the like. They are like rubbing a dolphin if you can imagine their wet slippery soft rubbery skin. Smooth as glass.
 
I call SEA FOOD a specialty type food, like the nasty stuff shown earlier above. I cannot put my mouth on it or it in my mouth. I love fried or battered fish and the farthest I would go is to buy 'breaded' frozen shrimp but that hasn't happened in years and is not on my 'crave' list. I cringe when I see people crack open a shrimp or lobster and the nasty crunching sounds LOL .... I like canned tuna fish..Not a fan of specialty foods though. I will NOT eat anything raw.... Just traditional meals. Fish is where I pretty much draw the line. I'll take a fried Cod any day! Love Cracker Barrel fish! I would love a steak and tators or fish and chips cook-out!!!!
 
People are so removed from their food Its hard to imagine how they would survive without processed food.
Napmaster can't bear to imagine that a steak was a cow and refuses to eat anything with a bone, Even Chicken Breast (the only part he will eat) because it reminds him that it was a living animal.
GOD forbid we have venison or elk (we have he just wasn't told what it was)
Come to think of it why the hell hasn't anyone on The Walking dead used a fishing pole when they got hungry.
 
That was the first thing that the Jin did on LOST
of course Hurly tried cause dude wanted to eat
 
People are so removed from their food Its hard to imagine how they would survive without processed food.
Napmaster can't bear to imagine that a steak was a cow and refuses to eat anything with a bone, Even Chicken Breast (the only part he will eat) because it reminds him that it was a living animal.
GOD forbid we have venison or elk (we have he just wasn't told what it was)
Come to think of it why the hell hasn't anyone on The Walking dead used a fishing pole when they got hungry.
I'm completely understand the Napmaster's stance...I never once in the 3 years I lived in Alaska tasted moose or any of the other game animals. All my meat originates in little white trays in the grocery store meat counters. P.S. I don't have problems with bones however, and much prefer bone-in porkchops vs boneless porkchops.
 
All my meat originates in little white trays in the grocery store meat counters.
No dear it originates with these


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It's a strange thing here to..... It isn't the thought that seeing a bone in my food makes me think of furry cuddly animals that I am about to eat, but THAT BONE!!!!! I hate to be bothered by removing a friggin' bone from my meal. Bones are NOT part of the meal as you don't eat bones and I really hate taking the time out from my mouth watering meal to remove a bone from my steak....... and OH!!! God forbid I find a bone in my fish!!!!!!!! Those 'needle bones' are not amusing and if you have ever gotten poked by one will chewing, it isn't pretty! There is really ONLY one meal I will tolerate with the BONE in it and that is big juicy drum sticks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bring it!!!!!!!!! BONELESS!!!!!!!!
 
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