/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16470898]

Why do some sardine brands taste so fishy while other brands are more mild and palatable?
I bought a case of King Oscar sardines but the flavor is so strong in an unpleasant way, I can't eat them without adding tomato sauce first. Other brands like Wild Planet or Bela taste fine.

[Anonymous No.16470970]

>>16470898
Get the KO in olive oil, the olive oil they use is good stuff as it stands up to the fishiness well and lingers in my mouth after which is great for a quick breakfast or lunch

[Anonymous No.16470977]

>>16470898
I fell for the King Oscar meme as well and agree it's too fishy and pungent. Pic related is much better.

[Anonymous No.16471427]

>>16470977
This. Brunswick is much better.

[Anonymous No.16471457]

>>16470898
I always thought of King Oscar as one of the non-catfood sardine brands. Maybe it's just batch dependent?

[Anonymous No.16471499]

This is the final redpill for fish snacks. You get like 2x the amount of fish for 2/3rds of the cost of deenz because no one buys them.

[Anonymous No.16471502]

>>16470898
>>16470977
>>16471457
>>16471427
>>16471499
Grocery stores don't even sell actual real olive oil, what makes you think they're putting good quality olive oil in your deenz? Get sardines in water. Canned sardines are usually put in low-quality oil that probably isn't even real olive oil and have toxic chemicals in them. Or you can stop being a dainty female and ditch the canned shit, get good quality Haddock or Cod from a fishmonger.

[Anonymous No.16471532]

>>16471502
No.

[Anonymous No.16471598]

>>16471532
Post body with timestamp, fake healthy neckbeard.

[Anonymous No.16472253]

>>16471499
How's the taste?

[Anonymous No.16472261]

>>16471502
Didn't you post this gay shit on /fit/ today?

[Anonymous No.16473176]

>>16471502
>Grocery stores don't even sell actual real olive oil
this is a meme

olives are grown in more countries than just Italy, fyi

[Anonymous No.16473186]

>>16473176
FYI, buy Californian. Italian oil is all shit, they reserve their best for the European market. Everything they send to the states is diluted or low quality.

[Anonymous No.16473192]

>>16471502
*blocks your path*

[Anonymous No.16474473]

>>16471502
Sounds like a bunch of bullshit

[Anonymous No.16474493]

>>16471499
That costs 2.5x the amount of deenz at my local grocery. I'll say that full-size is better than bristling though, and I'll die on that hill.

[Anonymous No.16474517]

>>16470898
tell me about the deenz, do i just eat them straight up?

[Anonymous No.16475235]

>>16474517
buy them in oil, not in brine
shallow fry with a small amount of parsley and brown sugar
dont be afraid if they go a bit black

[Anonymous No.16475300]

>>16474517
sandwich with hot sauce

[Anonymous No.16475306]

>eating sardines on their own

Is this like a 4chan neckbeard thing? I dont get it

[Anonymous No.16475365]

>>16475306
with eggs or rice or eggs and rice
or potatoes, maybe some kind of greens
have you ever eaten fish before?

[Anonymous No.16475913]

What's everyone's opinion of the 'vies?

[Anonymous No.16475927]

>>16470898
Chicken of the Sea deenz always tastes like tuna, I just go with the great value version.

[Anonymous No.16476017]

>>16475927
>Walmart deenz
Yikes, grow any extra limbs yet?

[Anonymous No.16476077]

>>16475235
>and brown sugar
spotted the amerilard

[Anonymous No.16476140]

>>16476077
consider yourself pleb filtered

[Anonymous No.16476186]

>>16470898
While there are fish known as sardines (Sardina pilchardus, also known as pilchard), "sardines" is internationally used as a class of canned fish that encompasses a number of different related species (all mostly under the family Clupeidae). Pic related is the WHO Codex standard for which types of fish can be packaged and sold as "sardines".

For reference, King Oscar "sardines" are brisling sprats. Brunswick "sardines" are juvenile atlantic herring. Those dirt cheap "sardines" you sometimes see at discount stores are usually Indian oil sardines (Sardinella instead of Sardina). Anchovies (Anchiota engraulis) are even considered "sardines".

As such, you'll often find noticeable differences between different brands of "sardines". Do some research and find out which particular fish you actually like.

[Anonymous No.16476188]

>>16475300
do you heat them up or just stuff em in, i always buy them in hot sauce already

[Anonymous No.16476245]

>>16475306
If they're good I'll just eat them straight. I think they're best on toast, though. Their versatility kind of depends on the size-- canned ones are smaller and break down easily but bought fresh they're larger and can be used like any other fish.

[Anonymous No.16477447]

>>16470898
I get dollar general brand

[Anonymous No.16477467]

>>16471502
>fishmonger
Lemme just drive 100 miles to the nearest beach and pay 10 times as much as the canned stuff

[Anonymous No.16477492]

Do you guy eat the whole tin at once? You can't refrigerate that shit, can you?

[Anonymous No.16477910]

>>16475913
Really very good on Welsh rabbit.

[Anonymous No.16477919]

>>16475306
Also good on saltine crackers.

>>16476188
The hot sauce that they come in typically isn't hot or acidic enough. I break the spines and mash them up on the bread and then add hot sauce. Good on toast the same way. No need to heat the fish. I sometimes add tomatoes, mayonnaise, black pepper, etc. for more varied texture and flavour.

>>16477492
You can put plastic wrap on an opened tin for a day (they say not to but it is fine) or decant leftovers in to another container for a few days with no problem.

[Anonymous No.16479270]

>>16473186
>they reserve their best for the European market
Based

[Anonymous No.16479525]

>>16470977
based brunzdeenz chad

[Anonymous No.16479536]

>>16471502
This narrative was put out by certain oil companies to make you buy premium. People easily ate it up like you are doing now.

[Anonymous No.16480201]

>>16473186
its like danish bacon in denmark
the good stuff is exported

[Anonymous No.16480206]

>>16470898
Some fish are allowed to be called sardines, even though they are not true sardines.

[Anonymous No.16481091]

>>16480201
Danish bacon is the only bacon that isn't complete garbage tier here in Sweden.

[Anonymous No.16481374]

>>16471499
no anon, these are. Better quality (arguably), fraction of the price. Take the brunzpill and accept that KO is a memedeen

[Anonymous No.16481464]

>>16470977
I have to say I was disappointed with these. They felt so mushy.

[Anonymous No.16481489]

I think they're fine, why are you eating fish if you don't like a fishy taste?

[Anonymous No.16481532]

>>16473186
>FYI, buy Californian
over my cold dead body

[Anonymous No.16481661]

>>16481464
I’m starting to wonder about QC. I liked Brunswick because their fish was very firm, and avoiding King Oscar because their fish were so tender, and lacked that toothsome quality I crave. I’m a man torn apart by conflict

[Anonymous No.16481705]

>>16481489
What people refer to as a 'fishy' taste or smell is really an 'off' taste or smell. It's usually a result of poor freshness or suboptimal storage. Even if you can tolerate it to an extent, it's not a good sign with respect to the quality or safety of what you're eating.

Case in point, sashimi doesn't have the unpleasant taste or smell despite being pure fish because it has to be very fresh to be acceptably safe to eat. Maybe you could find off sashimi if you ate at a Chinese or Korean 'sushi' place since they have low standards and know that reputational damage will mostly affect Japanese and not them.

[Anonymous No.16481825]

>>16474517
yes
or buy kippers and eat them on toast or a 1tortilla because they're plain better
or dump sardines in oil in a pan, dump some bread crumbs on top, fry them up lightly and dump them on top of pasta