How do u clean and prepare fish? - simple steps please?

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zotdirector

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If the fish has its guts, cut from the hole in the belly near the tail fin and up to the head and remove all of the entrails. You will also need to clean the digestive tract (dark streak inside the fish) simply run your finger from back to front with warm water running making sure you get all of it. You can cut off the head now if you want.

Trim off all fins except the tail fin. They have sharp spines you don't want to deal with later, nor your guests.

descale the fish by taking your knife and scraping against the grain of the scales. Note that the scales get everywhere and stick to everything so where you do this should be taken into consideration.

You can broil whole from here or fillet your fish at this point and go from there with your seasonings and cooking.
 
How do you clean and prepare fish? Looking just for the simple basic steps. I plan to broil it with seasonings.
Thanks everyone and for the first response, I like simple fish. like snapper and salmon
 
If the fish has its guts, cut from the hole in the belly near the tail fin and up to the head and remove all of the entrails. You will also need to clean the digestive tract (dark streak inside the fish) simply run your finger from back to front with warm water running making sure you get all of it. You can cut off the head now if you want.

Trim off all fins except the tail fin. They have sharp spines you don't want to deal with later, nor your guests.

descale the fish by taking your knife and scraping against the grain of the scales. Note that the scales get everywhere and stick to everything so where you do this should be taken into consideration.

You can broil whole from here or fillet your fish at this point and go from there with your seasonings and cooking.
 
oh my.... are you starting with a whole fish? and what kind of fish is it? (trout doesn't need to be descaled and some fish are too big to be cooked whole) Is it just filets or do you have steaks? I can give you all the instructions you want, but need a little more info.
 
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