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mikeh416Rigby
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Baramundi as table fare.
#186598 - 26/07/11 02:49 PM

One of our local restaurants has put Baramundi on its menu, and I was wondering how they rate as table fare. Obviously it won't be fresh, but brought in frozen.

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tophet1
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#186601 - 26/07/11 03:04 PM

It rates as excellent table fare and is well worth a try.

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kamilaroi
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: tophet1]
#186602 - 26/07/11 03:39 PM

A bit of a suck it and see here. There are 2 species; Lates calcarifer (OZ and s/e Asia) and the African species: Lates niloticus.

Apart from that either may be farmed species and here those from freshwater may show the taste of dissolved minerals. I'd advise OZ saltwater raised over the others if you can get enough info from the label.

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Ben
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: kamilaroi]
#186605 - 26/07/11 04:35 PM

Yep, it is good, but there are other species just as good or better.

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kamilaroi
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: Ben]
#186608 - 26/07/11 05:03 PM

^threadfin salmon and Spaniards in season for the latter? (ciguatera prone)

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gryphon
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: kamilaroi]
#186610 - 26/07/11 06:47 PM

I was fortunate to spend 6 months in Karumba and ate sea run wild Barra only, they are truly excellent fish though the farmed or landlocked ones are said to be muddy....threadies are rippn fish too.

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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: gryphon]
#186611 - 26/07/11 07:23 PM

Wild caught baramundi is definitely nicer than the farm raised ones.

Both are quite nice however.

Mike, give it a try.

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kamilaroi
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: gryphon]
#186623 - 26/07/11 10:18 PM

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I was fortunate to spend 6 months in Karumba and ate sea run wild Barra only, they are truly excellent fish though the farmed or landlocked ones are said to be muddy....threadies are rippn fish too.

Oh yeah the Central Pub in Normanton. What a feast for so little outlay!! And the steaks were the business at $14 for a plate overlapped piece of perfection!

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gryphon
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: kamilaroi]
#186639 - 27/07/11 05:24 AM

Better again catching your own,if not Ash`s seafoods in Karumba for the best freshly battered thready or barra is the best I have ever had and I ate it more than a few times in 6 months,his fresh cooked prawns were tops too.

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Gaff
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#187728 - 10/08/11 06:42 PM

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One of our local restaurants has put Baramundi on its menu, and I was wondering how they rate as table fare. Obviously it won't be fresh, but brought in frozen.

If it is aussie barra then you are probably getting the good wild caught saltwater barra, they export the good stuff and we get the rest

Over here if you see wild caught and farmed or imported fillets side by side you can see a big difference, the wild caught salties are a nice pinky white and the farmed or imported freshwater ones are a crappy greyish fillet.
In Australia if you are used to eating freshwater fish like our yellowbelly or cod then you probably wont mind freshwater barra, but saltwater ones are a lot cleaner and nicer to eat.
Don't be too worried about them being frozen they are a fish that does thaw out just as good.

cheers gaff

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kamilaroi
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: Gaff]
#187734 - 10/08/11 08:40 PM

Saltwater barra are the go but I'd put spaniards and threadfin salmon as equal. Much less Thai style cooked old widow trevally. (or saltwater catfish for that matter)

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Gaff
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: kamilaroi]
#187739 - 10/08/11 09:42 PM

I agree, they are a great fish to catch but there are plenty of better eaters up here, if there is better stuff in my freezer I don't even take freshwater ones home, salties definatly go in the esky though.Mind you since I sold my boat the freezer is rather devoid of fish so I might take what I can get these days.
You are right that the saltwater catfish are ok but no one up here would admit to eating one ha ha.

cheers Gaff

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Mike_Bailey
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: Gaff]
#187762 - 11/08/11 04:55 AM

Caught wild ones in NT three years ago, salt water ones lovely, fresh water ones not so good, a bit "muddy" but the former were really good, problem is we were spoilt for choice, mud crabs off the planet with butter

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mickey
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: Mike_Bailey]
#188262 - 21/08/11 05:03 PM

An impartial view. We caught a bunch in the Mary River and they all tasted Muddy to me. My friends from Aus thought they were great however.

A fun fish to catch though.

The Barra we ate in Darwin was very good. Perhaps Salt Water Fish?

Tastes vary I guess.

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kamilaroi
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: mickey]
#188268 - 21/08/11 08:32 PM

^ Barra run from fresh to salt and vice versa. In fresh they take up the "terroir" of dissolved minerals, thus the taste.

FWIW all freshwater dwelling fish taste acordingly.

Capiche?

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ozhunter
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Re: Baramundi as table fare. [Re: kamilaroi]
#207645 - 25/04/12 05:22 PM

A lot of restaurants sell the smaller Asian farmed Barra.
Supposedly farmed in Bomb craters after the Vietnam war.
Not the best tasting so it would be best to find out if they are wild or farm raised.
I met a guy that imports to Australia, Barra (Nile Perch) from lake Victoria, Africa. Sounds crazy considering all the Barra filled waterways we have ourselves..

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