Fish-food economics

[Diana]

The recipe I started with included this comment: If you use the blender more, and whip more air into the mixture it will tend to float, or sink slower. Blend the protion you want to have float, then gently fold in the gelatin.

Go ahead and pro-rate the blender into the cost of the food. Could you get 100 batches before it needs service? The electric (or gas)to cook stuff and run the blender should be added in. Even tossing in a couple of bucks for these the cost is still about 1/4 of frozen packaged fish foods.

Variations for different fish:
Unless the fish is strictly vegetarian (Certain Rift Lake Cichlids will bloat with high protein foods) or purely carnivore, this mix sounds good for most fish.

[chefkeith]

I once tried to follow this recipe. I got all the ingredients, then found myself eating all the fresh shrimp, scallops, and cod I bought for it. I then tried the V-8 juice and ended up drinking that all too. That's good stuff. The frozen spinach is still in the freezer though.


Awesome tutorial Martin.

[lf11casey]

Thank you for this article Martin. It's really cool.

[Martin Thoene]

Well now you all have no excuse not to give your fish a really nice treat.
Resistance in eating the ingredients is the first mark of a good chef chefkeith
The trick with this recipe is not to underdo the amount of Gelatine. I have used 4 sachets before but this time the addition of the white fish made me realize there would be more bulk that needed setting so I upped the number of sachets.

Martin.

[BlueFrog]

Thanks so much for writing up the article -- i've been spending far too much on the frozen foods too.

I'll have to give this a shot when the BF isn't home, since he's not a fan of the smell of fish. He always says that fish are for watching and not for eating (usually as I head out the door to go and eat sushi)

[Martin Thoene]

Well I'm with him on the Sushi. I like my fish cooked......or in aquariums

Martin.

[loachmom]

Excellent cooking class, Martin.
Lots of "Ewww, what's that?" as the kids went by the computer. I'll be trying this soon, I hope.
Thanks.

[Martin Thoene]

All frozen this morning so I decided that my tasting commitee should give their opinions. The Clowns, histrionicas, kubotai and dario went completely insane for the stuff!

They seemed too busy to bother holding up score cards, so I'll call that a positive vote

Martin.

[mvigor]

Thank you for the article and pictures Martin. Very nicely done!

[katt]

Thank`s Martin T. A new recipe to try.

I will be making your`s very soon.

But why the V-8 ? Is it just for liquid ?

[Martin Thoene]

The V8 was in the original recipe. You need extra liquid, so adding something with more goodness than plain old water makes sense. V8 provides a whole mix of veggies.

Martin.

[Mark in Vancouver]

Very nice article, Martin. The photos take the mystery out of it.

[Martin Thoene]

If you don't have a strong stomach, some things are best left mysterious.

The snails last time were more spectacular. Kind of like Mushroom soup

Martin.

[Graeme Robson]

Superb information. It's good to see the process.

[Mad Duff]

Great stuff Martin , I will be giving that a go soon.

It was funny seeing Joys face turn a few different shades of white and grey while I was looking at the pictures, hilarious

I think I will have to do it one day when Joy is out of the way though, now that she has seen the photo's there were some threats made