Cutlets

[Lalbaadshah]

Hi guys
What would be good knife for making cutlets with fish like coral trout, emperors, spanish macks, cods, maori wrasse and jew. I havent been able to find somethig which can cope with cut after cut. I am looking for something which can saw through bones with out tearing the flesh
Thanks

[Jeremy]

I keep two knives for butchering fish. I quality filleting knife for cutting flesh and a much heavier knife for cutting through bone. Just get yourself a good quality longish (20 cm) kitchen knife and keep it sharp.

Jeremy

[SNELLY]

How many Maori Wrasse have you been cutting up lately ???

[cHiCo]

There illegal up here in cairns, how about down there?

[Lalbaadshah]

I caught some nice reef fish in fiji and brought back 15 Kg of frozen carcass back. The maori wrasse was 6kg, almost pulled me out of the boat.
What can I use to make nice clean cutlets?

[OandaFX]

I have several knives, from machete's to fine filleting knives but often more important than the knife is the sharpening stone and how good you are at using it. The best knife will get blunt and it must be resharpened frequently. - Ever been to the butcher and watched how often he dresses the knife on his steel! I rub my knife over the stone every two or three fish!

My prefered knife, - for larger fish like trout, snapper etc, one with a slightly wider blade perhaps 20 mm wide and with a nice curve towards the pointy end. For little fish like whiting, I like a narrow blade one of the skinny little knives. Hope that helps.

Phil

[raefpud]

mate try a bandsaw or a bloody big heavy meatcleaver

[MY-TopEnder]

You could always cut the flesh through with a filleting knife then just use some of those kitchen scisors on the bone.

[CHRIS_aka_GWH]

3 Knives

1. Normark filleting knife
2. Butchers boning knife (slightly heavier blade still flexible to a degree) - i usually use to crack the bone as you turn behind the pectoral fins to fillet - to save the edge on the finer filleting knife
3. A short divers knife (stiff thick blade with saw teeth atop - this is the bone killer I use on the backbones of big 'uns)

[Lalbaadshah]

does any one know what the doctors use to amputate. Is it possible to get a good quality stainless steel saw with a very fine teeth (like the teeth on a hacksaw blade)

[team_mongo]

Surgical equipment is very expensive. I mean very expensive

If you're after a stainless hacksaw you can get one from the King of Knives or a knife specialty shop. Ask for a butchers hacksaw. They're worth a couple of hundred dollars.

George

[butcher]

TRY USING A MEAT HACKSAW, BUTCHER SUPPLIERS WILL STEER YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

[reelcrazy]

Head down to your local chinatown and get a chinese chopper.

I bought mine for about 3 bucks 10 years ago, still going strong with regular sharpening on the stone and steel.

I use the back of the blade to crack muddie's.

[NeilD]

Go the Chinese cleaver. Use a boner or thick filleting blade to cut through the flesh then the cleaver to get through the bone. Any big asian grocery sells them and they are strong and cheap. Better than nicking a good blade.

Cheers Neil

[nonibbles]

most doctors use a gigli saw kind of like those wire things with two rings on each end that you find inside the handles of those rambo style survival knives. (I work in an operating theatre - trust me). If the bone is a long flat bone such as skull or sternum we use a high speed, gas or battery powered drill and then change to a bit that looks like a very thin trimming bit that you'd put on your router. (I actually got hold of one, trimmed it down and use it in my dremel) Can't see it being any use on the fish though.
For hips etc. we use battery powered resciperocating and oscillating saws which are very effective but probably overkill on fish.
For ribs, we have special shears.
We do also have a stainless steel hand saw similar to a tenon or mitre saw with an extended lower blade section and an articulating bead. Probably cheaper to get a stanley from the hardware store. Actually a floorboard knife would probably suit the purpose, its basically a knife shaped saw. You ca get them from the hardware too.
If you're not too fussy about how much meat you get you could always freeze the fish first and run it through the band saw. Just depends how much you like your tools doesn't it.