Reply to: Best Way to Cook Dover Sole

[d000hg]

I would cook them as you found them. Make a grease proof paper parcel, or tinfoil if you've got the money.

[norrahe]

I also found this video

[norrahe]

Many thanks for the replies - Video demo duly downloaded

All I need now is a decent filleting knife, as my usual knife was barely making an impression on the things, like trying to cut shoe leather. Any recommendations for a professional chef's fish knife, or should this be in technical?

A fish filleting knife needs to be a fexlible knife, as in the blade needs to be able to bend. A bog standard sabatier deglon should do the trick, any decent cookshop should have a range.

[OwlHoot]

Many thanks for the replies - Video demo duly downloaded

All I need now is a decent filleting knife, as my usual knife was barely making an impression on the things, like trying to cut shoe leather. Any recommendations for a professional chef's fish knife, or should this be in technical?

[DaveB]

There must be far more entertaining things to do with it rather than eating it. Like putting it down the back of the radiator at the client site for a few weeks, and wait for the smell

[DaveB]

So did the OP figure it out or is he still floundering?

[Zippy]

Don't tell him Pike!

[darmstadt]

Should have waited until today: How to fillet a flat fish - video | Life and style | guardian.co.uk

[Mich the Tester]

It was posted in the wrong plaice.

Never mind. I won't carp on about it.

[NotAllThere]

I suppose that makes NAT's advice a bit of a red herring.

It was posted in the wrong plaice.

[KentPhilip]

There must be far more entertaining things to do with it rather than eating it. Like putting it down the back of the radiator at the client site for a few weeks, and wait for the smell

[Mich the Tester]

The fish section had closed - I bought them ready bagged from the discount shelf.

I suppose that makes NAT's advice a bit of a red herring.

[OwlHoot]

Have the fishmonger clean the fish. Then cook entire in a very hot oven; 280°C is what I usually use. The bones should easily lift out.

The fish section had closed - I bought them ready bagged from the discount shelf.

[CoolCat]

There is a restaurant in Chicago that makes a big deal about the fact that its Dover Sole really is really from Dover and has just been flown in. I never had the heart to tell them what a dirty stretch of water that is.

[NotAllThere]

Have the fishmonger clean the fish. Then cook entire in a very hot oven; 280°C is what I usually use. The bones should easily lift out.