✅ How to clean bream: how to quickly remove scales from fish, how to properly gut it at home

What you need to clean fish

In order for cleaning to take place without consequences in the form of chaos and scales scattered everywhere, you should prepare everything you need in advance:

a wooden or plastic board that is not prone to absorbing odor and is easy to clean;
a well-sharpened knife or scissors;
a bowl of cold water or a sink for washing dishes;
rubber gloves (necessary if you have abrasions and wounds on your hands);
disposable kitchen towels or napkins.

Cleaning accessories

To quickly clean fish without the consequences of scales scattered around, you should prepare all the necessary equipment in advance:

a plastic or glass board that does not absorb odors and is easy to clean;
sharp knife or scissors;
container with cold water;
hand gloves (if there are abrasions and cuts on the skin);
disposable towels.

The most common method of cleaning the catch is using a kitchen knife. The fish is placed on a non-slip surface, the carcass is fixed by the tail and processed with a sharp blade towards the head, removing hard plates from the skin.

After processing, the carcass must be rinsed with clean water, blotted with a dry cloth and inspected. The scales must be completely cleaned off; Experienced fishermen and housewives know how to clean fish without a knife - they use improvised means for this procedure (scissors, spoons, forks). There are other tricks that can help prepare your catch for cooking. Modern devices allow you to remove fish plates faster and easier than a classic knife.

Mechanical

Mechanical tools help quickly remove scales from fish, keeping the area tidy and avoiding knife cuts. Hardware stores sell a variety of devices - from special graters to peelers with teeth of various sizes that can cope with sandpaper of any size and density.

Electrical

One of the most convenient devices for cleaning fish from scales is an electric fish scaler. Such machines operate from different power sources: car cigarette lighters, built-in batteries or a household network, which allows them to be used not only at home.

Some devices are equipped with special containers or screens for scales, which allows you to clean fish plates not only quickly, but also cleanly. The only drawback of such devices is their high cost.

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Please tell me how to quickly and safely clean bream.

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and you buy special. fish scaler, it is designed in such a way that nothing will fly, the upper part is covered with a removable lid

Dip the fish into boiling water, then the scales come off easily. Place the bream in a bowl of water and clean it directly “under water”; the scales will not fly off. I don’t understand about “safe”. What could be the danger?

I often clean fish with my hands, the scales of which come off easily because I caught the scales with my hand and threw them in the trash right away. The scales do not fly apart. But when you cut out the gills, it’s better to wear gloves. Hands can be scratched

The question is not for me, but I am a golden bee, I will tell you 2 conditions for the safe consumption of bream: 1) before frying or baking, thin out every half centimeter 2) cook for the required amount of time so that there is no danger of infection with parasites, if there are any there 3) do not hurry. Eat slowly and enjoy. Inspect carefully and remove the seeds. And bon appetit)

Are you applying for the first prize in the “clean the bream” competition?)

In my opinion, right now any fish is cleaned in stores where they sell it

Take a bream, a sharp small knife or a potato peeler and off you go. THEN rip open the belly and gut it. Business. )

You put the bream in a transparent bag, put your hands in there with a knife and clean it, then take the bream out and the bag with the scales in the trash.

It is dangerous to eat bream due to the infectiousness of its contents

Hello, Krakatuk! I've been cleaning fish all my life, but I didn't realize it was in a bag.

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don't rip open yet. My housekeeper cleans with a coarse grater. then he guts it

I made a mistake in the previous post. Not river perch, but Ruffe is cleaned in boiling water

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Marusya, thank you for your attention to my problems. You understand, I was just kidding about something, but we all know how to eat! Although I would prefer not bream, but zander or carp.

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Methods for cleaning bream from scales

There are a number of ways to quickly and easily scale fish, and almost all of them are used by chefs in professional kitchens. Below are a few of the most popular. By the way, the fresher the carcass, the easier it will be to clean it - it is recommended to carry out the procedure immediately after catching.

How to clean with a knife

For this method, you need to prepare a sharp knife, a cutting board, a plastic bag and the fish itself.

Cleaning occurs in the following sequence:

Rinse the fish from mucus. Cut out the dorsal fin, and on both sides make shallow cuts throughout the body.
Pull the fin from the tail to the head, get rid of the pectoral fins.
Place a plastic bag on a cutting board and place the fish in it.
Starting from the tail, with quick movements using a knife, remove the scales against its growth in small sections, folding them side by side.
When one side is ready, flip the bream over to the other and follow the same steps.
After complete cleaning, rinse the bream under cold water.

Using boiling water

This option is considered the simplest, but can be done in two ways.

First:

Wear kitchen gloves on your hands to avoid getting cut or scratched during the process.
To boil water.
Place the bream in the dishwashing sink.
Pour boiling water over both sides.
Wait about 30 seconds, then use a knife to remove all the scales.

How to clean fish from scales?

It’s nice to deal with fish without scales in the kitchen, but what to do if you come across a variety with a solid “chain mail”?

In some cases, cooking with the scales or the scales themselves is allowed, because it contains vitamin PP and chromium, which are important for health. It is impossible to eat, but jelly prepared on this basis has a wonderful taste.

When it comes to cleaning fish, they do it simultaneously with gutting.
Sharp fins must be cut off to avoid injury.

How to gut it properly

After you have gotten rid of the scales using any of the above methods, you need to properly gut the fish. The procedure takes up to 10 minutes and is completely uncomplicated. You need to take a sharp knife and carefully make an incision from the anal fin to the head, slightly open it with your hands. All organs are removed through the resulting hole. If there is caviar, it must be carefully separated from the intestine.

Depending on whether the head is needed during the cooking process, it can be separated from the body or only the gills can be removed from it. Next, the gutted fish is thoroughly washed under running water, and every thin film is removed from the internal cavity.

Another option for getting rid of entrails is using a spoon and knife. The washed fish is placed on a cutting board and a longitudinal cut is made from head to tail. Using a spoon, carefully remove the insides without damaging the gallbladder.

For greater convenience, you can take two toothpicks and place them so that they independently hold the walls of the abdomen. At this stage, the film that covers the spine is cut and the remaining blood is removed. You need to rinse the fish thoroughly several times. Next, the gills are removed or the head is completely cut off, and the product is ready for further manipulation.

Bream should be added to the diet, as it is an excellent prevention of stroke, promotes weight loss and skin rejuvenation. Guided by the above rules and recommendations, you can properly and quickly clean this fish at home.

Ways to quickly and without dirt remove scales from a perch at home

Don’t cause trouble for yourself and your loved ones, adopt all these three useful methods. You and your household will be very happy!

I will briefly describe each option for cleaning perch.

Method 1 - remove the scales, but don’t touch the skin

The main tool in this case will be real boiling water. In general, the fish needs to be scalded with boiling water:

Pour water over the perch from the kettle over the sink.
Boil water in a saucepan and plunge the striped fish into the boiling water.

Using this method, scales are easily and quickly removed without problems, without any pain. But the skin of the perch - the most delicious thing in fish - remains.

Method 2 - no scales, but no skin either

In this situation, we won’t even have a skin left. And how delicious it is fried and rosy!

This way you will get perch fillets. One of the fastest ways to descale a perch at home. I was able to clean one fish in less than 1 minute.

1. Along the entire length of the back of the perch, cuts are made on both sides of the upper fin.

2. Take out the sharp fin (it comes off easily) and simply remove the skin along with the scales.

3. Next, we cut the ridge in the area of the head. We insert the thumb of the left hand along the ridge inside, and with the right hand we separate the head along with the giblets - it turns out in the form of a stocking.

4. Finish line - separate the tail. All!

Method 3 - if the perch is from the freezer

If you have an excellent catch and brought in more perch than normal (although I never set the bar), then you will save some of it in the freezer for the future.

This is the third method that is suitable for frozen fish.

1. First of all, remove the top and bottom, similar to when peeling a cucumber with a vegetable peeler.

2. Then cut off the tail. And now it's skinning time.

3. Afterwards, cut off the head and clean the entrails of the perch.

The good thing about frozen fish is that it is always in a solid state and is easier and easier to clean.

Method 4 - sprinkle heaps of salt on the perch - the old-fashioned way

1. Take a fresh catch of perch and roll it generously in salt.

2. Leave it for half a day (or overnight) in this form.

3. The salt will do its job and then all that remains is to lightly pry the skin with a knife and it will give in easily.

Again, only fillet, without the delicious crispy skin. But they cleaned it up.

Method 5 - extreme - car wash

And this method lives in the vastness of our homeland.

There is a high-pressure apparatus for washing a car with a gun and nozzles for a certain type of jet.

So “Kulibins” set up “Kärcher” (one of the leaders in sales of such sinks). They attach the fish by the tail and boldly, mercilessly “sweep away” all the scales with a stream.

The scales are flying merrily all over the yard. But the fish is cleaned and the goal is achieved!

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How to clean fish from scales in 1 minute at home

It turns out that a spoon or fork is the best tool for cleaning fish at home. A prerequisite is to place the fish in a separate container with water - this way all the scales will remain in the bowl and will not scatter throughout the kitchen.

There are, of course, other tools and methods for cleaning fish. Now I will list them for you:

With a regular knife

Just take a longer knife. Fix the tail and always start with the tail against the scales.

Spoon or fork

Once and done! About this method in today's publication below, plus a video.

Grater

Only the grater is unusual, not the same as for vegetables. You can make it yourself from tin lids (although now everything is plastic and it’s still worth looking for those). You can also use it from canned food, or rather from the top cut off lid.

In the first case, you just need to nail these beer caps to a piece of wood and that’s it. And in the second - make holes with a nail and again to the piece of wood - only so that the holes from the nail look from the outside.

Or you can just use a regular kitchen grater.

Boiling water

Yes, there is such a way. You need to pour boiling water over the fish for 2-3 seconds. The main thing here is not to overcook, otherwise the scales will fall off along with the skin and meat.

To freeze

Place fresh fish in the freezer for 6-8 hours and remove it to the sink 2 hours before cleaning.

Pickling

The salt option will also help you clean the fish quickly and easily. In addition, salt prevents the fish from slipping in your hands. This is especially true for tench (by the way, mucus can be removed from tench by scalding it with boiling water).

Grinder or drill

There are also non-standard ways of cleaning fish from scales. But something tells me that it’s better to use this method not in the kitchen or in the house...

Store-bought special fish scalers

These are still constantly advertised for an amount that can buy a dozen spoons or forks - and you can clean them for at least a hundred years. In general, I haven’t tried these (if anyone knows, please write below in the comments).

How to do it

The whole process is not complicated and surprisingly banal. One has only to wonder why no one could have guessed this before.

First of all, the fish must be thoroughly washed to remove mucus. Because of the mucus, the fish will slip and cannot be held firmly in your hands.

Next, cover the cutting board with a plastic bag. This will help eliminate the fishy smell from washing off the board.

The fish is cleaned from the tail, and therefore in the outer row of scales, from the side of the tail at a slight angle, you need to insert a spoon, prying up the scales.

The scales will easily rise, and you will need to carefully move the spoon forward to the head of the fish.

With this method of cleaning fish, all the scales remain within the cutting board, without scattering throughout the kitchen.

First, the fish must be cleaned of scales, first on one side, then on the other.

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Do you still doubt the simplicity and ease of this method of cleaning fish from scales?

Well then watch the video. After this, you will not have a shadow of doubt.

By the way, the scales don’t fly “just anywhere” when cleaning, everything can be done quite neatly.

I never liked cleaning fish before until I learned this method. It takes me no more than 1 minute to clean the scales of one fish weighing 400 grams! Why didn’t I come across this advice before?! I don't know. I am sure that you will appreciate this method and will always use it in your kitchen and remember me with a kind word