On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:46:03 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 9/16/2018 9:48 PM, Gary wrote:
>> Druce wrote:
>>>
>>> Japanese soak strong tasting fish in milk before cooking them, to get
>>> rid of the fishyness.
>>
>> Seafood that tastes or smells "fishy" is going bad. Fresh seafood
>> spoils very fast.
>>
>Fresh fish doesn't need to be soaked in anything. It does not smell
>"fishy".

Some fish -even fresh- tastes more fishy than other fish. In Iron
Chef, the Japanese often soaked fishy fish in milk to get rid of the
fishiness. I always wondered why they picked that fish in the first
place if they didn't like it.