Rainbow Trout Research Paper

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How To Cook Rainbow Trout is one of the most sought out questions that I find people asking after a good day of fishing. A good question I suppose for any hungry angler at the end of the fishing day. There are many ways to cook trout. You can do it on an open camp fire, your stove top or even in the oven. Me, I like cooking my rainbow trout kinda like the old fashion of wrapping it in tinfoil with a little butter and lemon if you have it. A Cool little trick that I learned when cooking trout a long time ago if you are camping is to use white birch tree bark. You can take a piece of green bark and soak it in some water then place it on your coals and it will give the trout a smoked flavor and the birch leaves a nice taste behind. That …show more content…
I take the head off although some people prefer to cook their fish with the head on. They say the head will add some more flavor to your fish taste. Not sure about that one. Also you need to cook your fish on a low heat and not cook it into the pan or foil. On a camp fire I get a set of coals and wrap the fish if aluminum foil and put the fish right on the side of the coals and keep rotating it to cook evenly. Seems to work pretty well. Make sure to add some butter to the inside of where the fish is spliced down the middle. Not only with the butter give your rainbow trout a good flavor but it will allow the meat to come off the bones a little easier at the end. If fact if you cooked your rainbow trout correctly then you should be able to grab the end bone and kinda shake it a little and pull the whole skeleton of fish bones in one shot leaving you a couple of good pieces of fish without any bones. Of course you always want to check with your tongue while eating. Even when you order fish out at a restaurant you want to double check to make sure there are no unwanted bones left. I always seem to be able to find a bone or