how long can fish stay in a freezer?

[pankhurst]

just that...if it was frozen maybe six months ago, should i throw it out?

Oh yes - all vets do the cremating thing ! My friend bought a lovely new plant pot and planted a tree in it - and put the ashes in with the compost ! She thought the kids would like it but they declared it disgusting !!

I am absolutely CERTAIN that your mackerel will be fine !!! Go on - cook it !

storage time in freezer for mackerel = 2 months

Lol, pankhurst, that is a serious thread hijack!

Yeah I wouldn't chance mackerel. Actually I had a nasty fish experience a few months back - a trout looking decidedly fishy, wasn't sure it was okay so I though - I'll nuke it and really cook it a lot to be sure.

Thought I had.

Started eating it and was talking to DD and so didn't notice cold bits, till I saw the wriggling fish worms in the middle. I'd eaten half the fish.

uh-oh.

I KNEW i shouldn't have given it to the cat...

will go cook some for DP now.

thank you!

ROFL !!!

Did I really write a trout looking decidely fishy????

"If you want to bury a fish btw, the easiest way is to get a biodegradable bag (many supermarkets sell them or go to the co-op and get a carrier bag), put lots of salt in it, then put the fish in."

Isn't that how you make Thai fish sauce?

Nah, you are thinking of bombay duck Rustybear I think.

"Called "nam bplah" in Thai, or literally "fish water," genuine fish sauce is the water, or juice, in the flesh of fish that is extracted in the process of prolonged salting and fermentation"

Apparently "it is made from small fish that would otherwise have little value for consumption."

Sounds about right for goldfish....

Oh nice crill soup

Actually I have used nam plah. Not sure I will now I know what it is!

I think the Louisiana tradition of burying a pig for a month and then digging it up and roasting it is a tad weird too

Sorry this seems to have morphed into a 'bizarre things to do with dead animals in the kitchen' thread!

euuuuchchchchhchchch !!!!

fish worms!!!???!?!!

see my previous post on 'my money plant is losing its leaves' to know that that would just about kill me.

(the money plant is on the critical list too...)

Bizarre things...no there's DEFINITELY a separate active thread on that.

Mumsnettters are very DIVERSE people.

You lot are really slack tonight anyway, no-one picked me up on the 'fishy trout' or the 'can't do this with people' comment

Pankhurst - re your money plant, it's the recession, everyone is suffering

I was actually wondering if I should ask how you knew it didn't work with humans.....

I'm confused. Does the OP want to eat the goldfish?

but your fish can't have been frozen wmmc??

Oh but it was fishie. Apparently not terribly well though.

Old freezer - now been replaced - I'm surprised I didn't get far worse TBH!

eat the goldfish????

is that a euphemism?

No no no - the OP hasn't got a goldfsh - it's me that has (or had !!) one !! Pankhurst has an old mackerel in her freezer and was asking whethr we thought it would be OK to eat it - then I chipped in about my dd's dead goldfish being in the freezer awaiting burial and it all went a tad tangential !!!

Come on keep up !!!

Desi - OP wants to eat another ropey fish, not the goldfish, dead cat or dead uncle.

Rusty - I remember reading about someone who tried to bury a body in salt thinking it would dessicate but apparently it just preserved the corpse really, really well, so the police found it intact and identifiable! I'm not sure whether this knowledge will be useful to you in the future

oi! I object to being introduced as someone who has an old mackerel in my freezer!

is there no kindness left in the world?

Could be worse, could have been in your pants

Seriously, I can't criticise having found breastmilk in my freezer the other day (dd is still breastfed but I only expressed for three weeks - fifteen months ago!)

Oh I do beg your pudding !!!

But you do ? do you not ?