I just found this video. I’ve eaten carp all my life. My dad’s parents are from Czech. He taught me how they cooked it back in the old country. My favorite way is get about a 5-10 pounder. Fillet n cut out mud vein. Leave in big chunks. Roast w whole tomatoes cabbage garlic onion n some basic other Italian seasoning. Cook on low for several hours. Bones become like canned salmon soft n easily eaten. Meat tastes like mild beef. Great w mashed potatoes or homemade black bread.

I knew a old guy years ago that would catch carp and he had a flowing well with a big steel tank to collect the water. He would put the carp in it and feed them canned corn for about a week, then clean and cook them. They tasted as mild as bluegill or perch, the corn cleaned the mud taste out of them.

I’ve grown up eating carp, it doesn’t taste bad at all, I honestly think it tastes better then trout. The only problem with carp is the amount of bones in it. Carp is an awesome fish for like soups and if you are able to fillet the fish then it’s super flaky and delicous

Carp is eaten quite a bit in Europe during the holidays. Very traditional meal for many. Over in Wisconsin they make lots of smoked or dried Carp and even jerky. Great vid!

Carp is one of those fish that taste like their habitat imo. If you fishing in a muddy lake, it's gonna taste like mud. If it's caught in a clean lake or stream it's gonna be a lovely fish.

It 100% matters where you got the carp from. If they feed by filtering through silt and mud, they aren't going to taste very good. Carp that mostly feed easily in gravely, rocky areas taste much better.

Ate carp a ton when in Vietnam. Dish fish hold up well to a longer cook time. Especially coated and doubled fried like chicken. Some of the best dishes I have has was a guy who would just cook tons of this every money with the first fry. Come back with the 2nd fry when it was ordered. Then would use a wok to cover in the sauces he had. The best was a singapore crab chili sauce, a coconut curry, and one that tasted just like general tsos

Never been a fan of eating carp but catching em is sooooo much fun! They put up such a good fight on lighter line. Biggest carp I've caught was 25 pounds on 12 pound mono line. That big momma took me 1 hour and 30 min to bring in.

Carp were farmed for food by monks during the middle ages, and in some countries in Eastern Europe they eat carp for Christmas dinner. Top tip - You can make any unpaletable fish taste better if you smoke it.

"I've had catfish that taste worse than that." That's a sin to say in my family buddy. 🤣

My grandma tells me, that cooking carp is simple if you want it to taste good. They threw the meat in a pressure cooker, which separates the bones, and she compares it to the taste of salmon. So this is not a trashy fish in anyway by far.

My girlfriend gave birth today and seeing brenden Miller post made my day even better

Your little sister, she made me smile how she liked the carp. Hehehe, God bless her!

I’ve actually never caught a carp, and Isaiah has grown up.

If coming from a muddy river or lake, I like to let the carp sit in fresh clear in a bucket. Odds are anyways where I fish, it's going to still be alive and I can put it in my big trough at home and let it swim in the clear water. Clear water carp is amazing

Really enjoyed this episode. It was a little different, with the cooking aspect as well as involving your awesome siblings. It would be nice to see more like this.

In Hungary, that carp (especially the variant with very few scales) is THE fish, for traditional fish meals, most importantly fish soup. It's the only fish most supermarkets offer live from a tank (now they must kill it before selling) and most people cook soup from it during the holdiay season.

Carp is probably the most eaten fish here in Bulgaria and in pretty much the whole Balkans. I think it's very good, you can cook it however you want, fried, baked, even stuffed.

Uhh, we ate carp all the time when I was a kid. The old timers put them into horse trough s with circulating fresh water for like two weeks and fed feed corn. After two weeks it was time for a community fish fry. It was good but boney.

You should definitely make more catch and cooks, they are really interesting!

Enjoyed your video. Very good description of the taste of carp from various members of your family. What a lovely close family of brother and sisters.

Blackened or Cajun seasoned with malted vinegar is the way I like my carp.

Interesting and informative. I've eaten carp done as whole crispy fish Chinese style, and had it smoked (sable fish) from a deli. In the middle ages, Carp was a common species in farmed fish ponds.

Carp is a very good fish to eat. Its according to where the fish comes from. Rivers and streams are the better choice for eating. When you go to bleed the carp pop the gills while the fish is alive to bleed it out for best results. After you fillet the fish put the fillets in a bowl and add a small amount of salt water and vinegar. Let soak for several hours. Blackened is very good, but also beer batter is great too. Love from the ole hillbilly Kenny, peace!

I’ve wanted for you to do more catch n cooks. Pls continue them. Great video

Excited for that crystal clear water carp vid!

I love your show I have family in Nebraska that catch carp and eat them all the time they love them it’s probably lots of was to cook. Great show !!!!

As someone who regularly eats carp from a stock tank the flavor you're tasting that's different is best compared to liver. The inner part of the filet that is reddish has much more of that flavor which is great if you're expecting a fatty liver flavor and could be better enjoyed as a paté, but it's definitely off-putting if you don't know what it is. The water absolutely effects the flavor of the meat and I've found that carp harvested from moving water tends to have a more familiar flavor. Because it's a very fatty fish, I've found it tastes better when that fat is diluted with other oils, e.g. fried in coconut, peanut, olive, and even rendered beef or pork fat. It also works very well as a substitute for pork in dumplings and egg rolls. However you make it, it's important to understand that carp is higher in mercury than a lot of fish and shouldn't be eaten as often. Compare it to tuna with regard to mercury.

Really enjoyed the video... Looking forward to the next one.

before you eat carp, make sure you check your state's fish consumption advisory website first. Carp have a tendency to hold onto certain nasty pollutants like PCB's more than other species of fish. PCB's are stored in the fattier areas, so you're at least limiting your exposure by trimming the reddish fatty parts off. Also super important to kill/bleed them quick as you pointed out since they can stay alive for hours out of water, which is a crap way to die AND makes the meat taste horrible. ALSO, the best way I've found to eat carp so far is pretty involved, but it's honestly one of the best preparations of fish I've tried. Can the fish in a pressure canner, then when you're ready to cook, open the can and dump into a bowl with egg and seasoning, mix it up and press into a patty. Fry it in a pan with butter and enjoy as a burger. The pressure canning process leaches the collagen from the bones, basically disintegrating them and making them edible. Seriously, it's the best. I've done it with common and grass carp, both were delicious.

Super video I love that you brought in taste experts I subscribed thank you

Shout out to your awesome siblings! I want to try some recipes thanks to their taste and patience.

Thank you for doing this, I’ve always wondered exactly what it tasted like. And now I know. You described it very well and honestly I would like to eat some now. I like salmon and trout, which is a strong flavored fish. Not fishy, but bold I guess. Considering how oily carp meat is, I bet it’s highly nutritious compared to bass and such.

Love this vid man! Most underrated fishing channel on KZfaq

I searched the carp thing, stumbled on your video and enjoyed the segment with your family. You all seem like very nice folks. Carp is the everyday protein for those that can afford it. Season it with garlic, chili, oil, soy sauce, and vinegar and it’s okay. Serve over rice and a plate of veggies. Nothing really gourmet about it. Respects from Los Angeles.

Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple carp, lemon carp, coconut carp, pepper carp, carp soup, carp stew, carp salad, carp and potatoes, carp burger, carp sandwich. That- that's about it.

Glad you did this.

Thank you for your honesty

“A Devine culinary experience”... 😂👌🏻

Carp is held in high esteem in eastern Europe. As a Hungarian, I've been eating halászlé, aka Hungarian fish soup, especially as a Christmas dish, of which carp along with catfish is the main component. Look it up guys! Only a fraction of people live by the sea, eating local fish is the best you can do to practice sustainability.

Very much enjoyed catch and cook love to see some more

Chef Miller in the house lol

Amazing how much work he put into this whole carp eating experience!!!!!

bro i've been watching your channel for a while, nice to see another recommendation

I would have to be crazy hungry to eat a carp. Interesting side note: Lobster used to be considered a garbage food and was mainly fed to prison inmates in Maine and the New England area. Somewhere along the way, lobster became a glamor food.

Carp are so delicious out of every freshwater fish I have eaten carp was the best even better than trout in my opinion 👍👍👍

The best part of this video is where your sister says she likes it. It's even better when she finishes the plate. You should definitely find some more fish for her. Make sure they're safe to eat. Great video!

Finally a video of someone that knows how to properly fillet a carp

Great test!

Another cool video never disappointed have a good day and stay safe Jimmy from Massachusetts

Long time since the last time I saw a video glad it came up

Wild caught fish can vary in taste widely depending on it's conidiations of course. Cooking techniques can change that.

Congrats on your first catch and cook

Dude this is such a coincidence I just caught my first carp in a while

The man is back!

Honestly, I've never even caught a carp before! I guess that tells you how much I fish. But the joke about the carp at the beginning I had heard about eating a possum. Great Video!

Isaiah is really looking like Rob since he’s growing up.

Did you ever get around to making the part 2 for the carp series?

cold water season is better than warm water seasons for their flavor -- we also hang / nail them to a tree by the mouth/lip and cut off tail to bleed them, and after skinning/filleting them, we cut the dark meat strip out and toss. What's left it terrific. Smoke carp and pressure canned are other great ways of preserving this. Yes, my german and bohemian friends have recipes for baked carp with cream and dill sauce, with potato dumplings on the side, and kolach for dessert. R

In Asia wild carp lives in the strong river current, so they have big different meat texture compared with the one lives in the pond or lake. Mahseer family are the most economical valued carp, and they have amazing taste, probably one of the best from freshwater.

Good stuff,looking forward to Creek carp,to see if there is a difference,

Great review man awesome job

I never at carp growing up, we were taught that it was undesirable. But my grandfather would always keep them if we caught them... he would take them to an old black man that lived across town because they were his favorite.

From what ive seen the dark red is usually discarded ?

I have had carp before and you are correct, it has a weird water taste. I never tried carp again, after that one time.

Cool to see your siblings in the video!

Carp is very popular in Poland, especially for Christmas and I've heard that if prepped and cooked properly it is very tasty!!!!

My favourite way of eating carp back home, was catching it from the Danube, gut it and wash it thouroughly, but i was taking the scales off. I was leaving it whole and just cooking it on the barbeque scales on, Once its cooked you can easily peel the whole layer of scales at once and the fish is almost baked i would say, Very very tasty. You are right when you';re saying you can taste the water though. Carp will taste bad if its caught in small rivers, ponds and lake (especially stationary water), but the bigger and cleaner the river the better it will taste

Nice vid keep up the great work

I've eaten carp in Serbia and what they do is smoke it and then cook it in the oven with a sauce very similar in taste to what you have with pulled pork. I found it to be delicous and would highly recommend trying it!

interesting video. actually learned a good bit

great vid dude.

Well cleaned, soaked overnight then smoked is my favorite way to enjoy carp. Shad, now there's a fish challenge for ya!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who just tosses it into a shopping bag and throws it in the trunk 😂😂😂

I've done a lot of aid work in Iraq, and carp is considered the "national food" of Iraq (called "masgouf"). It's absolutely incredible...I think it comes down to how it's cooked. There, they gut it, then cut the fish in half lengthwise and cook it around an open fire (scale side away from fire, propped up with sticks). I wasn't convinced before trying it, but it probably my favorite type of fish to eat.

This is gonna be good

You have a lovely family bud. Great video

In Germany and other parts of Europe it's eaten for Christmas. They'll keep it a few days in a bathtub or plastic tub to purge before bleeding and cleaning it.

in our region we cooking carp common use hole fish ：first salted in ginger、onion、chives，crash it then added rice wine ，soak it 30min，then clean up all excess water give it nice Beatiful knife partten，next we heat the wok to 150℃，deep fry it until it's sealed，and the stir fry useing homemade colza oil with rough choped ginger+garlic，add meat&bone soup about 1/3 wok，then fish、sweet fermented flour sause 3tsp+dark aged soy sauce 2tsp，low heat till the water equal to fish's high take out the fish plating，added fine choped carrot marbled meat and green beans，till it's reduce when u can see the sauce a little stick on spatula，seasoning，Dizzle over the fish，serve🎉

Ngl the cut scene of u with the rock almost made me pass out laughing😂

Did you do a follow up video with clean water carp?

Thank you!

Years ago I fried up a mess of lake Erie perch filets and I put a couple young lake Erie Carp filets in amongst them. When we tried to identify the Carp by taste, it was impossible. The key word here is YOUNG. The larger the Carp, the stronger the flavor. I would also suggest getting them from a body of relatively clean water...!!! 😊

i ate a lot of carp when i was young. i liked it. i was wondering if maybe keeping the carp and bowfin live in a tank of fresh water for a few days before cooking would help with the flavor?

Good analysis of the taste. In Southeast Asia, carp is a highly prized fish, especially the river variety. The reason for this, as you correctly state, is that you can taste the water the carp has come from in their flesh. Although they are omnivorous column feeders, they are normally caught by legering. Their mouths have a downward slant that make them ideal for sucking feed off the bottom. Hence, the flavour of the lake bed.

how do you bleed it out there are some monster carp near my house

Carp in Hungary 🇭🇺 is the number one fish delicacy. We make it into a fish soup with homemade noodles. Very sweet meat with flavour. (KEEP THE SKIN ON ! ITS THE BEST PART)

Nice vid are u going to do a googan bait vid

What did you do with all that beautiful row???

My father in law used to pickle it!!!! That was awesome!

It is all in the cleaning and cooking. Good Eating.

Please, rod and reel arsenal!!!

I love your fishing video

I grew up on the Missouri river not far below the last dam on the river and in my life have eaten many pounds of native carp as well as its cousin, the buffalo. There is definitely a difference between cool water and hot summer water on the taste of the fish

While deployed in Iraq, the Iraqis would prepare Masgoof on special occasions. It’s split and skewered carp roasted over/near a fire served over a bed of pilaf and it is quite good actually.

Out of all of you, your little sister is a savage she devoured that carp.

I have cooked carp like trout butter lemon lemon pepper aluminum foil on grill also did a cajun style one very good .....bones is the tough part personally.

I live in Minnesota, and we have a bunch of Hmong people living here, and they love carp. Sometimes I see other people fishing, and when they catch a carp, they'll offer it to them and usually if it's a biggin they'll buy it for a little cash. I live by the Mississippi, and I don't think I'd ever eat a bottom feeder off the Mississippi.

Go Lydia, she's so cute. Good on your other siblings having a try! Very interesting video mate. Carp are a massive environmental problem in our waterways here in Australia Thanks for sharing

Great video