Ocean Chef individually vacuum packed frozen Salt Water Barramundi fillets. 1kg for $14.49. 1/2 Price, Save $14.50. Wild caught as described on Woolworths online:
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Frozen Barramundi Fillets 1kg – $14.49 Half Price at Woolworths
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If they're that cheap , they could be Vietnamese, from the dirty Mekong river…
My seafood needs to be local otherwise if you were to see Asian Import fish in their live state, you'd throw up, however somehow some donkey minister in Australia still allows an import trade of that sort.
The Ocean Chef website says it's product of Indonesia, but the packaging looks different from the woolies one. I guess they would be imported. I'll give these a miss.
Not sure if Barramundi comes from Vietnam but I avoid the commonly sold 'Basa fillets' which does come from the Mekong. While the SIAA says it's safe, it tastes a bit muddy and has poor texture.
tastes a bit muddy and has poor texture
Basa is catfish, most if it out of the sewer known as the Mekong. Utterly revolting shyte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6N2SX51d7w
I'll be having a look at the packaging of these Barra portions later today, expect I'll be putting it back in the freezer though.
I've been and had a look and they are indeed a product of Indonesia. The portions are quite narrow too, pretty much as pictured.
The "fresh" Australian barra was near $40 a kilo, the frozen stuff at the deli was $12.99 a kilo and looked pretty sad.
Is $30 cheap? Serious question.I like barra but never buy it.
Fresh Barramundi fillets at the Sydney fish market are around $29.95/kg from memory. At full price, these imported frozen ones are not good value at all.
I've been to the basa fish farms in Vietnam. Conditions are very clean and hygienic.
its not the mekong river you have to be worried about!!!! it is the food & medicine that is being fed to fish in the fish farms to make them grow quickly! ie. growth hormones, antibiotics, blah blah blah! And it is not limited to vietnam!
Mmmmm.
This offer is only available online I think. I was just in my local store and they have got this on a special rewards deal at only a few dollars off.
It's in the catalogue
only small amounts of omega 3 according the to nutritional info
The name barramundi comes from an Aboriginal term for “fish with big scales”. News Article
"It is too simplistic to say that Australian Barramundi are better than imported. As with fish produced in Australia, the quality of imported fish is variable from very high quality fish to fish with very questionable quality. Blue Harvest’s recommendation is that buyers seek out more information about the fish they are buying, if this information is not readily available buy elsewhere" Source
About Barramundi farming in Australia and overseas Link
I'd personally rather buy fish fillets from fish market (sydney) where prices are just a little more than supermakets. I've seen some horrible looking seafood in supermarket chains. Completely discolored and looks like it's been there for weeks
Same here - there's no comparison in terms of freshness. Even when local fish shops label something as 'sashimi quality', it's still not as fresh as the Sydney fish market. We eat some of our fish raw for sushi/sashimi so freshness is important. Whatever we can't finish in a day or two, we freeze to be cooked at a later date.
The only fresh seafood I don't mind getting from Woolies is their prawns but I never buy the stuff that's thawing (and turning black) in the display, I ask them (nicely) to get those that are still frozen from the back. Their Australian banana prawns are frozen on the ship and the quality is very good. It doesn't take long to defrost prawns anyway, even if you need to use them that day.
for me, managing my food is also very important. frozen stuff is easy to keep on hand since i have a 500L chest freezer. it's full of frozen vegetables, fish, chicken, meat, berries etc
I agree. These fish fillets are all individually vacuum packed, which is really convenient. Also, regarding freshness, most of these frozen seafood are snap frozen immediately after harvest, they are actually "fresher" than the fresh seafood in the market.
Stay away from this imported crap.
Mitchins 6 hours 7 min ago new
"I've been to the basa fish farms in Vietnam. Conditions are very clean and hygienic."Dude WTF - you must be dreaming or you're some Asian Fish Exporter
Have a look at 1,0000+ video of the Basa and other fish usually exported from Vietnam. You wouldn't even take a dump in the water they're swimming in…no tlong ago they caught this dude throwing pig and other off-cuts there which arnt usually the primary diet source of pigs. Ofcourse the moron bribed them and is sweet now..
Tried these today pan fried with some salt and pepper, light barramundi taste, definitely not as strong as fresh barramundi. Smelt fishy when taken out of packet but disappeared after cooking and could not taste it. Texture is the same as fresh, nice and firm and flakey. The fillets are definitely not as nicely cut as the picture on package, some tail end pieces which were thinner otherwise about 1 inch thick when cooked. Generally slightly larger than palm sized portions and had 8 in my pack.
Has anyone tried these - what's the quality like?
Edit: Any idea if they're Australian or imported barramundi?
Edit 2: Answered this myself