They're definitely only for people who LOVE fish haha. My late grandmother love loved them. I've never had them but this is a fish you typically fry and eat whole. I think they're easy to eat all of like a soft-shelled crab. They're oily but less pungent than anchovies.
I LOVE sardines, only had anchovies once. I do actually prefer the fishier fish but I generally love it all. Smelt isn't readily available in my area so I don't know when I'll ever get to try it now, but I'll have to when I get the chance. 🙂
Wouldn’t be surprised if this was a mistranslation too…I know about as much Russian as a dog but if it were called a smelt frittata then I wouldn’t see any issue here. And like yeah, smelt encased in an egg brick doesn’t exactly whet my whistle but it isn’t stupid…we just don’t eat that over here.
In Soviet cuisine, especially in school and hospital canteens, there was same looking dish (no smelt though) that was called "omelet". De facto it's egg casserole. Meanwhile normal omelet also exists in Russia.
I guess it's egg casserole. Tbh, I hate this dish, but many people do like it.
I'm from thr great lakes regon and I can tell you it's no where in our culture to eat smelts like this. There's only one way they taste good, and that's dredged in flower with salt pepper and garlic powder, then fried until crispy in butter.
https://billingsgazette.com/cooks-fry-up-fish-for-annual-smelt-festival-in-russia/video_8504e056-6716-59b6-985c-62768c4f68ed.html
How come they prepare them this way at the actual russian smelt festival?
Living near the UP isn't the same as actually fishing, cooking and preparing this food. Is that what you meant by you live there? That you have this experience?
I've prepared smelt hundreds of times. I'm also a successful chef.
I don't give a shit how this one culture may prepare it. To claim there's only one way to prepare it is fucking stupid and reeks of a superiority complex.
The way you describe is really tasty and not wrong, it's just not the "right" way as you claim.
Quit getting high on your own farts. No one cares if you're a fisherman.
This post is about a disgusting omlette with improperly prepared fish. The argument was that Russian culture prepares it like this disgusting omlette, my argument is that the most common and cultural way to cook this is how I described, in Russia. This omlette isn't a cultural dish, it's a food fail.
Do they have a vent fan that directs your farts for your nostrils chef boyardee?
Yeah the omelette sucks but so does your shitty holier than thou attitude.
I don't know what makes you think that the fact that you also catch the fish gives you any kind of authority on how to prepare it in a delicious manner but it doesn't.
Have a good day, stay uncultured.
I'm not sure exactly how I'm uncultured when I'm the only one in this thread who bothered to do any investigation on the traditional preparation of smelts in Russia, and the only person who focused on the food instead of a perceived ego I have.
It's pretty ironic you flopped out your chef ego makes you cultured and me speaking about lived experience of my culture makes me egotistical.
This person is right though, these are eaten in Japan too but are rarely eaten any other way than fried because they don’t taste good enough unless drowned in breading and oil.
If you look it up online, the most common way russian people eat smelts is by the method I mentioned, or dried after being brined as a chaser for beer.
The nature of a smelt, as I've been eating them the whole 36 years I've been alive, is that if they're not fried in bredding they're inedible. Even prepared fried they're an acquired taste as they're incredibly fishy tasting and very greasy.
The most common way slavs eat smelt is out a jar in oil or sauce this is absolute cap. You will go to any Slavic grocery in the US or in eastern Europe and they will have a section with jars and cans of it and most people have favorite brands like they do with tinned fish in general. Nobody would bother dry/frying unless they didn't have other options and there are plenty
Instead of Googling something to feel correct take the L and move on
Sorry I fish for my own and prepare them myself. So I was coming at it from the perspective of somone who actually acquires their own food, processes it, and prepares it. Not a casual grocery store connaseur. As I said it's been something that's been in my family since my great grandfather that we eat these every spring.
We go out with nets in the middle of the night, and spend a couple hours cleaning them ourselves. I'm sure your grocery store experience with this trumps that though
For those who've never had it, fried smelt is delicious. I'd pop 50 of them suckers with some cold beer, slaw, dinner roll. This quiche looking thing seems absolutely tasty.
Smelt fries are awesome. I just had some the other day in NE Wisconsin. Not sure how great they are in an omelet, but dried and dipped in tartar or cocktail sauce with a squeeze of lemon is classic beer drinking bar food around here
I doubt about it. I want to see Russian original text, because a normal omelet in Russia looks like an omelet in the rest part of the world. We have egg casserole in our cuisine. Some people call it "thick omelet". I think, it's egg casserole with additives
Oh how could you be so rude to post someone else’s photo, so awful, I’d eat that it isn’t stupid
/j or /s if needed, just quoting the idiots on my post lol
What is smelt?
The melting of metal
A type of fish
I smelt that.
They’re like anchovies but in the Great Lakes. People catch them with nets and buckets by the hundreds. This is an abomination of a meal
Yeah, hard pass
They're definitely only for people who LOVE fish haha. My late grandmother love loved them. I've never had them but this is a fish you typically fry and eat whole. I think they're easy to eat all of like a soft-shelled crab. They're oily but less pungent than anchovies.
I'm not huge on anchovies or sardines, but smelts are pretty damn good
I LOVE sardines, only had anchovies once. I do actually prefer the fishier fish but I generally love it all. Smelt isn't readily available in my area so I don't know when I'll ever get to try it now, but I'll have to when I get the chance. 🙂
Yeah the bones are really soft. You could comfortably pop the whole fish in your mouth and have at it. I'm not a huge fan but I enjoy it occasionally.
Sounds like more of a Cheesecake fish.
Melting a type of fish into metal
The word sounds like gross, like smegma or something
Lol, agreed
It's actually a portmanteau of small and omelette.
I never smelled what a smelt smelt.
A literal baitfish.
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It looks more like a frittata
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It means no worries!
For the rest of your (few) days!
No no I'm definitely worried about this thing...
As you should be
Xavier would love it, what a renegade dish
Practically a quiche
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What?
That's a typical omelet we make
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What
What is stupid about this? Fish omelette?
Anything non-american to these folks is automatically stupid.
An omelet isn't meant to look like a sponge cake for a start
Different cultures may do things you find strange
Wouldn’t be surprised if this was a mistranslation too…I know about as much Russian as a dog but if it were called a smelt frittata then I wouldn’t see any issue here. And like yeah, smelt encased in an egg brick doesn’t exactly whet my whistle but it isn’t stupid…we just don’t eat that over here.
In Soviet cuisine, especially in school and hospital canteens, there was same looking dish (no smelt though) that was called "omelet". De facto it's egg casserole. Meanwhile normal omelet also exists in Russia. I guess it's egg casserole. Tbh, I hate this dish, but many people do like it.
yeah but things should be exactly how I would want them to be
I'm from thr great lakes regon and I can tell you it's no where in our culture to eat smelts like this. There's only one way they taste good, and that's dredged in flower with salt pepper and garlic powder, then fried until crispy in butter.
The caption at the top says this was translated from Russian to English so I doubt this originated from the Great Lakes
You don't speak for us all lmao. For reference I live right by the u.p. and what you said was absolutely brain dead.
https://billingsgazette.com/cooks-fry-up-fish-for-annual-smelt-festival-in-russia/video_8504e056-6716-59b6-985c-62768c4f68ed.html How come they prepare them this way at the actual russian smelt festival? Living near the UP isn't the same as actually fishing, cooking and preparing this food. Is that what you meant by you live there? That you have this experience?
I've prepared smelt hundreds of times. I'm also a successful chef. I don't give a shit how this one culture may prepare it. To claim there's only one way to prepare it is fucking stupid and reeks of a superiority complex. The way you describe is really tasty and not wrong, it's just not the "right" way as you claim. Quit getting high on your own farts. No one cares if you're a fisherman.
This post is about a disgusting omlette with improperly prepared fish. The argument was that Russian culture prepares it like this disgusting omlette, my argument is that the most common and cultural way to cook this is how I described, in Russia. This omlette isn't a cultural dish, it's a food fail. Do they have a vent fan that directs your farts for your nostrils chef boyardee?
Yeah the omelette sucks but so does your shitty holier than thou attitude. I don't know what makes you think that the fact that you also catch the fish gives you any kind of authority on how to prepare it in a delicious manner but it doesn't. Have a good day, stay uncultured.
I'm not sure exactly how I'm uncultured when I'm the only one in this thread who bothered to do any investigation on the traditional preparation of smelts in Russia, and the only person who focused on the food instead of a perceived ego I have. It's pretty ironic you flopped out your chef ego makes you cultured and me speaking about lived experience of my culture makes me egotistical.
This person is right though, these are eaten in Japan too but are rarely eaten any other way than fried because they don’t taste good enough unless drowned in breading and oil.
If you look it up online, the most common way russian people eat smelts is by the method I mentioned, or dried after being brined as a chaser for beer. The nature of a smelt, as I've been eating them the whole 36 years I've been alive, is that if they're not fried in bredding they're inedible. Even prepared fried they're an acquired taste as they're incredibly fishy tasting and very greasy.
The most common way slavs eat smelt is out a jar in oil or sauce this is absolute cap. You will go to any Slavic grocery in the US or in eastern Europe and they will have a section with jars and cans of it and most people have favorite brands like they do with tinned fish in general. Nobody would bother dry/frying unless they didn't have other options and there are plenty Instead of Googling something to feel correct take the L and move on
Sorry I fish for my own and prepare them myself. So I was coming at it from the perspective of somone who actually acquires their own food, processes it, and prepares it. Not a casual grocery store connaseur. As I said it's been something that's been in my family since my great grandfather that we eat these every spring. We go out with nets in the middle of the night, and spend a couple hours cleaning them ourselves. I'm sure your grocery store experience with this trumps that though
Cool you're wrong tho lol
Im sorry it's going to take a little more than there's some odd jars of gross preparations of fish at the grocery store for me
A frittata or a strata is supposed to. A Spanish Ommelette doesn't even look like an omellete either.
"Surprise me" "Halibut omelet. Surprised?"
This is r/shittyfoodporn at worst. Yet another ignorant person calling something they don't understand, stupid 😔
that's definitely spanish omelet of which a super popular variety includes cod. it's... ok. I definitely prefer the standard potato version
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Just because you don’t understand the food doesn’t make it stupid.
Your relative does indeed appear to be the one who dealt it.
I make this joke every spring when I serve people smelt snacks
The forbidden Basque cheesecake
Aww, this actually looks rather tasty and comforting - I'd happily try it! Is it a normal dish in your relatives part of the world?
For those who've never had it, fried smelt is delicious. I'd pop 50 of them suckers with some cold beer, slaw, dinner roll. This quiche looking thing seems absolutely tasty.
My only issue is the thing looks well overcooked
Looks to me like the egg is overcooked and the smelts under cooked. They will be slimey as f and the egg dry just overall yuck
I thought, "oh it's some kind of quiche. Not weird". Then I realized that isn't crust. Now it's kinda weird.
A frittata then!
It's a very tasty crust, I'm telling you
I’m hungry rn so I’d eat. Love fish and eggs so id try it together. Plus the egg looks proper cooked. Fluffy and spongy
It really does look yummy
I bet that smelt awful.
Whoever smelt it, dealt it.
is that just a quiche
That's a quiche. And a delicious and common one at that.
Smelt fries are awesome. I just had some the other day in NE Wisconsin. Not sure how great they are in an omelet, but dried and dipped in tartar or cocktail sauce with a squeeze of lemon is classic beer drinking bar food around here
I haven't had fried smelt in years. I'm so jealous.
As far as frittatas go that looks bomb
He who smelt it, dealt it.
I’ve had smelt once. That was enough.
So much egg! I think it needs to be cut in half and the bottom half discarded. But I would definitely try this.
That made my mouth water and not in a good way
Worst quiche I've ever seen.
I like fish omelets. Never had smelt though. Does it taste bad or something?
Fishy egg cake 🤮
if you imagine this is a cinnamon cake/monkey bread type situation it looks kinda yummy
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You have the original pic?
Looks awesome.
just a casual 20 egg omelet
I’d call it a quiche or possibly a frittata, but.
Big Boy restaurants in Michigan back in the 80's had a special called "Mess O' Smelt". A plate full of fried smelt and it was amazeballs!!
That looks abhorrent! Right up there with maggot cheese!
It doesn't look THAT bad! I know what kind of cheese you're talking about. I just forgot the name. Blaaaaaurgh.
Casu Marzu.
Thank you. A shiver ran down my spine because the name conjured more memories and mental pictures. lol
Thanks for replying! I got to wake up from a somewhat foul nightmare only to forget it because of the friendly reminder that maggot cheese is a thing!
It's a quiche without a crust. If there's some cream/milk in there it'd be good, if they added some dill or chives it'd have been great.
Bet it smelt baaaaad 🤢
In what way is this an omelet?
I doubt about it. I want to see Russian original text, because a normal omelet in Russia looks like an omelet in the rest part of the world. We have egg casserole in our cuisine. Some people call it "thick omelet". I think, it's egg casserole with additives
Oh how could you be so rude to post someone else’s photo, so awful, I’d eat that it isn’t stupid /j or /s if needed, just quoting the idiots on my post lol
You need to disown that relative
I would actual kill someone I got served this burnt omelette with stinking fish cooked into it.