Bone-free, Worry-free Fish
You would like to enjoy fish more often, but
you’re worried about all those bones? Did you know that most
of the fish steaks and fillets at your Metro supermarket have no
bones? Your Metro’s seafood department, Idées et
Marées, offers a wide variety of boned fish steaks and
fillets :
- Fresh or frozen tuna steaks
- Fresh shark steaks
- Fresh swordfish steaks
- Fresh cod fillets
- Fresh monkfish fillets
- Fresh Nile perch fillets
- Fresh salmon fillets
- Fresh sole fillets
- Fresh tilapia fillets
- Fresh trout fillets
- Fresh turbot fillets
With a few easy techniques, you can enjoy bone-free fish. In fish, the bones are situated in the thickest part of the flesh.
If a few bones remain, use a pair of sterilized tweezers to remove them.
- Lay fillet flat on the cutting board.
- Using a sharp knife, make a deep cut about 1/8 in. (1/2 cm) from the backbone (down the middle of the fish).
- Run the knife from top to bottom down the length of the fillet.
- Using the knife, detach the backbone from the flesh.
- Gently lift the backbone out with your fingers.
- Lay fish flat on the cutting board.
- Gut and clean fish.
- Then using a sharp knife, make a deep cut in the belly not the back, about 1/8 in. (1/2 cm) from the backbone (down the middle of the fish).
- Lay the fish open if necessary and run the knife from top to bottom down the length of the fish.
- Gently slide the knife under the backbone lifting it away from the flesh.
- Gently lift the backbone out with your fingers.
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