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Posted on 6/17/16 at 7:41 pm to Uncle JackD
Just bumping curious as well
Posted on 6/17/16 at 8:26 pm to Uncle JackD
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Jason, who do you find has the freshest tuna around? Whole foods? Fresh market? What's your opinion on costcos tuna?
In New Orleans area, the only places I've seen non-treated and fresh tuna is whole foods, restaurant depot, rouse's (sometimes they have it and sometimes they have treated- I find their people don't rotate or take care of their seafood good enough), and maybe Langenstein's. Fisherman's cove used to buy fresh tuna from time to time also. Restaurant depot will probably have best price and just as good as quality as Whole Foods. I've only been in Costco once but they did have nice fresh and untreated 2+ tuna.
Their price was descent and a good bit cheaper than whole foods also.
In Baton Rouge, I would say only place to get fresh non treated tuna is at whole foods although it's been a few years since I've shopped there.
Not sure about Lafayette.
Most places I see tuna have skin off treated (that false bright pink color). Very few markets carry actual fresh tuna. Now, tons of restaurants and sushi places use high quality tuna. For markets, it can be expensive and if it doesn't sell in 2-3 days max it will start browning (quicker in a fish case than in a water tight bag covered in ice) so it can be hard to make money with it.
With that said, treated tuna is not bad. It's still good meat imo. Just not as high quality as the fresh - never frozen stuff.
This post was edited on 6/17/16 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 6/17/16 at 8:36 pm to JasonL79
To add to my last post:
If you are looking for larger quantities (like a whole loin), I would highly recommend calling a seafood processor such as New Orleans Fish house, Louisiana Seafood Exchange, Vincent Piazza, or Inland in New Orleans. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana Seafood exchange or maybe Seafood Source. You will get good quality stuff at a much better price than a market.
If you are looking for larger quantities (like a whole loin), I would highly recommend calling a seafood processor such as New Orleans Fish house, Louisiana Seafood Exchange, Vincent Piazza, or Inland in New Orleans. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana Seafood exchange or maybe Seafood Source. You will get good quality stuff at a much better price than a market.
Posted on 6/20/16 at 5:54 pm to JasonL79
Got these at Alexander's market, on sale for )11.99/lb
Jason, any idea what they would grade?
Posted on 6/20/16 at 6:00 pm to Tigerpaw123
That is some good looking tuna there...
Posted on 6/20/16 at 6:28 pm to Tigerpaw123
Damn that looks delicious
Posted on 6/21/16 at 7:41 am to Tigerpaw123
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Got these at Alexander's market, on sale for )11.99/lb Jason, any idea what they would grade?
Looks good to me. Probably on the weaker end of 2+. Good deal on that price for sure. Usually you can expect to pay from $12-$20+/lb for tuna steaks on 2+ depending on the tuna market price. Whole fish H&G fish can vary from $4-$7/b wholesale and you get about 55-60% yield on H&G tuna to tuna steaks. H&G =headless and gutted.
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