Passionate About Fish - How to Skin & Fillet Ray / Skate Wings

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How to remove the skin from a ray, as well as taking off the fillets from the wings. This method is suitable for any members of the rajidae family of skates and rays

[@lewissowerby2149]

Decent teacher, it's not easy explaining stuff like this while doing it 👊🏼

[@peterthornton8254]

I watched half of two other videos about removing skate skin. This is definitely the best. Thank you.

[@KM-pq7jk]

Really knows his job, I watched another guy who was useless, using a pair of pliers, no way could he fillet skate like this guy.

[@ChimpFromSpace]

There's something very relaxing about these filleting videos. Or maybe I'm just a weirdo.

[@kiharaaikido]

Best presentation so far, great job!

[@Paultreyvaud]

Lads I have to admit, I absolutely love your youtube channel. Its fantastic and great vids. Well done

[@saras-no8kp]

I live in New Jersey and catch skate often. Until recently I had always thrown them back. I had found a tutorial online that suggested the"boil" method for the skin. it was awful and over-cooked at the end. Not to mention they did not mention the cartilage in the center (I never tried it before and knew nothing about it..) this tutorial is very useful and comprehensive. I will certainly try it again. Thank you!

[@mariaconti1384]

Brilliant, I have been told it is impossible to skin a skate wing, I am delighted to see the exercise performed doesn't look easy, may have to ruin half a dozen first!

[@ediblesouthshore]

Trying skate for the first time today. Thanks for the video, helps us understand a bit more about our fish.

[@leodhasach...]

Hi Duncan really excellent video, the passion really comes through! I look forward to visiting your shop next time passing. : )

[@Snipermac99]

Just what I've been looking for. Great presentation!

[@shullerdias4379]

Thank you for the lovely demonstration. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@dawang8332]

Thank you!! I been fishing for years but keep breaking the skin while ripping it off, your way seems easier

[@kenbobca]

Thank you for making this video. Now I can keep the Skate and Rays that I catch because they are food. Thank you.

[@RAMajussi]

Ken Karnes l

[@kipsiedoodle]

Brilliant video thanks you Duncan. You make it look very easy but I'm sure you have done this many times.............. now all I have to do is skin the skate wings I bought at market this morning.

[@kusinanijunior]

THIS IS AWESOME! THANK YOU FOR SHARING..

[@richardcabeza8036]

nice job mate! never seen the envelope cut. thank you

[@lesdunn736]

2021. Great demonstration. Thank you

[@121Draconis]

Bloody top stuff, top stuff, very well done and presented!

[@manfreddelacasse853]

That´s perfectly done! Greetings from Germany

[@NeilCaulfield]

Just caught a Skate, thanks for the video!

[@georgewashington3555]

i like your ways. now if i want to freeze this fish should i freeze it with the skin?

[@cole19762]

Bludy awsome mate👍🏽

[@unixex4328]

good lesson.. thanks

[@lucstar77]

Very good presentation, thank

[@bernadetteduncan8381]

Thank you for sharing 👏🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@1KunDog]

Nicely done. I will have to try this again. I made a mess of my skate wing. I wish I would have saw this video before I hacked it to pieces.

[@joelsohn4403]

Go Duncan Lucas...beautiful cut.

[@telmanspb]

Супер! Сразу видно - Мастер! Спасибо за видео

[@raviragbir2051]

Looks simple, ill give it a try.

[@rabm9394]

Bravo et merci

[@moniquesabal9461]

Thanks for the share

[@nicolerodrigues6950]

Muito legal e Interessante! Amazing!

[@unixex4328]

good lesson.. thankz

[@CalaisRider]

That's great. Its similar to what I do for Flathead in Australia (different to that of British and US variants of same name). Most of the videos I've seen on cleaning Rays and Skates is more that of just butchering with blunt knives and losing heaps of good meat.

[@Mako561]

I will apply this technique on stingrays in Florida, thanks buddy.

[@richieduliban87]

nicely done

[@zash008]

All this time we've been throwing them back. Is it gummy like calamari or octopus? Is it heavy dense like blue marlin? It it lite and mild like flounder or "fluke"? Easiest way to cook it?

[@ScreamingReel500]

I can't peel the skin of southern ray here in the US like that. And off course it fresh catch of the day... it's a lot of work.. so how do you peel the skin so easy, and keep the fish fresh? Or maybe they are small? mines to keep is at least 10lbs.

[@Maz1989]

What happens to the rest of the skate body, can you eat a skate tail? Does it have cheeks like the monkfish? Amazing videos too, I learn so much. thank you!

[@MexicanFart14]

Can you put some sort of stuffing in the envelope?

[@jsmpdga]

Expert skills.

[@songsyluc]

never tasted skates. hows it taste? and whats best way to cook them

[@Struggle2015]

this is nice :-) would do this with the smaller skates just fine. Now the barndoor skate and the cownose ray, would require a rather lengthy knife, indeed.

[@m1a2abrams52]

Can you also do this with giant bat rays?

[@MrTChrisso]

loving the envelope

[@tahamedtima3169]

MrTChrisso

[@johnsheehan977]

Skate wing is one of my favorite fish but it's hard to find!

[@BigBrother169]

I tried that skinning technique on a cow nose ray that I caught a few days ago, but it didn't work out. It was fresh out of the Gulf of Mexico. Do you wait a few days before skinning?

[@svk1688]

Tnx a lot dr bro

[@cattona34]

Skate is delicious. I bake it in an oven at 200 degrees for 30 minutes, in foil covered with lemon and spices!

[@teancoffee208]

Im watching *The Tunnel* on Amazon prime video, and in the 3rd season they mention "skate wings" and fisherman. Having never heard of skate wings I was curious. I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't stingray meat

[@davenad9954]

thank you so mush verygood

[@mohamedmani1831]

merci

[@audreyjane7332]

My fishmonger told me ray & skate are the same fish. Is ray a cheaper option to skate.?

[@terrydharris5731]

Nicely done,what kind of ray is that?

[@BillyBJohnson]

It looks like a skate which is a type of common stingray

[@robertrjsaa]

i had no idea do not get skate wings here in prince george bc... no ocean near by lots of lakes no skates... well done.....love fish........I love to cook this was very good.. to learn how to do. but no fresh skate here....

[@facundot.asungotj.d.6323]

Hi - I love the flavor of the skin of skate wings, however, some parts of it have plenty of spikes, and that makes the eating process less enjoyable. How do you remove those nasty spikes off the skin????

[@DillonBorges]

it depends on the kind of ray. I'm from Hong Kong, and the ray we get there has a relatively smooth skin that can be cooked in and it has this pleasant texture. After moving to Italy, the ray here is covered in little calcareous spikes that I just must remove. I made a coriander and mango curry and popped the ray in there, I left one piece with skin on and the skin was horrible, it was covered in little hard beads which I assume were the remnants of the rough beads on the skin. So I guess that while in Europe, I have no choice.

[@keonihillier981]

Did you just fart? Skate urinate from their skin

[@jamma246]

I just tried cooking skate for the first time. Out of interest, I tried eating the cartilage (not the really hard "bony" bit at the front though, I cut that off before cooking). I didn't think it was too bad, a small crunch. Is it bad to eat the cartilage? Is it healthy to eat? I'm guessing it's just not considered to be a valuable part of this fish. I didn't see anything wrong with it, though; perhaps useful for a broth or something. Saying that, it was really easy to cook before cutting the cartilage off and then just pull away the flesh with a bone; I imagine this would be less wasteful than filleting it off before cooking.

[@eebydeeby69420]

jamma246 I'd rekon cartilage would be tasty if fried till crunchy

[@richard2mitchell]

is he the guy from bones?

[@stuart207]

So quite easy then..

[@ZasaSaza34]

👍

[@sinclairmarcus]

Gr* video trhanx

[@TheWoody3322]

Sorry, just to correct myself, I think a few fishmongers still sell skate is in the species skate, but skate are an endangered species so they are rarely sold now (I'm not sure if they are, in fact, ever sold.) You can be pretty sure that what your fishmonger calls skate is actually a species of ray.

[@RealProFarmOlympian]

The pocket! Perfect!

[@TheGreenpetal]

Thank you. I bet you mine will just fall apart. I'll have a go.

[@Rollacosta27]

like peeling plastidip off a car. lol

[@bernadetteduncan8381]

I HAVE ONE RIGHT NOW AND LEARNING HOW TO CLEAN IT TO EAT😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@MotoAngler]

Butbut the skin is my favorite part. :3

[@TheWoody3322]

They are not the same fish. All 'skate' that is sold in fishmongers is a species of ray. Rays are just called skate by fishmongers. There are lots of different species of ray.

[@jc3944]

I used a fillet knife, it's a lot easier to fillet fish over 5lbs.

[@kpwc123]

that is a fillet knife

[@jc3944]

+Kieran Clark it's a kitchen knife, I have one, it looks like a fillet knife, but it's stiff, instead of flexible.

[@kpwc123]

Joshua Couling it seemed fairly flexible to me, I'm almost certain its a victorinox filleting knife which is a fairly stiff blade anyway

[@jc3944]

+Kieran Clark it is a fillet knife, I just watched another video, and the blade was flexing a lot. I was wrong.

[@kpwc123]

Joshua Couling yeah, I happen to have one myself, that I why I was so so sure

[@kipsiedoodle]

Did'nt look quite the same as yours Duncan .......... sharp knife was more effective for me

[@darrenbetts2987]

You realise that the ICUN status of Blonde rays is ‘near threatened’ ? My son and I fish but wouldn’t take rays to eat. Each to their own.

[@traveric3]

You have thumbs of steel.

[@trex1448]

I catch so many skate and throw them all back.

[@emrose98]

It's not "fill-et", it's "fill-aye"... =.=

[@jc3944]

It's pronounced "fil-it" in england. And "fil-a" in the us

[@kpwc123]

idiot

[@dansherman1980]

I call foul he made the filleting part look way too easy.

[@unixex4328]

good lesson.. thanks

[@unixex4328]

good lesson.. thankz