Seafood ID and Fabrication day 6

Day 6 was not that exciting to wake up to because it was a Saturday morning and everyone knows that college students need their sleep, but in this case we all said good morning to the dark cold outside world at 4:00am nobody was excited about that. Saturdays class we learned all about crustaceans which included shrimp, lobsters, crabs, and crayfish. This day was also important because we would be reviewing for our three part final. In the beginning of class we had a review of all the fish that we had in the walk in, 10 of the many fish in the walk in would be on the ID portion of the test. Then we had to scale 11 Haddock, which is a fish in the Cod family, then we also had to scale 11 Atlantic Cod. We scaled them because later in the class we would be filleting them. We each got 1 Haddock and 1 Atlantic Cod to fillet and we had a little less than 20 minutes to do it in. Over all the fillets were successful, except on one of my Haddock fillets I accidentally cut out the belly which you will see in the picture the spot missing, and of course I did it just to show you what not to do! Not really but, now I know how to prevent that from happening, so that negative part of class taught me a lesson! After cleaning up the kitchen we went into lecture for three hours and we would be having a tasting in the beginning of crustaceans. Our tasting included; Tiger Shrimp, White Shrimp, white shrimp cooked with shell on, Langoustine, Jonah Crab, Blue Crab, and Lobster. It was all delicious as usual! Lecture was chalked full of a ton of interesting information as usual, but at 11:00am we were all happy to get out of class and go take a lovely nap to recover from getting up at 4:00am. This nap was important because it was Saturday night our only free night of the weekend, so everyone had fun plans that they had to be fully rested for. There was one negative to only having Sunday off this past weekend and that was the fact that normally every other class has Saturday and Sunday to study but we only had Sunday to do that because we had Saturday class, and we all knew that a lot of Sunday would be dedicated to sleep. So we had to figure out a balance of study and sleep fast!