How to Prepare a StringRay?
 

Hello Everyone

Yesterday I caught a stringray that was about 10-12 Lbs.
and i just kept it cause i want to taste what it tastes like
so i can catch the big ones.
i cut off the wings and the tail

did i get the right pieces?
also how can i prepare it to eat it? I hear that it tastes good.
would it taste good if i fry it? or..

thanks

RE: How to Prepare a StringRay?
 

Fillet the white meat out of the wings. Cut the skin off. We marinaded them in soy sauce. There are recipes on the web too.

10-12 lbs? small ray. How did you "catch" it and where at?

RE: How to Prepare a StringRay?
 

We fillet out the wings so you have a big piece of "steak", then we cube it up (we usually don't get enough for everyone to have a hole steak), so we cube it up and sautee it in butter. Put a little Old Bay on it and pop it in your mouth.

SOOOOOOO GOOODDDDDDDDD. They make scallops with plugs out of some type of ray so it's very similar.

Thanks, my mouth is watering[:@]

RE: How to Prepare a StringRay?
 

I know people that eat them, they filet the wings. I've never ate one but have caught several in Jersey. I have heard they are really good. Let us know how it was, maybe the next time I'll try it.

RE: How to Prepare a StringRay?
 

If it was a stingray and not a cow nose ray you have some fine eating there, basically any way you would cook scallops is good.

RE: How to Prepare a StringRay?
 

What's a cownose ray and why aren't they good eating?

RE: How to Prepare a StringRay?
 

They are actually a skate, they are light colored with spots all over them, they live on sandy bottoms and I beleive that is why they are the color they are. They have a funny shaped nose is why they call them cow nosed rays. I have no idea if they are good to eat or not, but I doubt it.

RE: How to Prepare a StringRay?
 

My understanding is that skates & rays are different. Anyway, here's a cownose ray.

RE: How to Prepare a StringRay?
 

T_in_PA2 that is what we call sting rays down home and are the kind we eat, the cow nosed ray I am talking about is sandy colored on the top, here is a link to what I am talking about http://octopus.gma.org/fogm/Rhinoptera_bonasus.htm they do not have a real pic of one, but the drawing is what I am talking about and they describe it's color as sandy brown on top, white on the bottom.

RE: How to Prepare a StringRay?
 

That's definitely a cow nose in the photograph and it's also a cownose in Tazman's link. All the ones I've caught or seen in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays were a dark brown on top. It's possible that they have lighter skin where the bottom is all sand. I know skates are a lighter color. The common skates in the northeast and mid-atlantic are the clearnose and the barndoor. I never ate a skate but I tried to eat a cow nose once. The meat was stringy. I froze it but it got freezer burned. I used it for crab trap bait. I release them all now. The ones we used to catch in the Chesapeake were all at least 30-40lbs. I think you probably caught a skate. Be careful with skates as they have areas on their skin that can cut you.
Here's a clearnose skate.