<story><title>Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish</title><url>https://guide.michelin.com/sg/dining-out/what-is-ike-jime/news</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>I fish on occasion, though at my skill level it&amp;#x27;s probably better described as &amp;quot;being disappointed next to water&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;m usually going for perch or bluegill. People typically throw them in a cooler of ice while still alive, or put them on a stringer, a line run through their mouth and out the gill so that can sort of still somewhat swim around and live until the fisherman is ready to go home.&lt;p&gt;Both of those seem pretty unpleasant to me. I tried putting them in a cooler on ice the first time and they flopped around for hours. They were still moving when I went to clean them later. If you watch videos of people cleaning fish, you&amp;#x27;ll see they are often still moving even while the fish is being filleted. When I was a kid, I once saw someone cut the fillets off a fish and toss the &amp;quot;carcass&amp;quot; back in the water where it proceeded to try to swim away.&lt;p&gt;The last time I went fishing, I tried the first step of ike jime where you spike the brain. I used a little pocket knife and poked it between the eyes. It took a few tries to find the right spot, but once I did, I do think it was more humane. The gills flare and the fish stiffens for a second and then immediately after it has clearly shuffled off its mortal coil.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if it improves the taste, but it seems kinder to me than letting it beat itself senseless in a pile of ice or flail around in the water with a line running through its throat.&lt;p&gt;For anyone who thinks this comment is brutal or unpleasant, I would really recommend spending some time fishing or hunting if you eat meat. It&amp;#x27;s important to have a real tactile understanding of what it means to take an animal from the wild and turn it into food. It&amp;#x27;s up to you to decide if you think that people &lt;i&gt;should or shouldn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; do it, but, either way, I think it is a real learning experience to understand what that choice entails.&lt;p&gt;Also, I think we tend to live lives increasingly removed from the physical, tactile, natural world. Fishing is a good way to reconnect with nature and with your &lt;i&gt;own&lt;/i&gt; nature as an animal, a predator that eats other animals.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish</title><url>https://guide.michelin.com/sg/dining-out/what-is-ike-jime/news</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>batbomb</author><text>This is probably a better overview for the HN crowd:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cookingissues.com&amp;#x2F;category&amp;#x2F;ike-jime&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cookingissues.com&amp;#x2F;category&amp;#x2F;ike-jime&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>