In this video, I show you how to gut fish, how to gut and clean fish before cooking all filmed in 4k, and how to gut and clean several types of fish so that you know how to gut any fish by watching this video. I start by showing how to descale a fish before showing every step on how to gut and clean fish before cooking so everyone will have the confidence to gut fish themselves after watching me demonstrate cleaning and gutting several species of fish all part of how to prepare fish before cooking. Fish preparation before cooking - every step shown within this video on how to gut and clean a fish before cooking. I started fishing at the age of 5 and over the years have enjoyed every kind of fishing and learned to clean and gut fish before cooking from my dad who taught me how to fish. All fish are the same to clean and gut apart from flatfish where you will notice the stomach cavity just below the head to one side of the flat body, to gut a flatfish just make a cut from the center to the edge of the flatfish where you see the cavity and remove the guts, it's as simple as that. With Eels, you will still see the vent on the belly of the eel, just run your knife as in this video towards the head from the vent to remove the guts as seen with all the other fish within this video. I also show you how quickly you can gut fish by cleaning 2 fish and recording exactly how long it took. You can see that once you know how to gut a fish it's a very simple process and you can clean fish very quickly before cooking. So now when you are out and about at a local wet fish market buy that fish that looks good and follow my steps on how to gut it before cooking - nothing taste better than fresh fish. You will notice I use just a normal kitchen knife to gut the fish rather than a filleting knife to demonstrate how easy it is to clean a fish before cooking, if I were to use a sharp filleting knife the fish cleaning process would be even faster than demonstrated in this video. If you are not concerned with keeping the head on the fish, by removing the head first before opening the stomach cavity most of the guts are removed with the head, and the process of cleaning fish before cooking is even quicker. I show you how to gut and clean a fish before cooking by keeping the head on for presentation purposes, depending on the type of fish I'm cooking and how the fish is being cooked I either leave the head on or off. This video of how to gut a fish - how to clean a fish before cooking was filmed in 4K, using a Sony AX53 4K Camcorder and a Sony shotgun microphone for the shots of me in front of the camera, to see our new youtube filming setup check out the links below: For the Sony FDR-AX53 4k Camcorder : Amazon.com https://amzn.to/3tmtuvo Amazon.fr. https://amzn.to/3zV5XEe Amazon.co.uk. https://amzn.to/3nf7am7 For the Sony ECM CG60 digital camera microphone: Amazon.com. https://amzn.to/3aoFLqs Amazon.fr https://amzn.to/3ArSiE0 For the Sony 128GB memory card that I use with my 4k Camcorder Amazon.com https://amzn.to/3n8CvqO Amazon.co.uk https://amzn.to/3BSPW29 Amazon.fr https://amzn.to/3tpVCxE We bought the Sony memory stick because it was specifically designed to use with Sony 4k camcorders with its high speed plus at 128GB of memory was the largest memory card that I have purchased to date. I hope you enjoyed this how to gut a fish video showing you all the steps on how to clean fish before cooking filmed in 4K - my hope is that everyone can start enjoying eating fresh fish because they now know how to gut a fish with ease! As you saw in this video I cleaned ( gutted ) 2 fish in 50 seconds, which goes to show how quick and easy it is to gut fish before cooking. With the mystery fish at the end that I cleaned and cooked whole, from my search on the internet, it comes from a family of fishes found on reefs, which have a generic name ' Old Fish' if you know exactly what the fish is that I gutted and cooked at the end please let me know in the comments. If you are new to this channel please subscribe and don't forget to hit that notification button so you don't miss any future releases. If after watching this video you had never cleaned a fish before and have now tried yourself after watching me clean and gut a fish let me know in the comments how you got on with the fish preparation. #howtogutfish#howtocleanfishbeforecokking#howtogutallfish#howtogutanyfish#howtogutfish4k#guttingfish#cleaningfish#howtogutanyspeciesoffish#howtogutfishfast#howtocleanfishfast#guttingfishfast#fishcleaning#howtocleanfish4k