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Van Camp makes the canned wahoo. They have literally pallets of it in our AF Commissary for less than $2/can. Amazon sells it for more than twice as much. KINK

It is lighter in color and taste than tuna. Delicious.

Freezer is full too. 😎 Time to can another batch.

I have been keeping the smaller ones and donating the bigger ones. It doesn’t take too many to fill the freezer and one of the shelves with home-canned. There is usually plenty to choose from after a multi-day long-range trip.

I AM a bit tired of the seared though. Used to be my favorite. Prefer it raw to seared anymore just due to waaayyy too many seared tuna lunches.

Home-canned is stellar too. Can’t do Star-Kist anymore …

I have ate a lot of tuna from cans and pouches so I have had a lot of skip jack. Also albacore and yellow fin. Would like to try more fresh tuna.

Solid white in oil when I can find it is my preference.

Beautiful 99

Star kist

Fresh Blue Fin, followed by Bigeye.

Very nice 99.


Once you eat it fresh like this you wont ever want to eat it from a tin can again. I prefer yellowfin. but bluefin and blackfin are awesome also. I use to take wasabi and soy sauce on the boat when working as a mate running Bahama charters. would make sushi when the first tuna came aboard. it's pretty damn good 10 minutes after it was still swimming.

Bluefin for me

Thanks Lap & JC;

Fresh is amazing, flash frozen is still good !

You and your family eat well and enjoy each other. All your family pictures make me smile....

Paul. how do you cook lake trout?

Heat

I prefer dolphin.

Geez, I thought I was the only one. Waaay over my head in a discussion with the tuna connoisseurs here. 🫤





That looks more like bait to me.

The OP's question was about tuna types and what else goes in the can (i.e. oil)

I have fished for tuna in all the worlds oceans over the years except the arctic ocean and have taste preferences acquired on first-hand experience with a wide variety of freshly caught tuna types.

IMO all tunas are delicious when fresh, although they are not my favorite set of fishes to eat.

I actually prefer the darker tunas over the "white" albacore, of which I have caught plenty, mostly on long range boats out of San Diego.

Albacore vs the darker meat tunas are sort of analogous to "breast meat" to "dark meat" of chickens.

A lot of what we buy as canned tuna in the US that is not labeled "white" is actually skipjack, and not yellowfin, blackfin, bluefin, bigeye, etc. I like this common-or-garden canned tuna just fine on a salad or sammich.

I also like fresh-caught tuna of pretty much any type, grilled, blackened, etc. as an entree type main dish.

And if it's in a can I like "water" not "oil", and never anything flavored such as mustard....

Hope this helps!

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Mahi are great, but the OP's question is about Tuna which are a totally different set of species, as are wahoo which are related to the mackeral.

Atlantic Mackerel is good raw, Leighton and I had some for a shore lunch, cut up in little chunks with a dash of wasabi.