Australian supermarket frozen crumbed fish taste test: from catch of the day to a ‘terrible chicken nugget’

Reeling it in: Tristan and pals taste test ‘classic crumbed’ frozen fish varieties, oven baked and served without seasoning or sauces. Photograph: Rémi Chauvin/The Guardian

Teach a person to fish, they say, and they’ll eat for ever. It’s a nice idiom but it hasn’t always been true for me and my fishing buddies. With the shiniest gear and best intentions, we have spent enough hours driving home fishless to know that sometimes you do just need to buy one and stick it in the oven.

We’re thankful the freezers of our local supermarkets are packed with fish, already caught, filleted and crumbed – no expensive lures or slimy bait needed. So it’s about time we gave our opinion on which ones are the best.