Patent ID: 8585474
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
1. A fish cleaning method, comprising: providing a pick having a pick handle, a pick base carried by the pick handle and a plurality of spaced-apart, elongated pick tines extending from the pick base; placing a fish on a fish cleaning surface; grasping the pick handle of the pick with a first hand by wrapping the fingers of the first hand around the pick handle of the pick; immobilizing the fish on the fish cleaning surface by impaling the fish through the entire breadth of the fish with the pick tines of the pick; grasping a fish cleaning knife with a second hand; cutting a flesh strip from the fish using the fish cleaning knife; and flipping the fish on the fish cleaning surface using the pick as the pick tines remain impaled through the fish after cutting the flesh strip from the fish such that flipping the fish is accomplished without grasping the fish with the fingers of the first hand or the fingers of the second hand.