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Maku'u Market today had a new vendor who baked homemade individual Pizzas in a gas powered oven he made from found materials.
The body of the oven was an old (50gal?) water pressure tank with an access door attached. It had a couple of old gas stove burners and a tray of barbeque rocks in the bottom. The pies sat on a satelite dish that swiveled out of the open door on a treadmill part.
He could bake three of the $5 pies at a time and the oven was in constant use all day.
The pizza was first rate, and it was inspiring to see someone's ingenuity in putting together such a nice oven for pennies.
Aaron and Noam rate a big five stars in the junkyard restaurant guide!
Check them out next week.
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I saw him as well, didn't realize he was new. The pizzas looked good!
I hadn't been for a while and was also suprised to find someone selling frozen Alaskan crab legs, salmon and "butterfish" (cod).
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WOW... that sounds like a good reason for a field trip to Macu'u! I would love to see that oven! And if someone was selling butterfish... that sounds good too.
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I'm a bit confused about butterfish. Some websites call it cod, some say it's something else. Anyone know for sure?
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The pizza does sound enticing, but I'm going to follow dina off the rails..
Butterfish is a name that is given to more than one species of fish (and even one fish even has two different binomial nomenclature (scientific) names, something that happens more times than you may think in the fish world.
Many think of butterfishes that constitute the butterfish family, Stromateidae, which has three genera: Pampus, Peprilus, and Stromateus. The most common species of butterfish is classified as Peprilus triacanthus, other common names include sheephead, starfish and harvest fish.
Some call black cod “butterfish”, which is not a cod, but a sablefish, scientific name Anaplopoma fimbria.
Some call escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum , common names include butterfish, oilfish, Hawaiian butter fish; in Hawaii & Fiji it is known as walu, and can also be sold as king or super white tuna, it can also be sold under the name of an entirely different species of fish, most commonly codfish, orange roughy, sea bass.
Some call Butterfish Poronotus triacanthus (Peck) 1800 aka dollarfish, shiner, skipjack, sheepshead, harvestfish, this fish was given a different binomial by Jordan and Evermann, around 1896-1900 Rhombus triacanthus.
And it goes on to some more obscure references.... something sure is fishy with ichthyology!
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QUOTE "Anyone know for sure"?
Evidently the jury is still out!!!
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All I know is every morning during the week KTA has some yummy lookin' butterfish on their Bento table...among other lip smackin' stuffs...[:p]
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Wow, sorry to change the subject from Pizza to Butterfish, but thanks Carey for the detailed explanation. It sounds like it could be almost anything - and everyone has their own idea of what it is. The guy at the market said it was cod, but it didn't look like any cod I've ever seen.
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Apologies for more on Butterfish but I was curious about this as well. Thanks for bringing it up Dinamight. And Carey... as always you are a wealth of information! Mahalo!
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