Why You Should Start Using UV Light To Debone Fish

When you're eating a perfectly cooked piece of fish, the last thing you want to crunch into is a bone — it ruins the entire dining experience. While frozen fish typically comes already deboned, as Real Simple reports, any other type of fish that you may buy will likely need to be deboned. And, even if the fish states that it has been deboned, you could still encounter the teeny tiny bone fragments that are almost invisible to the naked eye and are typically only discovered when you take a bite and detect a hard fragment amidst the flaky fish.

Until now, one of the most common ways of dealing with those tiny bones was to remove them with a pair of fish tweezers (or, if you're in a pinch and don't have those, a pair of clean cosmetic tweezers). However, this requires you to examine every single inch of your fish fillets, and for white fish, those bones often blend right into the flesh and are nearly impossible to see. Luckily, there's an interesting new way of finding those tiny bones in your fish, and it simply involves looking at the protein in a different light — literally.

Reddit user Picturesonback shared their unusual technique, explaining in the comment section that "I was at my wits end with the CONSTANT breaking bones in the rainbow trout. Then I remembered that my ultraviolet flashlights are like magic wands, and tend to fluoresce certain hard organic materials (bones, shellfish, etc.)."