Agostino Recca Anchovies Salted Whole Anchovies by Agostino Recca [Foods]

Excellent! If you like anchovies--SO useful in certain sauces, etc.--these salt-packed ones are so much better than the neat, but slithery oil-packed kind, you get much more for your money, and you can use the juice in the tin as well. Here's how: with a very sharp knife, cut off the tail and the area just behind the head. try to cut each anchovy lengthwise, so you have two fillets. remove the bones by scraping and, if possible, scrape away the dark innards. lay the fillets in a small, rectangular, lidded box and cover THOROUGHLY with olive oil. Keep in fridge. Top up olive oil now and then to keep the fillets covered as you use them up.

This is an excellent product but the size is falsely stated by Amazon as 2.2 lb (1 kg). According to the label the container is actually 1.7 lb (0.8 kg). You can see this weight on the label in the image on Amazon, so the problem is Amazon itself, not the seller. Amazon list multiple sellers for this product and they are labeled correctly. Only this one is mislabeled by Amazon, not sure why.

I use anchovies frequently. These seemed "fresher"--firmer, larger, nicer in general--than the same item purchased at my market. After opening, I repack in fresh salt in a resealable container and keep them in the fridge. I'm sure the quality varies depending on when the fish were caught and so on, but these were very good.

In cookbooks I have read many recommendations for choosing salted anchovies over anchovies in oil. Finally, I have a true salted product, instead of anchovies in a salt solution. The cookbooks were right. The salted anchovy has a wonderful flavor (I have liked anchovies for years) and it is good to rid them of all the small bones, although this does require a few minutes of my effort.

False Advertising the product doesn't even weigh the gross weight advertised by manufacturer and there is only one size, not two. This would be closer to the small size but charged the top price, manufacturer failed to make good and this item is not returnable. Its a lose lose situation if you order and Amazon did nothing either when notified of the wrong misleading advertising.

Very high quality fish which taste great and are easy to filet. Having bulk salted anchovies on hand is a great thing for a cook like me, because I can rinse and filet a couple anchovies and throw them into just about anything and my family and guests love the flavor. Just don't tell people you are serving them anchovies.

Very good, but there are to many for 2 people. So we have to party more often. Great flavor, quality and quantity.

Came as described.

Great product. I've used these for many years. They keep forever in the refrigerator (put the open can in a ziplock bag).

Not worth the effort and the over 20 dollars for about 1 pound of small soft little fish that fall apart when try to clean it, this product should not be sold for human consumption.

Good firm salty fish. It's a big can. I found myself running out of anchovy recipes before I got to the bottom layer.

Even a big fan of these for years. But the most recent purchase contained only small fish. They were fairly mushy and the salt pretty goopy. I guess anchovies are getting overfished like so many other fish.

Great product and good value. Nice with marmalade.

Authentic flavor, not fishy at all! bought it for my mother but now I buy it for me!

Simply the best!!