Hugh fearnly whittingstall cooked the eels all wrong. I come from the shores of lough neagh in Northern Ireland which is famed for eel fishing. My family have been cooking eels for years. The best way to cook them is to throw the tail on the pan first to get some oil. then put the eels on for about 3 hours and only turn them once. eels are very oily and thats why people dont like them but if you cook them this way they lose all the oil and are far nicer. if you di it like hugh fearnley and cook them for about one minute on each side they are still full of oil and not as nice.