The Point Of No Return....

[Tilly2]

When you make a fish pie and you realise that the dish is too small for it and it is going to ooze.

Do you try to decant it into another bigger dish, or put it in the oven and hope for the best?

[Psybbo]

In the oven on a tray lined with foil!

[-Talbot-]

I never make that mistake. (Obviously)
If I did I would just put the dish in a larger dish to catch the overspill.

[ladyalex]

Depends how mich the ooze is going to be.
If I have seriously got things wrong I'd try to decant.
Otherwise I'd put it on a foil ined tray like Psybbo.
Talbot's suggestion sounds pretty good too.....if you have a big enough dish.
Whatever, it will taste delicious.

[Tilly2]

The problem is, it might just dry up because all the liquid has oozed!

[-Talbot-]

That's the tastiest bit!

[Psybbo]

Not often I agree with Mick, but, yes, tastiest bits.

[RATTER15]

Nothing wrong with a bit of ooze!!

[Baldric]

Oh No! Not Again!

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Food-and-Drink/Question1336029.html

[rabet]

I love fish, grilled, fried, baked, griddled: but in a pie? NO, NO.NO!

[Jackdaw33]

As far as I understand it it's not a pie as such, i.e. no pastry, just a topping of mashed spud.

[Tilly2]

It was lovely. I didn't realise it was a default of mine, Baldric. Thanks for reminding me.
It wasn't even a pie. It was slices on potato on top. Fish cobbler with sliced potato then?

[atalanta]

Two ideas: 1) put a raised rim round of foil 2) whizz some pastry up, or get some out of the freezer and make a raised pastry rim all round to stop any overflow. You don't have to eat the pastry if you don't want to.

[ladyalex]

Told you it would be delicious!

[Tilly2]

Thanks, atlanta, but I did decant it into a larger dish in the end. It wasn't pretty but it was lovely and tasty. It's just that horrible realisation that all will not be well. Decanting a fish pie is not an ideal situation.