CATCH AND COOK Spiny Sea Urchin!!! (UNI)

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Published 2017-09-21
Daniel and I drove to Mendocino to catch some Abalone and Sea Urchins aka Uni. May not exactly be a catch and cook, but we can call it a catch and eat. This may be the last year to dive for Abalone until 2030 so the rumor goes. Their numbers have been decreasing a lot due to an increase in the number of Sea Urchins. Hoping the Ab numbers start to recover in the coming years.

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All Comments (21)
  • @wille2430
    “Little bit of soy sauce” ADDS STICK OF BUTTER
  • @chrzrd.
    "I ain't gonna feed it to you." "I kNoW mAn" 😂😂😂
  • @ozarka4911
    “ i popped it and this white stuff came out.. “ ahhh...yeah....uh..
  • @desonli7709
    The color of those things depends on if its smoking or not, the brighter the cleaner
  • @jokaymustdie
    You're doing it wrong bro you should break the shell in half and wash all the guts with water carefully so that it will not mix with orange meat the taste of bitter and smell is not from the meat its actually from the guts that was squeezed with your finger.
  • @johnkrebs3198
    You need to get people to believe that uni improves sexual functioning. That will fix the abalone problem.
  • @chrispreble11
    10:00 "yea, maybe thats why he likes it that much!" lmao he got you good there
  • @GDanielCho
    So lemme get this straight, these are balls and at 7:50 its their baby gravy, and the baby gravy makes it "rich" and creamy eh?
  • @anallstar3386
    i come here for butters. wheres my butter god damnnnnnnnn ...........
  • @SaintsCheat
    7:50 “Once you pop one , white stuff starts to ooze out”. Why is this surprising if white stuff Oozes out when you bite into nards ?
  • @avatsui5357
    all i could think about was WASH YOUR HANDS FIRST DUDE!
  • @acespades2387
    Okay so, my dad was a huge abalone fisher when I was younger and tons of times he's bring sea urchins with him. (And sometimes fish) So I got used to harvesting sea urchins and learning about them when I was real little. Being a biology nerd at the time prolly helped. What you're eating is the eggs (not the testicles, you wierdos) of the sea urchins. They have a bumpy texture by feel and taste is pretty negligable? Kinda sweet maybe. But you eat it for the texture which is IMO worth the taste. It's creamy and has an odd solidity to it that makes it really interesting. SO I'm gonna go ahead and say that the dude here is being pretty stupid. DO NOT attempt to open it with an ungloved hand and ESPECIALLY do not put pressure on the other side to press it into your hand. Take the sea urchin, flip it over, place the shiny side on a solid surface, and with the tool you used to pick it up (basically a sturdy metal bar that's fairly thin) just give it a firm whack to the middle using the thinnest portion of the tool. Make sure to wash the uni as there's prolly guts ALL OVER the thing that's gonna make it real bitter. (you'd otherwise be eating urchin crap) Eat the bright orange ones. if it's not bright orange, don't even bother. you got a bad uni. I suggest getting something with nice flavoring to dip it in (soysauce with maybe a little chili powder in it (USE THE LESS SALTY VERSION 'cause it's gonna be salty anyhow) and eat away) rinse it with seawater btw. gonna be more flavorful that way. also the bitter taste the second dude experienced? guts. gotta wash it.
  • @solanusluna1360
    i love how you tackled the root of the problem on why abalone is decreasing so much and questioning the methods of it closing down, putting a fisherman's perspective into view.
  • @joshuawebb5633
    “Well I’m not going to feed it to you” “I know man”