CATCH AND COOK Spiny Sea Urchin!!! (UNI)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- 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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“Little bit of soy sauce” *ADDS STICK OF BUTTER*
U forgot something, 4 SHOTS OF VODKA
I saw you in a XXXtentacion video, a deermeatfordinner video, a Dallmyd video, and now here, you are in all videos
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@@mariwa5286 have you read their fucking names
@@TD-HO Yeah you’re name and i saw you’re name tag on my friends room...
"I ain't gonna feed it to you."
*"I kNoW mAn"* 😂😂😂
that weak ass reply 😂😂
Who there
Such a bro moment
paused the video and came to comments to see if I was the only one XD
“ i popped it and this white stuff came out.. “
ahhh...yeah....uh..
Sea jizz doughnuts
"Very creamy"
@@nyantails Thats what she said
He eating the sperm 😂🤦🏽♂️
PyroManiax same man
I just watched a man finger a sea urchin
We all did
"ima just stick my finger up in here" lmao was thinking the same thing
I don't need subs lol
Don't complain it's life
London Poker stop being such a piss bitch and grow up
The color of those things depends on if its smoking or not, the brighter the cleaner
💀
You need to get people to believe that uni improves sexual functioning. That will fix the abalone problem.
This whole comment section is just a meme
Masheed Waizy same
Masheed Waizy Iknow right like broooo!😂😂
Trueee
Am the 500 like....
Why do i feel proud?
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.
Ace Spades wow dude I believe you over him any day
But why would you not want to do it ungloved?
Thatmonkeyluke sea urchins have very sharp spikes that can break off easily and get lodged in your skin and some are also venomous so it is much safer to use gloves
I am sorry but it is really their gonads... not their eggs. I don't think it matters, though... web.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/anaphys.html
Damm that just made you attractive, yes preach honey, preach!!
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.
That was the most 4 out of 10 “9 out of 10” I’ve ever heard.
eating gonads
"very creamy"
i lost it
😂😂😂
damb fam. you got the whole chat laughing 😐😐😐
@@purifiedv2902 fax he got me to laugh to 😂
@@Brownwell_Corp its shit humor. R u a fucking 10 year old
@@purifiedv2902 who?
Haha pretty sure you just ate some urchin nut
Jake R. Dunker that’s what uni is lol
Yvonne N I thought it was only the white not the yellow because you can wash it off
@@crow7676 yes the white is the reproductive part and the yellow is the eggs lol he basically did eat URCHIN COOM
@@J8den that’s fucking sickening bruh he just ate a muh fuckin sea creatures nut... hell no
@@crow7676 and you eat mcnuggets which has blended chicken balls
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?
lol
Lmao it's a acquired taste
i lol'd so loud when i read this
WTF GUYS?????
Yeah that would be 100% right. lol
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.
Joseph Mapeace Jaim you must be from nz.
I agree. He's doing it wayyyy wrong.
new zealand, you mean? actually i'm from philippines :)
KINA!!
Joseph Mapeace Jaim he was showing an alternative to that
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 ?
i come here for butters. wheres my butter god damnnnnnnnn ...........
dude uni is literally like butter of the sea. its so fucking buttery holy shit
LMAO
And damn lemons
Sea Urchin legit taste like butter
GO FIND THE BUTTER STRETCHER, NOW
all i could think about was WASH YOUR HANDS FIRST DUDE!
I’m wondering here , is his hand bleeding or not
Its like putting your hand in vigina while you are having periods
Salsabtrp no it’s the dye from the urchins
@@JIGSAW-te2kr 😂😂🤦🏻♂️
What for
10:00 "yea, maybe thats why he likes it that much!" lmao he got you good there
These are the funniest ass comments ever
purple sea urchin is so cute they look like a giant bacteria
apdroid geek Spiky balls
xd
And bacteria supposted to be cute?
Idk how big bacteria is cute😂😂😂
Leo Tan Hi hello welcome to the quarantine hours.
Eeewww
You just earned yourself a new subscriber
Bradduh its butter of the ocean..... 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Fuck You huh?
Gordon Ramsay: “NEVER WASH UNI!!!”
Umer Tube lmao
Umer Tube its Alot Better if you Wash it
Umer Tube IT REMOVES THE um TASTY RICH GOMZU AND GICHUMAGU *tf*
Umer Tube iiii
THE FISH IS FUUCKKKIIIINNNGGGG RAAAAAAAWWWW
“Well I’m not going to feed it to you”
“I know man”
I love that stuff. We usually just cut the sea urchin in half, cut from the top and it should split down the middle. Grab a spoon and use it to scrape the roe out, much easier and cleaner that way. We dont rinse it in fresh water (rinse in seawater) nor do we have it with soy sauce however, I have eaten it cooked over an open fire. Split the shell in two halves and clean it all out then put the roe back in the empty shell and place that on the coals. That taste really nice, sweetens it a bit.
Toy Mit u should record yourself making it like that and eatting it.
Nah, I wont get any views but this guy would....
Toy Mit wont know till you try man... what's the worst that could happen. If you do one I'll watch and support 😎
Are you also from New Zealand
Yeah, from NZ.
If you want urchins that are full of eggs, you should search for the ones that have bits of seaweed or little shells on their "thorns". The best way to eat these eggs, after cleaning the urchin is by drizzling them with olive oil and a little lemon and then scraping them off with some bread. Always eat them by the sea right after you catch them to fully enjoy this seafood. Always use saltwater to clean them
"It's really creamy!" That's what she said! 😂
Lemme catch some defenseless balls.
WuzNab XD
Spiky bois
They have defense my man. You see those spikes?
Lmao
That need population stopped increasing!
Am I the only one that think the Uni looks like an orange tongue?
not true, do research
Thats why it was in the thumbnail
Burrito Potato no
I see's the tongue
It’s called a gonad
These 2 together is the best thing ever
“Once you pop one of those some white stuff starts to ooze out” ........ this needs no further explanation
Man: fingers urchin
LAW AND ORDER!
BOM BOM.......
I love
STONKS
This video popped up in my suggestions one night when I was meant to be sleeping (6 hours past my bed time lol) now I come back to it every single day !
yeah sure you used your finger smashed every organ inside it. surely it will take like bitter and smell fishy. dude just crack open it and try not to damage anything you will get some fresh clean thing to eat, not this muddy gross creature guts. this is kinda ruining it mate
Jesus you seem like an annoying person
Spaze that’s what I thought
S.Zhang Ko I had a stroke trying to read that
You guys are dumb as hell. He is telling the truth. Wbat this guy did was pretty much mix the guts with what he was trying to eat.
Uni is delicious! At least you'll still have that (and anything else you can nab with your speargun) if the shut down the Ab fishery.
Speaking of which, you're right in that closing down the take of Abalone won't stop the urchin population from blowing up and depriving the abalone of their food source, but closing it _will_ make sure that there's not _additional_ pressure put on the ab population by divers while CDFW and researchers figure out solutions for shoring up abalone numbers that will eventually allow for recreational take again.
Shutting down the commercial fishery would definitely ease pressure, and one that I'd argue for, but the reality is that creating regulations that impacts people's income is farrrrr less palatable to policymakers than regulations on recreational anglers & divers that only affects our hobby. It's a tough situation no matter how you slice it.
Curious how many people actually rely on commercial ab diving for income. Wonder if it's like commercial trapping in Cali. Very little. Regulate commercial take before recreational.
You're spot on that regulating commercial take is the way to go in most cases. It's just that recreational groups often don't have the organization, resources, lobbyists, etc.. that business conglomerates do.
But the main issue with declining ab population is the booming urchin numbers that are laying waste to the abalone's food source. I'd love to see a more aggressive awareness campaign from CADFW promoting urchin harvesting and lift the daily limit restriction.
Yes! and perhaps more awareness on which ones are good to eat, heh. I see lots of small, purple ones here in SoCal. Are those any good to eat?
Totally fine to eat. if you’re in SoCal I’d look to harvest the red ones if possible just because larger=more uni; but if you harvest 6-10 purple ones- let alone a limit of 35- that’s still plenty of uni to eat I think.
Actually here’s an older vid showing someone harvesting the smaller purple ones up in WA. th-cam.com/video/3hKKyJDJ7fQ/w-d-xo.html
Go get’em!
P i was gonna comment the same thing but you put it in better terms than i could lol
So cool ! Me and my 4 yr old have been watching these videos all night. Now he wants to go fishing
there was no cooking in the making of this video
Anyone liking comments while watching the video at the same time? 🤔
Me
Yep
lmaooo yeah
Sandra Elabour meh u w u
Me
you guys really out here livin. Love watching!
When your friend Nads is about to win the race
Go Nads haha
Thank you so much for educating us. The reasons for closing the season on abalone is exactly what you said, but star fish takes a while to multiply. That is why they closed if off. I honestly think that uni is so popular that they should do more commercial on it because it produces so fast. Anyways thank you so much for the videos! Appreciate it.
P.S. here in hawaii we place the Wana (uni) in a wire bag and shake it so that the spikes fall off, and it's easier and safer to open up.
Plus the white part is the sperm so you know it is a Male..
i knew the white was “the white stuff”
That white stuff oozing out was Ji💤💦💦💦🫵🏽🤣 JKJK 🤣🤣
*99% of the comments are memes
1% other*
this comment was a fail
Why add some soy sauce if you have natural sauce in your bloody hands 🥵
Wdym
King he bleeding and I think soy sauce would affect ur wounds
Thought I was the only one who noticed
@@monetj40 lmao its not blood the urchin has a red dye this is why you should wear gloves since they tend to taint and it's hard to take off
In Hawaiʻi the sea urchin, uni (Nihon/Japan), kina (Aotearoa/New Zealand) is known as wana. The wana is a treasure from the sea. Rinsing with fresh water would be a sin.
04:04 close your eyes and listen .
Photon lol
WTF HAHA
Photon lol i get it😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Photon hhahhahahah
They should just make an open season on sea urchin
There is already an open season, there probably is a limit Of 35(BS) but the smaller species of sea urchins that cause the problem have smaller gonads so most divers will opt for the bigger urchins
Lucas ahhh that makes sense, damn wish they had other natural predators than just that star fish he was talking about
Where is this place,,if only we could visit,,just to eat all there KINA,,we Maori from new Zealand would love to eat them all,so there won't be a problem for the abalone" we call Paua,,black gold to us..yummy..never heard that word,gonads...lol..
Mihi Matika gonads means nut sack.... Lol that’s what your eating
Jesse Evans your woman eats the same thing sooo what's the problem mate? I'm sure u don't have a problem when she eats your nut sacks lol
Props to your homie for keeping a positive view on the food. Food can be a sensitive subject to some (idk why) but the fact that it seemed like he didn't like it and was trying to find the "good" flavor in it, shows some good character in the gent. Anyways sick vid bro and Im probably not going to try uni lol
To long didn't read
Damn why the hell am I still paying market price?! I’d eat the whole population of sea urchins back down to normal!
OH dude your hands!Urchin spine is venomous ,Gloves and or a tool .
I believe the abalone season is rightfully cut off,and open season on urchin till the populous is stemmed might fix alot .
Great catch & cook however ,rice ,seasoned bean curd & soy sauce would have Knocked that urchin out the park as far as preparing is concerned but you were correct in soy sauce makes it that much better .Right on dude .
Hi. This is beautiful. I just saw a video on Eaters about the procurement of uni from Sea urchins and I stumbled upon your channel. Damn. Hooked up. Fishermen pun. And YOUR VOICE!!!!! water water everywhere but not enough to quench mama's thirst.
His mind before he went out to catch sea urchins: hmmmm no..... I don’t need gloves
*i want my hands to bleed*
"Well I'm not gonna feed it to you" LMFAOOOOOO
him: old it gently the spikes are really sharp
also him: squeezing it
You need some vinegar or lemon to flavor its taste. Thats so healthy. We exported this stuff to Japan.
* Sees spiky black thing in the ocean that may or may not be poisonous*
Humans: *Hmm, I wonder if I can eat it?*
In New Zealand we called it Kina. It’s one of us Māori favourites food. DELICIOUS
where have you been man? make it weekly uploads man..please
yee
I agree. He should5.. You should caught Big fishes and giants fishes
Guys hes repeated its their gonads no need to act smart
you learn what gonads are in 8th grade biology so I didnt expect there to be anyone who doesnt know what they are
Endarkend they aren't referred to as gonads in AP biology, its usually on 8th grade bio, so thank these "smart"asses for defining a middle school anatomy term for ya.
Endarkend Pretty sure a gonad is a reproductive organ, not a sex cell
Cool you guys got past the grossness factor. Uni is delicious. If I lived where you guys do I'd be eating it every day.
U are a legend u poked a sea urchan and bleed
Joseph Gabriel thats not him bleeding
O thank u for reminding
@@joseph-yt8xg Its dye
its called kina in NZ we love it here aberlone are called paua we love them too
FUCKEMALL yeah cuzzz
Paua and cream all day hahaha
FUCKEMALL yall love that creamy stuff dont ya 😏😏🤣
FUCKEMALL you mad kid lol
Arya Abdali looks like you were tryna be cheeky about us so i thought he can take what he gives.
I like how one guy is all clean and still trying it for the first time while the other is Russian squatting with bloody hands staring at the other guy while holding the dead corpse of a sea urchin
So sea stars actually eat urchins? And I thought putting them on urchins at tidepools was torture
Resting happy face
Your pic.... hahahaha!!!
Made my day
lol wth that pic
Tide pods
Gonads... you realise that it's a colloquial term for testicals right.
So I've just watched an American man scrape a sea urchins gonads with his finger nail
So interesting to see how you americans prepare and eat abalone and sea urchin. In New Zealand we call them Paua and Kina. Much love 😊
You should catch as many uni as you can to save the population of that fish thing
"so here are its teeth"
"its really creamy"
Go-Nads not sure if that’s how it’s spelled but as kids that was slang for 🥜 ,s. 😩😂😂 Cool Page just really started watching, and I’m not a fisher but I love the outdoors! Keep the videos coming. Great content and advice for all that watch. Oh yeah and “A little Bit of Butter” as you use a half of a stick is hilarious! Actually the best way to cook several meals to me, s,p,& butter.👍🏽
As much butter as this guy eats, he is really skinny. Another good video brother! :)
HAZMAN THE GREAT beautiful cheetah
He looks kinda tall though
In South Korea, many people eat sea urchin like this video too.
GiHwan Oh oppa
6:38 that shivering in Daniel's voice xD
You know its rich and creamy hmmmmmmm😙👌🔫😭shhh
He says “I have a feeling it’s not good” eats it the next day he is on the news “man dies because he ate a bad sea urchin
Yo from New Zealand we call these kinas, bit of a delicacy here but we love them..eat them raw from the sea and the things u call abalone we call it paua and it is beautiful! 😍
so blue/purple sea urchins are babies and reds are mature?
Liz Sim no...
No... there are many species of sea urchin (うに)
But they still get finger raped in the butthole by a 27 year old man
@@mymemesarebetter697 mouth
My memes are Better *deepthroated
I like to eat Sweden fish
Ass Ketchup from Pellit Town
I like Swedish fish personally.
Sweet and delicious
Do you like "surströmming"? Its rotten fish and we eat it on cristmas, easter and midsummer
jag hatar surströmming!
I never wanted to try eating Uni. Four years later, it reminds me in all areas to grow up.
They will keep closing everything until the whole state is red. Just look at the map. It's easy to see what's going on. If anything limit the commercial guys.
BurninatorTheTrogdor finally my dude your the first person to comment that!!!
Such a joke they limit the sport fishermen meanwhile commercials guys are taking 90% of all catch and they sell overseas.
Businesses have free reign to rape the ocean while we limit the individual to feed their family
BurninatorTheTrogdor California has a lot of problems.
We call sea urchin in new Zealand kina.
"I'm not going to feed it to you" lmao😂😂😂😂
Get a pair of good kitchen scissors and cut the urchin open...then get the uni.
Title: catch and cook sea urchin
Comments: fingering a sea urchin
Is it just me or is it satisfying when the sea water comes out
Gotta cut them open man, you're piercing the guts with your finger that way and its going to make the edible stuff taste pretty horrendous.
Eddison : Yep. I have watched cooking shows, you need to cut them in half. Stupid not to do that!
Why would you even risk putting your bare hands on it and inside of it any way.
Hiya dude. Great vid as always. Love sea urchins, eaten them through out my life. In New Zealand they are called Kina, In the native Maori tongue.
and the bits your eating arent nads they are roe which they eventually release and in turn make even more urchins
I eat that and I have diarrhea
Twisted Derp its not food that made you have diarhea mybe the way how they serve it
hah dont tell me you harvest em in india
Dzikri Abdillah If that’s the case, diarrhea isn’t your only worry...
You might have a light allergy
You eat diarrhoea, you eat shit
4:34 YO IS THAT YO BLOOD OR THE SEA URCHINS BLOOD
The 1,400 people who disliked this are sea urchins in disguise
Thats not how you eat a sea erchin... you cut its mouth and then you cut it in half and scrpe out the food
I'm very envious that you guys got to eat uni!
I wonder why it was creamy 😏
can you please tell us where u go to do these? i live in california and would love to do this...
Killa northern coast, fort Bragg area has tons of em.
Anywhere off the coast of nor cal. Never tried it but I see these all over the rocky coast where I live.
Aaron are they good year round or can they be unhealthy at times?
Tide pools have many
"It's taking acram or something " hahahah😂😂😅😅
You ate jizzy gonads, of course they were salty...what did you expect lol.
this guy only eat McDs with teen spit lol
What do you not get to the concept of closing the hunting season? It slows down the process of abalone from dying or decrease of their population. You said, if the sea urchins are eating their diet and the abalones are dying because they domt have enough diet, why add the people's pleasure to eat abalone if they are decreasing already.
rei albert tan what? 🤔
That looked like fish room man, wow they are huge, i found these shells when i was in Greece, these big Sea urchin must have cool shells 😳 if you ever see any big ones please upload some pictures :)
That was the balls
Naruto Vs Dragon Ball Z 1 lol
Naruto Vs Dragon Ball Z 1 That was the Sperm
Eggs actually..
The orange part is called roe
TekkenBoy 05 no actually the nut sack 🤣