Sea Urchin Paté - Weird Stuff In A Can
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- This is a can of sea urchin pate that I picked up during a recent visit to Spain (more Spanish weird stuff in a can to come - I promise, but maybe none quite this weird)
It cost about €4.50
Why am I addicted to binge watching you eat weird things from cans?
How could you not be?
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Same!
We all are
Mmmmm, low tide.
Very good description I would say. As a chef, I'd call the taste of uni the purest umami you can find. Concentrated seafood flavour, yes. Like prawns if they had stronger flavour. Salty but not salty is a very good way to describe it. I dont know if you have it outside of sweden, but over here a popular sandwich condiment is Kaviar, like caviar but mashed and child friendly, in a tube. It tastes kinda like uni. You have a lovely mind there and your shockingly positive comment section reflects it. I'm new here and it's been a pancace stack of delights.
Pancake stack of delights! thats an expression ill have to use more often
@dh H pancake stack of delight sounds better. No need to complain
Your reaction as this video progresses is exactly why my motto is "I'll try anything twice." Because your first time you might be a little biased or nervous. I try to retry foods I don't like about once a year and a lot of food has grown on me because of that
That's how I discovered I actually do like olives, but my threshold for eating too many is less than one olive. I'll gladly split a single olive with a friend, though.
I'm Spanish, and one of my most treasured childhood memories was when I'd go up North to Asturias where my grandparents have a house near the beach, and we'd go down there to grab a bunch of sea urchins for dinner. Between this and callos in the previous episode (both not exactly everyday but fairly normal food items over here) it's weird how much just regular Spanish culture seems strange to foreigners, especially ones as geographically close as Brits. Then again, when I studied in the UK I had a bit of culture shock with the food there as well (I still don't understand how baked beans are such a big deal), so may be a tad hypocritical of me.
There's a bomb!
My ex-wife is from Lebanon and there they eat them raw straight from the sea. She lives them but I never fancied the idea of eating them. I am not mad on shellfish anyway.
Interesting video, I hope TH-cam doesn't flag it for hake speech.
This series reminds me so much of Steve1991mreinfo and I'm really loving it.
Steve is such a great TH-camr It is an honour to be mentioned in the same sentence as him
@@AtomicShrimp incredibly humility from you once again.
Between you
Steve
And ashens
Your a great group
Steve1989 is excellent at describing food. Nice hiss.
"What's for dinner tonight., dear?"
"Gonads on toast".
"Right, I'm off out. I'll be at the pub".
You should try eating sea urchins with lemon juice and olive oil.. so tasty
Sea urchin is wicked good when very fresh.
''Shrimp M'lad, pass the Urchin gonads!''
Bloody hell... a bit to adventurous for my taste for sure, but always fun watching you scoff something odd.
Actually for some people of the Meditarranean it is quite normal to just take the sea urchin from directly from the sea, open them and eat them with a spoon. Also, apparently only the female urchins contain this substance and you can recognize them because they usually have algae and little stones on them unlike their male counterparts.
This feels like one of the very few items you genuinely did not want to eat at first. 😅
A little bit of trepidation here, for sure
Sea urchin gonad paté...interesting...I'm glad you enjoyed it! Mmm...low tide! I don't recall which other video u described the food that way but pretty sure that was the 1st one I watched, been addicted since =)
I think it might have been the crispy baby clams
When you opened the can I immediately thought "It looks just like the food I feed my cats".
We have Uni/ Sea Urchins available not too far from here. I just never had the desire to eat them.
Now maybe......undecided.......
I don't know if they are an acquired taste for some like oysters or caviar (neither of which I enjoy) - I feel like they're a curiosity more than an actual foodstuff.
@@AtomicShrimp two years late, but sea urchin is very popular in Japanese cuisine c:
I was coming to comment that it looks just like my cat’s favorite canned food.
If I ever saw this at the store I'd buy it, strictly because you tried it first, and to be honest, it looks rather appetizing.
I think this would be good on, what we know here, as Melba Toast. They are pieces of bread, but smaller in size and very hard and crunchy. I like the white wine idea. Melba toast use to be served at restaurants, but you don't see it much, if at all anymore. It is very versatile and would be perfect for a bit of palate exploration, like this pate`.
They call these “Kina” here in nz. Many people love Kina and eat them raw directly from the rock pools. Personally don’t eat shellfish
I spent a few weeks in Japan & tried every food, raw sea urchin wasn't enjoyable.
Unfortunately 6hrs of Japanese lessons was inadequate. When asked if I'd tried food I didn't enjoy I responded with "Inu"😝 and was surprised at the shocked reactions.
"Uni" is sea urchin, "Inu" is dog. 😯
XD my belly hurts
Edit: Inu, nani!?!
@Barry Goldwater haha as far as I know I didn't consume any mammals...at least I hope not. There was a suspiciously red meat at one sashimi place and I'm trying not to think about ir
3:14 the most british thing anyone has ever said
AS: points out everyone says it tastes like iodine
Also AS: does everything possible, conceivable, imaginable to describe it in any way other than tasting like iodine
Because 'tastes like iodine' is useless to anyone who hasn't tasted iodine
@@AtomicShrimp genuine question, because I don't live in the UK, is most of your table salt not fortified with iodine? Just for that fact I was under the assumption that at least 90% of people watching these videos would know that taste
Some of our salt is iodised. The amount added is on the order of 20 or 30 parts iodine per MILLION parts of salt. I'd be surprised if you could taste iodine if you ate the salt straight from a spoon. I've just looked up some studies on this and under test conditions, people can't taste the iodine in salt until it is in much higher concentrations.
Good to have you back, I hope you brought us lots of goodies!
Not disappointed. I've tried sea urchin sushi, and that's pretty good too
"Outdoor Chef Life" has some good videos on eating sea urchin, and really there's not much more to a sea urchin, not a lot of guts, a sort of "mouth basket" which is the teeth/jaws which are 5-sided because urchins are 5-sided, and depending on the season there will be roes in there or not. You crack open a few and however they are, will be how they are that day so if you find fat roes, collect away. Ideally you eat them right out of the urchin, or very freshly collected, and basically they taste like the ocean.
I like how you put more and more on with each bite lol.
My brother still hasn't tried any curry but a korma with chips when we go for an indian and he's 28.
Sea Urchin is great. Fantastic in sushi form
I've had this experienced with tinned seafood before. The initial hit might be a touch much, but once I have a bit more, I begin really enjoying it. Just had first try of a tin of seasoned, broiled mackerel (in soy sauce and sugar) from Japan. Seeing a bunch of skin on the chunks was a tad offputting to me (tad squeamish about the texture and taste of fish skin and silverskin), but once I got that scraped off, the actual fish was delightful.
I tried uni at a great restaurant and what struck me most was how fast it melts on the tongue. The other thing I vividly remember was thinking “this tastes like the sea crying.” If I could easily get the sustainable varieties here I’d eat it all the time and only be limited by the cost, since it’s treated as more of a delicacy than salmon et cet. It’s mild, simultaneously familiar and strange much as you describe this fish-mixed version.
I enjoyed this, thank you!
I eat sea urchin roe often. It has a nutty and seafood type of flavor. Its best as Sushi with a quail egg on top.
I've never noticed any iodine taste.
I’m such a fan of how open you are to really tasting your food. So adventurous
You tried straight canned urchin roe (polpa da ricci in italian)? I've tried it a couple of times, it's marine but not fishy like you say of the paté, it's kinda like describing truffle with mushrooms as the only comparator.
This reminds me that I still need to try sea urchin sushi sometime. I'd imagine I'd quite like it.
Used to forage live urchins when I lived in Shetland, I'd fry off the contents with butter, and then place the cooked roes in the fridge.
The contents of the urchins would melt down in the pan, but sort of solidify on cooling, the butter certainly helped.
Tasted lovely
A delicacy in NZ, along with fish eyes.
Kinnnnnna
Why
Shrimp, I have been binge-watching your weird stuff in a can videos, but this is not weird at all! Us in mediterranean countries (I am italian) eat sea urchins quite often, it is considered a delicacy. People eat them fresh and raw.
I don't particularly like the taste of it, but I would rather eat this than bugs!
Everything is not weird to someone
@@AtomicShrimp I know! I live in the UK now and it just baffles me how some things are so different even though the lifestyle is pretty much the standard western european one.
Anyway, I really like your videos :)
El Corte ingles is a great shop, going to Spain again in a few months so will be likely to pay another visit!
he bought it because it was purple
Mood
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A bit like Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum) - terrifyingly weird white spirit sort of taste at first, which doesn't even seem to be edible, but makes you want to try more, and it gets nicer with every subsequent mouthful. Or Renegade Monk cheese - soft, very funky smelling blue cheese, with more than a hint of ammonia in the taste. It's a shocking challenge at first, but worth it.
I was in the same shop near where I was staying, in Lisbon. It reminds me of Marks and Spencers or Waitrose but with some continental flair. Interesting place.
Fresh sea urchin gonads have a sweetness and soft marine taste they are my absolute favorite
I love watching these videos before bed, they calm my mind and I sleep better 🙂
We have something similar here, but it is made with cod liver and cod eggs, called Svolværpostei, it is delicious on bread with butter :)
Do you ever go back a buy any of these weird foods again because they were nice enough ??
The braised eels from one of the very early episodes are a firm favourite. Some of the nicer drinks (apple milk or melon milk) I will buy again
@@AtomicShrimp I haven't seen any I'd like to try yet 😄, apart from hotdogs. I've got a lot of videos to get through yet though. They are very funny and really interesting 👌
Ah man I love weird stuff.
i used to eat liver pate all the time. its much like the way you described the sea urchin pate. it just grows on you!
When you said it smells weirdly marine but not fishy my first thought was then it tastes good.I won’t be looking for it but will know what to expect should some Spaniard serve it.
"Smells like low tide" made me lol
Thanks for doing this, I think I will pass on this pleasure 😜 maybe a dry white wine to complement it (just typed that and you said it anyway).
Surprised you've never had sea urchin before. It's a very common sushi (called uni).
Sushi itself is pretty pedestrian in the UK - even in Sushi restaurants, it's pretty much all the standard rolls and nigiri using salmon, tuna, prawns, etc, but typically nothing much exotic. Maybe different at the high end of the market, but I don't often go to those sorts of places.
@@AtomicShrimp RIP UK sushi lovers
Looks like cat food
I think it is cat food
@@Whydoesthissitesuck all patte looks like that you uncultured swine
LordGarmadonPlays
How come some cat food brands looks more like an actual stew/meal more than an actual canned stew/meal looks like itself ?
P.S video thing probably smells much better than some cans in the lowkey price cans ive seen
Ick, now I can't stop making the connection. I don't think I'll be able to eat cat food the same way again.
Thanks for trying this and letting us know what it’s like. I should really try to be more adventurous too.
fresh sea urchin yes.. canned sea urchin noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
XD like an Italian viewer said about the canned raviolis: Blasphemy!
As someone allergic to seafood, I’ll just take your word for it.
Sea urchin is a delicacy in New Zealand lol we love them & call them ( KINA or kee - nah )
You may know already, but sea urchins are a delicacy in Japan too and used in various dishes like _sushi_ or rice bowls and even as seasoning in snacks.
fresh sea urchin roes tastes so good
Love what you do
I'll have to look out for some if I ever go back to Spain
Sea urchins taste like the sea! 🥰🥰🥰
I do wonder why people would say it tastes like iodine- that's not exactly an element I would expect normal people to interact with often, let alone taste- but yet I get the strange feeling that it's probably a very accurate description.
I must say I envy you. There's no way I could enjoy something that smelled like low tide, I've always wished I could enjoy every good but it's just not in me
Here in nz it is called KINA . Caught by diving in shallow rocky areas. Not easy to find. Beloved by Maori people.
That looks like a typical pate. I remember when Ashens ate some Sea Urchin gonad paste a few years ago, Ashens said it way very unpleasant to no one's surprise.
Dare I say, it tastes almost like atomic shrimp!
My remember my grandfather eating this when I was a child. He would get fresh sea urchin, crack open the shell on top and dip his italian bread into it and eat it.
Living the dream :D With a side of fresh olive oil and a Valpolicella :P
Once I tried wild sea urchin eggs. It was delicious with toasted bread and lemon, but had diarrieah for the rest of the day.
You could do an award for the Wierdest Stuff In A Can. This might just be it.
This episode does what it says on the can.
Weird stuff in a can, and the winner is.........? This stuff is!
Looks interesting 🧐
I've had sea urchin as part of a rice bowl in Japan. It's nothing like anything I had ever eaten. It's REALLY weird, but not bad at all. I'd eat it again.
I just want to comment but don't know what to say so.... Good job?
It looks like cat food. Not in a bad way, but they usually come prepared like that and are usually some form of seafood anyway lol. Looks interesting.
All I know about uni is everyone seems to love it or hate it like cilantro.
Oh yes, paté de erizos... 💯% sanic flavoyr
I don't know if I've ever had Hake but fresh sea urchin is delicious. It's like butter that tastes like caviar.
Hake is just a very mild flavoured white fish - nice enough, but pretty much a carrier in this product
just the sort of thing I subbed for!
I find sea urchin off-putting precisely because of it's paté-like texture, so it's a bit surprising that the paté actually exists.
Just curious - Have you ever tasted canned cat food? I am a big fan of pâté (goose liver and pork), and I’ve always wondered if the taste is similar.
I've considered it, but never been able to bring myself to try it (silly really - it's just food) - as I understand it, pet food tastes weird to humans because it doesn't contain much salt
AtomicShrimp Oh! That’s interesting. Thanks!
@@JPMJPM I wouldn't recommend it for many reasons. but to make a very long story short I recommend reading this:
www.petfoodindustry.com/articles/521-analyzing-amines
All commercial canned and pouched cat and dog food in the UK is, and has been for many years, tasted by humans. I've tried catfood - and it tastes exactly like unseasoned fishpaste, with granular bits in it. Neither pleasant nor unpleasant. However, there was a beef and tomato variety, that tasted really nice. You could probably have served that to someone with pasta, and they would never have guessed.
But yes, all UK petfood is tested by humans. Cats MUST have the nutrients found only in meat - feeding them vegetable matter only, will kill them off quite quickly. Cats are 'Obligate Carnivores', and their digestive system is not good at processing vegetable matter.
Erizo means hedgehog in Spanish.
I have had sea urchin in sushi. Maybe I just don't know what iodine is supposed to taste like, but that wasn't the impression I got. To me it seemed very rich and very weird, like something you'd eat once and go, "Hmm, tastes alright. Glad I never have to eat that again." I can definitely see how some people really love it, but it's not for me.
Edit: Maybe I have to give it another shot as a spread over toast instead of a big glob over rice, like perhaps it's one of those foods that's better when you eat less of it at a time. That said, in America, it's probably way easier to find it on sushi than in a can. Maybe if I scour the H Mart near me I'll get lucky.
I just started eating shushi it Wil take me another 10 years before I even consider eating that
Butter always makes the difference
So many species, so little thyme.
I might try it
Fresh sea urcin tastes like sea flavoured mouse
Uni isn’t bad if you don’t mind raw seafood especially shellfish but processed into oblivion like this not so sure.
I'm going to try it raw sometime (I reckon the best way must be to dive for them and eat them right there on the beach). This wasn't bad though. I think the sweetness of the white fish in the pate saved it.
I have heard uni described as tasting of the sea...
Correct. Like oysters, they taste of rocks, seaweed and sea water.
"But not fishy, if you know what I mean"
Did you see the movie, The French Connection? One of the bad guys, in Europe, plucked a sea urchin from a rock, and ate the edible bits.
I don't think I have seen the movie, but I have seen people do that. One day I shall try it
Think I'll stick to Salmon & Shrimp 😊
I was served sea urchin on a business trip to Japan, in a traditional restaurant where you ate sitting on the floor. Not the most pleasant thing I have ever eaten, but had to persevere as customer paid a small fortune for a posh looking wooden box full of the stuff. Plenty of wasabi helped with the taste!
Oh boy.
I reckon he just screams sea urchin pate
Looks (and most likely smells) like the horrible little jars of Shiphams fish paste of a bygone age, the smell of which used to make me wince at best and retch at worst. They surely can't still be making it. It was hard to not wonder about the stench of the factory and the poor souls therein.
I am totally unadventurous with my food, so in no universe I am in will I be eating orange sea urchin gonads.
Nobody:
Random sea urchin: _\|/_
sea urchin eggs on sushi are amazing! And expensive.
I do definitely prefer your food reviews compared to Ashens, his always come across a bit "staged", but is there any weird food that you don't like? ;)
There's almost nothing I won't try. I can't eat pine nuts due to an allergy, and I am not fond of drinks with blobs in them
OH LOOK TOAST AGAIN
The only way to eat sea urchin is fresh off shore
I am urchin you to not be shell fish