As an ex-Chef I have to add that there is one thing that people who are cooking Octopus for the first time do not know, if the Octopus is tough, cook it longer! It is one of the only proteins that goes tender then tough then super tender. The complete opposite of squid. One of my favourite Cephalopods to cook and eat.....but the suction cups are delicious when they char so I would say keep them on rather than remove when grilling (but yes alway braise/boil first). On another note, you said "this isn't a restaurant" but your cutting technique is top class, keep up the informative videos!
Every Christmas Eve, my wife and I make seven fishes, and have a feast for family and friends. Octopus has been a feature of the last three years, and I love it. I buy it pre-cooked at Costco, and grill it over a hardwood fire, just like Reed did in this video. My wife then adds it to a salad of Calamari and Octopus with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Lemon and crushed Garlic and Parsley. YUM!
I used to use wishbone Italian for lots of grilled meats. I find it sticks more than I would like. I use olive oil, lemon, a little vinegar and herbs. Nothing precise. Great informative video as usual 👊
Me emociona ver cómo preparás el pulpo, a la gallega al principio, como mí abuela, tengo 60😆, ella lo hervía con una hoja de laurel y unos granos de pimienta negra más sal, olvidate del grill, después de hervido, cortado en trozos de bocado y unas papas hervidas en el mismo caldo, cachadas, más el mejor aceite de olivas que consigas y el mejor pimentón + vinho verde (el vino blanco que más te guste, seco preferentemente) vas a viajar en sabores gallegos 😉👍
Nice Job ... Thanks, Reed ... My first time eating Octopus was about 30 years ago, at an out-of-the-way restaurant, in Fall River, Mass ... Octopus medalions and eggs ...
I've eaten octopus many times,and like it.but I've never myself cooked or prepared it.thank you for the tips.as always reed concise enjoyable as well as a great production..thank you!
Yes! I'm interstate at the moment to spend Christmas with my Dad. When I get back to Canberra, I will be having a family lunch for my sons and partners. As it is Summer and hot here, I have planned to do a cold seafood platter, now I think I will have to add an octopus salad in your favourite style as one of the dishes. Great information and video, thank you 🤩
Love the vid. Appreciate the tips. I have cooked a lot of octopus. I have never boiled one. Usually we just put the octopus in the pan by itself or maybe with a few aromatics. And bring the heat up slowly. The octopus makes its own juice as it heats up. Which is then used to make various sauces. I think next time I will be giving your method a try. It is always nice to find or learn a new technique. Thank you.
Desculpa não falar em inglês, percebo mas não sei escrever 😅 O polvo é um dos meus pratos preferidos, cozes como fizeste, metes numa travessa, metes com batatas cozidas e esmagadas À parte fazes um refogado de cebola, alho, azeite de Oliveira, umas folhas de louro Depois é só regares as batatas e o polvo com esse refogado e levares ao forno até ficar dourado 😊 Esse prato em Portugal é chamado de "polvo à lagareiro" é simplesmente uma delícia 😍 Abraços de Portugal e continua com o bom trabalho que tens feito há anos 😀
@reedthefishmonger unfortunately, where I live in WV, we dont get much of that kind of thing since the demand is so low. But occasionally I hear about someone who went on a trip to some coastal bigger city where these products are more prominent and they bring something home. So I'll keep an eye open for someone heading that way to bring something back.
Looks great. Try pressure cooking then sautéed with olive oil, smoked paprika, boiled potatoes and lemon juice. I'm in islamorada, when I'm passing through delray I stop in the store and pick up some seafood
I was definitely intimidated, "uhh what would I do with this blob once I get home with it...?" but now I wish I had one rn.... 50 grams of protein per 6oz serving?! I'd never heard the trick of taking off the skin, makes sense for grilling.
Love your videos and would love to see more on the cooking part as well, definitely a way to go. I am from South africa, western cape, where the movie My Octopus teacher was made.... i would dive that area as a youngster, but sorry guys, i still love to eat octopus.
This is interesting. Usually I see people cook octopus in a pressure cooker and to tenderise it, they make a ton of diamond shape cuts all over the meat (like sushi chefs do)
My secret to perfect avocado ripeness is, I buy very green avocadoes in Walmart and put them in the crisper drawer in the fridge. MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE STEMS!. 1-2 days before you want a ripe one, take one out of the fridge, pop off the stem, and put t in a paper bag on the counter. Depending on the ripeness when you pull from the fridge, it will take 1 or 2 days to ripen perfectly.
Here in Spain, it is very popular, and it is delicious. But most of the octopus here is brought in from Morocco, not enough of it here for all the demand. We don't peel off the skin. You just made me want to eat it.
As interesting as cleaning fish is, I really like the cooking videos. Most of us are buying our seafood cleaned and would appreciate cooking tips. Especially exotics like octopus
Octopus don't have tentacles, they are arms. tentacles are smooth and only have a sucker pad at the very end, only squid, cuttle fish and nautilus have a pair of tentacles
Octopus eyes and human eyes are an example of convergent evolution to the same form and function over millions of years. However, an octopus can see polarized light and we cant.
I made kimchi yesterday. It's nice and bubbly this morning. It's my first time using the kimchi starter sauce (it was on sale at my Asian market buy one get one) but it's definitely delicious. Guess I need to get some octopus out of the freezer.
Does octopus have the same texture as squid ? It's so weird eating smart animals like pigs, squid, octopus, to name a few. I love squid, but have never tried octopus. EDIT : I love that grill. I looked it up and it's only $399 compared to $1200 for the Traeger.
While I would never target an octupus while spearfishing out of respect for their intellect, they are delicious. Next time I am in Puerto Rico I will have to get some pulpo..it is incredibly popular down there. I rarely see it on the menu or at the market here in Florida.
"Don’t Be Afraid Of Octopus"?! Are you effing KIDDING ME?! I have very GOOD reason to be afraid of octopus. It all started in a sushi bar in Florida... I was eating Tako nigiri sushi, which is Octopus on a morsel of sushi rice. I watched during the previous hour while the third-generation master sushi chef, Takahiro Namagachi, massaged the milky white fluid from the arm (octopuses have arms, not tentacles) and then rinsed it off. He then blanched it in a liquid, cooled it, and then sliced it into thin pieces to drape over the rice morsels. The entire time, another octopus watched from the aquarium, its arms flailing. I would come to know why soon enough. I savored the sushi I was served -- best I'd ever had. I paid my bill, tipped generously, and stopped by the aquarium to get a better look at the other octopus that had been watching me. Before I knew it, a sucker-covered arm gripped my throat, pulled me close, and whispered, "That was my BROTHER, m%%%%rf%%%%r. And now you're gonna die, too." Just as it brought its parrot-like beak to my eye socket, Master Namagachi grabbed it, threw it into the men's toilet, and flushed. I was shocked, of course, but my worries were over. Or so I thought. Octopuses, I learned that night, are both cunning and capable of unspeakable acts of violence. I was asleep when I was awakened by a metallic "CLINK-clink-clink..." sound at the front door. I investigated but found no one. What I DID find was a wide trail of sticky wetness on the hardwood floor leading onto the vinyl floor in the kitchen, and then up the cabinet to the countertop. A knife was missing. My heart started beating hard and fast, and I was so panicked that I could hardly breathe. I dialed 9-1-1, put the phone to my head, and turned around quickly. The octopus was on the center island holding the missing knife, a crazed look in his two bulging eyes. "Now **I** get to have **ME** a little sushi, **TOO** !" he screamed as he lunged at my chest with the knife. I jumped aside just in time; his momentum took him over the side and he PLOOMPed on the floor, knife still firmly gripped in its arm. He swiped the knife at my ankles, obviously hoping to sever tendon so I'd collapse where he could more easily finish me off, bit by bit. I'd never been more terrified in my entire life. I heard two loud BANGs. The cops had just then arrived and kicked down my front door. The lead cop fired his weapon twice into the octopus's head, splattering it all over me. All I could do was shiver in the corner in shock. "You're safe," the other cop said. "We got him." The other cop added, "You're a lucky man. That was the notorious octopodic criminal known as 'Big8' to every law enforcement organization from Yazoo City PD to Interpol. There's even a warrant out for his arrest on War Crime charges at The International Court of Justice at The Hague." EMS arrived and sedated me. I spent a couple of sessions with a psychiatrist who specialized in trauma, I came off the Hydroxyzine that was helping me with the anxiety, and I could look at a picture of an octopus once again without going into anaphylactic shock. Five months. Five months, it took me to get over it completely. I don't eat sushi anymore, and I don't go to events at the Atlanta Aquarium, either. I kept my saltwater aquarium, though, with the exotically beautiful fish that only saltwater could support. It actually kind of centered me in a healthy sort of way, looking at the fish every night before I went to sleep. I wish the story ended there. It didn't. I had a nightmare. Fifty baby octopuses were crawling all over me in bed, each with a tiny knife gripped by a curled arm. "You didn't know that 'Big8' was a FEMALE, did you, you sonofabitch?" it screamed at me. "And the female... LAYS EGGS!" I woke up screaming. There were no octopuses on me at all. It was all just in my head. I couldn't sleep, so I walked into the living room and turned on the TV. I glanced over at the aquarium... There were no fish. All sixteen of them, gone. And the floorbed was waving back and forth with translucent fragments... of empty octopus egg shells. I screamed. My neighbor called 9-1-1. EMS booked me in to Charter-Peachford for observation. That was six weeks ago. They keep telling me that I will go back home one day, but that I'm going to have to "do the work" first, whatever that means. As far as I'm concerned, I've done all the work one human being should EVER have to do when it comes to being afraid of octopuses. I'm beginning to give up hope. So yes, Reed, there is a perfectly legitimate reason to be afraid of octopuses. I should know.
Oh my gosh..!!! You destroyed the octopus. First at all that purple skin is the most beautiful thing of the octopus. Secondly, two hours? come on... you only need 20 to 30 minutes to enjoy the natural tenderness with no lemon and wine.
At almost 70 years of age, I have been preparing and cooking octopus, since the age of 5. Mate, what you did in this video, is to show people how NOT TO COOK octopus, HONEST! You absolutely ruined it; you have no idea. Besides all the errors from start to finish, there is so much flavour in the skin and you wiped it off? In addition, you lost even more flavour by boiling the octopus in all that water. One other point worth mentioning, is that the cooking time depends on the thickness of the tentacles and not the total weight. What you ended up with when it came out of the pot, was overcooked octopus.... RUINED!! For all your viewers that have no idea, they will just accept everything you said and that is sad!
As an ex-Chef I have to add that there is one thing that people who are cooking Octopus for the first time do not know, if the Octopus is tough, cook it longer! It is one of the only proteins that goes tender then tough then super tender. The complete opposite of squid. One of my favourite Cephalopods to cook and eat.....but the suction cups are delicious when they char so I would say keep them on rather than remove when grilling (but yes alway braise/boil first). On another note, you said "this isn't a restaurant" but your cutting technique is top class, keep up the informative videos!
5:30AM A new Fishmonger video! Great way to start a post-Christmas day!
Heck yeah, thank you for the enthusiasm! 🙏
Boxing day
Every Christmas Eve, my wife and I make seven fishes, and have a feast for family and friends. Octopus has been a feature of the last three years, and I love it. I buy it pre-cooked at Costco, and grill it over a hardwood fire, just like Reed did in this video. My wife then adds it to a salad of Calamari and Octopus with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Lemon and crushed Garlic and Parsley. YUM!
a mix of calamari + octopus sounds heavenly
Best to get it at least cleaned and fresh never buy from Costco
@@BoskiMseems they are pretty happy with buying it from Costco.
😋 seven seas soup, and ceviche good eats😊
@@BoskiM what a dork!
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The film My Octopus Teacher made me rethink eating occy. They truly are an amazing creature.
I don’t blame you. Their population is so large; what’s the solution to preventing what they eat from being overconsumed if octopuses are protected?
@@reedthefishmonger good point
And tasty ! Mmmm.
They are amazing - but keep in mind they have about 32,000 babies each!
@reedthefishmonger What prey population are you maintaining/protecting by consuming octopus?
Octopus is something I have never had to handle. I love eating it when someone else has done all the work.....lol. Great video.
You can use a pressure cooker to get it tender quickly, works wonders for us at home
I especially appreciate that you took the time to show how to prepare it. And 2 different ways at that. Thanks much.
You’re welcome! Glad you liked the video 🙏
I used to use wishbone Italian for lots of grilled meats. I find it sticks more than I would like. I use olive oil, lemon, a little vinegar and herbs. Nothing precise. Great informative video as usual 👊
I’ll admit it…I have been scared of octopus. But this looks pretty doable, not to mention pretty tasty. Thanks for some good instruction.
Me emociona ver cómo preparás el pulpo, a la gallega al principio, como mí abuela, tengo 60😆, ella lo hervía con una hoja de laurel y unos granos de pimienta negra más sal, olvidate del grill, después de hervido, cortado en trozos de bocado y unas papas hervidas en el mismo caldo, cachadas, más el mejor aceite de olivas que consigas y el mejor pimentón + vinho verde (el vino blanco que más te guste, seco preferentemente) vas a viajar en sabores gallegos 😉👍
Nice Job ... Thanks, Reed ... My first time eating Octopus was about 30 years ago, at an out-of-the-way restaurant, in Fall River, Mass ... Octopus medalions and eggs ...
I've eaten octopus many times,and like it.but I've never myself cooked or prepared it.thank you for the tips.as always reed concise enjoyable as well as a great production..thank you!
Recteq rocks! Lots of good how-to's on octopus. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Yes! I'm interstate at the moment to spend Christmas with my Dad. When I get back to Canberra, I will be having a family lunch for my sons and partners. As it is Summer and hot here, I have planned to do a cold seafood platter, now I think I will have to add an octopus salad in your favourite style as one of the dishes.
Great information and video, thank you 🤩
That's awesome! You're gonna love it! Dad time is so important 🙏
Love the vid. Appreciate the tips. I have cooked a lot of octopus. I have never boiled one. Usually we just put the octopus in the pan by itself or maybe with a few aromatics. And bring the heat up slowly. The octopus makes its own juice as it heats up. Which is then used to make various sauces. I think next time I will be giving your method a try. It is always nice to find or learn a new technique.
Thank you.
Nice touch using a fillet knife to prep the seasoning etc! Make it your own!
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Desculpa não falar em inglês, percebo mas não sei escrever 😅
O polvo é um dos meus pratos preferidos, cozes como fizeste, metes numa travessa, metes com batatas cozidas e esmagadas
À parte fazes um refogado de cebola, alho, azeite de Oliveira, umas folhas de louro
Depois é só regares as batatas e o polvo com esse refogado e levares ao forno até ficar dourado 😊
Esse prato em Portugal é chamado de "polvo à lagareiro" é simplesmente uma delícia 😍
Abraços de Portugal e continua com o bom trabalho que tens feito há anos 😀
That last dish looked awesome. Good stuff
Thank you! 🙏
This looks deliscious. Now i have to figure out how to find some to make. Thanks much.
Many specialty grocery stores have them in their freezers 🙌
@reedthefishmonger unfortunately, where I live in WV, we dont get much of that kind of thing since the demand is so low. But occasionally I hear about someone who went on a trip to some coastal bigger city where these products are more prominent and they bring something home. So I'll keep an eye open for someone heading that way to bring something back.
Great video. can't go wrong with Italian and grilling. Thank you.
Nice content, Reed. Thank you!
Thank you for watching brotha! 🙏
Very nice content, Reed! Your website is really rocking also!😊
Reed, You are awesome, this is my new favorite video.
Hi Reed, I like octopus, but never seen one this size to buy. I do smaller ones easily and they are never expensive.
Nick from York
Congrats on 600K, man!
Awesome video I definitely learned a few new things! One of my favorite foods 🔥
your Momma never taught you to not eat anything in front of others unless you had enough for everyone, did she? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great video, Reed! 👍👍👍👍👊👊👊👊👊
Well dang it, now I want Octopus!
They’re so good!
same, but I feel this way about every fish watching any of his vids!
Looks great. Try pressure cooking then sautéed with olive oil, smoked paprika, boiled potatoes and lemon juice. I'm in islamorada, when I'm passing through delray I stop in the store and pick up some seafood
My family always put a wine cork in the pot with it, supposedly tenderizes it.
I was definitely intimidated, "uhh what would I do with this blob once I get home with it...?" but now I wish I had one rn.... 50 grams of protein per 6oz serving?!
I'd never heard the trick of taking off the skin, makes sense for grilling.
Love your videos and would love to see more on the cooking part as well, definitely a way to go. I am from South africa, western cape, where the movie My Octopus teacher was made.... i would dive that area as a youngster, but sorry guys, i still love to eat octopus.
This is interesting.
Usually I see people cook octopus in a pressure cooker and to tenderise it, they make a ton of diamond shape cuts all over the meat (like sushi chefs do)
If it's sticking too it means your char hasn't fully formed yet, you can leave it for another 15-20 seconds and it should come right off
Correct but when you cook octopus you’ll know what I’m talking about.
@reedthefishmonger unfortunately I haven't had the pleasure of cooking a beautiful fresh specimen like that, love your recipes even still!
I like the WalMart reference about the avocado lol.
Thanks for the videos! You are the man!
Thank you so much! 🙏 Happy New Year!
Steam it. Comes out great and the texture is fantastic
Damn.... only got one or 2 "absolutely phenomenals" on this one... 😢
Looks delicious though
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Love the SpongeBob shout out, great job as always but still didn't invite😂 me 😅
Love all you video ❤❤❤ from Indonesian
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My secret to perfect avocado ripeness is, I buy very green avocadoes in Walmart and put them in the crisper drawer in the fridge. MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE STEMS!. 1-2 days before you want a ripe one, take one out of the fridge, pop off the stem, and put t in a paper bag on the counter. Depending on the ripeness when you pull from the fridge, it will take 1 or 2 days to ripen perfectly.
I’ll give that a try! Problem isis whenever I buy avocado it’s because I need it on the spot 😂
@@reedthefishmonger My wife an I have taken to trying to eat an avocado daily, so it works well for us.
Far out, looks great
Reed, do you have a video out that you could direct me to that shows how to clean flounder &/or one on how to clean stingray?
Sun hasn't come up yet here on the prairie, sitting 1500+ miles from the ocean, wondering why I watch these videos ;)
Thank you so much for supporting the channel by watching! Hope you had a great Christmas!
I'm going to start a drinking game: everytime he says the name of whatever he's preparing, take a shot😂😂😂
(Jk all love homie)
5:20 could use Worcestershire sauce, depending how you cook it
Especially if you fry it like calamari
I don't know if you tried it, I typically add olive to the marinade. It helps keeping the legs from sticking to the grill.
Here in Spain, it is very popular, and it is delicious. But most of the octopus here is brought in from Morocco, not
enough of it here for all the demand. We don't peel off the skin. You just made me want to eat it.
Have you done the sunfish yet would love to see that
As interesting as cleaning fish is, I really like the cooking videos. Most of us are buying our seafood cleaned and would appreciate cooking tips. Especially exotics like octopus
Thank you for the feedback! More cooking on the way!
Man that looked delicious!
Thank you! It was 😁
Octopus don't have tentacles, they are arms. tentacles are smooth and only have a sucker pad at the very end, only squid, cuttle fish and nautilus have a pair of tentacles
You are correct! Thank you for the comment 🙏
looks like tentacles to me!
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Octopus tentacles just sounds more fun
I have never seen these for sale, how much did this one cost? Is the head and center waste?
Very beautiful and delicious thing pal 👌👍😍
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Haven't had octopus in ages --- It's a wonderful food but too often ignored.
What does octopus taste like? Like shrimp? Lobster? Crab?
You are the spittin' image of a young Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains. Wow.
Spanish octopus -- and not Japanese -- actually is the BEST for takoyaki! What a great dish to serve with homemade beer! mmmmm!
That kind of octopus is Pulpo of Galicia or Pulpo Gallego
Octopus eyes and human eyes are an example of convergent evolution to the same form and function over millions of years. However, an octopus can see polarized light and we cant.
I made kimchi yesterday. It's nice and bubbly this morning. It's my first time using the kimchi starter sauce (it was on sale at my Asian market buy one get one) but it's definitely delicious. Guess I need to get some octopus out of the freezer.
Heck yeah! Hard to beat homemade kimchi!
“Just pounding out your octopus”. Nice.
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It was so tiny after cooking! 😲
They’re mostly water, crazy!
So I can’t eat this without worry ? ( shell fish allergy) if so WOO HOO!
Don’t be afraid of octopus- unless it’s chasing you! 🏊 🐙
Pounding out your octopussssss 😶
Can you cook octopus like squid dish calamari? I never cooked octopus before
Does octopus have the same texture as squid ? It's so weird eating smart animals like pigs, squid, octopus, to name a few. I love squid, but have never tried octopus.
EDIT : I love that grill. I looked it up and it's only $399 compared to $1200 for the Traeger.
After one catches an octopus, how is it killed so it doesn’t slide away?
if you dont want the octopus to stick use olive oil on the grill
Plenty of oil in the Italian dressing, you’ll know what I’m talking about when you cook octopus 😅
@@reedthefishmonger i do grill octopus ,, its why i told you
OK what about the ink sack? If we catch them ourselves has to be dealt with.
Bro that's the kraken💀
I can see why Tim dating an octopus would be controversial, but I've seen a lot worse.
Need more cowbell
Good eating
Bbq occy is the best
So good!!
I quit eating them. Octopus is peeps!
I don’t blame you! Protecting octopus would create a whole other problem of what they eat being over fished by octopus 😅
@@reedthefishmonger I said "I" won't eat them. I don't speak for anybody else. I eat Squid all the time. I just have a fond spot for Octopus.
@@reedthefishmonger Don't expect anybody else to stop eating them.
You have to beat it against a rock 40 times
Calamari. Is delicious
I’m sure you know but calamari is squid. Squid and octopus are both cephalopods and both delicious 😁
No way!!!
Koreans use flour to wash an octopus. Works very well.
You have to ask a Greek how to cook octopus silly😂😂
While I would never target an octupus while spearfishing out of respect for their intellect, they are delicious.
Next time I am in Puerto Rico I will have to get some pulpo..it is incredibly popular down there.
I rarely see it on the menu or at the market here in Florida.
I generally don't eat octopus because they're very smart and squid is way better.
I don’t blame you! Protecting octopus would create a whole other problem of what they eat being over fished by octopus 😅
"Don’t Be Afraid Of Octopus"?! Are you effing KIDDING ME?!
I have very GOOD reason to be afraid of octopus. It all started in a sushi bar in Florida...
I was eating Tako nigiri sushi, which is Octopus on a morsel of sushi rice. I watched during the previous hour while the third-generation master sushi chef, Takahiro Namagachi, massaged the milky white fluid from the arm (octopuses have arms, not tentacles) and then rinsed it off. He then blanched it in a liquid, cooled it, and then sliced it into thin pieces to drape over the rice morsels.
The entire time, another octopus watched from the aquarium, its arms flailing. I would come to know why soon enough.
I savored the sushi I was served -- best I'd ever had. I paid my bill, tipped generously, and stopped by the aquarium to get a better look at the other octopus that had been watching me.
Before I knew it, a sucker-covered arm gripped my throat, pulled me close, and whispered, "That was my BROTHER, m%%%%rf%%%%r. And now you're gonna die, too." Just as it brought its parrot-like beak to my eye socket, Master Namagachi grabbed it, threw it into the men's toilet, and flushed. I was shocked, of course, but my worries were over.
Or so I thought. Octopuses, I learned that night, are both cunning and capable of unspeakable acts of violence.
I was asleep when I was awakened by a metallic "CLINK-clink-clink..." sound at the front door. I investigated but found no one. What I DID find was a wide trail of sticky wetness on the hardwood floor leading onto the vinyl floor in the kitchen, and then up the cabinet to the countertop.
A knife was missing. My heart started beating hard and fast, and I was so panicked that I could hardly breathe.
I dialed 9-1-1, put the phone to my head, and turned around quickly. The octopus was on the center island holding the missing knife, a crazed look in his two bulging eyes.
"Now **I** get to have **ME** a little sushi, **TOO** !" he screamed as he lunged at my chest with the knife. I jumped aside just in time; his momentum took him over the side and he PLOOMPed on the floor, knife still firmly gripped in its arm.
He swiped the knife at my ankles, obviously hoping to sever tendon so I'd collapse where he could more easily finish me off, bit by bit. I'd never been more terrified in my entire life.
I heard two loud BANGs. The cops had just then arrived and kicked down my front door. The lead cop fired his weapon twice into the octopus's head, splattering it all over me. All I could do was shiver in the corner in shock.
"You're safe," the other cop said. "We got him."
The other cop added, "You're a lucky man. That was the notorious octopodic criminal known as 'Big8' to every law enforcement organization from Yazoo City PD to Interpol. There's even a warrant out for his arrest on War Crime charges at The International Court of Justice at The Hague."
EMS arrived and sedated me. I spent a couple of sessions with a psychiatrist who specialized in trauma, I came off the Hydroxyzine that was helping me with the anxiety, and I could look at a picture of an octopus once again without going into anaphylactic shock.
Five months. Five months, it took me to get over it completely.
I don't eat sushi anymore, and I don't go to events at the Atlanta Aquarium, either. I kept my saltwater aquarium, though, with the exotically beautiful fish that only saltwater could support. It actually kind of centered me in a healthy sort of way, looking at the fish every night before I went to sleep.
I wish the story ended there. It didn't.
I had a nightmare. Fifty baby octopuses were crawling all over me in bed, each with a tiny knife gripped by a curled arm.
"You didn't know that 'Big8' was a FEMALE, did you, you sonofabitch?" it screamed at me. "And the female... LAYS EGGS!"
I woke up screaming. There were no octopuses on me at all. It was all just in my head.
I couldn't sleep, so I walked into the living room and turned on the TV. I glanced over at the aquarium... There were no fish. All sixteen of them, gone. And the floorbed was waving back and forth with translucent fragments... of empty octopus egg shells.
I screamed. My neighbor called 9-1-1. EMS booked me in to Charter-Peachford for observation.
That was six weeks ago.
They keep telling me that I will go back home one day, but that I'm going to have to "do the work" first, whatever that means. As far as I'm concerned, I've done all the work one human being should EVER have to do when it comes to being afraid of octopuses. I'm beginning to give up hope.
So yes, Reed, there is a perfectly legitimate reason to be afraid of octopuses.
I should know.
6oz of octopus being 50g of protein makes me want to eat octopus
You and I both!
Oh I'm not afraid of octopus, its disgusting 😂😂😂
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I used to love eating octopus until I found out how intelligent they are. No more for me.
Way more intimidating in the ocean.
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leave octopusses alone. Amazing creatures.
Octopuses are aliens. We're setting our dominance in the galaxy 🫸🐙🫷
one of the most intelligent creatures on earth...
unfortunately (for them)....also delicious
Definitely delicious
No Reed no matter what you do it still tastes like fishy liver 🥹
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how do you know this is a spanish octopus? it might be a portuguise octopus with a work visa!
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Oh my gosh..!!! You destroyed the octopus. First at all that purple skin is the most beautiful thing of the octopus. Secondly, two hours? come on... you only need 20 to 30 minutes to enjoy the natural tenderness with no lemon and wine.
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I'm not afraid. Just grossed out.
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clearly you "live to eat", I would never put this much expense or effort into anything I eat.
At almost 70 years of age, I have been preparing and cooking octopus, since the age of 5. Mate, what you did in this video, is to show people how NOT TO COOK octopus, HONEST! You absolutely ruined it; you have no idea. Besides all the errors from start to finish, there is so much flavour in the skin and you wiped it off? In addition, you lost even more flavour by boiling the octopus in all that water. One other point worth mentioning, is that the cooking time depends on the thickness of the tentacles and not the total weight. What you ended up with when it came out of the pot, was overcooked octopus.... RUINED!!
For all your viewers that have no idea, they will just accept everything you said and that is sad!