Why Japanese Eel Is So Expensive | So Expensive
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- People in Japan have eaten eel for thousands of years. Unagi, or freshwater Japanese eel, can cost more than bluefin tuna. But it isn't caught as adults. Instead, young eels are raised on farms. It can take 6 to 12 months of work before eels are big enough to be sold. And cooking it is just as challenging.
Properly cooking Japanese eel can take years to master. When it's prepared in the kabayaki style it can cost over $90. Despite the price of eel, demand remains high. But the global catch of Japanese eel has declined by more than 75% since 1980, so prices can vary widely each year. In January 2018, young eels, also called glass eels, cost around $35,000 per kilogram.
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Why Japanese Eel Is So Expensive | So Expensive
Everything in Japan:
“Years to master”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ha haa
Well they better hurry up and master the art of breeding eel. They know how to artificially inseminated trout.💖🌞🌵😷
evrything in usa 5 min to master
@@speakupyt4900, so are bananas. Bananas are slightly radio active. 💖🌞🌵😷
Learning to fish outside japan: 1 month
Learning to fish inside japan : 2 lifetimes take it or leave it
fun fact japan import for 15billion of $ of sea food each year, and 90%of their own catch are eaten by them, half of fish they eat is bought to foreign fishermen...most of them are chinese which ffish fleet rule the pacific. since its a wealthy country they can afford high valuable sea food like tuna, crab, lobster, shrimp, salmon which they bought from all over the world...they are the 3rd fish market in $ despite be a 120million people country....so what you see is that japan concentrate on rising valuable fish, and buy world other valuable sea food....in opposition poor countries/sailor eat the less valuable catch, and sell expensive species to big market like usa/japan/china.
I know
It a joke based on the video
The reason why everything is so perfect in Japan
@@anitachandra2030 I wouldn’t say perfect
They just exaggerate over there
“Grilling takes your whole life to master”
Guy working at grill is 27.
Then he has a ways to go, eh?
He started at 4 years of age.
@@pacoramon9468 He had started it whilst in the womb.
So he's still apparently not doing it correctly
Didn't you know he's a master from land of no land in sumrai era
Total master shogun today lool utter bulshit
I mean….I think it’s kind of explanatory. This is an unsustainable industry, you can’t just expect to catch all the young eels and expect their native populations to sustain themselves,
I've heard there's been research being done to sustainably hatch and raise eels without resorting to outsourcing glass eels from the wild. I'm not entirely sure how far along the research is but here's to hoping for sustainability.
@@phestojen7966
Even with farmed stocks, which is still long ways off, I doubt it will be sufficient to meet demand. And there’s no guarantee that a sustainable option will be available before the complete depletion of natural wild stock.
fun fact: Chinese eels are 1/2 or 2/3 cheaper than Japanese eels. All eels are wild caught and farm raised. Lots of Japanese eels are actually imported from China and rebranded in Japan.
Thanos needs to be real.
Japanese greed is also perfect and takes years of practice to master it.
ANY THING JAPANESE : "Preparing it takes years to master "
Yeah that's why I rarely see Japanese people in the TH-cam comment section. I once came across a master that spend the last 15 years on honing his skills on writing the perfect TH-cam comments. I felt deeply honored by witnessing his dedication 🙏
@TheExplorer that does attract tourists. However, you can’t call years of training crap that is made up JUST to attract people.
I’m going to ADRIAN’S KICKBACK tonight 😂💯 hope y’all tune in to the video
"Seaspiracy"
Eel is definitely difficult to filet, because its so fkin slimy but to say it would take years is bs. Id say it takes a week if you do it every day all day long.
I'm japanese and I've taken years of practice just to write this one comment.
Lol
😂😂😂
Arigato
@@xraydog2011 Gozaimasu
🤣🤣🤣
All Jokes aside about the "years to master thing" the part about slicing eel he ain't joking about. Having worked as a fish monger in the past for about 2 years I can tell you properly butchering (slicing) the eel is seriously one of the hardest things to do. It's super slippery, you can damage the good meat if you aren't careful. Since freshness is key (live killing just before using as food) doing it fast and in a way that keeps the good meat in tact is definitely hard. Now the 9 years part? idk about all that but it definitely takes "years to master"
Thanks for the insight!
@@nowcycle No, that's a way to describe the Japanese method for preparing seafood of the highest freshest quality. By "preparing live" refers to killing the fish instantly and right after beginning the butchery process.
haha. I fish when I was younger. When we see eel that is rare, we can't even catch it. It's slippery slope as they say. It's like all the lubes in the world put on this slimy thing.
@@nowcycle Nah, that's China. They cook them alive. Japan I think kill them and serve them fresh I think. Like sushi.
Yes.. I'm so fed up with those dumb comments mocking artisan. They are sloppy workers who think they have mastered something when they does shitty job.
So they never ACTUALLY said that the problem is that they are taking all the baby eels from the wild because they haven’t figured out how to breed them in captivity, and so every year there are less and less eels to catch because there aren’t enough left to breed new babies. Way to go human greed 🙄
exactly it's so stupid if they released even a quarter of the full grown eel's they might not have to declining numbers and the risk of so much lost income to
That's the point. Less eel + High demand = Profit
I mean... if we look as to why they couldn’t breed eels in captivity as efficiently as farm factories, it would make sense
Since THERES STILL NO ANSWER AS TO HOW EELS REPRODUCT
So what are they gonna do? Stop catching them? They said it's a big part the economy, so a lot of restaurants would go out of business and the economy could take a huge hit from it. It's easy enough to say what you said, but actually doing it is way harder. The video also said that there currently *is* effort being made to improve the situation, but it isn't enough apparently. You also say getting rid of a fourth of their eels is a good idea, but if you recall, restaurants are still dependent on a high enough quantity of eel. On top of that, prices would skyrocket higher than they already are, and people would stop buying as much. I'm sure you can see the economical cost that would come from that.
At this point it isn't about greed, but about people's livelihoods.
Also to the person who mentioned eel reproduction, not sure what you want to know specifically about it? I can tell you a few things, unless you are referring to the fact that we can't figure out the exact process, physiologically.
If Im not mistaken, the reproduction of eels is actually a mystery we have yet to solve. It’s been like that for hundreds of years. If Im not mistaken, European eels only apear in regular siting areas as adults without sex organs. They go upstream and enter and entirely different life stage, and mate somewhere out at sea where we still haven’t found. If japanese eels are similar than this isn’t easy. The reason they’re catching babies isn’t just because they’re idiots Its because we don’t know how to breed them. And of corse if a farmer has put in the work and money to raise them, generally they’re going sell what they’ve spent money on to buy and raise to be eaten. Don’t act like there’s an easy way out because there’s not.
It’s even possible that captive-raised eels are missing something they would have gotten in the wild, something that would have made them unable to breed regardless if they were released (Im thinking this possibility is about 35% likley but Im just guessing)
Japan: *Year's of practice and mastering*
while in my country: hires part-timers
Hey I see you everywhere
If you actually lived in Japan, you'd know that most of this work is also done by part-timers. This whole "it takes a lifetime to master" shit is just BS they like to say to gin up tourism.
Hey you are here to
Your comment make no sense like tf part time exist in Japan to
Its same here in japan. The video is exaggerating alot
Every time an animal or plant is on “So Expensive”
“Iemme guess, overfished/harvested”
congrats bro you have unlocked common sense
Haha, they just don't want to understand that they are overfishing and overuse. Profits above all. The hell if they ho extinct. LOVE NATURE RESPECT NATURE ❤
Or just hard to find.
what a surprise
@@poalchihan well it's hard tl find when you hunt the shit out of it. Then when it's hard to find typically it's because you overfished it.
Japanese are so dedicated to their culture and craft. Wish they had the same passion for their Eco System and preventing over fishing
literally many countries are like that too.
@@redwarriorXYTTH-cam Japan is especially difficult in that case. They overfish and eat everything. Not to shame them, but their culture honestly makes maintaining some species alive a very difficult task
@@redwarriorXYTTH-cam the comment and video is about japan. dont act like they said other countries don’t do this too.
@@sofadudeman what do you mean don’t act like what? tf Just because it about Japanese eel doesn’t mean it has anything to do with eco system and preventing fishing when the problem isn’t just japan, literally many other countries done the same and why don’t you guys solve it then just complain and shit, idc about the problems but blaming a country because they didn’t do it when their own countries and doing the samething is just bullshit.
@@redwarriorXYTTH-cam ????? bro…. the commenter did NOT insult japan, they just said they wished japan had the same passion for preventing over-fishing.
there was no blaming. don’t try to bring other countries to defend japan. It’s just a misunderstanding, we don’t have to argue over it.
It takes young Japanese apprentices 3 years to learn to squat, 10 for taking a dump, and a lifetime to master wiping.
A foolish man will say: "How many wipes before my anus is clean?" But a wise man will say: "How many anuses until I am The Wipe?" ✨️🙏
Japanese wouldn't be japanese if there is no ""it takes a few years to master"
Because it’s b.s
@@briom1425 but most things do take a few years to master? Not too far fetched
@@faitodeyo7019 Yeah but a lifetime to master grilling them? Lets be serious. They probably say that to keep the price really high. "Oh too hard to learn how to cook, so must charge high price"
@@joshlete that makes more sense then thx
@@joshlete you should try to compare the higher and lower price eel in Japan someday. I can't explain it but you'll notice differences.
Breathing In Japan: “it’s takes life to master”
Tanjiro: say it again
true
you cannot master breathing without life
Both of you are here? Ok my life is complete
Ok jealous american boy with no skills lol
😂😂😂
I feel like I remember reading that eels only breed in the last year of their lives while they swim from a specific part of the ocean, so it makes sense that they've never witnessed breeding in captivity if there are requirements like that, especially if they're eaten before that time.
IKR? It would be like raising salmon in a tank then wondering why it doesn't spawn. They need to figure out how to collect the gonads and artificially inseminate while the government subsidizes for a couple years so the natural populations can refresh themselves. Imports only for a year or so with an insane price hike, I'm sure the Japanese people would understand it is for research and to protect future generations of eel.
@@Undomaranelit doesnt help that many only develop gonads at the end of their life cycle, but with hormone injections and some funding it should be fine
@@Hmm.223problem would be acquiring the funds for eel farms to do this on a large scale. But it should be possible especially if we can engineer bacteria to produce these hormones
I won't lie, seeing these eel on the grill made me really hungry, which was immediately negated by seeing them alive
"How to blend coffee"
Japan: It takes a century to master coffee blending using spoon and cup.
Then boom world most expensive coffee form japan 🗿
@@anon-le9fp *from 🗿
Thats what they say to get everyone to pay top $$$
Look up the tea ceremony.
Sojiro Sakura would like to know your address...
Japanese Walmart employee: it takes 5 years to master stocking shampoo shelves. 10 for soap. Baby diapers the rest of your life .
So funny. Yeah why does it have to take a whole life to do anything in Japan. Even the bonsai trees takes decades to master
@@turklerbilsin676 I think they have lot of time🔥🔥
Perfection is what they strive.
Cause old workers they do not want to lose their job. So 5 years washing rice
Japan has never had a school shooting, let’s just say that.
When Japanese people say “it takes years to master”, what it really means is that you will never reach “perfection” but you work towards it. Dont be satisfied and stop working on your passion. Be humble and keep on improving. Its just a Japanese cultural mindset when it comes to craftsmanship. A Japanese craftsman or an artist could work on something for most of their lifetime and he will NEVER claim that he has “mastered” it. It could be the lack of translation in these videos but I wanted to point that out.
“He has been farming eels for almost 400 years “
one day soon he will finally master it... maybe.
“Drinking water”- takes years to master
Didn’t max out my skill level till last October
Also it cost 100,000 thousands dollars
Yeah, they like to be over the top with everything. Even the most mundane tasks. 😅
lol
@@MosesMatsepane but they do it better than you
3 years to master the skewering, 8 years for the slicing. He forgot the 5 years required to master the pepper grinding!
And 4 years to give to the customer
Don't forget 2 years to remembering all that
Amount of eel caught is a matter of life or death for eel restaurant. We have been open for 150 years
I hope its just embellishing, whats the point of having national dishes that can only be made in a few restaurants?
lmao 5zero you got a funny ass personality
"It's a mixture of fish meal..."
Eels: ngl that's tasty
Japan’s got really good PR. Everything is presented as a “folded over a thousand times” work of art that’s been practiced for hundreds of years. I’m like “calm down, it’s water worms on a stick”.
Japanese have really figured out job security. Like what ya gonna do fire me and wait a whole life time to get another eel grill master...lol
Good one mate.
He wouldn't get fired though, because he wouldn't become a master without extreme dedication to his craft.
Yeah they have really found a good shortcut, just dedicate years of their life to their craft
Why Japanese Eel Is So Expensive? 👎👎Because it's all radioactive Eels !!!! LMAO
Greenpeace just tested all Japanese fishes, there were high level of Cesium was detected in fishes and
produces from Japan and many countries banned Japanese products for these reasons!
@@speakupyt4900 Greenpeace has been proven to be full with incompetent idiots and terrorists tho so cba
They should start a new series, “ how many years does it take to master” (Japan special)
Answer for every episodes .. "Many years"
JAPAN is all about quality and perfection not like shit India
@@amarbinay6654 haha cringe weaboo kid spotted
@Arvind. the truth is all I am saying
@@kshitijnigam640 even if I ain't weebos India looks so shitty in comparison to JAPAN
A lot of people talking about overfishing but the use of pesticides is probably the biggest issue here. Since Japan started spraying their fields with neonicotinoids, killing all of the eels food, their eel fisheries have completely collapsed.
Pesticides are indiscriminately wiping out the bottom of the food chain, leading to ecological collapses like this.
Touché, well said.
mind linking to some evidence? seems pretty straightforward to me that overfishing would me much more responsible for population decline than pesticides. I'm open to the contrary evidence though
@@Stumashedpotatoes sorry, nothing to hand. I just finished reading Silent Earth by Dave Goulson and he made a very compelling argument about the link between pesticides and Japanese fisheries collapsing. I'd def recommend it if you're into that sort of thing.
Neonicotinoids are awful
@@DeLunny having read many journel articles, pesticides is a factor but not the major catalyst. Heck even some fish in china have become resistand to herbicides and pesticides in the rice fields. It's simply overfishing, as population grows, demands become bigger, thus over consumption. Bachs of enviro science here
Japan: “Years to master”
Philippines: "Days to master"
I just signed up for a course (how to properly grill an eel) in Japan and the length of this course is 100 years. I am super excited to be a grill eel master.
🤣🤣🤣👍
Don't bother. It will take years to master
🤣😂🤣✨it takes 10 years before you get to even see a live eel but good luck with your eel course
That’s just the starting course, to become Samurai proficiency you have to spend another 1000 years just to get the master certification
damn really?? I signed up for a class that takes 2 lifetimes to become a grill eel master
Japanese people really knows how to market their product where the price could be triple or quadruple than your average, for example Square watermelons, white strawberry ,eels and etc..
Americans are about quanity, XXXL pizza with 6 types of cheese and cheese stuffed crust on a bed of cheese. Comes with 2 gallons of neon colored sugar water and a garbage bag of fries
@@genderfluidsneutral4591 we also like High ABV in our beer.. But My Filipina Wife likes that too .. My wife lived in Tokyo and said everything was too expensive and not worth the money... She also lived in Dubai and had the same complaint.. Now she is with me in Texas and has more food and Beer than she knows what to do with... Yep we super size everything and always at half price....
@@greenfungus1 I bet she prefers to eat at home, and eats lots of rice. I'm asian as well and I can eat pizza, burgers etc. But I need rice at least once a day usually for dinner.
@@genderfluidsneutral4591 Yep lots of rice... Breakfast time with Eggs, Later with pork or chicken oh and lot's of fish and seafood too... We had Chicken Paws and rice just now..
@@genderfluidsneutral4591 Everything that you just said sounds delicious.
I am a Japanese and I would like to ask those who laugh at the saying that it takes a lifetime to master the cooking of eel this question: Can you claim to have mastered even one thing in your life? In Japan, there are many traditional crafts, and artisans spend a lifetime honing their skills. Examples include Japanese swords, sushi, and kimonos."
Seriously speaking, when Japanese say "it takes years to master", it implies "you aren't perfect, just keep trying to be better".
"...until you die"
I thought it was like a caste system. Make it harder for everyone to apprentice in certain trades and keep the trade within a family or community.
Fr I hate these comments taking digs at what they're passionate about. Just taking apart an eel is already difficult enough from what I've seen on a channel called Kimagure cook. They are constantly striving to be better while these guys in the comments are..
The way the eels are eating that paste is pretty satisfying
It's cute
Seaspi>racy!
idk it sort of creeped me out
@@toxicjay8562 yes.. sadly they're gonna get eaten
@@nasuegaming1255 at least they would have at least they lived happily but their buddies so they do
YOU guys should make episode on " Why every thing in Japan take years to master"
It would take years to master making that video though.
@@kuokublaikhan 😂😂😂😂👍👍
@@kuokublaikhan 😂😂😂
oh you used the same joke format as half the other commenters. truly hilarious
great things take time
It would be really fun if we got a video talking about why eels (and also maybe other fish like tuna) can't be breed in captivity.
all these comments with saying "why does everything in japan take years to master" before the culture is focused on quality and perfection, its amazing the work they put in to even simple things and say all you want but i think its incredibly admirable they are willing to try and provide the best quality product
By destroying the environment and massacres a whole species ?
@@GilbyMinaj Like everyone else in the world did to something at some point. The impact of those things often happened before such awareness existed.
@@victorpresti people in this comment section is so ignorant
That's exactly what I'm saying. People are looking at this too literally. It doesn't take a lifetime to perfectly grill an Eel, maybe a couple of years, no more than 5. What the Japanese mean with this statement is that they're so devoted to their craft that they want nothing less than perfection for whatever product they're selling. It could be Knives, Electronics, Cars, Silverware, Chalk, etc. It's all done with quality in mind. They think long-term, not short-term. Compare Toyota and Chevy and it doesn't even come remotely close.
There's a point where the diminishing return is so low it's just not worth it to cut quantity for quality for most manufacturers. Yes there will always be a niche group that will pay up to perhaps hundreds of times for something that's only marginally better than the top shelf mass produced option depending upon difficulty, but it's never going to trump the money to be made on a broad customer base. And, it's a fragile system that can easily tank in a mild economical depression, lack of worthy apprentices when people retire or a number of other factors.
No wonder young people in Japan depressed. Everything "takes years to master".
Imagine “takeshi take 30 years to master cooking instant noodle”
@@Shigeshajo it’s a art okay
everything takes years to master
Seems like you only like to lay under the apple tree and hope for the fruit to fall in your mouth
Or a lifetime
18 year old boy at job interview
Master: You need 15 years of experience for this job.
18 year old : "Fine then...Keep your job vacancy."
I love kids
18 year old: I have been training for this job since I was 3
Normally if it's a restaurant passed by tradition they take the boy as apprentice
u are 1000 years too early to wash the rice.
Breathing correctly in Japan: takes years to master.
Grilling eels takes a lifetime... I believe the young eel chefs are not going to live long.
So why is it expensive?
Japan:" well we fcked the ecosystem that's why"
it looks like they are eating peanut butter
Here before it blows up...
Never gonna give you up
Leaving my signature here
it was shit
It looks like dough to me
The reason for a lot of seafood becoming expensive is overfishing: lobsters, oysters, tuna, eel, scallops etc.
True
Wait I’m confused. Doesn’t overfishing mean more supply so that should make it less expensive?
@@davve5657the demand and amount caught is too much, leaving behind less and less for the next time they go fishing again causing the price to rise
@@davve5657 less fish make it to breeding season, causing lower population. Less are caught annually
@@davve5657 overfishing mean in theory there is more fish how ever you are not allowing the organism to reproduce and mature fast enough to keep up with the demand. So that means there will be less and less matured organism that can reproduce so a huge decrease in population resulting in high demand and less supply.
"Preparing it takes years to master "
me: so you flip it around and dip in sauce from time to time? "challenge accepted emoji"
*Flips over eel skewer*
Finally... I have waited my whole life to master this art
i like how this video instantly appears into everyone's recommendations instead of waiting several years
yeah but this will probably be a recommendations 10 years later
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The recommendations is getting better and faster than before. As you know, it take years to master.
This obsession with "mastering" every skill and over-emphasis on taking "years to master", has kept many Japanese employees from fitting in well in US corporations. Most American companies have an emphasis more on production rather than quality. They tend to have a "the perfect is the enemy of the good" philosophy. Can't tell you how many bosses I've had who've pulled me aside and basically said "Just get 'er done", when they perceived I was focused too much on getting something perfect.
thats the culture in Japan. They overwork u to the bone there and its common for everyone to stay back in office until the heads leave. U also have to attend afterwork drinking parties that last until past midnight as this is a 'compulsory commitment' to show u care.
I feel like they make everything into this hyper perfect art-level goods that it sucks the joy out of trying anything new. Since everything needs to be so perfect, there no reason for people to explore things for leisurely interests. Although the perfection mindset gives stellar products, at the end of the day no perfect product will bring you joy.
@Billy Webster I wonder if the people eating it would realise the difference if a novice made it😂
@@leatherxrose7743 the pursuit of perfection in itself can bring joy.
@@echizennishida9554 I definitely agree....but Japan is known for its suicide rates and work-to-the-bone culture now....I don't feel like they are finding much joy. (Just my opinion, not to offend anyone)
You have to admire the meticulous preparation of the Japanese when preparing food. These are most definitely not dime a dozen. 😊👍
Here in Maine they call baby eels Elvers. They sell for about $1,200 or more a pound to the buyers, then they get shipped over to Japan and other places. Only a certain amount of permits are allowed. Some permits stay in the family for generations.
Next Episode :
"Why everything in japan is Expensive now?"
japans gdp since the late 80s adjusted for inflation and i mean real inflation not the consumer index price, has gone down meaning japan is producing less and less but to keep up with profitability they have to inflate everything
not necessarily.
there are expensive one and also cheaper one.
you can get it around $6 at yoshinoya(japanese fast food ).
Figurine is so expensive nowadays
Why everything in Australia is Expensive now?
The episode after that -> "Why is Japan expensive now?"
If you have eaten eel skewer in Japan, you may notice that the finish sauce they put on the skewer is freaking addictive
S e a s p i r a c y
@@insectbite1714 man stfu i k its a problem but u spaming it is a problem too
Well said , stfu
@Ronald David It's pretty similar in taste to teriyaki
And if you have eaten eel dish in London, you may notice how clueless the brits in cooking is.
I love how Japan became a powerhouse country for technology yet they still kept their culture intact
A powerhouse country for fax machines still into the 2020s, you mean
Us is the powerhouse of technology.
Powerhouse of cooking fresh seafood at the cost of their entire ecosystem.
Any where in Asia Middle East n Africa u go u will see they all keep n value their cultures..
"Woe is me! Why won't my population stop eating healthy food!?!"
-Japan probably
"Years to master"
Then hires a part time griller
Years to master... yeah if you’re stupid lol
@@radshi exactly how low ur iq cant understand to do thing same way like every time u do it
@@nirwanaeathell what language are you speaking? I put what you said on google translate and the webpage crashed
Bill Wang are you liking your own comment?
@@radshi which means that those unagis were not masterfully grilled..
I guess Ryo Kurokiba wasn't bluffing when he said: 'Three years for skewering. Eight for slicing. A lifetime for the grill'
I knew I heard this before, but I couldn't figure out from where. Was literally bugging me the whole day...
Yow. Shokugeki no soma
Food wars lol
It's a popular saying and I think I've also heard it from Chris from Abroad in Japan
@@therealbigfloppa5512 so expensive video about Japanese chef knives. I heard it there.
Me: "That soy paste looks disgusting"
Eels: "This some good shit!"
Me: "That some good shit!"
Japanese people do something completely normal:
It`s a difficult task! It takes a liftetime to master!!
how to use a spoon.
World : 3 years.
Japan : lifetime + some rolling in the grave
It takes 5 years for a Japanese TH-camr to master their first comment.
HAHA
@@michaelkato8999 im impressed
Japanese: "I spent 30 years to master 'ass-wiping skill', so my ass is cleaner than most of you :)))))))"
@@leejang2311 lmao
@@leejang2311 it’s true. They have the best toilets in the entire world where you don’t have to use your hand to wipe your left over fecal matter.
I wonder how many more years it will take for the rest of the world to catch up to Japanese toilets.
I never tired watching this again and again
A huge part of the story that wasn't discussed here: Japan has been buying wild baby eels from China for the cheap and selling them back at a huge profit for years. After China also exhausted a few rivers, they figured out how to breed baby eels at scale (IT TOOK YEARS TO MASTER!!). while Japan still couldn't. Now all Japanese eels you will ever eat come from China, even the "locally produced" ones.
ま、全てが中国産ではないから物事を単純化させないでね
@@dtodrdammwpaj9706 Just the baby eels my friend. Adult eels can come from Japan or China.
For everyone joking about the “years it takes to master” if you’ve ever been to Japan and eaten their food, you’d actually understand and taste the difference. Not to be a Debby downer. But honestly, I love the care and time. It’s an experience
For real tho. Even the conbini sandwiches are ten times better than any sandwich you can get in the states outside of maybe a specialty deli or a sit down restraunt. If you go in a convient store here for a sandwich it will be some turkey and cheese slapped on a week old sub roll that is somehow dry and soggy at the same time.
I think every culture has cuisine that takes many years to master, japan is not special in this department
Making toast takes years to master.
3 years to get the right setting
8 years to spread the butter
A lifetime to understand the right temperature at which you should even start spreading the butter
That’s essentially most eastern countries. The west is based on fast food and cancer, the east actually eats natural food and exercise.
@@AMoose454 what an ignorant statement. Don't just lump together all western cuisine into one, Mediterranean cuisine is vastly different from Scandinavian
Very sad that it’s clear they are removing young eels from the ocean therefore eliminating their possibility to breed, overfishing them to the point of being endangered, feeding them fish that contribute further to the general global problem of overfishing (not to mention plastic fishing gear in our oceans) and cost is the one single concern discussed here. I’d never pay more to eat any endangered species, no matter the time it takes to “master” grilling it…
Exactly.
They should only take old infertile eels from the ocean, and leave the rest
The oceans are already at their breaking point with overfishing.
And no has problem with this. 😔
They’re farm raising like 99% of the eels, not catching them. Did you watch the whole video?
@@rhs010 farm raising following catching wild babies as breeding programs have been unsuccessful
"Finally, grilling. It takes a whole life to master. *Until you die.* "
*Young chef get heart attack and is safed afterwards*
Young chef: "BEHOLD !!!"
What?
@@sixtenk2 Walter here to explain. His joke means that the young chef died and by doing that he instantly mastered the grilling. Reviving him makes him the only living eel grill master. Big funny indeed
@@papawalter8861 Hilarious
I don't know about you, but for me, it's taken a lifetime to master the art of going about doing #1 & #2... I'm still working on it every day...
Bruh imagine your life purpose was devoted to mastering the art of putting eels on a skewer and grilling them...
Is this supposed to say that there is something wrong with mastering the art of food preparation or cooking food? And most eel chefs don't devote their life to eel alone.
@@entity49 well this video said that 🤷🏽♂️
@@CounciKids Yea I know, lol. TH-cam always exaggerate Japanese work ethic on English videos.
Bruh imagine if your life purpose was devoted to stacking paper and sitting
@@SmackYoRack lol idgi?
In Japan, experts won't teach skills to apprentices. Apprentices learn the skills of experts by observing during busy chores. Apprentices rarely have the opportunity to practice the skills they have learned.
Therefore, it takes years to master.
apparently you don’t know how the japanese minds work. even the masters say they are still learning.
japanese has perfectionist culture. they better things continuously. you are chinese i reckons?
@@fly89 another internet know-it-all pretending they know all about a certain culture and talking down to people
@@itsamememario545 presumably
@@fly89 このような行いや発言に対して「恥を知れ」という言葉がありますが、今となってはあまり聞かなくなってしまった言葉でもありますね
@@SimpleBald 確かに私の言っていることがすべてにあてはまるわけではありませんが、事実です。それに私は職人の技術を馬鹿にして乏しめているわけではありません。上記の内容は単に職人が部外者から産業を守るためにやっていることです。修業期間を設けることで技術のみを盗用したい人物を遠ざける意味があります。
「恥を知れ」なんて強い言葉を直接言わず、引き合いに出して濁すのはいかがなものでしょうか。あなたにその言葉をお返ししたく存じます。
Aside from what's said in the video, there's also a pretty basic reason. It tastes insanely good, and that's why there's a demand for it.
I’m really wanting to try this delicacy.
Im planing since years to visit Japan. Now I know why it takes me so long. It takes years to master to book my trip.
More like a lifetime. Good luck.
😂✌Good one!
Any Japanese food in TH-cam “ Preparing it takes years to master”😂
Real original
Yes totally not the same as the top comment
But it doesn't take any effort to copy others comments 😬🥴
@@nobody-eq9lx it takes years to master the art of copy-paste as dictated by the lord supreme.
culturally insensitive.
Apart from taking eons to master a skill, the masters are indeed masters.
One of the few, why (insert food item) is expensive, that I would be willing to try. Grilled eel looks delicious.
Damn, is there a thing that can be learned in a couple of hours and does not require years to master in Japan?
Making lasagna
@@morvid1968 lasagna are not even japanese man
@@atapuma5756 Deez nuts
I’m confused.
@@morvid1968 reading this back and forth was like watching god playing chess with himself
Due to their international harvesting of glass eels/young eels the eel population in other countries are highly endangered. It's shameful that this video mentiones nothing of this.
Agreed
5:37?
Bruh, did u even watch the vid
@notamericano They are talking about japanese eel and chinese eel?, not mentioning the eel they catch elsewhere, e.g. near europe when they come from the sargasso sea. It's a hugh slaughter, the absence of eel already affecting the ecosystems.
@@flytwister5472 The title of the video is literally 'Japanese Eel'. It's not 'shameful' if they forgot to mention about the international status, different regions have different prices and conditions.
I think when they mention "a lifetime to master" it's about having a sense of judgement for perfection as it's more catered to your own satisfaction which might inspire the next generation because I don't think being a "master" was even a popular opinion before the internet.
I've had eel once, it was very delicious but I am not sure if it was this specific species.
People are joking about "years to master" but that is just with every skill even outside of Japan.
I remember eating conch as a child but now it is almost non-existant to get cause it is now a protected species. The conch was pickled with scotch bonnet and was easily available at specialist fish stalls in the 2000s. Last time I had conch was in the early 2010s at a high-end asian restaurant... it was ginger conch, very tasty but not what I grew up with.
Definetly can imagine this having the same fate in the near future.
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Actually most meals are rather cheap. For some people cooking at home is barely worth it because of that normally being a hobby, to impress/feed a loved one and or family which a big deal as well, or because the preficture doesn't have a meal that another specializes in. It's just namely a few things that are as expensive as they are due to time, mastery, and craftsmanship being in the blood of the Japanese people.
Greatest marketing on the planet. Sushi, the glorification of becoming a sushi chef, wagyu beef, eel, etc. you name it. They know how to make the absolute most out of their limited resources.
@@insectbite1714 still not giving up seafood
1:05..🤔"Umm... excuse me sir, wtf did you just call me?"
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Kakakusa(価格差) = price gap
Good job bro support u
Everything in japan is crazy expensive because they are made by procrastinators.
Every comments here: "Takes years to Master"
Commenting takes a lifetime to master.
This is a bit misleading. The fry (baby fish) are extremely costly per kilogram because they represent so many individual fish (upwards of 5,000) that will weigh many kgs once fully grown, but it still a very costly fish.
Actually its because its been impossible to commercialize eel breeding; scientists haven't figured out how to make them breed in captivity. Most eels are migratory and their spawning grounds are secretive enough that nobody has seen young eels hatch, making it a super limited resource since all farmed eels are effectively limited by "wild eel hatcheries"
Yeah I wish that was pointed out.
@@bttnat439 and you are from ?
@@bttnat439 where are you from buddy
@@icy239 LOL why are you guys are so curious to know where I from?
Some popular constants :-
"π" , "k" , "G", "Years to master"
If you go to the supermarket, you can buy eel kabayaki. It is cultivated in China and processed into kabayaki on the factory line. However, it is clearly different if it is the same as the kabayaki that comes out in the store. Freshness, juiciness and aroma are completely different. The eel kabayaki shop is a family business. On a large scale, cooking becomes impossible in the store, so it automatically becomes a small family business. That is more convenient for high technology and maintenance and inheritance.
😁That's nice, but if you can't cook it yourself, then you what is the point? I spent my time learning to make my favorite dishes and beverages. It's grilling- every young man should have learned it from their father. Like fishing, hunting, skinning, butchering, gardening, and nearly everything else to do with living. Buying cooked food is admitting you, or worse your father, is lazy. Might as well buy pre-built PC from Dell. So sad, why you make fools of your ancestors? This is so sad.
So.... My friend's dad does all kinds of major surgeries including open heart and he isn't even 55. But it takes a lifetime to grill an eel? O_O Interesting.
I believe your friend's dad is good at what he does, but is he a master at it? There is a difference.
There is a difference in mastering something and knowing what to do about something. When you master a thing you can never get it wrong in any condition but when you know how to do something it can go wrong if the conditions to do it change
@ash ketchum poke mastér Nice 😃
He's talking about going beyond the 'acceptable' level,yes your friends dad can get the job done,but the guy in the video is talking about going beyond that,improving and improving beyond the acceptable level,got it?
@ash ketchum poke mastér well yes I agree,somethings in the video might be a bit exaggerated for marketing and all,but I believe that you can keep on improving on a certain thing,there's no level cap on a skill,you think you're an expert at something,and then someone comes along who does it better than you
Everyone : talking about the years taking to master it
Me : who gets chills and goosebumps when they show those eels
The wriggling is what I hate the most
The constant wriggling
They are so disturbing 😩
Samee here
Oh...i see that I'm not alone in this!
This is one of my favorite food. Now I understand why it’s so expensive
When they said it was more expensive than bluefin tuna my heart dropped
After 8 years of mastering the slicing, the Chef may finally achieve their final form - *Ikaku Chefomon!!!* 👾
Am I the only one who felt that the sticky paste eaten by the baby eels was satisfying?:+)
Satisfying..i want to learn it if there's a lesson
It's just a dough tho
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Seeing the eels eat the weirdly appetising eel food is so cute
Imagine falling into that writhing pool of eels during feeding time. That's the stuff of nightmares!
The Japanese culture is just fascinating. They literally have so much passion and dedication for their craft.
Sure thing. They aren't able to breed them.
@@raychii7361 , you'd think so, but they can breed $1M koi. Why can't they breed eel? Sounds fishy to me! 💖🌞🌵😷
@@suzisaintjames I leaned sounds fishy to me in Japan’s English school! Thanks for teaching me gently!!
@@speakupyt4900 yay I get to be a superhero
In America we just wrap things in bacon and call it a day
Japanese don't seem to give a damn about overfishing lol. They are worried about prices. 😄
Bad side of Japan. They even hunt WHALES!
Basically it is only for the investigation nowadays, not for fun nor eat. No japanese eats whales in these days. I only have one time experience in the decades of my life. And many japanese has never eaten it. It is very often used for some propaganda to mind wash people like you.
Also, check Denmark whales and whales kill event, grindarap. Their tradition is continued for every year fun. If the cruelty to mammals is the matter, we really need to be a vegetarian. If the intelligence of the eaten animal is matter, neither octopus should not be consumed.
@@drepen5946 Dane here. Faroe Islands, not Denmark hunt grinde/pilot whale. They have permission to hunt the whales, Japan doesn't have one, eventhought the catch sharks. The hunters on Faroe Islands are trained in hunting humane. They eat the meat, the fat is toxic because of polution. The have qouta for how many they are allowed to hunt.
If you don't know the real facts, then don' t spew Lies. Just don't air your opinion. Your opinion is not facts!
@@ladboii2901 Please say "Don't eat cats and dogs" to Korean, Chisese and Vietnamese
Japan: "It takes forever to master grilling."
MFs workin' at Mcdonalds: " 2000 chesseburgers comin' right up"
Ive never wanted to try eel but ngl seeing that all sauced up and grilled has me reconsidering.
Eel sucks ass. Imagine White fish but the consistency is like rubbery pork and its super fatty ... thats eel for you
@@papawalter8861 i have eaten eel and its delisous idk what your talking about
@@sc_ken8045 Its super fatty... na ima head out
Yet people argue that the overfishing argument is exaggerated...
Those people are ignorant.
There’s reasons why Govnement around the globe put sanctions on fishing.
Watch Seaspiracy. Our modern day fishing demands are just too high. The effects of overfishing are upsetting.
The economic progress must be MAINTAINED at ALL COSTS, overfishing? climate change? destruction of biodiversity? nothing matters, we must leech Earth of everything until it's a hot oven like Venus. /s
@@AmongUs-mb4qx humans extinction will not be the result of nature but by human actions.
@@insectbite1714 over-
I hate the fact that they know breeding eels is difficult and yet they admit they are over harvesting them. They know ‘something’ needs to be done yet they continue to decimate the species. Man really sucks - we ruin everything...
This is exactly also happened to the blue fin tuna, keep dcreasing each year and they know its indanger spesies but still, there’s a demand to fill their stomach
Man will decimate every species eventually!
And what are we going to do, stop them? 🤭
@@kimkardashianssalad920 I can’t control the world but I can do my little part by not purchasing this product. Meanwhile I have trouble convincing my relatives to not use straws or single-use plastics. Products made of ivory or tiger’s penis is an easier ‘sell’ but the whole thing is very exhausting. It’s really sad to see how we treat the earth and it’s resources. 🥲
@@kkoup35 its very good that you have this mindset and doings, but compared to about billions of humans in this world, im afraid it won't do too much, some stubborn people would always find ways to fill they're selfish needs sigh, what has this world come by
it takes years to master, impressive.
That looks AMAZING