Man, the octopus is one of my totems and I appreciate how you explained the harvesting requirements and acknowledged how smart they are in the animal kingdom. I've eaten them before and it was something else! It's good to see another animal lover respect his kill. I hail from North Idaho and we have a completely different wild food landscape. I'm fascinated by the ocean and your knowledge of that majestic beast! Keep doin' what you do!
Absolutely no shade to the other guys (all who im subscribed to) like fisherman's life, ace videos, or the big guy DeerMeatForDinner, but it's satisfying to see a catch and cook with an actual chef. From one cook to another, appreciate what you're doin bro...
For some reason I dislike fisherman's life's content for some reason. My opinion is that there's a vibe of unauthencity to him but I can't describe it.
Steven Nguyen I really think you’re wrong, watch him from the beginning. I think he’s very authentic, maybe his effort in trying to make higher quality content comes across as unauthentic, but I think he really is in it for the love of fishing. Came here from his channel, enjoy both. I feel soothed by the fishing channels but also love to cook....
copticsceptic it’s a different type this guy enjoys the art of cooking and it’s authentic his love for preparing and cooking on the other hand fisherman’s life is more his enjoyment of fishing and the challenge of catching fish also fisherman’s life isn’t a chef so your not watching for the cook part because it’s always the same but for him it’s the fish that does all the work the freshness of it.
Dude! Here's a tip I learned in Hawaii. Octopus HATE being poked with metal and will come out and attack your hand/try to get away. Bring a screwdriver with you and poke them with it hard while they are in their holes and they will come right out!
Yeah I’ve seen you use that technique in your videos. I’m just not sure if that’s technically legal in California since we’re only allowed to catch octopus by hand. But I’ll try it when I go to Hawaii! Love your Hawaii videos man!
The sound of the Urchin being cracked open was positively Devine! Amazing! And your mom is adorable! You should bring her on more often! Food looking good as always
I'm learning a lot. Thanks for every tutorial from filleting fish to smoking them. How to catch and how to cook. Damn I am waiting for some more vids from you sensei Taku!
Amazing catch and cook! Thanks for the info on harvesting octopus. Your videos are becoming a formidable and unique collection of California Culinary adventures. Keep it rolling!!!
Taku, you are the man, the freshness you show us is unbelievable, I love what you are doing here thanks for sharing, I tried smoked monkey faced eel sushi that was pretty good, but what you caught and cooked today was off the hook OMG I would eat that in a heartbeat. Thanks Taku
I like that disposal of the plastic trash - it shows you care about the environment. Wish people in my country would have such attitude. Very nice video. I really enjoy watching catch, cook, and eat videos.
"knife is life" I've always wanted a professional knife to be able to cut better through ingredients but being a poor college student never had the chance. I always watch our videos and get inspired to explore fresh ingredients and seafood more! thank you for being such an inspiration to me.
I always find it hard to catch and take home octopus because they're so intelligent. Like after being initially caught they can tell they are not in immediate danger and are more curious than afraid of you. It's like mutual moment of "awe", but god damn if they're not tasty though
Man I am drooling. Also you really helped me feel a little better about harvesting that beautiful creature. Love how respectful you are with nature. Subscribed!
This is my favorite little series you've been doing. I love the music you use in your videos, as well. I've never tried octopus or uni but the way you guys made it makes me crave it somehow! I've never even ate it! 😂 Thank you for the upload, food looked delicious as always. Here's hoping you're having a wonderful day, stay blessed.
That’s a lot of sushi! 🤤 I hope you can visit Connecticut in these years! I wanted to go search for sea urchins and crabs but i don’t live were you live so I hope you can go sometime and show me haha
Craig's coastal foraging brought me here. Ur vids just pops out, got curious and watch all ur amazing vids.. Just got subscribe this day.. Hope to see more amazing vids of urs tako specially with ur lovely wife.. LOVE from philippines! ❤️🇵🇭
taku! that looks so delicious. when you have that much food you should cook for a group of friends... my wife and i will fly out if needed! haha! seriously
TAKU MY BROTHER ! MANY MANY NEWS YEARS THANKS TO YOU AND YOUR BEAUTIFUL LADY . I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO DO WHAT YOU TWO DO ! LOVE TO YOU ALL ! HAPPY NEW YEARS TO EVERY ONE !!!
I really appreciate the way you took the time to explain everything about the octopus from hunting to cooking it was a truly well done video. This is my 4th of yours so far and I am subscribing today. Keep doing what you do! :)
I really wish you had more subscribers. People need to see this interesting and honest content. Makes me sad that people would rather watch clickbait, stupid pranks, and a person screaming at a video game than watching this. Thanks for the amazing content Taku.
UGHHHH, I've been binge-watching your videos and it makes me so hungry! I have zero fishing skills (best I can catch is a buzz when I go - ha!) and watching you catch all these amazing seafoods makes me just wanna go out every day to try and get something to cook!
I think the best way to kill the octopus is to flip the head of octopus inside out. It seems bad, but it's the fastest way. It can ceep a lot of water inside it and breath out of water for like 2 hours. When you flip it, it dies in a minute because there's no water so it runs out of oxygen. You can also stab it's head with a knife but there's a chance you miss the right spot and it won't kill it. The best way to tenderize the meat is to beat the octopus on some flat stone for like 5-10 minutes. I saw a lot of people in Greece and Croatia do it that way. It's faster than massaging it. Otherwise really cool video, keep it up.
That is faster and there are many ways to tenderize it but as sushi chefs, the most important thing is to respect our ingredients and massaging octopus is also a very traditional technique in sushi.
@@OutdoorChefLife Oh, I see. That's a good point. Maybe the texture of the meat is also different depending on how it's tenderized. I'll sure try it if I catch an octopus next time.
Man, octopus is one of my favorite sushi selections! I can eat it for days! Your videos make me so hungry, I need to swing by your sushi spot in SF. Another awesome video!
Love the catch and sushi 🍣 episodes. Keep up the great work. You've inspired me to go out foraging on the coast. Mostly for age in the mountains for mushrooms. Gotta get some uni though. Love that stuff.
Love the grilling/preparation montage! It's awesome to see how the production quality keeps going up. I'm going to be heading to New Zealand soon and you've inspired me to give coastal foraging a try for the first time!
Hand harvesting methods are usually fine. Similar to wave action during storms. Rocks move around naturally. If you know what you are doing you can move rocks around an make the tide pools even more productive. Rebuild the little caves an hiding spots.
I'd be like a kid in a candy store if I had that much wild sea urchin around. I might have to take a vacation just to experience it so fresh. Never really been into octopus though, kind of bland and chewy, but, the way you did it on the grill with the lime looked quite appetizing. Cool vid
How come you didn't show how to clean the octopus? I remember how my grandmother used to clean them. Guess that is why you did not show it, didn't want to gross everybody out.
Pokemon Guider did he start monetizing his videos? He’s mentioned before he doesn’t make money from his videos. But that’s what I figured as well, he was following the new TH-cam guidelines..
I just watched you vid and i already love you bro.. You got my subscription.. i love how people go out and catch their own food and cook it and eat it.. I think thats very neutral..
@@OutdoorChefLife So this happens to you too! Man, this day in age you would think that the vid would not be available for viewing until TH-cam had verified that the resolution was the same as we originally uploaded lol. Great work bro... and we have some killer tako recipes too... let's do a freedive tako vid/adventure some time!
I watched the vid with fishermens life now Im binge watching your vids cuz so far every single one has been good. Food you make looks 🔥!!! 🐚🦑🐙🦐🦞🦀🐌🍜🍲🍺🍱😛👍🏻
whoa! 33k+ Subs! you're growing super fast! Though you tots deseve it, you're videos are awesome, your gf is so awesome too, to help you film, forage, eat, and enjoy! Great video as usual! OMG your mom looks like your sister~!
I hope you read this but I’m positive that taking the time to appreciate and explain a little about the creature your going to eat really defuses alto of haters I feel like. Keep up the good work man. U need more content thonto feed the hungry viewers?!
Wow, you really helped me accepting the fate of the octupus, specially after seeing "my octopus teacher" hahaha congrats on the catch and on the channel, Im a professional cook as well and I really like seeing this sea to table videos.
I love to watch your videos, most authentic foraging & cooking of em all! hope u will create lots more inspiring videos! living in austria with no sea is kinda bad so i look forward to copying your experiences when im at the sea :)
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I really appreciate how you explained their life span, legal size or lack of, and overall showing respect to your catch. Keep up the great work!
I agree, I didn't even know😭
Man, the octopus is one of my totems and I appreciate how you explained the harvesting requirements and acknowledged how smart they are in the animal kingdom. I've eaten them before and it was something else! It's good to see another animal lover respect his kill. I hail from North Idaho and we have a completely different wild food landscape. I'm fascinated by the ocean and your knowledge of that majestic beast! Keep doin' what you do!
@Wade Haden what would you prefer happen?
@Wade Haden bats, chicken of the cave
@@c4thenerd171 HAHAHAAHA
My left ear enjoyed this.
i thought my headphones broke lol
Same
For me it was my right
Adam Wazaz TRUE GODDDD
Yeah. i thought that my new headset already broke. so i took out the headset out of the computer and then went to like 3 min in and it worked
Absolutely no shade to the other guys (all who im subscribed to) like fisherman's life, ace videos, or the big guy DeerMeatForDinner, but it's satisfying to see a catch and cook with an actual chef. From one cook to another, appreciate what you're doin bro...
For some reason I dislike fisherman's life's content for some reason. My opinion is that there's a vibe of unauthencity to him but I can't describe it.
LMFAO ROASTED WHERE ARE YOU AT WHERE ARE YOU AT OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Steven Nguyen
I really think you’re wrong, watch him from the beginning. I think he’s very authentic, maybe his effort in trying to make higher quality content comes across as unauthentic, but I think he really is in it for the love of fishing. Came here from his channel, enjoy both. I feel soothed by the fishing channels but also love to cook....
copticsceptic it’s a different type this guy enjoys the art of cooking and it’s authentic his love for preparing and cooking on the other hand fisherman’s life is more his enjoyment of fishing and the challenge of catching fish also fisherman’s life isn’t a chef so your not watching for the cook part because it’s always the same but for him it’s the fish that does all the work the freshness of it.
His not that good of a cook if his not using Everglades
Great foraging and cooking Taku, I really enjoyed that, kind regards Craig
Thank you Craig!
Oh shit it's craig! Itd be awesome if you guys could collaborate in the future
@@OutdoorChefLife This one is going great Taku. Your first million views perhaps ?
@@coastalforagingwithcraigev8447 I hope so!
Its tako
Fisherman's life brought me here and I love what you are doing!
These videos are always great stress relievers :)
Honestly
for sure
Perfect circle
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Dude! Here's a tip I learned in Hawaii. Octopus HATE being poked with metal and will come out and attack your hand/try to get away. Bring a screwdriver with you and poke them with it hard while they are in their holes and they will come right out!
Yeah I’ve seen you use that technique in your videos. I’m just not sure if that’s technically legal in California since we’re only allowed to catch octopus by hand. But I’ll try it when I go to Hawaii! Love your Hawaii videos man!
Surprised there aren't more comments. Two awesome youtubers. Have you two ever done a collab? Would like to see that.
Lowkey top 5 outdoor channels keep killing it
Give taku the credit he deserves easily hi key top 3
The sound of the Urchin being cracked open was positively Devine! Amazing! And your mom is adorable! You should bring her on more often!
Food looking good as always
I'm learning a lot. Thanks for every tutorial from filleting fish to smoking them. How to catch and how to cook. Damn I am waiting for some more vids from you sensei Taku!
I love how you're so respectful and passionate, not only about the food, but about the animals you're cooking!! Subscribed!
watching actual train chef is such a cool experience on youtube.
he aint trained, just an la faddie
@@SirKingHoff im obviously pretty late to respond but he aint no faddie, he's a chef at an omakase bar
Amazing catch and cook! Thanks for the info on harvesting octopus. Your videos are becoming a formidable and unique collection of California Culinary adventures. Keep it rolling!!!
Man we have been eagerly awaiting Taku's Tako catch n cook for days! Not disappointed at all! Great tag team on the catch and the cook!
Man! Love watching your videos,. They're so informative and inspiring! And your mom looks super young!
This channel is the best thing to come out of California
Taku, you are the man, the freshness you show us is unbelievable, I love what you are doing here thanks for sharing, I tried smoked monkey faced eel sushi that was pretty good, but what you caught and cooked today was off the hook OMG I would eat that in a heartbeat. Thanks Taku
I love your videos and think they are super unique! The only think I would criticize is that they make me hungry. Lol.
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I like that disposal of the plastic trash - it shows you care about the environment. Wish people in my country would have such attitude. Very nice video. I really enjoy watching catch, cook, and eat videos.
I like this dude.. actually my favourite catch and cook youtuber and I've only just discovered him today..
Right? I just stumbled on him today and watched five videos. He’s really super chill, skilled, and quite an affable guy.
"knife is life"
I've always wanted a professional knife to be able to cut better through ingredients but being a poor college student never had the chance. I always watch our videos and get inspired to explore fresh ingredients and seafood more! thank you for being such an inspiration to me.
Can you please tell me where you went to low tide in LA ? It's always been something I wanted to do and that spot you're at looks perfect!
It actually looks closer to 3 years which is just as good. You guys had respect for the animal and you did it the right way. Love.
Taku=👨🏻🍳
Tako=🐙
Taco = Party
This was the coolest thing. Can’t wait to go through a binge of your channel
I always find it hard to catch and take home octopus because they're so intelligent. Like after being initially caught they can tell they are not in immediate danger and are more curious than afraid of you. It's like mutual moment of "awe", but god damn if they're not tasty though
Man I am drooling. Also you really helped me feel a little better about harvesting that beautiful creature. Love how respectful you are with nature. Subscribed!
I like how he just says “that’s really good” and not chew with his eyes closed humming being extra
This is my favorite little series you've been doing. I love the music you use in your videos, as well.
I've never tried octopus or uni but the way you guys made it makes me crave it somehow! I've never even ate it! 😂
Thank you for the upload, food looked delicious as always.
Here's hoping you're having a wonderful day, stay blessed.
I appreciated the assurance that the octopus wasn't gonna live much longer anyway, it really is a beautiful creature
Geez, my mouth watered so bad! I love these videos. So fresh, from ocean to mouth. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That’s a lot of sushi! 🤤
I hope you can visit Connecticut in these years! I wanted to go search for sea urchins and crabs but i don’t live were you live so I hope you can go sometime and show me haha
Craig's coastal foraging brought me here. Ur vids just pops out, got curious and watch all ur amazing vids.. Just got subscribe this day.. Hope to see more amazing vids of urs tako specially with ur lovely wife.. LOVE from philippines! ❤️🇵🇭
taku! that looks so delicious. when you have that much food you should cook for a group of friends... my wife and i will fly out if needed! haha! seriously
I’m a simple man. I see catch and sushi, I click, I like.
Looks hella delicious although I’m an octopus fan, I guess it’s just the circle of life
Awesome cooking channel! Amazing what great food you can forage from the California coast. The octopus looks amazing. Nice work.
11:17 Me as a Sea Urchin.
so you don't have balls? I'm so sorry for your loss. 😂
@@dallinhubbard3302 Nani?! "He was still alive but he had nothing" was what I was going for 😂😂😂 You got me tho lmfao
@@Youseeinthisrn 😂😂
@@Youseeinthisrn fist bump👊
Poor old guy
TAKU MY BROTHER ! MANY MANY NEWS YEARS THANKS TO YOU AND YOUR BEAUTIFUL LADY . I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO DO WHAT YOU TWO DO ! LOVE TO YOU ALL ! HAPPY NEW YEARS TO EVERY ONE !!!
Where in SoCal is this?!!?? I wanna go myself!!
Family great food and beautiful memories, that's what life is all about this is another great video.
I love the fact that you pick up the trash and dispose of it properly.
#dontlitter
I really appreciate the way you took the time to explain everything about the octopus from hunting to cooking it was a truly well done video. This is my 4th of yours so far and I am subscribing today. Keep doing what you do! :)
Where in socal is this??? Woahh. Please share!!
Wow that is amazing! Had no idea octopus are just around shore like that! I'm always around Santa Cruz Beaches and never see them lol
Where did you go exactly like what beach? :)
Dude, you have one of the most entertaining and inspiring cooking channels on yt! Omedetou and keep it up with the great work
How did you prepare the octopus? Maybe a tutorial?
I really wish you had more subscribers. People need to see this interesting and honest content. Makes me sad that people would rather watch clickbait, stupid pranks, and a person screaming at a video game than watching this. Thanks for the amazing content Taku.
i had a neighbor from Korea when i was a kid my first piece of spicy octopus, so amazing and tender if done right
Dannggg that looks Hella good, the octopus as you described it tender juicy but still has a good chewy texture! Salivating
um, your best vid yet?🐙👍
Thanks Ish!
UGHHHH, I've been binge-watching your videos and it makes me so hungry! I have zero fishing skills (best I can catch is a buzz when I go - ha!) and watching you catch all these amazing seafoods makes me just wanna go out every day to try and get something to cook!
Your mom is beautiful and so young.
honestly you make ome of the most entertaining videos to watch and i hope you keep up the great work
The 4 dislikes are from other octopuses.
they sum OCTOPUSSIES
@allr haha
No
They're from some angry vegans
Each dislike is from each tentacle haha
Just subscribed, love the look of this channel and I'm very interested to watch more. Keep doing what you're doing Taku, you're going to go far!
Next time I come to SF I will come to your restaurant
By the way cool friend helping and suprisingly he also know how to cook like you tako.. Cheers🍻 to both of you.. Love from philippines🇵🇭❤️
I think the best way to kill the octopus is to flip the head of octopus inside out. It seems bad, but it's the fastest way. It can ceep a lot of water inside it and breath out of water for like 2 hours. When you flip it, it dies in a minute because there's no water so it runs out of oxygen. You can also stab it's head with a knife but there's a chance you miss the right spot and it won't kill it.
The best way to tenderize the meat is to beat the octopus on some flat stone for like 5-10 minutes. I saw a lot of people in Greece and Croatia do it that way. It's faster than massaging it.
Otherwise really cool video, keep it up.
That is faster and there are many ways to tenderize it but as sushi chefs, the most important thing is to respect our ingredients and massaging octopus is also a very traditional technique in sushi.
@@OutdoorChefLife Oh, I see. That's a good point. Maybe the texture of the meat is also different depending on how it's tenderized. I'll sure try it if I catch an octopus next time.
Man, octopus is one of my favorite sushi selections! I can eat it for days! Your videos make me so hungry, I need to swing by your sushi spot in SF. Another awesome video!
What part of LA did you catch this? Looks familiar . By any chance is it San Pedro?
Following for information
I'm curious as well...
Love the catch and sushi 🍣 episodes. Keep up the great work. You've inspired me to go out foraging on the coast. Mostly for age in the mountains for mushrooms. Gotta get some uni though. Love that stuff.
Dude- What beach is this??? I'd love to grab some of those urchins!
Bobby Keene seriously! Does anyone know where this is?
#foodislife #knifeislife looking good!!! Appreciated all the little things with family ! Xoxo
Ok so you are tako and that sushi is taku?
what you catch is what you eat, damn you guys are living your life and I love it ! keep it up
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Love the grilling/preparation montage! It's awesome to see how the production quality keeps going up. I'm going to be heading to New Zealand soon and you've inspired me to give coastal foraging a try for the first time!
Awesome! I hope to be there one day as well
3:48 that's what she said
This is probably one of my favorite videos that you’ve made!
Try not to move to many rocks while foraging. It destroys the environment, especially if lots of people watching this do the same thing!
Sounds like a good call
As far as I know, it's ok if you replace the rocks where you found them. If you leave them in different spots then yeah, thats pretty bad.
Hand harvesting methods are usually fine. Similar to wave action during storms. Rocks move around naturally. If you know what you are doing you can move rocks around an make the tide pools even more productive. Rebuild the little caves an hiding spots.
Good call. Especially big size rocks.
It doesnt matter as long as you dont disturb the natural order
I'd be like a kid in a candy store if I had that much wild sea urchin around. I might have to take a vacation just to experience it so fresh. Never really been into octopus though, kind of bland and chewy, but, the way you did it on the grill with the lime looked quite appetizing. Cool vid
Love the content but clean your grill my man
I love watching these kinds of videos when I eat
Virtual eating.
How come you didn't show how to clean the octopus? I remember how my grandmother used to clean them. Guess that is why you did not show it, didn't want to gross everybody out.
He'll get demonitized by youtube
Pokemon Guider did he start monetizing his videos? He’s mentioned before he doesn’t make money from his videos. But that’s what I figured as well, he was following the new TH-cam guidelines..
what's the procedure
I just watched you vid and i already love you bro.. You got my subscription.. i love how people go out and catch their own food and cook it and eat it.. I think thats very neutral..
Great video, but you should repost it in a better resolution.. IT Deserves better!
1MoreMatch it’s still processing the video just watch it later
youtube does that sometimes. the video is bad quality when it is first posted. Basically we are early :)
Should be good now!
@@OutdoorChefLife 4k ooo
@@OutdoorChefLife So this happens to you too! Man, this day in age you would think that the vid would not be available for viewing until TH-cam had verified that the resolution was the same as we originally uploaded lol. Great work bro... and we have some killer tako recipes too... let's do a freedive tako vid/adventure some time!
Love the the video and the Uni 🍙 looks so good. I myself love sea urchins as well.
360p cheese
xD
You gotta squint harder to see 720p
Still 360p two hours later 😬
Should be 4K now
I watched the vid with fishermens life now Im binge watching your vids cuz so far every single one has been good. Food you make looks 🔥!!! 🐚🦑🐙🦐🦞🦀🐌🍜🍲🍺🍱😛👍🏻
you need to get your audio fixed lol, only hearing left side
Working for me
He literally explained at the bringing of the video
He explained and apologized for the audio of the video in the very beginning.
Your mom is so beautiful and young!! Love your videos.
That octopus was beautiful (and delicious) man. Taku with the Tako!
whoa! 33k+ Subs! you're growing super fast! Though you tots deseve it, you're videos are awesome, your gf is so awesome too, to help you film, forage, eat, and enjoy! Great video as usual! OMG your mom looks like your sister~!
Awesome Vid Taku! Keep´n coming! Cheers from Brazil
I hope you read this but I’m positive that taking the time to appreciate and explain a little about the creature your going to eat really defuses alto of haters I feel like. Keep up the good work man. U need more content thonto feed the hungry viewers?!
Loved the video, learning a lot. Thanks Taku, Taku's woman/camerawoman and Master. 👍
Shocked to find out that you guys are chefs at Hinata! You guys have personally served up some of the best omakases in the Bay,
Wow, you really helped me accepting the fate of the octupus, specially after seeing "my octopus teacher" hahaha congrats on the catch and on the channel, Im a professional cook as well and I really like seeing this sea to table videos.
just found your channel! you are such a nice guy! enjoyed it alot. Keep rocking
Love the technique...and Taku’s friend is cute lol
“Knife is life”
Thanks for the quality content!
Nice handling of the octopus chef!, urchin looked great too!, thanks for the video!.
Everything from scratch! Amazing dude.
I love to watch your videos, most authentic foraging & cooking of em all! hope u will create lots more inspiring videos! living in austria with no sea is kinda bad so i look forward to copying your experiences when im at the sea :)
Hey first time coming across your page so glad I did....Awesome job and so cool to hear you're in So Cal...I'm in OC 😁 New sub!!!
Thas right u go an look the food and at the same time pick up trash glad I subscribed 👌🏾👌🏾💯 keep up the great work bro
OMG BRO THAT LOOKS AWESOME!!!!! BEST CHANNEL EVER 👌 THANKS FOR THE AWESOME VIDEO!!