The first ever person to have tried these must’ve been REALLY brave. “Let’s break open this dark spiky ball and eat it’s insides without cooking it.”

@snippets981

2 жыл бұрын

😂👏👏👏😂

@andrewsinclair7159

2 жыл бұрын

Fortune favors the bold in this case because it turns out the yellow parts of the spiky ball are goddamn delicious.

@guardronerguy7122

2 жыл бұрын

I'd say you have to be desperate and starving to eat it in order to find if it's edible, but hey it works out for the first person to try sea urchins

@drawgam2946

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewsinclair7159 Does it compare to anything else?

@andrewsinclair7159

2 жыл бұрын

@@drawgam2946 It tastes like the ocean, but in a good way.

23. They said "gonads" 23 times in this video, in case you were wondering.

@colinbanning9416

2 жыл бұрын

That seems low tbh

@adriennefloreen

2 жыл бұрын

You counted?

@Broockle

2 жыл бұрын

thank you for your service

@fynkozari9271

2 жыл бұрын

The stuff Americans wouldnt eat.

@porc1429

2 жыл бұрын

Really? It seems much higher

"In some cases, an urchin can be totally empty inside" Relatable

They’re also processed in Sacramento. I tell people they’re eating gonads, but few believe me. My husband was a professional urchin and abalone diver, then he managed a processing plant. On our first date, he explained he was inventing an urchin processing machine based on bilateral biological symmetry. I asked if he could spell that, and he could. We had a spectacular marriage until his peaceful passing. I gave his ashes to the jellyfish off Moss Landing in the Monterey, while a pair of whales breached off the port bow.

@atherisGAY

8 ай бұрын

I am so, so sorry for your loss. What a wonderful scenery you describe, scattering his ashes. May he rest in peace

@FallFluff

7 ай бұрын

May he rest in peace. Thank you for this information, it's extremely interesting to me as a person from Sacramento.

@HyBrad

10 күн бұрын

That was my favorite thing to do when people tried it for the first time when I worked at a sushi restaurant. Right when they take the first bite, I would ask them if they knew what it was. Priceless.

@Cra-en6mj

7 күн бұрын

😭😭 I ate a few sometime ago in Japan, and just found out in this video that they were gonads

@kidkique

4 күн бұрын

If you're back on the market I too can Spell biological bilateral symmetry

In Japan, research is being conducted to grow sea urchins with vegetables that can be thrown away. By giving vegetables, the number of eating parts has increased and the taste has improved.

@tengkualiff

2 жыл бұрын

Wow thats pretty cool. Love your country btw!

@h.l4650

2 жыл бұрын

Cool.

@nicolodelucia8743

2 жыл бұрын

circular economy is so interesting

@jonathanng138

2 жыл бұрын

Guess the businesses will die then

@BossOfAllTrades

2 жыл бұрын

@@tengkualiff don't get to excited about it if China manages to ruin Taiwan beginning stages into democratic Republic they will be just as bad as China

Ignoring the purple urchins while eliminating their competitors. Yeah, good sustainable business plan right there…

@raymondmagat4025

2 жыл бұрын

I know right. You really hit the nail in the head with this comment. I'm also wondering why won't just they harvest the purple urchins while waiting for the red urchin and kelp recover. I know it's not as profitable and as high quality than red urchin, but at least it they are currently on surplus and they can sell a lot of them on lower cost. Thus, making it affordable and will surely introduce this to a new market, the general populace. It's a generally win-win situation to the public, nature and the Uni fishermen.

@hullbreachdetected4846

2 жыл бұрын

@@raymondmagat4025 Probably because there's no demand for purple ones.

@raymondmagat4025

2 жыл бұрын

@@hullbreachdetected4846they can still try to market them for the general populace. I'm sure there are lot of common folks and budget sushi restaurant owners willing to purchase affordable options. They can also catch them to be used in other industries, like to be used as natural fertilizer or to make animal feed. As they stated, the purple ones are the one who keeps the kelp from recovering. They need to control their population to aid the red uni. That's just my opinion.

@hullbreachdetected4846

2 жыл бұрын

@@raymondmagat4025 That would be ideal, but these people are going for the option that brings the greatest profit for their efforts. They aren't that much interested in the survival of Urchin species or any species for that matter. They know how to scuba dive and that's it, they aren't educated people nor any intellectual ones to begin with. They just go for the money and consider it a job to survive in society, like most people.

@smatchimo645

2 жыл бұрын

@@raymondmagat4025 you're missing the point: the purple dont have the pieces that people want even in them. they are useless. being California, there is not going to be any culling because it is California....

Here in the Philippines, Sea Urchins can be found anywhere within the rocky areas of the sea. But the difference is that they are not as huge and healthy like those in Santa Barbara. They are sold per bottle and it's really cheap. Fishermen sell them $2.17 per bottle. It's so cool that seeing these kind of unis in different parts of the world and looking totally different from what we usually have here in our country. I love sea urchins and it will forever be my favorite sea food!

@IzanamiYumi

8 ай бұрын

Ayy weh san??? I buy sea urchin pero from Japanese restaraunts mdalas

@schnitzel_enjoyer

3 ай бұрын

If its american, european or japanese of they will scam you and try to sell it like its gold

@MarvinTabingo-lp4yz

3 ай бұрын

Dami neto samin😂😂 hnd ko pinapansin ngaun takam na takam na neto😅😅

@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn

2 ай бұрын

What do they taste like?

@NoName-yi3oz

25 күн бұрын

Madaming ganyan, kaso yong masasarap na klase konte na lang sa province namin

Its great to know that not all species are edible. Theres thousands of these in my local beach and im getting so tempted to eat one.

@nmmk9134

26 күн бұрын

I know I almost go to the beach and crack one to taste it.

@HyBrad

10 күн бұрын

@@nmmk9134 Depending on where you live. On the California coast there are 2 species, both are edible. One is choice.

The purple sea urchin does not taste as good as the red one but ultimately they're still edible and are devastating the kelp forests. A few KZreadrs who forage sustainably like Outdoor Chef Life advocate harvesting them instead of the red ones

@gfuentes8449

2 жыл бұрын

Economics should take care of that once the red ones are sufficiently difficult to find

@Ranger-sl3qq

2 жыл бұрын

I love outdoor chef!

@MinutePlant

2 жыл бұрын

Or just smash purple urchins open every time you're diving as long as they're within hand's reach

@thesilentone4024

2 жыл бұрын

Bolth are starting to decline do to lack of food to eat. Also the fact there not getting the purple ones and selling them confuses me. I love the blue ones looks very cool

@thesilentone4024

2 жыл бұрын

@Blahblah but the purple ones are eating the food till its all gone. Its almost like that raindeer island that had only raindeer on it tell it didn't because they eat all the food and starved to death. Kelp in those places were thick and kelp can grow 2 to 4 feet a day did you not see how shorte it was. Did you miss the huge living purple mat even if it takes more effort theres more of them then the red by lots.

As someone who dives for their own urchin, I deeply know the high price is due to the tedious cleaning to get the gonads out in good condition.

@TrHippyful

2 жыл бұрын

Does it affect taste?

@Guoenyi

2 жыл бұрын

@@TrHippyful nah, but you do not want to turn it into small bits so you get less each bite. But being premium means presentation is a big part of price.

@milenakupiec1839

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, only had a sea urchin once on a beach in Sicily, fresh from the sea, from a man who was very generous giving us one of the ones he had just caught. A very memorable experience.

@johnjenkins4788

2 жыл бұрын

Disgusting

@BossOfAllTrades

2 жыл бұрын

I thought this was some weird innuendo

I don't know if any sea urchin can be harvested, but I remember free diving once and the shallows were filled with sea urchins. We were trying so hard to float because it felt like there was less than a foot between us and the spines as we swam to the deep. They were just there, like a vast carpet.

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@jhonegamingco

2 ай бұрын

did this video also get you hard...? haha..

@charliegiammarco5178

29 күн бұрын

Yeah

Here in the Philippines, sea urchins (particularly the Collector urchin), is a delicacy. We usually buy and eat it raw, fresh from fishermen themselves when we go out island hopping. That's the only way we can eat them- going to the sea. They don't get processed or delivered to markets. As far as I can remember, each urchin costs about 50 pesos or 1 US dollar. Interesting how different countries eat urchin!

@gaudenciomanaloto6443

2 жыл бұрын

>They don't get processed or delivered to markets uhh, they do, and they're expensive. EDIT: To all the youtube intellectual lightweights commenting about how wrong I am, I am from the Philippines too, and again, we do process sea urchin the same way as shown in the video, down to the styrofoam packaging, though not in the same scale of tons of urchin per day. Why would I talk about other parts of the world when the original comment talks about the Philippines lmao. Also, just to be clear, I'm not saying and have never said that people are not eating them fresh from the sea, it's just not possible for city folks like me, so we get them processed and packaged, I don't need to go island hopping just to satisfy my craving for uni. It's always nice to see r/confidentlyincorrect content out here in the wild. I've been called so many names that it's quite amusing since evidently many of you weren't taught about context clues in grade school. I wasn't expecting quality discourse since this is the youtube comments but I never expected this level of smugness from people who couldn't even read plain english properly lmao

@jerxi6538

2 жыл бұрын

We Filipinos eat them fresh from the sea. If the urchins were processed and delivered, it would be business so small it is barely observed, hence my comment. We don't have urchins in our fancy restaurants (except for a select few) and supermarkets here. :)

@jerxi6538

2 жыл бұрын

@@gaudenciomanaloto6443 , if you have observed urchins consumed the same way as shown in the video happening in the Philippines, please, correct me with some proof.

@jerxi6538

2 жыл бұрын

I was talking about urchin consumption in the Philippines, I did not use that statement to describe urchin consumption around other parts of the world nor as shown in the video.

@PoliticalMatter

2 жыл бұрын

Disaster.

I’d honestly suggest harvesting the purple sea urchin if they’re such an issue. You may not have as much marketability but in the long run you’d be giving the red urchins a better chance at reproducing and having food to feed on with the purples gone. There’s also shouldn’t be an issue with culling the purple heard since they are an invasive species, normally the government/ main conservation group will give the go ahead for their eradication.

@irlSwampy

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. What they're doing now, they're only hurting themselves in the long run and giving purple urchins more of a chance to thrive and take over. I feel like if they don't change things up, there won't really be a market for red urchins cause they'll be just as useless due to the purple urchins taking over.

@user-zx5un3id3k

2 жыл бұрын

No company would want to do that unless it's either in high demand or they get something in return. There are a lot of red urchins and so they'd need more divers for that. With the added divers, they'd also need to pay them more than usual since the divers would need to stay there longer to get both red and normal (marketable) urchins. Having more urchins would also lead to its value eventually going down. As long as there's no real impact on the companies' sales revenue, they won't care that much about environmental problems.

@brendanmalone9537

2 жыл бұрын

they should just reintroduce predators

@KrookedKookie

2 жыл бұрын

It the same thing as having such with an old man. No one wants shriveled up gonads.

@raymondkong9238

2 жыл бұрын

This is facts, Many people including me find the purple urchin to taste better too, because they are sweet

Sea urchins : "hello, im below the water, pls halp me."

I just tasted this for the first time last week when I came to japan, and trust me when I say I didn't expect its taste. At first I was hesitant to try it bc I thought it would be bitter from all the videos I've seen of people opening it, but it was actually kinda sweet? I don't know how to explain it but I really liked it's taste.

For those who think the solution is to grow more kelp, well, kelp needs cold water which rich in oxygen to thrive. With the rising sea water temperature, it's not that easy to grow kelp.

@abdulmustaan485

2 жыл бұрын

بھت خوب

@safermonk

2 жыл бұрын

Fixing this aint gonna be easy...not sure we can even. Were in a mess.

@WelfareChrist

2 жыл бұрын

is it me or is like every ocean fact I've been hearing for the past ten years super depressing.

@SeaCaptBritRob

2 жыл бұрын

These harvesters are simply profiteering, they care less about restoring the ecosystem. The kelp don't stand a chance regardless of sea temperature. With all the melting ice caps, sea temperature has been great for kelp so that's BS pal

@ross-carlson

2 жыл бұрын

@@SeaCaptBritRob "With all the melting ice caps, sea temperature has been great for kelp so that's BS pal" - WHAT? Dude, that's NOT how it works - the reason the ice caps are melting is due to INCREASED temperature, it's not like that cold water makes its way down to California, do you not understand how MASSIVELY huge the Earth and it's oceans are? HAHAHA, melting ice caps lower ocean temps thousands of miles away, HAHAHA. I love the arrogance of normal people thinking they know better than scientists who literally study a topic for decades. Wow.

As a CA, I totally support this. They are taking over and destroying kelp ecosystems here in the Monterey bay

@muqriz6792

2 жыл бұрын

That's why it is pretty appropriate for us to eat em, its good for the ecosystem

@graphite2786

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly it's the other species, the ones that aren't marketable that are proliferating and decimating the kelp. However these species could make an excellent biodynamic organic fertilizer or even chicken/ fish feed supplement. Hopefully some entrepreneur will start harvesting these other species and allow the kelp to recover!

@crujones4046

2 жыл бұрын

They’re like the homeless of the sea.

@privatebaldric8767

2 жыл бұрын

@@crujones4046 😂

@eddiemarohl5789

2 жыл бұрын

@@crujones4046 lol

Thanks for the algo to bring me back here. I really wanna have some uni now.

urchin diving sounds really fun. it also sounds like a really good workout.

Sea urchins grew out of control and destroyed a lot of kelp forests in the early 20th century after people overhunted sea otters for their fur. After they stopped hunting and reintroduced sea otters, they're eating the urchins and slowly getting their numbers under control, helping kelp forests grow back.

@jarrodyuki7081

2 жыл бұрын

no we humans want sea urchins.

@boogieheads

2 жыл бұрын

Very very slowly

@derpychicken2131

2 жыл бұрын

That’s only up by Washington state. Down in California the main predators are predatory starfish. A virus came through and absolutely destroyed their population, we should be focusing on restoring the starfish populations

@luismurcia1702

2 жыл бұрын

but we are eating the red ones not the purple ones. wouldnt it be better to do a cull on the purple and not harvest the red ones for a while so their numbers grow a bit again and help kelp grow

@magatism

2 жыл бұрын

Try mosquitoes and bats, that will do you a lot of good. 😃😃😃

This is easily the most I have heard the word "gonad" used in a single sitting.

@ER-uy7ct

2 жыл бұрын

I KNOW RIGHT?! I was going to use this for life science.....but then realized having someone say gonads that many times in a 4th grade class.......yeah.....

@JustEndah

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahah

@exiledintheus7251

2 жыл бұрын

This is the best reply ever lol

@davidjames666

2 жыл бұрын

@@ER-uy7ct remember never use the abbreviation for the British Broadcasting Company with them either. Many teachers learned that. BBC should not be said.

@srijonroy7084

2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao

In the 70s, I would dive for urchins with a crew off of the Channel Islands mainly, San Nicholas. We used hooka rigs connected to a manifold that was connected to our volume tanks for air. Our boat was spontaneous combustion for starting the engine and we had two large volume tanks. We had three divers and one tender on the surface. Our nets were on bicycle rims and we kept the tender busy. We sold to Maruhide at $0.17 to $0.20 a pound wet. The boat got paid first...fuel,food,etc. Good times! Joe Biff burgers were the best at Fish Harbor.

Very interesting! We have sea urchins (or Kina) in abundance in New Zealand. My father used to gather them all the time and we used to sit on the beach and eat them fresh from the shell.

"the gonads are extremely fragile" --- got that right

@revy1063

2 жыл бұрын

lmao exactly my thought.

@asiaking9422

2 жыл бұрын

Om what a comparison. Lol

@rachaeldsouza4866

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what she said 😂

@miss_mcqall5082

2 жыл бұрын

😆

@lewishamel8105

2 жыл бұрын

"Water is wet"

Imagine aliens harvesting humans just to eat our gonads lol.

@user-nf1bz3sn4z

2 жыл бұрын

"Dont eat me, my yogurt taste gross; it taste salty, smelly and sticky 🤮🤮💀"

@morganzachlfich4309

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-nf1bz3sn4z gonads bro not your yoghurt.

@benoktorres9520

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@fmar.8311

2 жыл бұрын

@@morganzachlfich4309 loooool

@UltimateEntity

2 жыл бұрын

:))

I dove red and green urchins on the west coast of B.C. for a few years on hooka, but we weighted up and walked on the bottom, same idea though. I used to do between 2500-5000 lbs a day by myself. This was in the early nineties and finding kelp was not an issue though.

If anyone is curious. It tastes like butter, its butter with a hint of ocean it's quite nice

we need to market purple urchins, i’ve had some myself and although they are smaller they are just as sweet! california has thousands of those purple urchins - we need to find some way to sell them

@hamsterfloat

2 жыл бұрын

I am not sure on this one. Most of Urchins are not edible and even toxic.

@harveyspecter111

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah Americans can eat everything but plants.

@geesegoose6174

2 жыл бұрын

@@hamsterfloat what are you talking about?

@sakurashogun

2 жыл бұрын

@@hamsterfloat while true, both of these varieties are edible.

@tokyodude2715

Жыл бұрын

Ship them to Asia.

This is partly impacted by sea otter populations. They dont discriminate urchins like we do, and that population control allows kelp to grow back while also increasing pressure on the 'less desirable' urchins, allowing more variety to compete and survive.

@Broockle

2 жыл бұрын

yes yes RELEASE THE OTTERS!

@AllenHanPR

2 жыл бұрын

@@Broockle History has shown when you bring one predator to solve a problem it becomes another decades later. Possibly too much otters might impact the sea life and otters might overpopulate.

@Broockle

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllenHanPR It's kinda happening by itself anyway the way I see it and it's humans that are over selecting the red urchins so.... The Otters clearly know better than we do.

@TheDancing0wind

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllenHanPR otters are not a "new" predator in California kelp forests - they are native. The problems kelp forests have is because ppl hunted urchin eating otters for their fur in the first place.

@talorzwilliamz4134

2 жыл бұрын

💛👏I love you brought this up

It’s cool to see my hometown featured in a video like this. I’m personally not much of a fan of uni though which I’ve had on a few occasions.

The Japanese sushi restaurant near my house sells sea urchin sushi and I've been tempted to try it. It's very expensive but I do like new foods.

I HATE sea urchins when swimming!! When the tide pushes you into the the sea floor, and you see a spikey ball just waiting to prick you, that's when I lose it

@holeindanssock156

2 жыл бұрын

Lul where you live? 😊

@abbymerchant2069

2 жыл бұрын

just crack them open and eat them on the spot for spite

@joel_okdasnsbbeb

2 жыл бұрын

@@abbymerchant2069 lol

@onlyriders3896

2 жыл бұрын

@@abbymerchant2069 bahah love this comment almost fell off the toilet.

@gfuentes8449

2 жыл бұрын

when does the tide push you into the sea floor?

Normal people: I think I’ll have a sandwich today! Rich people: _urchin nuts_

@applepie9806

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, it's DELICIOUS creamy urchin nuts. One of my favourite foods. And it's not really rich people thing, people in phillippines collect and eat them as a family activity and they cost less than 1 usd apiece.

@Cokknine333

2 жыл бұрын

@@applepie9806 *creamy nuts*

@RJ-mj4sh

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cokknine333 📷🤨

@UpVade

2 жыл бұрын

normal people eat kina

Sea Urchins: I think you're nuts

@abinosanoj

26 күн бұрын

Humans : we like ur nuts

Fasntastic, You’re making me very hungry! I love most all sea food!🍱

Over 30 years ago, not many people knew to eat sea urchins, so when I went to Half Moon Bay in San Francisco with my mom to get fresh fish, the fishermen weren't even selling the urchins they had accidentally picked up in their net. I told them I wanted them and they sold me an urchin for a dollar. I bought 3, took them home, and used a chisel and hammer to open them up. 😂 They were sooooo gooooood!

@susanaa.6692

Жыл бұрын

Are they red or purple?

@kctjohnson

Жыл бұрын

@@susanaa.6692 It was so long ago I can’t remember. I remember black liquid oozing out of the urchin when I cracked it open though 😂

@ValentinoMarino11

Жыл бұрын

@@kctjohnson Very interesting how much Urchin has grown in the market. Especially red urchin. We need more purple urchin harvested, they’re consuming too much coral!

@OddPoodle

Жыл бұрын

I grew up in HMB…it’s not in SF. It is it’s own city. 😅

@kctjohnson

Жыл бұрын

@@OddPoodle I m’est to say Bay Area

As a kiwi, I can say wholeheartedly that I've never needed to buy kina (that's what we call them here, it's Maori) and that they aren't THAT expensive but they also aren't sold in your average supermarkets. You'd need to get them from a fish market or from somewhere off a wharf that sells fresh fish and other seafood (Kai Moana) as the boats come in. Pretty cool other places enjoy kina as much as we do :)

@tomdonovansmith9806

2 жыл бұрын

Fellow kiwi here :D facts you can go diving for kina its common as

@wills711

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomdonovansmith9806 You don’t even need to dive

@alexxcelestee

2 жыл бұрын

They’re pretty cheap in Australia because we’re trying to cull them as they’re invading reefs! a lot of restaurants in Melbourne are trying to incorporate them into menus to support the cull

@ceecadventure7599

2 жыл бұрын

NZ gannggggg. I’ve seen soooo many Kina to the point where I don't even notice them anymore.

@coverdesignwithameli5987

2 жыл бұрын

I see them in paknsave for 30bucks a punnet too

Sushi is 100% the reason why urchin is so beloved now!

Im from newzealand and as a maori its normal to go diving for sea urchins(kina) abalone(paua) and as kid you quickly find out the creamy tanned tongues are the best , the yellow/bright orange ones are kinda sour😂😂

It might be a good idea to harvest the purple sea urchins too. Yes there's less gonads, but they are harming the environment and hurting the sea urchin business, it would just make sense to catch them and eat them anyway for sustainability

@corbingreiner9879

2 жыл бұрын

She left out info. There are a set number of urchin licenses in Calf. The price between A+ and B grade is 2-3X . Your boat costs stays the same regardless.

@88porpoise

2 ай бұрын

Are people willing to pay more for them than the cost to collect and process them? If they aren't, nobody is going to collect and process them. And keep in mind that processing purple urchins for sale will be more expensive than red urchins as they will need to process more urchins to get a given weight of the end product. And that same weight of end product will be worth less than from red urchins.

I think it was only five years ago that Florida was having a different issue with sea urchins being wiped out by a disease. Kelp makes them taste good, but is not the only thing they eat. They also eat algae which can kill corals if it goes unchecked, so efforts were made in coral reefs to increase the urchins in general to help save the dying reefs. It looks like they were successful with the urchins except that they are wiping out kelp now. It's always something.

@CountingStars333

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@dragonceo5911

2 жыл бұрын

It's funny ANPC, because I think it was only five years ago that Australia was having a different issue with sea urchins being wiped out by a disease. Kelp makes them taste good, but is not the only thing they eat. They also eat algae which can kill corals if it goes unchecked, so efforts were made in coral reefs to increase the urchins in general to help save the dying reefs. It looks like they were successful with the urchins except that they are wiping out kelp now. It's always something.

@Yelbomsirhc1

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the urchin Diadema antillarum died off from a disease, possibly exacerbated by anthropogenic factors like pollution. They eat algae, which competes with hard corals. If Diadema can come back then that would help corals compete for space better with algae.

This is a delicacy in my hometown Pilar. They taste so good. Harveste fresh. During one of our community service, we shared the goodness of sea urchin to our volunteers.

most times I've heard gonads in 10 minutes, very informative

maybe harvest the purple and the big ones equally so that both populations grow equally and neither destroy the kelp...

@Da5thProject

2 жыл бұрын

People don't get paid to clean up the purple urchins and ud be killing them purely for population control but people would say that's not ethically right either.

@Ranger-sl3qq

2 жыл бұрын

@@Da5thProject the urchins are invasive like lion fish people get paid to get them off shores in cali

@theanphiban7160

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ranger-sl3qq actually purple sea urchins and Red Sea urchins are native along all the shores of the Pacific Northwest from California to Northern BC and Alaska

@Ranger-sl3qq

2 жыл бұрын

@@theanphiban7160 yeah but the recent explosion in their kelp consumption was an adaption I’m pretty sure, right? I forgot

@joshs3775

2 жыл бұрын

@@Da5thProject those people are too short sighted to see the much greater dead from starvation once the kelp is gone

I had no idea "gonad inspector" was a legit job title.

@jpablo700

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. It's right there next to gonad polisher.

@thepettiestpersonever6534

2 жыл бұрын

I have had that title for 20+ years in Los Angeles, San Diego, Palm Springs and Orange County.

@FragDaddyScripts

2 жыл бұрын

@@thepettiestpersonever6534 You'd think it would be a popular title for people in San Francisco. har har

@runner4life1984

2 жыл бұрын

Ok Sir! Turn your head & Cough!🤣🤣🤣

@Somethingshouldgohere

2 жыл бұрын

El cheapo 😂

It ain't the uni itself that makes this so expensive, it's the presentation, the cleaning process

Twenty-seven years ago I was at a well-known sushi bar in San Francisco and I tried fresh raw sea urchin for the first time. It was so awful I had a violent gag reaction and it was all I could do to not throw up and seriously offend the sushi chef. I surreptitiously spit it out into my napkin and quickly slipped away to the restroom where I threw the napkin in the trash there... I LOVE sushi, but the texture (mushy) and taste (I can't even describe; it was like the grossest fish taste) of the urchin was god-awful, and it's like my body just went, "Nope, ur not puttin' that sh*t in me..." So, I'm not understanding this mania for it, obviously... 😝😅🤢

She loves reminding us that these are "gonads." 😂

Reminds me of crawfish. They're invasive and pervasive and yet overpriced.

@hypetrained

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, really? I normally don't think of crawfish as overpriced in the regions that can get them, right?

@almightycornholio448

2 жыл бұрын

@@hypetrained Getting them fresh can be overpriced, theyre cheaper frozen but what's the point?

@TerryFT86

2 жыл бұрын

@@hypetrained seafood is all about how fresh it is.

@aleafazio6431

2 жыл бұрын

In Louisiana it’s cheap fresh

@Broockle

2 жыл бұрын

De hek? Craw Fish look exactly like Lobsters. Is this like a Raven Crow thing?

Huh, when I was learning SCUBA off the coast of California my teacher used to crack them open (the bad tasting ones) to attract fish for good photos. An the good ones eat them on the boat. It's actually really good.

That looks like it will probably be one of the coolest jobs. An adventure every time.

In my country, PH, sea urchins are priced cheap, since we're surrounded by a sea and an ocean. Ofcourse, the price gets more and more expensive the farther you are from the body of water. It costs around 1 PHP - 5 PHP (around 0.05 USD) when I first tried it years ago, but now it should be around 10-50 PHP(around (0.20 -1 USD). You can also get a lot for free if you accompany your fisherman friend since there's literally a lot of them in the sea. Sadly, restaurants in cities tend to overprice them.

@nobodyguy4737

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah when my family go to a vacation in this island called kirikiti island (also known shark island since it's there has a lot of sharks in it we're just lucky/unlucky cuz they're not there since the sharks there are not aggressive and most divers would just swim besides them also the corals there are either creepy or beautiful since I saw one coral and it looks like it's staring through my soul😅) the island has a lot of corals and a lot of sea urchin me, my brother and the fisherman dived in to get some we caught a lot we made sure we caught a lot since sea urchin destroys corals

@frederickoftheartic2209

2 жыл бұрын

Still haven't tasted a cheap sea urchin, I rarely go to the coast...

@commscan314

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of like how in Maine lobster is dirt cheap and then the further you go from Maine the more expensive they get.

@MarangTamburiki

2 жыл бұрын

They sell it cheap in Camiguin and in some parts of Cebu or Bohol. If you want sea urchin "on-the-go" there are bottles sold in the nearest supermarket.. 🙂

@bimo176

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree.

In France you buy the whole "oursin" and eat it on bread and butter. Tried it only once but it was pretty good

In Corsica it is a very popular tradition to gather around raw sea urchins to eat them in winter on the seashore. But to preserve this treasure, we are only allowed to catch them from December to April and only in apnea.

Sailing out before the sun rises must be a beautiful experience every day

Other people have also said it, but they really should try harvesting the purple urchins and marketing them as a more budget friendly alternative. Helps to make their business more sustainable by taking less stress off the kelp forests, and opens the market up to more people. I love sushi but have never tried uni before because of the price. Would be willing to try it out, even the "inferior" variety, if it was more affordable or available.

@sleepyninjarin7971

10 ай бұрын

i think the issue may also be the amount of food in each purple urchin, like they would need to collect and clean so many for a smaller amount of inferior product (otherwise they better start harvesting me some purple urchins!)

@ameliakalagher7737

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, there is just so much effort involved in cleaning out a purple urchin for so little uni, that it negates any cost differential you might get from them being easier to find. It's the same problem that's going on with invasive green crabs in the United States - it would be wonderful to create a market for them, but they're too small to be marketable. I'm a marine conservationist and these are some of the great difficult-to-solve problems of our time.

@atherisGAY

8 ай бұрын

They're still the same work harvesting and cleaning, for less profit. Capitalism doesn't care about nature. The profit margin needs to be increased

@matthewcooper4248

7 ай бұрын

Do y'all really think that people who have been doing this for 15 years haven't thought of that and rejected it for a reason?

@fqertexirte3054

3 ай бұрын

Answer is money, its just unprofitable, so shut up and pay 100 bucks for a sushi

Here in New Zealand it is yellow gold. Kina as we call them in Māori. Creamy and delicioso. Love to eat them by itself or with fry bread.

@lukecage275

2 жыл бұрын

I remember taking a loaf of bread down to the rocks at Pakatoa island when I worked there to crack open Kina and eat with the bread.

@NZ75er

2 жыл бұрын

@@lukecage275 good memories

@superuce

2 жыл бұрын

Seki uce

@stuartlees1298

2 жыл бұрын

I used to crack them while diving in NZ, and use them to hand-catch leatherjackets

@FragDaddyScripts

2 жыл бұрын

What would you say they taste like?

In New Zealand we call it Kina and its a popular choice of seafood

No can do! I got an eight thirty res at Dorsia .. Great sea urchin seviche!

You also need to mention the lack of sea otters, as a keystone species, without them the urchin population skyrockets, kills all the kelp, and screws over the ecosystem. The sea otters are killed by Killer Whales, who like their name, normally eat whales. As a result of human influence, killer whales haven't been able to find enough whales to eat, eating sea otters now. We have triggered a trophic cascade that screws over the whole ecosystem, and in the end the very urchin divers. we need to not only harvest quality urchins, but also those that damage the ecosystem. We cant remove the whales, so the only way to fix this damage is to remove more of them from the water.

@fisheye9559

2 жыл бұрын

Problem?

@Gregy624

2 жыл бұрын

Super interesting

@rocketman3285

2 жыл бұрын

Cool story.

@anotoman123

2 жыл бұрын

"Killer Whales" imply that they are whales that kill. The name does not imply they kill whales, else they would've been called "Whale Killers". It's like saying Monkey-eating Eagles are monkeys that eat eagles.

@eddiemarohl5789

2 жыл бұрын

@@anotoman123 Was gonna say orcas have a very broad list of things they feed on and only eat whales rarely

my dad had a friend in vietnam who grew sea urchins, we ate them for free

@papihuey

2 жыл бұрын

How did it taste?

@duckyduck3070

2 жыл бұрын

@@papihuey it was really good, i enjoyed it raw with soysauce

@randydominguez666

2 жыл бұрын

@@duckyduck3070 its fishy?

@deathrodamus9608

2 жыл бұрын

@@duckyduck3070 what food can you compare it to?

@hamzasat

2 жыл бұрын

@@randydominguez666 No.. it is oceany...it tastes like if you take a concentrate shut of ocean's water... I don't know how to describe it in other words. but this is what I felt the first time I tried it. It's really good ☺️

thanks for bringing this delicious food to us

Good reporting.

During the 2014-16 El Nino, a heatwave on the west coast killed 95% of kelp, which were replaced by urchin barrens. Bull kelp has only started to recover in 2021.

In new Zealand we get them for free, out of the sea. We call them Kina. Not my favourite food for sure, very acquired taste lol

@mountebank5034

2 жыл бұрын

@beef of Sindu It tastes just like a rich egg yolk paste lol had it b4 twice

@when_life_gives_you_limes

2 жыл бұрын

@@mountebank5034 ugh, I hate the taste of egg yolks if eaten alone without the whites.

@when_life_gives_you_limes

2 жыл бұрын

@beef hajmola I'm ok with raw or still runny yolks but can't stand those fully cooked ones.

@when_life_gives_you_limes

2 жыл бұрын

@beef hajmola i dunno how to describe its taste, it's too rich & bland for my liking when they're cooked, I find the grainy texture also a bit yucky. I am ok with half boiled eggs or sunny side ups where the yolk is still runny but once the yolk is cooked till it's hardened I can't, unless it's scrambled eggs or omelette where the whites are mixed with the yolks.

@hugh.g.rection5906

2 жыл бұрын

@@when_life_gives_you_limes yeah if youre that much of a picky eater you probably wouldnt eat them

Where can I buy cheap B grade gonads?

@kidkique

4 күн бұрын

mens locker room

No can do, got a 8.30 res at Dorsia. Great sea-urchin ceviche!

In NZ, they are used as bait for fishing and you can go out and dive for as many as you want. Also called Kina.

@thatonekidyouknow5263

2 жыл бұрын

Mate im from new zealand aswell and ive never heard the idea of using a kina for bait i tend to use mostly rainbow trout. Since id rather eat the kina. Mainly go diving out east coast around whakatane and sometimes to waihau bay

@KLK01

2 жыл бұрын

How the heck do you even use an urchin as bait for fish?

@PuRpLePoNcHo

2 жыл бұрын

Last time I checked it is 50 per person, could just be north island

@ioijiopjkiopjkp

2 жыл бұрын

There's a catch limit on Kina, hope you realize that.

@lisadartnall9097

2 жыл бұрын

@@KLK01 you smash it under the water and the fish swoop in to eat it up!

I distinctly remember during the holidays as a kid my dad would eat these sea urchin raw after diving for them at various beaches around Victoria, Australia.. completely oblivious to how expensive they are 🤣 I just thought they were cool ass little critters 😊

I went with my cousins diving for Sea Urchin (Kina) and it was fun, near Waiwera Hot pools. Meanest feed and was for free

I ate sea urchin for the first time when i was in Japan just a few days ago and it tastes heavenly

I ate this like 20 years ago-in algeria. Local people used to collect them and sell them to beach goers. I have no clue if i ate it cooked or raw but all i can remember is that it was really tasty.

My pre guess is the cost is a combination of timely shipping as it’s a seafood product that can rot very quickly unless under very specific conditions, the demand of certain places just isn’t high enough to have a healthy consistent market that can gradually lower its price, and probably because there’s some fenagling the same way diamonds are marked up by being “rare” or very uncommon in the market itself

Here in Philippines we always eat those perfect with "bahaw"😅 we called those sea urchin "toyom and swaki"

I remember my dad opening cleaning and eating a sea urchin when i aw a kid and i thought it was very strange but to think that they are delicacies back then was super weird, especially because you can see them everywhere in my country. But we only have those black and red ones. Never seen those other colours

Here in South Korea, sea urchin bibimbop is considered a special meal early in spring. I'm looking forward to eating the fantastic taste.

@georgehaffen4105

2 жыл бұрын

My buddy who is Korean tells me that Koreans enjoy Sea Urchins because apparently they can boost your sex drive and stamina haha

First person to eat a sea urchin: Lemme just stick these gonads in my mouth.

@somerandomfella

2 жыл бұрын

The only gonads I'll glady stick in my mouth.

Súper bueno lo he probado y lo recomiendo

all my tools at work have multiple color tape on them. Same reasoning. If I drop it or lose it it'll be easy to find.

People really out here saying "we should eat less of these guys" don't know what kind of impact they make on the environment 😅

@isDatBoi

2 жыл бұрын

what? Can you just make a proper statement pls

@Hoggod

2 жыл бұрын

@@isDatBoi or you could research it yourself ?

@tendrylknyte8391

2 жыл бұрын

@@isDatBoi if you watched the video properly they mentioned how kelp forests have largely diminished due to how fast these guys reproduce and consume at the same time. kelp is basically like trees in the way it absorbs heat but for the ocean. which is the reason the ocean's waters are rising in temperature. they're important to the ecosystem, sure. but not if the area has none of their predators helping with population control. overfishing has led to this and it's our job now to be their predators to say the least.

@tengkualiff

2 жыл бұрын

Yea urchins are freakin pests

@bryunmsimango2632

2 жыл бұрын

@@tendrylknyte8391 what you are suggesting is not a solution. We are beyond the point of leaving a single species and expecting nature to find balance because so many other aspects of nature have been disrupted by global warming. The urchins are now in far greater number than they naturally would have been if we as human were aware of our impact 100 years ago. The sea urchins natural predator otters were hunted to near extinction. By fishing now we are in fact fulfilling its role to keep sea urchin populations under a modicum of control.

Sea Urchin are fkn tasty and eating it actually helps the oceans as they're considered pests. I wish people would eat urchin instead of a tasteless destructive shark fin.

@millswill9878

2 жыл бұрын

1. sea urchin taste like ass 2. shark fins are not for taste but its used brcause people think it's "medicinal"

@qaiwiwi

2 жыл бұрын

@@millswill9878 Okay but aren't sharks endangered? They need their fins to navigate and swim in the ocean, without it, they'll die.

@sacoto98

2 жыл бұрын

@@millswill9878 sea urchin tastes like the ocean

Dorsia has some great Sea Urchins! My good friend Paul Allen recommended them to me! Though I don't know what he's been up to lately...

people paying a full check to eat a sea urchin, sea otters munching on them every day for free🤣🤣🤣

Okay. But who was the first person to look at a sea urchin and thought. I wonder if that tastes good😂 I never would have even thought about it

@TheBooban

2 жыл бұрын

Robinson Crusoe? Like all foods, people once starved. They learned to try everything over thousands of years. I do also wonder if kings made their slaves and servants test eating things too.

@Tonyhouse1168

2 жыл бұрын

I literally think that about most vegetables. “That looks terrible, I should put it in my mouth!”

@rachelgrubb4500

2 жыл бұрын

some people like them kind of a metalic taste ... we call them Kina here. not my thing lol leave it to the Otters.

@ioijiopjkiopjkp

2 жыл бұрын

Literally thousands of people when they were starving before mass agriculture

@adriennefloreen

2 жыл бұрын

I assume they must've been so hungry that they'd eat any shellfish they could find, and they found that one.

This series is interesting, but usually, when a product/service is so expensive, the product/service is low, and demand is high. Or the way that the product or service is made s complicated, that can also increase the price; basic economics ☺️

@shawnlee6633

2 жыл бұрын

Can’t argue with that lol

I'm really interested, thank to you all

Now I’m convinced to try my first sea urchin

Urchin Gonads = great band name.

To be honest I grew up eating these in Sardinia. We have it on pasta, raw straight out of the urchin etc. you can buy it in jars for about €8 they’re not that expensive in Italy. They’re so delicious 🤤

Now it makes sense why the Sea Urchin ceviche at Dorsia is so expensive!

I had no idea these were expensive. These are everywhere in Mauritius. I've been offered them many times but always declined.

Always cracks me up how prized these are. Born in SB and having a Father that worked off-shore so every weekend visiting him, (parents divorced), we spent our weekends at the harbor as all of his buddy's were fishermen or Urchin divers and would see constant boxes of Urchin being offloaded at Santa Barbara Harbor. And this was way before Sushi was remotely popular. (I'm old) And as a kid, always wondered why so many were being harvested.

"Look at this benign creature" Someone from Asia "wait we can eat that"

@leepaklong6971

2 жыл бұрын

.......

@ruisilva2123

2 жыл бұрын

It is also eaten in Europe by europeans. I am portuguese and my family eat it for centuries. Celts ate it.

I ate sea archins so much for FREE that I got sick of it but now I'm feeling for it again

I usually eat these straight out of the shell when I am out spearfishing. It’s a good snack to end a dive on for an energy boost, they’re a bit like 3 cups of coffee that way …

I played a drinking game and took a shot every time the word gonad was said and I finished all the available whiskey in Ohio.

I live on an island where there are a lot of sea urchins but the prices are just about $3 - 4 per bucket or sometimes more cheaper.

@alyssamilanostarofteenwolf3241

2 жыл бұрын

I don't believe the $3 a bucket part.

@applepie9806

2 жыл бұрын

Where are you, is it the phillippines? I'm gathering places to visit for fresh urchin

I love it! So good

I used to dive as a kid and collect these in a small bucket with sea water along with crabs and shells... Never knew they where an expensive food lol