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Due to factors such as global warming and over-fishing of its predators, the humble jellyfish has experienced a population explosion in recent years. In fact, there are so many of the creatures in some places that jellyfish-killing aquatic robots have been designed to keep their numbers under control. It seems like a waste to just dump them, though. With that in mind, a scientist from the University of Southern Denmark has developed a method of turning them into a potato chip-like food.
Dried jellyfish have actually been eaten for centuries in Asian cultures. The drying process (which involves using salt and alum to extract water from them) takes 30 to 40 days, however. Additionally, the finished product has a somewhat gristly texture that's off-putting to many Westerners.
Mie Thorborg Pedersen has instead simply steeped them in alcohol, which replaces their water content within just a couple of days. It then evaporates completely once they're left out to dry, leaving nothing but a thin, crispy disc. Although the finished product reportedly doesn't have much flavor, Thorborg Pedersen states that, "The mouth feel and the aesthetic appearance in particular have gastronomic potential."
[...] A paper on the research was recently published in The International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science.
Meanwhile, still waiting for squid jerky to take off in the West.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:04PM (17 children)
Sounds like a lot of effort for something nasty. At least with the equally nasty shark fin soup the rest of the shark can be eaten as well (and shark is tasty, the meat of real men). They will, of course, make money off of jellyfish by touting it as the next big thing for hipster fucks and other pretentious food snobs with too much money.
How about not overfishing and attacking the habitats of jellyfish predators? I want to see an outbreak of extremely toxic jellyfish attack the shores of America. When it starts hitting the pocketbooks of Jew beachfront resort owners, maybe then the problem will be taken seriously.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:14PM (4 children)
I agree with you.
Jellyfish isn't just something Westerners aren't used to eating; it is simply worthless crap. No flavor, no nutrition.
For a similar reason, Westerners don't eat insects. People say, but you eat shellfish like shrimp and crabs, aren't those basically just sea bugs?
No, they aren't. Shrimp, lobster, and crab are arthropods that have big chunks of meat. Insects are just shells and guts. Not worth eating.
I guarantee you if there were an insect with meaty legs like a king crab, we'd be all over it.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:18PM (3 children)
Actually, people who cook and eat tarantulas say they're a lot like soft-shell crab. Otherwise agreed though, eating bugs is for bushniggers and Mali scroungers. All that food aid going to Africa should be bug meal.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:52PM (1 child)
Being stupid again. Just can't help yourself. Sad.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @06:52PM
He's projecting his inner nigger again. What he calls a nigger is no different than he. He is just another untermensch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:46PM
I bet that the comparison of tarantulas to softshell crabs is accurate because when I ate a softshell, it felt like eating an insect.
All that damn shell. Jesus, might as well scarf a handful of roaches.
I say this as someone who loves crabs prepared the normal way, i.e., steamed, cracked, and pick the meat out to eat.
(And of course Old Bay on the crabs before steaming them. I have been conditioned to think crabs taste like Old Bay.)
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:17PM (2 children)
Dude. You're posting again. Haven't you figured it out yet? When people look at you like you just shit yourself, or they snicker at the things you write? Yeah, that's what happens when you open your mouth or put pen to paper or mash drivel on the keyboard. How many years and you haven't figured that out yet. I mean, there's stupid and then there's you - a special class of stupid beyond all rational explanation of stupid. I'd insult you more but it's kinda sad. Apparently your father or someone smacked you so hard on the side of the head you became retarded.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:20PM (1 child)
My thick geoduck moistened your momma's jellyfish, you faggot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:36PM
Awesome comeback. A real Pulitzer Prize winner there. No, wait, it was stupid like you. BTW - You sure do talk about gays and sex a lot. Do you think about that often? But then you also talk a lot about stupid things so maybe you don't think at all. That would be stupid.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:21PM (6 children)
When i was a kid, i had turtle soup a couple times (no, don't know what kind of turtle).
I remember it being fecking delicious!
Wouldn't mind trying some again.
Jellyfish? I'd hit that.... as in i'd try it if someone gave me a sample. I'd try calamari too, if i could get some for free: not going to pay $10.00 for an appetizer that i'll wind up not liking.
Lost one of my mealworm farms to mold, so rebuilding with the second. Mealworm farms take a looooong time to grow. :(
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 29 2017, @04:26PM (2 children)
Calamari itself is a lot like strips or rings of egg-white. It's pretty bland alone without sauce or seasoning, but fucking awesome when fried (what isn't?) and served with cocktail sauce. When eaten raw (as sashimi, for example) it is slightly more rubbery but has an interesting sticky mouthfeel, as if it were coated with some kind of dehydrating powder that dries your tongue.
I wouldn't recommend squid sashimi only because every other variety of sashimi has much more flavor. Not terrible, but not good either.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @05:28PM
Ethanol-fueled giving advice on ethnic cuisine without racist profanities... Another troubling development following the legalization of marijuana.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @05:50PM
Thje big thing with calamari is cooking it right. Cooked properly it is delicious, but it is really easy to screw it up.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @05:46PM (1 child)
I've only eaten the turtle's head. Tasted a lot like shit.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday July 29 2017, @11:01PM
Oh man, thanks for the chuckle!
XD
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @03:54AM
The taste and texture of calimari (squid) most resembles that of escargot (snail) and octopus.
The next best matches are scallops and clams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:09PM
to get laid?
Lots of effort just to eat something nasty?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:17PM
But.. that would require people to refrain from PR0F1T! can't have that..