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Octopussy Anonymous 07/11/18 (Wed) 00:30:33 No.14454

How do you cook octopus, /ck/? I just cooked one and it turned out okay, I simmered for about 30 minutes, until I could pierce the flesh with a knife without much resistance. Then I drained it and let it cool. After it cooled I tossed it with olive oil, salt, and pepper and then grilled it for about 5 minutes until browned on both sides. The flavor was quite good, but it was a bit chewier than I would have liked. A couple pieces of the arms were quite tender, but parts of the mantle were pretty rubbery. What do you guys do to get better flavor/texture for your octopus?

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Anonymous 07/14/18 (Sat) 14:33:59 No.14479

Beat the octopus. Hold it by the tentacles and dash it hard against the counter.

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Anonymous 07/14/18 (Sat) 18:13:07 No.14481

>>14454

>Beat the octopus

that sounds lewd

But I have heard of doing that to tenderize it, I'm also thinking I may have overcooked it the first time. I think for my second attempt I will beat it in the sink and instead of simmering it in water, I'll use red wine and vegetables.

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Anonymous 07/15/18 (Sun) 14:49:28 No.14486

>>14481

Physically tenderize it. Also, to keep it from getting rubbery, it should be cooked very fast or very slow. A quick grill or a few hours in the slow cooker. It's the in between phase where it turns to rubber. I've also heard it's good pickled.

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Anonymous 07/16/18 (Mon) 10:19:00 No.14491

Beat the meat with a wooden rod or freeze solid and thaw. The ice crystals that form in the meat help tenderize it.

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Anonymous 07/18/18 (Wed) 18:15:47 No.14502

Go to Miller's Pub in Chicago, and order their calamari. Best sex of your life.

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Anonymous 12/06/18 (Thu) 22:45:12 No.15316

>>14454

>scrub with salt in the sink to remove algae etc from surface (often done before you buy it) then rinse well

>physically tenderize- honestly freezing it is the best way to do this, as the ice crystals really break up the structure inside, but beating it with a rolling pin or something will help as well

>braise low and slow until as tender as desired, then sear

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Anonymous 09/08/26 (Tue) 01:25:11 No.17479

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>>14486

>I've also heard it's good pickled.

This. Slice it into bite-sized pieces to increase surface area and then soak in acid (pickle brine most commonly) overnight to tenderize the meat like a tough cut of beef. Then rinse it off and stew it in some more acid, like tomato sauce. The calamari could even replace meatballs in spaghetti.

The real potential here actually comes from harvesting the tentacles from the octopus then throwing him/her back in the water to continue living and regrowing more tentacles for you to eat later on. Think of it as organic sustainable vegan animal meat protein. Catching them is easy too: you literally just throw a glass jar into the ocean then pull it up a few days later and pull the octopus out:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5NUPNENpt60&pp=ygUgY2F0Y2hpbmcgb2N0b3B1cyB3aXRoIGdsYXNzIGphcnM%3D

Of course in order to make this a self sustaining food production system you would need to provide food for the environment of your local oxtopus with something like…

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/540922844/#q540927006

Best to build such a system in a tropical bay or harbor where there are no hurricanes or earthquakes. South Australia, South africa, North africa, panama, Brazil, singapore etc would all work well enough I think:

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/540958584/#q540959871

>>14491

You could even build floating arrays of bee barges with solar panels on the roof in the saltwaters of South Korea or South India and Sri lanka so the local aquatic life could eat the bees that fall in the water, but you would have to build the barges them to withstand cyclones and hurricanes

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