Sea lovers know better than to step on a spiny urchin. But some consider urchins as a delicacy rather than a painful experience! In Europe, they are found in the Mediterranean Sea and along the Atlantic coast. In France, they are so popular that entire festivals are dedicated to these hedgehog-like sea creatures. Join us in Carry-le-Rouet, Southern France, to discover their unique taste and learn how to eat them!
CHAPTERS
00:00 Would you try sea urchins?
00:20 The Sea Urchin Festival in Carry-le-Rouet
00:50 Meet the chef
01:04 Why and how to eat sea urchins
02:04 Where to find sea urchins and how to pick them
02:26 Are Sea urchins endangered?
03:23 Taste test
04:00 In the restaurant kitchen
04:14 How to open a sea urchin
05:08 How to prepare a dish with sea urchins
CREDITS
Report: Meggin Leigh
Supervising editor: Jana Oertel
Thumbnail Copyright: Getty Images
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Ooh~ I love sea urchins. So briny, so creamy. Great with rice
Smell like cockroach.
My hubby loves to eat sea urchin as a sushi from experienced sushi chef!
Delicacy in Greece too.
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Love them!
Love them
Why Americans, who are lucky to have such extended sea shores, don't attempt to taste such a delicacy, which is available right in front of their nose? I guess that this has to do with culture and the willingness to go for culinary experience beyond steak and French fries.
I love them. I first tried them at a wedding, inside a shot glass. Extra virgin olive oil, a little squeeze of lime, and some salt and pepper. Heaven.
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She seemed too squeamish and uncomfortable to be interviewing the chief.
THUMBS DOWN AFTER 1 MINUTE CLIMATE CHANGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ate them in japan, good stuff.
They're the most delicious invasive species 🤌
Perfect but expensive
They are in many places all over the world. They also taste kind of metallic
Qué manía teneis añadiendo "cosas" a los erizos, está visto que no sabeis disfrutar de las cosas naturales: recién sacados del mar, abiertos con una guillotina especial y una cucharilla o un trozo de buen pan de masa madre y un vasito de vino blanco, los angelitos se te c**gan en la boca! (lo de la guillotina es porque en Catalunya hemos evolucionado de las tijeras a ese instrumento especial y específico: aquí "les mimves de gener" – época de bajamar en enero, por presión atmosférica en las costas catalanas que pone más al decubierto los erizos o "garoines")
This is a breezy, tourism-epicurean themed production about Sea Urchins yet it grossly misrepresents the true global situation with the species. Presenter Meggin Leigh briefly mentions the Mass Sea Urchin Die Off problem at 02:29 of this video.
People who are interested in this problem should read the following scientific research papers:
17/6/2024 "Mass mortality of diadematoid sea urchins in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean" – Current Biology by Omri Bronstein
1/11/2024 "Spread of a sea urchin disease to the Indian Ocean causes widespread mortalities—Evidence from Réunion Island" – Ecology Journal by Jean-Pascal Quod, Mathieu G Séré, Ian Hewson, Lachan Roth and Omri Bronstein
Various media outlets have quietly amplified these studies as well.
In Sep. 2023 I publicly warned about the Mass Sea Urchin Die Off problem after doing research in the Maldives and in Saudi, Jordanian and Israeli waters of the Gulf of Aqaba over the previous three weeks. It was in March 2023 when I first became aware of the problem and we did a great deal of research from then until our live snorkelling audits.
The vast majority of people have no idea now how dangerous this phenomena is for the world's coral reefs, which BTW are one of G-d's most beautiful creations. Omri Bronstein, who we met in person in Dec. 2023 at his lab in Tel Aviv, has expressed great concern the problem may spread to the Pacific, thus Australia's Great Barrier Reef and French Polynesia's coral reefs could be affected also.
Watch the Alfred J. Kwak episode, No. 50 "Pot of Gold", where the world is losing its colours…
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Mid-80s, my then girlfriend, now and since, my wife, and I did an inn-to-inn bike tour along the Maine coast. One stop was at a seafood pub that happened to offer local urchins. They were great. Mild. As we watched the sundown on the deck, a pair of older women ambled out and asked, "Are you the folks who had the urchins, how were they?" "Fine," we answered, "Thanks!" they said and ambled back. A while later we went through the main room of the pub to leave, seeing a full Senior Bus Tour group gobbling down a mountain of urchins. They wiped the place out.
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Australia and NZ have plenty of sea urchins too but don't even harvest these invasive species. I still much prefer just the roe. Very fresh roe has almost zero taste. I love uni roe and salmon roe on a bed of hot rice. If there's crab meat included, even better! Fresh sea urchin pasta is to die for too. Fresh and raw roe is still the best. Like eating an onsen egg yolk and buttery. Especially one has a bowl full of the roe.
Like the big red ones from the PNW