Just salt and flour and fry in high temp oil instead of butter, super crunchy and not much aftertaste. But probably much better as bait. Top bait for many species of estuary fish especially whiting
Bro i thought of a cool series, “Can it Sushi?” You should go around and catch a variety of organisms and see if it’s able to be “sushified” and made into an appetizing dish.
You did not know the three main ingredients and cooking his butter butter butter. Every chef knows that. I miss Fishermans life I thought he was going to post a camping trip of sort?
You should fry them in bacon grease, drain the grease, dredge them in butter, flour, egg, cornstarch, penko, egg again, regular breadcrumbs, beer, flour again seasoned with salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder and cayenne, deep fry them in pork lard, drain, season with sea salt and lemon juice, dehydrate for 24 hours, mash into a powder, sprinkle the powder on fried turkey skins, chop coarsely, mix into cheese soufle batter, distribute into buttered ramekins, sprinkle with bread crumbs and butter, bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes, slide each on out onto a cooling rack until cool to the touch, then using a food processor, pulse until a fine texture, then chuck that shit back into the bay.
I was always curious about how it would taste when I was younger. Thank you for making this video now I wouldn't have it on my mind any longer. CHECK LIST DONE!!! LOL not saying I would've of eaten it but always wonder your a Brave one!!! Love your video always keeping coming up with different content.
I just had some last night. I was experimenting how to catch them in my local bay at low tide. You did it the hard way. Clam digger is real bad on the back. I built a shrimp pump. Much easier and faster. anyway my wife sauteed them in butter. Not a lot of meat in them. Never thought of eating them in the shell. A lot of work to get to the meat. I figured eat just like crawdads. These guys need to be purged of sand. Caught one female with eggs. I put on a little salt and the shrimp caviar was OK. It is early in the season, maybe in a few months they will be bigger. I also went clamming in the same bay. Got a couple dozen will have them tomorrow.
Greetings from Thornton Colorado once again! So what’s next Pile Worms? Hmmm. It’s great to try new things, I mean heck, people all over the planet eat bugs,scorpion and what not. So “things of the sea is the way it otta be” seems to be your mantra. Carry o Chef.
This whole series has encouraged me to try new things I can find by the water myself! I'm not a chef but they don't taste too bad when you put butter in the pan lol
Great video, I swear I thought you should do this too when I saw the sandcrab video!! Very fun. I'll take your advice though, for sure and just use as bait!! Take care man.
Cool video Taku... Shrimp head is an acquired taste IMHO, kind of bitter-ocean-brine tasting. Maybe if you butcher it down to the tail, and rinse the head/guts and deep fry them with panko crumbs? I always find butter or light oil pan fry/saute' to be the most transparent form of frying... in that it retains the base flavor/texture of the ingredient with minimal alteration. Love the channel buddy!! i live in Palo alto, your channel is like a bay area travel guide.
I would have de-veined and maybe shelled them, if possible. Panko fried with some ponzu dipping sauce. I hope they don't carry parasites! You're a brave man!
I think you can use that clam gun to also take out your back;-D you are the best, keep it up. thanks I didn't know there is a limit on them now.I used to catch these commercially,using a small trash pump.we'd catch thousands of them in a day. can you make a video on eating Dungeness crab guts?
What if you cleaned them like a tiny prawn....i saw some dark stuff in them, clean out the digestive tract? Also to make them less crunchy just hit em with a knife like peeling garlic
I think for videos like this, and you being a sushi chef. You should take it as a challenge and make it many different ways to find a solid way to prepare it. Clean it more. add it into pasta. or ravioli or something
We have Sand Shrimp here in Washington State. Use them for Steelhead bait on the rivers. Similar? Havn't researched this. Just popped into my mind just now.
You crazy outdoors nut so! Gotta give it 2ya! Might as well do some grass shrimp and blood worms while your at it..,.you've tried damn near every bait we use on the west cost! But those Two I believe! Mabe eel I haven't seen you do! Do it! Lol
I remember i caught some huge ghost shrimp from a pier with a fishing pole when they came out of their holes one time, we were going to try them but they got stuck behind a panel in the fridge we had and made the whole area smell rotten for days lmao, great vid keep it up!
i'd like to see an episode with some of these ingredients that wasn't too edible and take some time to prepare it and see if it got any better with more preparation...maybe a little strong alcohol to mask the odor...freshwater crawfish tastes really muddy but is great after some preparation!
Visited a friend he purged them in a saltwater tank he uses to keep bait alive then marinated in lime withe fresh green chilies before stir frying in butter tasted great
Maybe get rid of the heads or keep the heads and get rid of the body. Might make it taste better. Great video, I always wondered about how it would be to eat them.
Now we know, it's a firm maybe. Ha! But, as a kid, we ate a lot of baby sand crabs, and I recall loving it. It's been a few decades tho so maybe the memories are better left as is.
Probably the organs and such aren't that great to eat and not good tasting because of the mud you dig them out of.. Not sure, never had these or tried them. But often these "trash fish thingys" taste bad because of the way they live. I wouldn't go all in when eating them for the first time anyway 😂 But thanks for the video and your honest opinion! Was great to watch 👍
so I did a little quick research and it seems the main problem with keeping these shrimp alive for longer periods of time is that they shit a lot. might try cleaning that out if you try eating it again.
Hey bro I always love your video as I travel and live off the land myself a lot of times by the way the ghost shrimp taste a lot better when you find the real big ones bro you got to go down a little deeper find an act of breathing hole and then you got to suction the crap out of the sand
I've used them as bait with a fair amount of success. I once roasted one with a torch lighter and ate it as a stunt. My opinion is that it's taste and texture was pretty much like eating a scorpion or a cockroach which I have eaten as a stunt as well. Maybe I'd eat some again in a survival situation but I would definitely not order it at a restaurant. No funky aftertaste for me though but I did do a couple swigs of tequila afterward. That most likely got rid of the funk.
