TINY ISLAND Has Sea Cucumbers!? We Ate It... 

This was interesting to me as an adult....but i confess, the 10 year old in me was giggling non stop.

I would like to try that. The way you prepare the sea cucumber looks great. Cheers, Taku and Jocelyn! #TakuTuesday #👍🏻👍🏻✌️

I’ve been WAITING for someone to try sea cucumbers!!

I am a tiny island with a sea cucumber 😂

He BOILED it and forgot it was still ALIVE xD

You got it man

That seacucumber was me when my girlfriend touched it for the first time. Lasted just as long

epic

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Growing up, my mother would make this for Chinese NY. It's an expensive stew / braise with dried Chinese mushrooms that's cooked long & slow. The sea cucumbers become more tender or even jello-y the longer you cook them. Imagine the most unctuous beef short ribs or pork belly that just melts in your mouth - it's like that. I loved it. A real childhood favorite. 40 years later, Mom still makes it occasionally. Thanks mom.

Btw, the intestines of sea cucumbers you threw out is actually a Japanese delicacy! It's called a konowata and to prepare it is just simply washing it, removing whatever is in it (by _gently_ squeezing it out), and salting it before letting it sit for a bit.. It's quite rare since sea cucumbers tend to expel their guts as a defense mechanism.

4:48 Jocelyn: "it's a grower" Me watching: *nearly spits out my food* 😂😂

Sea cucumbers are great. When i was in Japan, i used to get them at least once a week. Sashimi with a ponzu sauce or Daikon and kabosu + soy and shichi-mi sauce. It's like eating a mushroom but a lil bit crunchy. A fun fact for those who don't know, Sea cucumbers spill their guts as a defense mechanism and can regrow from those back in the ocean in some weeks.

the sequence starting at 5:00 was hilarious - for having never prepared it before and just giving it a go (with some unexpected moments) it turned out so well!

Funniest episode ever, how can you take sea cucumbers seriously 😂 recipe looked truely amazing 💜

"you better not be rubbing your cuc in the sand in there!" - mom

Just bought the kelp chili crisps yesterday at world Market. Was so happy to find them. Thank you they are amazing on soup dumplings

Did she really just say, "It's a grower."?

Wow. I watch alot of women getting Sea Cucumbers off the Sea floor at low tide and I wondered how they taste. My brother said "Why would you want to taste something that filters water?" I thought what in the waters doesn't filter or have water in and around it. I stuck it in my mind that whatever restaurant I go into that has Sea Cucumber on the menu I am going to try it. I've watched you and Joselyn cook and you two make food look delicious. I've tried a couple of your recipes and they were delicious. Now I will put Sea Cucumber on the top of my list. Thanks for sharing that with us.

the 2nd one didn't have any guts inside probably because it used its defense mechanism which is to expel all its innards to freak out potential predators. they can regrow and replace all the internal organs after a while.

I grew up eating these raw with some gochujang 😁

Unfortunately I am one of those people that cannot dive below 15-20 feet. It's not that I can't hold my breath. It's that my ear drums are close to breaking. I just cannot do it. I have been told by many divers that sometimes there are people that can't get beyond that depth and to just not do it. You don't want your ears to sustain injury. I can do 20 feet max.

Hahahahaha this video was hilarious but damn it looks delicious the way you prepared it! We often see it dried and in braised dishes in Asia, it’s a delicacy esp during Chinese new year!

Used to work at a small aquarium and sunflower stars were my fav. So soft and fast! Vicious predators and so curious. Also, that third cucumber, the white stuff coming out of the mouth might have also been its mouth parts. If you google cucumbers eating, it’s really cool

Hey Taku... that Sea Cucumber roll looked uhhhmazing! Of course I have you Kelp Chili Crisp. Eating some on my tacos.. I'm on my 3rd jar, and it's so good! Thank you.. *#OutdoorChefLife* does it again. P.s. I'm really digging the chef's without a kitchen videos. Great idea 👨‍🍳

I lived in an island in the Philippines where we make ceviche out of sea cucumbers. It was the best.

This will always be one of my favorite channels, especially seeing how you guys are just enjoying life.

👍🏽 Nice videos. Ever consider trying a different camera? So much color in the environment you record in. The sony AF is great, but other camera would give richer color, examples: Nikon Z , panasonic, fujifilm

Taku I'm not gonna lie, this was the most disgusting episode thus far LOLL 🤢🥴😂

Maaan...leave them aliens alone. They come in peace! lol

you cant deny that you wanted to throw up when you tried a little bit of the sea cucumber.. HAHAH your face said it all 6:55

"Its a grower " she knows wassup 😂

you ever see the chinese fishermen that cooks a shit ton of seafood in a wok he just throws the seacucumbers in the wok with soysauce and eats them whole lmao

Take a metal sppon and a knife. Hit it with the spoon to tense it up, cut open with a knife and scrape out the guts with the spoon. Cut into thin slices and put it in ice water. Then all you need is a sauce and a cold beer.

I don't know what to say 😃👍🤣🤣!! Nothing 🤪😉 repeatable for sure 😂😂😆😆😆 Seriously!

She’s a SQUIRTER 😂😂😂

Sea cucumber are expensive af! 💰 Chef Wang Gang got a good sea cucumber episode 🍽 His was dried tho the process is crazy🥒

The whole time while watching the video, I couldn’t wait to read the comments 🤣

14:30 XD

I thought the video pic was from the "FUCK YOUUU" video haha

What’s the background song when he was diving?

Silky, slippery, chewy; you discribing like P 😮😊. Lol

"It's a grower" had me chuckling.

Collab with Kelly Young!

Eating things that eat sea snow... Yuck dude! I'd rather eat bait fish 😛

my mom walked in when i was watching. lets say it was easier to explain i was watching pr0n

BRUH! This video is one step from being R rated. LOL

go to a chinese restaurant they’d probably do it better, its a flavour absorber

Tjats shit looked nasty ..hell no id have to be starving there way better stuff in the sea lol

LOL they’re like little meat balloons 🤣🤣

The freak in your girl was itching to be released 😂😂😂

We use lime juice or lemon juice hot pepper or kimchee base onions garlic

San Mateo World Market hasn’t had any in stock last 2 times I went! 😢

Aphrodisiac? I'm sure the shape has nothing to do with it lol

That really challenged my maturity lol looked good though

Those are gnarly looking! But now I want to try it too

Use a putty knife to remove the white meat from the skin then treat it like calamari

Your videos are as interesting as documentaries 🫶🏾

A sea cucumber can be misleading to vegans and vegetarians

Sea cucumbers are ultra expensive aren’t they?

Some sea cucumber are bitter, some are salty but delicious

yall, if you're seeing this, like the video

Sounds terrible. Way to be positive.

seacumber, what did i do why u eat me?

Gonna try w the big sea cucumbers here 🤣

🌴. Batter and fry those sea worms 😆👍🏼👊🏼

Take the guts out first before cooking.

it looks like it would be good fried onj a pan

Well that was disturbing to watch 😹

Tasty! Ty for the video!

I like the Limited Edition Kelp Chili Crip drop idea.. way to keep it moving forward. Thanks again for another good'n..

shoutout to barnacle foods, their stuff is so good!

Looked not lekker . But at the end rely yummy

I was watching the Weather Channel on Sunday and saw you on the Uncharted Adventures show! Good luck Taku! I also dig Joclyn's adventurous energy to taste new and unusual foods! She is a trouper!

my dude is getting demonetized af hahaha

bro got those from the anime episode lmao

Couldn't watch until the end. 🤢

Dried then braised is the way to go :D

Aloha. Worked on a dive boat out of Ketchikan 20 years ago. Uni during the week,25 cents a lb, sea cucumber on the weekends 2.50 a lb. captain showed me how to cut the ribs out and fried them up like clam strips. Still don’t like uni.

Poor Sea cucumbers, Their cute.

"It's a grower!" 😂

Korean way is raw with a nice goju

Watched you show for several years but I'm from Juneau - my wife and I have been trying to figure out exactly where you were and so far we're coming up empty. Thought you were out on Coghlin but a couple things don't look right. Give us a clue please. Thanks

Happens to the best of us bro,😂

Why is there sooo many ads now lol

What has a lot of health benefits??

They are here where I live, and was asked to send divers for them, and dry them, but was warned that the buyer was a gringo crook, so never, got any to try.

Taku is holding a lizard gecko reptilian monsterrrrrrr!!! 😊😍🖤🥰🇺🇲🍻🍺

How about namasu style?

I'm usually into your weird seafood adventures. But this time? Ewwww.

freaks me out honestly

This is a delicacy in the pacific islands, you can just eat them raw and esp the insides are really good but an acquired taste cause theyre acrid and has the texture of snot so we just eat it raw with lemon and a bit of soy sauce. Even the meat is cut up into several bite size pieces and just eaten with lemon and soy sauce, maybe also some kimchi base. Ofc sea cucumber have some subvarients, so some are alot more harder to bite into to but really fresh.

Most Impressive!! You Crazy Freak! I mean that with utmost respect! Great post.

The more you push the chilies crisp the more you put it every were the less likely I'm going to buy it you just seem desperate to sell it because it doesn't sell

@outdoorcheflife how far away is your cookbook? We haven't seen an update in months

#PETA has entered the chat. LOL

It reminds me of the time when you guys caught squid and ate it on the boat with just soysauce and lemon juice. One of my favorite episode.

Nice! Alaskan Sunomono?

14 minutes +, lmao

we really enjoy your videos Taku! Now im waiting to see the ones in mexico!