How to Buy Caviar and Roe
Everything you always wanted to know about caviar (but were afraid to ask).
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Beluga, baby! Beluga!!
What a great episode. Too bad we can't sample the caviar with them.
This video is right on time! My granddaughter and I try different things when she visits and our next adventure was going to be caviar. I was going to research to find the best kind to purchase, so this video helps. Bon Appetit!
I really appreciate that she just samples the caviar over and over throughout the vid.
Caviar is nasty. So are raw oysters. I wouldn't make it as an aristocrat.
Just who is your audience? Has to be leftist woke overpaid snob elitists because it sure isn't the other 99% of Americans struggling to buy tuna fish.
Great to see Jack!
I cant imagine going to an elevated meal with this woman. I served in the Army…in the field with people that demonstrated better table manners. Shes eating Caviar and Roe like a fat kid at a buffet. Tacky AF.
Wow. Tone deaf.
Wait… did he say it has to be kept very cold before you even open the jar? Aren't they out in room temp at the store?
This was weird that they didn't pair it. You don't eat spoonfuls of caviar. A belini, cracker, egg, creame fresh, potatoes- something so you can balance the flavor
I just got some "salmon roe" at an asian store and it was saturated with sugar, yuck
These distinctions on “caviar” versus “roe” don’t exist in Russia. It is all ikra… red ikra, black ikra, etc.
I'll have to look through the couch cushions. When I was a kid, we put those salmon eggs on hooks when we went fishing. You got a little jar of them at the bait store.
I have treated myself to the trout roe a few times. I get it mail order from Russ and dtrs in New York. Packed well, delivered promptly and really good!!!
still wearing masks. sigh
Caviar and oysters were relatively cheap a long time ago,so it makes sense that it was a bar snack
I appreciate the information, including prices.
I tried it once, it was Russian caviar my friend brought from Russia and failed to see the hype. I think it's one of those things that is famous mainly because it's expensive and not because it actually tastes good. I'll try again just to be sure though.
I made roe with northern pike eggs. Not bad and a very pretty golden color.
Ew! Gross!
All I ever taste is the salt with the row I've tried. The only way I could eat it was to wash off the brine in cold water.
Going need a increase in Food Stamps. Nothing like living on streets eating Russian fish eggs and washing it down with French champagne. It's good to be a American.
Your tomato sauce video was interesting, but this caviar video is something all of us can use on a daily basis.😂
Is there a way to get kids to eat truffles by using them as pizza or hamburger toppings? Thanks!
Thanks! Only time we tried cavier I brought it to an Easter brunch to top the deviled eggs…Yum!
I’m way too cheap to ever spend that much money. Also too poor!
The question is, why?
“Ranched” means these unhealthy, small, and perhaps diseased fish mingle and mate with wild fish. Destroying the gene pool. If these eggs were in Georgia they would be actual fish and not kept cold.
Finally! Next : truffles.
watch your feasting, Jack
she double dipped
I was raised on delicious Alaskan caviar — herring roe! 😊
Salmon eggs are only good for bait. Give me real caviar.
Seriously, in this day and age of increasing poverty and death from starvation, you "elites" that can afford it, decide to write about a food that billions cannot afford? Shame on you.
YEAH BABY LETS MAKE IT TOGETHER
ROE YA A ROW YEAH DONT ROCK THE BOAT
yeah the real problem preventing me from buying caviar was that I didn’t know how to buy it
Poors apoplectic in the comments. You love to see it.
Why do Bridget or Julia never respond to comments?!
Here in greater SanFran – we have the Asian restaurants – and sashimi/sushi bars. They have (quail eggs), salmon eggs, "tobiko" (flying fish eggs, colored red), and then just seen "masago" (which I found out is smelt eggs, colored orange) which we use here for sturgeon fishing bait.
One of the very few things China is doing right is making caviar cheap so snobby rich people can shut up about it. Just ask someone "This is the Chinese caviar I hear so much about, right?"
Next episode; best monocle polishing cloths.
Great example of the bubble these people (and PBS dwellers) live in.
Caviar is expensive yes. We all know the economy sucks, gee, I couldn’t imagine why. Maybe you should vote smarter next time. To be whining in the comments is not anyone’s problem but your own. I can’t afford it right now but you don’t hear me bitching. ATK still has to put videos out and I found it very very interesting! I’d love to try it someday.
Yuck! Never tried caviar and have absolutely no desire to. I can say unequivocally that at 67 y.o., caviar/roe are not on my culinary bucket list!
(229) Was at a restaurant with a paramour, he slips the waiter a note, waiter grins like a cat chewing spit, comes back with this fancy-arsed crystal bowl full of ice and a open tin of caviar, and a bowl of sour cream and a plate of wee little blinis. I nearly fainted, I told him what if I don't like this and he said he didn't care, he'd get me raw oysters instead. He loads up a blini with caviar, puts a gob of sour cream on it and hands it to me. The oysters were delicious.
Tough project. Must have been difficult on the testers. But had to be done.
Frozen eggs?
Good thing it's not Alabama!
There is farmed and ranched caviar. If you cannot verify that is the source do not buy or eat caviar. Harvesting wild caviar is going to wipe out the wild sturgeon populations in the Caspian and Back Seas.
There is extremely important for any caviar claiming to be Beluga or Ossetra. While there are farmed sturgeon of both species there remains a lot of poaching going on as well. If you buy caviar like the native American White Sturgeon instead it reduces the demand.
I've tried caviar and roe many times. I dont get why people like it.
Notification for this video popped up and I said the exact same thing about the cereal and how expensive groceries are. I said ‘ Im not watching the video, but I’ve got to read the comments’.