Saturday, November 24, 2012

How to Prepare an Octopus for a Meal

The title might have you thinking you will discover here the cooking instructions for an octopus but this is how to prepare the octopus before you cook it.  The octopus has just been pulled from the sea and this is what happens next.

The pictures come from a return trip to the Kastro Bar for third installment of the To the Death Chess Tournament but, alas, I must report that I lost again so the score is now two to one and not in my favor.

Aim:



Throw him into the rocks:



Pick him up to do it again:



This is done quite a few times as the octopus will otherwise be too tough to eat.  Mary told me that commercial fishermen use some type of 'octopus washing machine' to tumble them to do many at once.

Now isn't your life richer with this knowledge.  You might have been thinking that you just catch 'im and fry 'im but nooooo.  If you want to eat an octopus, you have to put some work into it.

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