Apocalyptic Abalone - Episode 126
Hi Patrons
This week we continue to explore the Furneaux Group of islands where we find an abundance of Green Lip and Black Lip abalone. I'd recommend a full belly before watching this one as it might make you hungry...
Enjoy!
Troy and Pascale
PS - You may notice a few views and some comments despite this being an exclusive patron preview and that is because we accidentally made this video public for 15 minutes when we uploaded it on Monday - it seems that everyone who gets notifications of our new uploads watched the video whoops! 馃ぃ
SEAFOOD STUNT PARK We're in Abalone Heaven! - Free Range Sailing Ep 126 (YouTube)
Comments (16)
Video does not work :(
Hi Leyton. The video is back up we changed the link! Cheers Pascale
Sorry, the video is not available. Nevertheless, I am sure that you have a great time and are happy to explore something new and previously unknown)))
Hi we've got it up and running again the link was changed.
Mouth watering... love abalone (Paua where I come from). Overcooking them makes them tough. Pascal鈥檚 40 seconds sounds perfect! Tassie looks like a great place to spend extra time exploring... even if it is a tad cold! Keep up the great vids!!
Paua Power! Quite a bit of Tassie is very like New Zealand- just no Weka running around and rustling in the bushes. Have seen two black Tiger snakes here though so I'm sure you're happy we don't share that similarity either!
Oh man... All that abalone looked fantastic! And it brought back great memories... Back in the day, growing up in San Diego, my dad would dive for abalone and we'd feast on it. There was even a little beach shack place that sold abalone sandwiches on sour dough bread for $5. I remember the abalone was always pounded before breading it. Sadly, it was terribly over fished there, and I suppose most everywhere... All that to say, I had a full belly at the start of this episode, but now I'm famished ;)
Abalone is heavily overfished around Perth as well but they can be caught by wading. Here, you have to swim for them! That raises the bar a little as well as a lot of people overestimate the danger of Great White Sharks. All very good news for these tasty critters and, by extension, hungry Free Rangers! Folks here like to pound them too, but we've found them consistently tender if we kill them immediately. Still haven't had a tough one.
Usually, a good rule of thumb is that all small sharks are edible and sea fishes with scales. Scaleless fish like mackerel are ok but puffers etc- no. Not everything is palatable though and there can be regional risks like algal poisoning of shellfish or ciguatera in scale fish. Asking the locals is always a good Avenue but be aware they will have cultural biases. Here, we eat several species that the locals reserve as a bait fish despite very good qualities. Some people will turn there nose up at fish that are not trophy size or are too easy to catch!
You must have a genius on board. Send them my way. I鈥檝e been on a huge fish diet here in the sea of Cortez, (weathering the Corona virus) where just looking overboard catches you a fish, that I have no idea if it鈥檚 edible.
I often wonder how your able to determine what is edible and what is not.
Most is accumulated knowledge but there is also the odd occasion to research something on the web.
Instagram... Whatever...
Joseph, if ya wanna drool to the point of drowning, check out @gourmetsailor! Pascale's cooking YouTube!
Another wonderful snippet of life at sea from our beloved dynamic duo. I think I'm starting to be more interested in the cooking now than the sailing...
Yes, as Chris commented Pascy keeps her Gourmet Sailor account pretty up to date. We think the books she is compiling will be quite popular and hopefully useful.