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8 weeks of koji dry-aging on bluefin tuna. Beneficial Aspergillus oryzae mold—the same used for miso and sake—coats the fish, breaking down proteins and fats for intense umami and silky tenderness, much like dry-aged beef. The fuzzy exterior is fully trimmed off before slicing, revealing pristine deep-red meat enjoyed raw as a premium delicacy in top Japanese restaurants. Wild in appearance, expertly executed, and incredibly flavorful.
nameisunavailable
If you eat bad fish do you get chickenella?
AvsFreak
LiterallyAWizard
Watching this activated every single one of my bones, and set them all to attack mode.
morninggloryshade777
Blech!!!
ProfFurryPaws
FiveShiftOne
I bet that's delicious but the way he prepared it is nightmarish. I don't want a bite of that much raw fish all at once, it seems like a textural nightmare in your mouth.
Skevoid
Sod off with the AI-generated descriptions.
TheVillageGrouch9000
https://imgur.com/TjLZJJp
duktayp
Cthulhu wept
TorrentialUpPour
Does anyone else remember those skits in Whise Line Is It Anyway? where the actors would pretend to be each other's arms? That immediately popped into my head while watching this guy eat.
Apothecarius
Can I get an Imgr scientist to tell me if this is fucking rancid or safe to eat?
SquirtVonnegut
It's as safe to eat as miso, yogurt, or cheese. Some fungi are toxic and some fungi are delicious. You just have to use the right ones.
WalkingInMyShoes
Looks like it could walk onto the plate by itself.
possiblyafakeaccount
azombieontheinternet
Long Tribble.
HypnagogicHallucinations
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dnM2OGV2NGNlOWR6b24yYTNtZGRsazBoYm1nbGNmZ25kMWZybmt4cSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/4Z3DdOZRTcXPa/200w.webp
deetatron
ILoveThiPlatform
I am unreasonably mad at this
ButtscratchMcPherson
That is not the kind of hairy tuna I like to eat.
osser
A big no from me dawg
DSREX
I will pass on the raw moldy fish thanks.
HypnagogicHallucinations
Please, sir, can I have some less?
CrisprCAS
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1aHZnMHcwZ2trMDc2dXpyamdtZ3RyNW0yd3ZmcG0zcGJkNGdnYjZzdCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/STfLOU6iRBRunMciZv/200w.webp
Gnerg
I'd eat it
Flyingwigs
I'd try it if prepared by a professional
thebbqnut
AlwaysDownvoteDots
I am reasonably mad at this.
duktayp
Ocean penicillin
GreenMnM
What in the absolute disgusting weird ass drink out of the toilet gross shit is this?
justplainvanilla
southoffrance
I'd eat it no problem. Think of all the other foods we eat that rely on microorganisms: cheese for a start, fermented foods such as miso and kimchee, yoghurt and sauerkraut.
PotatoSnake42
Avenge Me!!
Mechwarrior719
This 100% came out of someone discovering their fish was moldy and deciding the idea of crapping themselves to death sucked slightly less than starving to death.
ansiichan
like 99% of "traditional rotten food"
shyriath
Probably not the only food that started that way. It's not hard to imagine someone storing milk in a bag made from a sheep's stomach, maybe leaving it in the sun too long, looking at how it separated out into this gunk floating in liquid, going "fuck it, I'mma eat that" and then realizing they've discovered cheese.
DarthWaiterSE
Or a dare between two brothers in antiquity:
"Dude, I'll give you five goats if you pour that rotten milk over some stale bread and eat it."
"Bet" *CHOMP* "Fuck, I'm eating this everyday. We got any garlic?"
FortifiedWhine
Just like Cazu Marzu (Maggot cheese) and things like frogs legs and snails. Eaten from necessity more than desire then became a delicacy (once you chuck on a metric fuckton of garlic). Snails are pretty "meh" tbh. Haven't tried Casu Marzu, but I still don't think I would even given the opportunity.
1010001
I tried snails. They kind of just taste like mushrooms with extra steps. Easier to just eat mushrooms.
barbarian818
I have this theory that all of the world's "delicacies" were the result of starving people figuring they had nothing to lose by trying it. Maggot cheese, rotten seal flipper, fermented shark, bird's nest soup. (really bird spit soup)
gablestout
Nope. 0%.
This 100% came out of someone going, "FUCK!! I PAID $50/lb FOR THIS!! I'm just gonna slice off the moldy part!!"
graffglobal9
I do that with $5 worth of cheese in my fridge tbh.
DobbyOneKenobi
Hey, I learned the other that Botox originated as tainted ham served at a bar in Belgium. 34 people fell ill and 3 died.
IlCastradore
But looked amazing all along !
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
And somehow managed to not end up the subject of a 30 minute chubbyemu video.
mrsparkle001
I think it 100% came out of a dare
Midgarmerc
I mean it looks fine when you cut the mold off. Tons of food is made by making it gross first
FlatPlutoSociety
Yeah, I would imagine pretty much every fermented food or drink had its origins in someone saying "Well, it smells a little off, but I'm desperate. Oh hey, that's not so bad."
mikeatike
Im sure cheese was invented in a similar way.
flukeysnail
Wait until you read about Hákarl, lcelandic fermented shark
swedeonamoose
Or like the myth about how surströmming came about, with a bunch of swedish fishermen realising they had barrels of rotten fish and decided to trick some finnish peasants with em only to return later and be asked if they had any more of that fish to sell.
zombiejedediah
Surströmming is made with less salt than salted herring would usually have been made. Maybe there was less salt available in the Northern part of the Baltic Sea & hungry people just found out that they didn't die if they ate the seemingly putrid fish.
theduckening
for some reason. I'd imagine the Finnish buying it just so the Swedish would leave so they could be left alone.
LendLeaseIdentity
I know a couple Finns. And they CONSTANTLY quip and gripe about the Swedes.
Maelwrath
It's because of the mandatory Swedish lessons everybody has to take over there
chatterer
That's because historically Sweden has given us Finns plenty to quip and gripe about. Here's a complimentary joke I like to tell: "What does Sweden have that Finland and Norway do not? Good neighbors."
zombiejedediah
Denmarkian here. I was about to comment that.
Haemaelaeinen
We were colonised by them for 100s of years. They killed our own religion and culture. They took our men to fight in pointless wars in Europe. When Russia was rampaging in Finland (because of Swedish aggravating them) Sweden did nothing while Finnish people were massacred. Add to that racism and belief that Finnish people are sub-human and that they need Swedish tongovern them... Why is it wrong for us to complain when Irish can complain about England?
Emrys12
Absolutely
torbtom
Why it’s wrong? Because it is entirely anachronistic and revisionist. The Swedish kings used and ruled the peasants in the same manner whether they spoke Swedish or Finnish. The ”subhumans that needs to be governed” is complete nonsense. That sort of racial thinking appeared only long after Finland was conquered by the Russians, and only entered policy in some imperialist powers around the turn of the 20th century.
LendLeaseIdentity
I knew some of that, some of it is new to me. I was not complaining. I like those guys, they're good people. Awful senses of humor, we get along great. I just mentioned that yeah, they talk shit about the Swedes a bunch (deservedly so!).
TempAgency
How does the knife not smear the mold through the cut and taint the surface?
AwwYEE
Smear the taint surface, you say? 🤣
TempAgency
Remember, always front to back >.>
SquirtVonnegut
The mold is all throughout the fish. He's merely cutting off the fruiting bodies.
bamcobra
Which begs the question, “why trim?” Or, are the fruiting parts toxic?
SquirtVonnegut
I'm guessing it's a texture issue. Not only the hairy texture of the mold, but the dryness of the exposed outside layer of fish as well.
IgnisInvictus
I still have no idea how this doesn't result in food poisoning.
PirateArrrgument
He doesn't swallow on camera. I'm not convinced he actually ate any of it, just bit and chewed and probably washed his mouth out between bites.
9z2nf02h
Only some molds produce substances toxic to humans. In fact, it's suspected that the Japanese domesticated the Aspergillus flavus that had mutated and ceased to produce toxic aflatoxins, giving rise to A. oryzae, according to Wikipedia.
Fourtypacks
Just wait until you learn what yeast is.
graffglobal9
I guess we just need to see that not all fungi , bacteria, yeasts, etc are pathogens. We use bacteria to make yogurt, yeast for bread beer and wine.
But don’t get me wrong, my Ick-O-Metre is off the charts here. And I bet I don’t make a fraction of what it would take to convince me that I am wrong.
VonSnootingham
You are gonna go nuts when I tell you about Penicillin.
Munchman347
Brie cheese has a rind of mold that's edible. This is much the same, since the mold is all through the meat......
FleaTron
A moderately well controlled environment. Clean it, colonize it, let the mold do its thing, keep bad stuff out. Its not as hard as one might think these days
mrthewhitee
I assume it's like beef, where the poisonous elements struggle to penetrate the surface layer and so the inside is perfectly edible uncooked.
Gutpilegutezeit
Nature has some shit going on. Sometimes it's best just to go with it.
ShimmerinStrider
It depends on what type of mold it is.
ColossalBalls
Some people will eat anything. Like century eggs, lutefisk, durian or surströmming.
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
Your naming normal things, try talking about things like virgin boy piss soaked eggs or balut, and so on
MySushi
Durian is delicious. Why in this category?
MissMerica
Because you fall in that category of "some people".
Flyingwigs
Century eggs are not aged 100 years, just to be clear.
ColossalBalls
I am aware. Still fucking nasty.
southoffrance
I've eaten them a long time ago. I have no particular memory of the taste so they can't have been horrible.
AlexSomething
Cheese exists. The white fuzzy exterior of camembert, brie and similar is all mold too. Same with the blue in blue cheese. If you're careful about the species used, I can see it be totally safe.
PerrinAybara564
🎶blue cheese has mold in it🎵
sacrosanctt
Ranch is good
KellyCrazyCatLadyinTraining
Oh god, why am I laughing so hard. XD Someone post a link to the video this guy is referencing, LMAO.
Zedrapazia
This one?
https://youtube.com/shorts/Io3F1XIS7T4
Midgarmerc
No no see those are things Americans like. We're supposed to point at the Asians and say how weird and gross their food is here. /s
BlueDsc
You act like you're mocking racism, but since you're literally the person that brought race into it, you're just being racist.
Dybidude5
Camembert and blue cheese are not american though, it's more a European thing
Midgarmerc
I said they like it not that it's from there. The point is people will often turn their nose up at foreign food they've never tried because they think it's gross but then eat stuff they don't realize is equally disgusting
Dybidude5
I agree