Sea Urchins Are California Gold: Hunter Gatherer
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- In our new series Hunter and Gatherer, MUNCHIES joins Stephanie Mutz, a Santa Barbara sea urchin diver as she dives deep for California gold. We follow her as she delivers her prized bounty straight from the sea to the city’s best chefs and her curious customers at the Dory Fleet Market in Newport Beach. It’s time to crack open a few-that is, if you’ve acquired a taste for it.
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My only question is who was the first person who saw that and decided "im gonna crack this open and eat the insides"..
Crack open a spikey one with the bois.
lmao
Soy Boy Ahoy Crack open a spikey boi* with the bois
Cody garbrant
😂🤣🤣💀💀
Australian would say : Open a spikey with a boiky ! 🏄🏼♂️
You determine what gender a sea urchin is by what it jizzes. Nice.
lol
Kronikwookie omg your profile pic scared me
She called it "jizzing" too lmaoooo
very similar to humans
She cringes when she see's the male one jizz
Lesbian AF
"There goes Ms. Mermaid"
-later in the video-
"Sea Urchins taste like going down on a mermaid"
Jeyson Serafini savage bf
LMAO
She even gives him a look and he checks her gaze after laughing for a sec
Giggty?
She was lowkey uncomfortable when he said that. He was kinda creepy
Shout out to the Newport Asian community, who are apparently the only people keeping the seafood market going.
Bill Wiltfong yeahp! them asians love it, dorys fleet alwats poppin hhaaha
Bill Wiltfong h
They don’t live there. They drive from Arcadia
@@jackreacher7189 ok boomer
Jack Reacher mad?
That woman is built like a damn truck. I admire her.
William may ahahah maybe i do
+William may you're comment made my day
+sverebebe She seems rather human woman to me.
Ikr, I'll be honest, I'm the type that sees an unattractive woman and doesn't take a second look. But damn this girl passionate as heck about her work.
+sverebebe fell in love with her! i appreciate the hard work, courage and art she puts into the industry.
The best bit of this video is the poor woman who can't crack the box of spoons open. 10:07
Max lol
Bless her. I picture her giving up and just going home sad.
When she poped up I couldn't take my eyes away from that box. I wondered when she would get it.
Max I can’t unsee it HILARIOUS
Maybe she's an extra for the back drop. Just like if you've got a construction site scene you might have someone pretending they're hammering on something in the background. I don't want to assume she's dumb.
Urchin tastes like "Going down on a mermaid" ... Say no more sir, I'm sold
Yah, and you can bet he was down on his mermaid...
@@stonefly69 glad someone else caught that bit lol
1:56 And the captain called her a mermaid before that. LMFAO
Like those guys in pirates of the Caribbean
@Ivan wait, I don't think that's their eggs lol. Apparently they're sex organs...
She literally used the phrase "if it jizzes..." I'm absolutely dying. Still will have to try Uni sometime, but all I'll be able to think is that damn J word.
ElementalMaker it’s excellent on toast, very buttery
If it jizzes white stuff (aka) *SPERM* then it's a boy. : )
For a science class we collected some and literally forced them to as our teacher put it "jizz" cuz that is exactly what it looks like ahaha
That's because you're eating the gonads
ElementalMaker I laughed my ass off at the same part.
"95% of our customers are asians" 😂
Not surprised.
America's middle class is shrinking while the middle class has done nothing but grow in the asian countries.
That breeds alot of resentment as the "middle class" in America start to be unable to afford the things they used to.
Asians love fresh sea foods, like fresh fresh
1 2 3 Four Five yeah there’s a growing Asian American middle class in California or really everywhere in the us actually. I love fresh uni
Americans love beef , Asians love sea food it’s a no brainer.
NOOBZ true because fish in asia is very cheap and very delicious but most of the time is pork
In Hawaii I would bring a pot of cooked green bananas & taro and dive for fish and sea urchin all day good grinds🤙🏾
Sounds like the perfect day off ! you spearfish ? what would you catch ?
Sio Makihele sounds like fun
Mezzing
Yaaasss!! 🙌🙌🙌😍
Have you tried pickled green bananas? Mmm! 👍
She was my bio professor at Oxnard College
Ayy ya sick to see nun locals out here🤙🏽🤙🏽 Going out to Catalina for the yellows tomorrow
Pictures or it didn't happen!
@@Momo-bb2fn Ahh sad to say it didn't happen. Got sum dozah calicos tho.
@@kyloggeddozah calicos?
@@Momo-bb2fn big ones. hawaiian slang
I’m pretty sure California’s gold is literally gold
The gold's ran out. People mine for that in Alaska now. The REAL California gold is marijuana now. Alot comes from northern California in what's called The Emerald Triangle.
I thought it was Cannabis
@@peesweezy4553 It definitely is. 1% of California's energy goes towards growing Marijuana. That may seem small but being such a large state, that is still alot of energy.
You ain't tasted New Zealand's sea urchins. They are bigger better and creamier. Oh and the best way to eat them is straight from the shell. Spikes aren't so long either.
@@tivo148 I feel like I've heard that exact line in a porno before.
my whole life I tried to never hurt them while I'm surfing or diving then I watch this lmao
crxh22a4 sexy
crxh22a4 there’s way too many of them and they can’t feel pain so who cares
Look up " what a sea snail Die-off means for Californians".
KEGZ even better reason to get rid of these kelp killing monsters!
Their population used to be regulated by sea otters but now the otters are endangered the urchins are destroying the kelp forests. Kill as many as you can.
In our new series _Hunter and Gatherer_, MUNCHIES joins Stephanie Mutz, a Santa Barbara sea urchin diver as she dives deep for California gold.
Read Now: Diving for Salty Gold in California - bit.ly/Salty-Gold
Munchies More like forager.
how sustainable is urchin diving?
+Jeziel Vargas there are way too many of them haha
+Jeziel Vargas they can become a pest, if they're not careful
I have so much RESPECT for this hard working woman. You can tell that she understands her flaws, the needs of her work field, the IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY and how she has an effect on the peuple she supplies. Respect!!!
+TehStupidBish what exactly are these flaws you speak of?
Jesse Sulam Oh lord, this comment is a few months old, if I recall correctly she means the way that despite being hardworking and all she needs to talk with the restaurateur some more if I recall :P My comment was 100% positive hehe. I truly thing she's extraordinary ^^
lets talk about how painful it is stepping on one of these.
+TheHarslord Still can't be as bad as a lego lol
+Leewan Yasir Much worse than a Lego! Haha I had this unfortunate experience happen while living in Hawaii.
Davidcmt ouch...
+Leewan Yasir taking it out is he worst
+Davidcmt stepping on a lego is much worse bruuuhhh
She also teaches I had her class :) great video
If there were Maori people like myself at that market we’d be line up at her stall for a feed of Kina
Damn straight
You bloody Moldys will eat anything, even the original inhabitants of NZ 😂. Jus playin, love from Australia 😊
You know Maori people are the original inhabitants of NZ ay? And you're not funny, you're just a cock.
@@ReinventingTheSteve You can't be racist and say "just playin" to blow it off. Fucking closet Nazi's
Reinventing the Steve you’re a descendant of a criminal
I have a rule that I don't eat food that could be the star of the next sci-fi movie.
lol
and that is still moving when it's on my plate... fuck that
Lol well then thanks for leaving more for the rest of us!
Marshall Smith™ jji c z ml😀🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖
Still waiting for that sci-fi urchin movie
this woman needs to come to New Zealand and try our sea urchins, they grow right off the shore so you don't really need to go deep sea diving, and the water is safe and non-polluted.
Lots of good sea urchins in nz go to rakino island and they're everywhere
im on my way!
Haha
gorelord187 Bullshit, some of the most diverse wildlife, HA its fucken america
Thats not that many species, i think i counted 4 species and 1 plant thing.
Sick
She's pretty bad ass. Real people with real passion
Dex Mann exactly
I wanna do this to! but no cash...
Yup, there's a danger of getting attacked by shark, especially when you're down on the water for too long.
@@drugsilove2364 That's... shallow water
On the conservation side it’s actually very important to harvest and control sea urchin populations because if unchecked the populations boom and over eat seaweed. The seaweed is essential for fish life and other marine life so the work she is doing is actually necessary and helpful.
I seen the on another UA-cam video that they are over harvested .
@@johnnyg6989 they overharvest the purple ones. The red ones which are smaller and have no market value are left alone
I live in the Philippines and we call it Swaki or Uni and the Sea Urchins are as big as a regular size ball. Just 8 steps from the shoreline you can already see them. When you visit the Philippines, please go to Malapascua Island. You'll also find the Thresher Sharks when you go diving.
The funny thing is when you are stung with the sea urchin ,someone needs to pee it or you need to pee yourself. LMAO
I really don't know the reason behind it. LOL
You guys are amazing, I'll subscribe to your channel. Have a blessed day!
If I had to, I'd pee on any one of you!
Doug Drummonds that’s golden shower bud.😂😂😂
My nan use to tell us to piss on our sores...she said its like an antiseptic, she was the family crazy lady.
She's a HARD worker.
Well duh she's a diver she uses her arms of course 10-15 yrs will get you fit and muscular with the swimming she does. She is doing great
kinas we call them in New Zealand staple food of the Maoris.
Richie cruiser yess a maori. Kinas on boiis
12:00 did- did they just subtitle that man's perfect American English?
Like, just because he's Asian?🤔
cause he rolls his r's
quite a lot of new zealanders eat these. We call them Kina over here.
5 bucks for one.Wow its expensive here in NZ unless you go diving for it yourself. 200 gramme punnets here in Auckland goes for about $22 to $33 bucks. More expensive there in America.
Eating Urchin's is so metal... You crack them open while they're alive and eat their insides...
PNathan they feel no pain since they don't have pain receptors.and since it's been on Ice even if it could it wouldn't.
Hey people boil lobsters while their alive, crack open the shell’s and eat the insides. Most crustations and shellfish die like this as well
Cause it’s more fresh and kinda fishy
Random Guy That Comments on UA-cam videos basically we are eating their.....................oof
Lol that’s not the insides that’s the tounges and let me tell you yummy on bread and butter with salt
We call these kinas in NZ. Some useless information.
Call them what you like,still aint gunna eat em bro.Don't mind a decent Paua pattie tho.
We call them Wana in Hawaii [ pronounced Vah-na) thanks for letting me know the Maori name!
155 sea urchins disliked this
lol
746 now. They are growing at an alarming rate
799 actually :///
"as I call it the box of lies, if you wanna go to work you go to work if you dont wanna go to work you listen to the weather..." - Fisherman hahahahahaha
Stepped on me!! The kid was dancing me. Look at this. Broken, broken, gone, gone, broken, broken
To the 1% that no what im talking about. I give you my respect.
*swims on glow worm poop
Gotta work on your spelling a bit, but yeah, I love that line! ^^
I get it
freaking love that movie
She digs you, dude! She called you crap!
"It's kinda like going down on a mermaid" hahaha love that! Great video
+yoGELLY And they are full of semen. It sounds really gross. Tastes like nasty ocean water. No thanks.
+haywood jeblome Keep an open mind mate.
Callam Thomas I like to eat alot of stuff but no way would I eat that semen blob.
More for me then. :P
Callam Thomas Thats gross.
The way she killed those sea urchin underwater...sponge bob cried a river. 😢😥😶😰😱😲
Who the fuck cares you vegan fuck
+CatHeaven It was that time of the month wasn't it?
+SneakyNinja1220 fuck on, mr. White
Haha lol
+Roob Trulso Some of us keep these urchins as pets in our saltwater tanks =(
Glad to see Munchies going ahead with a series like this. I think the Faroe Island video showed them that people are really into this sort of thing now. Can't wait for more!
When the video started thought ah one more wannabe. As I continued, thought such honest, dedicated and hardworking individual.
I love the whole concept of going out all night or day to fish, then selling it as soon as it hits the land. The packed market where you come down as early as possible to get the best catch, must be a very rewarding and underwhelming industry. But that's what life is about!
I don't think I trust the seafood off the coast of CA. I'd want to see random testing results.
The air we breath isn't even clean, wouldn't matter.
Our black urchins in the Caribbean sting you if you hold them. There are white ones which you can hold but the black ones is pure pain.
+Jean Thomas Just like humans right? bu dum tsss
That was really mean of you Sir
Jean Thomas Just doing my job good fellow!
Sad world it is
***** Come in almost 3 weeks later to tell me shut up... okay...
i see her every sat, shes awesome
Killing animals is wrong, I get all my meat at the butcher.
Wtf
Lmfao
+UrbanCrunkMovement seems to me you dont like school at all
Jason Lee it's a joke...
me too
I was a creel fisherman in Scotland. I recognise the passion and the determination and admire the work ethic of a woman actually 'making it' in a somewhat male dominated industry. This video was a ray of light brightening up my evening.
Wow Stephanie is a wonderful person, dedicated to her job and good with her customers. We need more people with passion like her.
crabby needs his own show. "sometimes you have to explain what they taste like. if ya ask me its kinda like eatin out a mermaid."
Going to down on a mermaid*
good on you Stephanie, I love your attitudes, a happy person. Keep on doing what you are doing
All the best mate
over fishing sea urchins is good thing
it helps to slow down bleaching of coral reefs(seabed becomes 'desert')
eat your sea urchins people!
(and...starfish, jellyfish;;;;;)
Over fishing anything is bad. Those urchins have a role to play in the ecology. They prevent the bamboo from becoming too plentiful. There are species of fish that only eat urchins. On the other hand overpopulation of urchins is devastating for ecosystems and it's always due to over fishing again.
The way it looks like it's done there seems fine on the face of it though. Limited permits. Enough urchins for fish left over. Plenty of bamboo. There are always margins within which it is fine to exploit. Beyond those margins though... Bad, bad news.
@@joeblack4436 While what you said is usually correct, the urchins along the California coast were brought there accidentally on boast and are an invasive, fast-moving/fast-breeding species. They've done huge amounts of damage to the Kelp Forest in the past 7-8 years which is a fragile, unique ecosystem that supports tens of thousands of species of fish, crustaceans and mammals. Urchins should be eaten and hunted vigorously in this case.
@@coocoo4coca Oh dear... Well that does change things. Agreed. Just want to add that I wasn't advocated for no hunting to start with just sustainable exploitation. However as an invasive species all bets are off. Eradicate.
@@joeblack4436 sustainable exploitation is the name of the game :)
@@coocoo4coca do u know the name of the species? Looks like the same that exists in Portugal coast, but that are bigger
6:55 Tastes like "going down on a mermaid" omfg lol lol
The 100th generation of the House Of Tarth is an Uni hunter
I was less hesitant to try it before she started talking about who jizzes out what when they get cracked open.
Oh wow she's in Newport Beach I always pass by that shack and never thought much of it.
Eat like Italians! On crostini top with melted lardo!! The best!
She is a genuine, honest, and respectable lady with a warm heart!
My question is how endangering can this food trend be to sea urchins, especially with the mass amounts clearly gathered in this video
UnAnsweredSolution you have never been diving have you. These things are everywhere, everywhere. covering the sea bed of the Virgin Islands and Florida. Not only that but these things can be found in trenches and I highly doubt that we would be chasing them down there.
Uhhh She addressed the question of over-fishing sea urchins towards the end of the video.
In New Zealand we call this kina, our coastlines are packed full of them! no oxygen line needed, find them in waters of 2m up. you seriously should come do a few dives over here its hectic!
+numts you know nothing mate, so I think you should have taken your own advice.
“California gold” doesn’t make much sense, “California gold” is gold
She dresses up like a seal and dives in shark-infested waters. I wonder if she’s ever run into a great white at work.
6:58 "taste like going down on a mermaid" immediately looks over at his fisher girlfriend :O
Wonder if that box of spoons ever got opened?🤷♂️
1:53 - The foreshadowing.
6:50 - The warning.
6:56 - The proposition.
This chick is badass!
When your food come garnished with garden clippings you know it costs too much
i love how she appreciates all her customers -especially those that aren't the same culture as her
Same. Great to see ya.🤙🏽 Got that love. We teach our people to respect each otha out here
THEY WERE STILL ALIVE AND BEING CUT OPEN!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Sorry, but still . . . bleh
Motiv B. Disgusting right someone in comment section say this creature no feel any pain people are so cruel nowadays
her eyebrows r extra jinger
Don Harrus ginger?
And here I thought GOLD was "California gold". Man, if the '49ers went West to dive for urchins...
Lol
Loved this episode :)
If only my arms looked that good 😭
$5 per piece . Thats a good price,, Then when they show it underwater Omg thats a lot of $5 😂😂😂
Very inspiring. You can feel the passion when she talks. Thank you.
Living spiky coconut bois
I would love to see more of these local, sustainable, wild food videos. Our land and waters have so much to offer if done responsibility within regulations.
hold a sec, do u guys have an air filter for ur compressor? Air compressor is not really good for ur body, coz the air usually come with a small portion of mechanical oil with it.
Your totally awesome. And a genuine professional
just like durian some love it... some hate it.Nevertheless I like this lady diver the way she put herself in public, warm and thoughtful for others. Thumbs up
Agreed, love her humor, hard work and respect for others. Uni is definitely an acquired taste, I love durian but man uni is in a world of its own.
lol epic teeth
Wow. I hope someday I could have just an ounce of her work ethic
Oh damn, American finally found the taste of sea urchins, a few Asian and European know the secret.
I New Zealand we call them Kina.
Are you fucking kidding, why did you make the dory fleet know to everyone, it was already packed as it was!!!
Stale Mint do you even live there? It's on the radio and giant signs and ads are everywhere lol... it's not some "members/need to know only/locals only" lol
1:15 "most common type of pet: cat and feline"
This chick seems pretty frickin awesome. Those arms are killing me though. I got a dollar says she hits 250 on the bench
Realest feminist definition
Stephanie is very charismatic. I like her.
Only $5 per urchin? She should charge more
Zenymn There’s lots of em, i think $5 is enough lol
youre the white people that fuck good shit up
@@josecastellanos472 you right
She is so amazing if all people where like her this world would be perfect
feel like in few years they go endangered people will wonder what happened. or maybe not.
They reproduce in mase one sea urchin can produce thousands of urchins
Seems like the female does all the work n her husband doesnt do squat
THIS IS BIH EMPTY *YEEEEEEEEEEEET*
One of the best foods ever.... just love going snorkelling and collecting a couple and just eat them there and then.. there is nothing better in the world than fresh sea urchins
SnorkFlirt wtf are u saying?
Panzer shreck They said, ''pussy?''
spoonballs swamp
purple
family go find a nice little cove, set up a citrus and spice bar, go hunting and return with the goods, tasty freshout da water seafood with a tasty cold beverage on an exclusive private cove, good livin
Hard working woman. Refreshing to see
Thank you for helping consume urchins. We know today that they are overpopulating and destroying our kelp fields. It would be sad to see all the creatures that use these kelp fields for safety to disappear.
I'm not sure how I'd feel having uni served with melons...but it sounds pretty interesting
😂 wtf you gotta each that stuff with rice man!! None of dat otha stuff. Respect them tho 🤙🏽
This woman is ripped wow
Isn't california gold, essentially gold?
What's a live gold!
Where’s gordan Ramsey
In Certain parts of the Philippines where I'm from
sometimes they're very common sometimes too common that you can get like a jar that fills 2 liters worth of sea urchin for like $4
which is 200 pesos (filipino currency)
edit: Sometimes they're even considered as Pest to some people.
In New Zealand we call them 'Kina'. For some people they're gold of the sea & for others like myself I question who's idea was it to crack open on of those things and eat it lmao
Is it derived from the japanese word "kin"? Meaning gold, perhaps?
@@TheAssassinlord123 It could possibility. It pretty much translates to the same thing
These things are damn good i gotta say but they don't get treated very good for living things, i used to package the green ones to get sent to japan for some russian guy in a cold storage warehouse and all the ones that fell on the ground would get thrown in the dumpster while they were still alive i felt sorry they had to die there
John Doughski there fault for getting caught
They don’t even have brains. They can’t even think. Its like cutting a prickly cucumber