OMG, I've been waiting for new videos from you Diarmuid. I binge watch your older videos every now and then just to get through the dry periods. LOL, Don't ever think you are not appreciated or that we are not interested. You are a wealth of knowledge.😃
Many thanks Jon. I have made some other very interesting videos recently (whitebait; porcini; flounder; salmon; foraging..), but find it too difficult to hide/protect the video location from those viewers who would focus on working out exactly where I am and then spoiling the place - for me, the local inhabitants and the wildlife: so they are viewable only to friends and family.
Much appreciated harryh: for a while there I thought no one was interested. I hope you try a wee bit of seaweed some day (even Nori Sheets), it's a whole new - yet ancient - food group with heaps of potential.
I was diving, looking to the seaweed and thinking "should I try this one?!" Now you gave me some peace of mind with these criteria to try seaweed! Always great to watch your videos, thanks a lot!
As far as I know, all the NZ green and brown leafy seaweeds are perfectly edible, and I now add one or more of them too each cooked meal (curry; stir-fry; soup;stew...for the sheer joy of it, the nutrition, the iodine and celebrating the fact that they are all still free to forage). Loved the Korean food two Korean couples shared with me some years ago - in Taupo: I shared my freshly-caught trout :) : sashimi wild trout wrapped in Butter-crunch Lettuce leaves - delicious.
Thanks I have often thought I would like to try NZ seaweeds. I'm sure they are under estimated.. Love your interesting and insightful vids. Thanks and keep them coming.
For some yes, for others no: I can now confidently state that they were all quite edible, interesting, nutritious and delightful to experience. Each species deserves the development of an understanding of how to best deal with their texture e.g. gentle cooking; longer cooking; slicing thinly or thickly. As with Fungi, these Algae are an excellent, nutritious and different food group - from veggies/fruits/meats/etc. I now rarely cook without some Seaweed(s) in the dish.
that sea lettuce is a dynamite bait for blackfish, my wife always said it looks like you can eat it now shes watching this and saying i told you so haha, will try it.
Not sure what you mean by 'blackfish' Denis, but Butterfish certainly are seaweed-eaters and taste excellent. I add a combo of these nutritious algae (seaweeds) to nearly every dish that I cook-up. They freeze really well and can be sliced and added directly from frozen. Happy fishing and foraging.
You might like to look-up Luciferin ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferin ) and Photophore ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophore ) : that's how these little critters make those amazing light-shows.
hi im looking for a very special seaweed’s (just i think)name, could you please help me out. Thanks! It was quite small and green, it looks like human brain. I found it on browns bay’s beach.
Without a photo or link to a photo! Look--up 'Sea Tulip', or 'Sea squirt' or 'Pyura' - maybe what you found looks like one of those? If so, Sea Squirts are marine animals (invertebrates) and not seaweeds (algae). Hope that helps.
OMG, I've been waiting for new videos from you Diarmuid. I binge watch your older videos every now and then just to get through the dry periods. LOL, Don't ever think you are not appreciated or that we are not interested. You are a wealth of knowledge.😃
Many thanks Jon. I have made some other very interesting videos recently (whitebait; porcini; flounder; salmon; foraging..), but find it too difficult to hide/protect the video location from those viewers who would focus on working out exactly where I am and then spoiling the place - for me, the local inhabitants and the wildlife: so they are viewable only to friends and family.
@@DiarmuidNZYour consideration is right. It hurts me a lot seeing New Zealand bountiful nature being hurt by over harvest
Yipee. Neat to see a new Vid Diarmuid. Thanking you
Much appreciated harryh: for a while there I thought no one was interested. I hope you try a wee bit of seaweed some day (even Nori Sheets), it's a whole new - yet ancient - food group with heaps of potential.
I was diving, looking to the seaweed and thinking "should I try this one?!" Now you gave me some peace of mind with these criteria to try seaweed! Always great to watch your videos, thanks a lot!
Glad you appreciate the videos, and enjoy the adventure of exploring a whole new free and healthy food group.
Interesting!! We have many kinds of seaweed dish in Korea. Wish I could cook with them in NZ.❤
As far as I know, all the NZ green and brown leafy seaweeds are perfectly edible, and I now add one or more of them too each cooked meal (curry; stir-fry; soup;stew...for the sheer joy of it, the nutrition, the iodine and celebrating the fact that they are all still free to forage). Loved the Korean food two Korean couples shared with me some years ago - in Taupo: I shared my freshly-caught trout :) : sashimi wild trout wrapped in Butter-crunch Lettuce leaves - delicious.
Thanks I have often thought I would like to try NZ seaweeds. I'm sure they are under estimated..
Love your interesting and insightful vids. Thanks and keep them coming.
Glad you appreciate them.
Hope you’re sharpening those hooks! Hope to see a new salmon video. Cheers Chris
Thanks Chris: I'm off to the canals shortly, with cameras, so I hope the fish are biting 🙂.
thanks!
Thank you.
Hey mate many salmon around the waimak yet you had a few
Haven't had a look yet but hope to have a flick before the end of the month. Caught plenty in a recent Canal trip 🙂.
Is this they 1st time you've cooked all these seaweeds.?
For some yes, for others no: I can now confidently state that they were all quite edible, interesting, nutritious and delightful to experience. Each species deserves the development of an understanding of how to best deal with their texture e.g. gentle cooking; longer cooking; slicing thinly or thickly. As with Fungi, these Algae are an excellent, nutritious and different food group - from veggies/fruits/meats/etc. I now rarely cook without some Seaweed(s) in the dish.
that sea lettuce is a dynamite bait for blackfish, my wife always said it looks like you can eat it now shes watching this and saying i told you so haha, will try it.
Not sure what you mean by 'blackfish' Denis, but Butterfish certainly are seaweed-eaters and taste excellent. I add a combo of these nutritious algae (seaweeds) to nearly every dish that I cook-up. They freeze really well and can be sliced and added directly from frozen. Happy fishing and foraging.
Mate! those glow in the dark corals are cool as hell! let me know if someone has an ID on them.
You might like to look-up Luciferin ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferin ) and Photophore ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophore ) : that's how these little critters make those amazing light-shows.
@@DiarmuidNZ I'm after a species name actually, I get the processes but I can find the name for this coral?/organism.
name of the brown one is Ecklonia radiata
Crunchy is good, soggy not so much.
hi im looking for a very special seaweed’s (just i think)name, could you please help me out. Thanks! It was quite small and green, it looks like human brain. I found it on browns bay’s beach.
Without a photo or link to a photo! Look--up 'Sea Tulip', or 'Sea squirt' or 'Pyura' - maybe what you found looks like one of those? If so, Sea Squirts are marine animals (invertebrates) and not seaweeds (algae). Hope that helps.