So that's how you do it?
Sep. 29th, 2006 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarkerI'm not sure why this caught my eye and my attention, but a recent TV news piece showed drying octopus (or should that be octopii?). Anyway, this was a region that catches and dries octopus by the many-many.
These were all pretty small. Maybe six to eight inches?
They showed the proper way to handle them. First you push a bamboo loop up into the hood, so that has a nice flat oval shape. Then you run a bamboo skewer sideways through them, so that they make a flat flying shape. Kind of like a flat ghost? With tentacles hanging down. You hang this from a bamboo pole along with hundreds of others. Let dry in the sun. They start out kind of grey and turn white as they dry, apparently.
Presto! In about three days, you have a dried octopus. Suitable for chewing whenever the urge strikes.
The field of drying octopoids on bamboo racks was rather striking. Flapping slightly in the breeze, twisting and tossing under the sunshine, grey-white leaves with ragged edges?
I wonder what they smell like?
These were all pretty small. Maybe six to eight inches?
They showed the proper way to handle them. First you push a bamboo loop up into the hood, so that has a nice flat oval shape. Then you run a bamboo skewer sideways through them, so that they make a flat flying shape. Kind of like a flat ghost? With tentacles hanging down. You hang this from a bamboo pole along with hundreds of others. Let dry in the sun. They start out kind of grey and turn white as they dry, apparently.
Presto! In about three days, you have a dried octopus. Suitable for chewing whenever the urge strikes.
The field of drying octopoids on bamboo racks was rather striking. Flapping slightly in the breeze, twisting and tossing under the sunshine, grey-white leaves with ragged edges?
I wonder what they smell like?
