/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Turned out delicious.

What does whale taste like? I don't think anyone but natives are allowed to have it here

what kind of whale?

>>14153660
Never had it but I'd assume it's more like regular red meat, since whale is a mammal as opposed to something like a shark which is more like fish

>>14153493
I had this shit given to me by some Japanese sushi chef I befriended in Hawaii and it was fucking amazing.

>>14153660
Like gamey red meat. Some say it taste like a mix of beef and liver but I disagree. Texture like red meat, but even more tender.

If it's old or not properly handled, it can taste a little fishy from the (little) fat in it oxidizing.

>>14153683
Common minke whale.

>>14153702
How is the texture? I'd think it would be similar to tuna but this pic looks so much like any other red meat I wouldn't know it was whale if it wasn't in the OP.

>>14153653
you forgot to cook it

>>14154064
>I'd think it would be similar to tuna
not even close. tuna is fish, whale is mammal.
texture is like a lean cut of beef, taste is like in between beef and game

Don't get mercury poisoning

>>14153493
It is a damp, drizzly November in my soul.

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>>14154946
based

>>14153660
I ate it in Iceland. It was like a very tender rare steak, so tender it was a bit too soft. I didn't order it intentionally but it came as part of a "wild game" menu.

yum

>>14153493
What's the average cost?

>>14153493
I thought eating whales was illegal.

I wonder if whale would be good sous-vide and seared. If it's so lean I feel like you'd want to cook it exactly or it'd get dry.

>>14155282
you think i'm gonna let someone tell me what i can and can't eat?
This is America

This thread is making me want to kill whales and eat them. Get your jap magic out of my head.

>>14154965
Well, at least one person gets it.

I saw some whale in Korea. It was like a half inch of skin 3 inches of fat and a little meat on the end. I wanted to eat it but it looked gross.

Whale meat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc9sllCvqm8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoU0LWINMuc

>>14153493
That is one thing I'm looking forward to on my eventual visit to Japan. I love trying new things, but whale is illegal in this country.

>>14156756
It's not on every restaurant's menu though, most places are hidden away in alleys in certain neighborhoods in for example Tokyo. If you do decide to eat it then do some research as to what places serve it.

>>14153493
where do you live that they sell whale?
it really looks like a lean cut of beef desu >>14153653

>>14153653
bro that's legit raw, it's not medium rare or whatever, it's raw

>>14153493
tried whale sushi once. it was like steak tartare or something. dipped in some sauce and eaten with a garlic clove

Had whale again today.

>>14154946
Based

>>14155275
Same price as cheap steak.

>>14155282
Hunting is illegal in most countries. Exceptions are Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands and Japan to my Knowledge. Japan whaling isn't commercial, it's "scientific", but it get's sold and eaten.

>>14156846
Norway

>>14156946
Yeah, whale is best this way.

>>14156846
in your grocer's whale section

>>14156787
Already planned out, I thank you for your wisdom.

>>14153493
Cool i was in Narvik a few years ago, the year one of the bridges on the Swedish side collapsed in a flood and had to take a 600 km detour.

Anyway in Narvik, we did the war museum and all the sights, got back to the town center and saw it was some commotion going on.

We moved in closer and finally after 20 minutes we got to the center, they were selling whale meat from a freshly caught whale.

We were tourists and had no cooking abilities so we went to the closest restaurant but really cool anywhay, i have never seen whale meat irl ever :D

>>14153660
My niece lived in Kotzebue alaska and tried some, she said it tasted very fishy and was not good.

>>14153493
I don't eat sentient animals.

>>14155282
not in alaska for inuits

>>14158868
Are there non-sentient animals? Is the sentience the reason you don't eat them? You have to eat something to live so that means you must be eating plants. How is it ok to eat sentient plants but not sentient animals?

>>14158868
So what do you eat? What is the reason you don't eat sentient animals? Is it the quality of being sentient the reason you don't eat animals? Do you eat other sentient beings like plants?

If you don't eat sentient things at all, there is basically nothing you can. Even honey has bacteria and fungi that are sentient.

>>14153653
>>14158376
You eat it like that?, so red?

I only had whale/dolphin boiled.

>>14153493
>>14153653
>>14158376
How come the Japanese eat whales but get such a bad rep? Is it because they're Asians and you guys are Europeans?

>>14159367
The japanese are a (mostly, at least in the past) ethnostate who also have a history of sucess as immigrants in the west and who are known to be nationalists. leftists hate successful ethnicity because they cant virtue signal about them. The west will do anything it can to shit on them.