Gordon Ramsay Is Stunned by Farmed Caviar; Makes Lobster & Caviar Salad

[Music] one of my favorite ingredients in the world sums up food at its finest and most prestigious caviar very decadent very nutty very creamy and it's bursting with flavor like individual pearls exploding your mouth absolutely delicious but classic wild caviar is under threat sturgeon in the Caspian Sea are overfished and close to extinction so the hunt is on to find alternatives fast so I'm looking for something sustainable and affordable to blow Beluga out of the water when it comes to taste and texture I'm not gonna find it in [ __ ] Knightsbridge I've come to Andalusia in southern Spain which for the past 25 years has hidden one of the Mediterraneans best-kept secrets this caviar is as good as a real McCoy the popper Beluga and this could be a [ __ ] amazing find here in Spain it's the water flowing through these mountains that led the owners of rio frio of caviar to set up a farm here after a seven-year search for the perfect source export manager a fellow Brit Keith Jagger will be showing me around I didn't think it's possible to farm sturgeon why here in the middle of something Spain of all places the temperature of the water is 13 to 15 degrees all year round and that's because we have the source of the spring at 200 meters away from where we're standing drinkable drinkable and natural which is a benefit to the sturgeon of course so are we talking about as good as wild or better I'd say better if you've got a big bear cojones you know I think honest first Keith taking me to see the tiddlers that's so ugly yeah so delicious and delicate yeah but it'll be eight years before we can tell the little boys from the big money girls who can be anything up to the age of 20 before their caviar is ready for harvesting Oh God everywhere but first I've got to catch one [Music] prehistoric distant relatives of the shark these big movers are almost sixty kilos and to be examined for caviar they're wrestled out of the water by hand for even between eighteen nineteen years old for nearly half that time the valuable eggs and this fish have been developing their size and condition are checked using ultrasound you just about see every single egg miss honesty identical to going with your wife for an ultrasound no KY jelly robbing round it's looking for the little heartbeat and I'll [ __ ] there's two heartbeats there you've got twins except here we're looking at what four and a half to five kilo of caviar the trick is to catch the eggs at the optimum quality before the fish spawns naturally but this beauty isn't quite ready yet possibly six months we'll give it another number on a scan right and see how it's getting on if we just try and turn her around yeah okay [ __ ] okay and just slowly push it off just just very very calmly when the sturgeon are ready they're killed and sent for a clinical extraction [Music] this looks like a [ __ ] operating theater today chief sturgeon surgeon Xavier is entrusting me with a scalpel is that today yeah it starts very far done what you told me Jesus Christ look at that is that all the way up there my god okay so you can actually see that Jesus Christ [Music] she's in there I'm surprised you haven't got a security guard for each sturgeon in there you know you might have a little taste please no unbelievable it doesn't need some salt on there like a treasure I couldn't wait to learn how to transform these freshly harvested eggs into the delicacy I know and love so shall we process process without me don't go back home first the eggs are separated from the membrane so you're just gently rubbing it holding the membrane and we're not bursting the eggs like this so that is beautiful what's that working there now keep talking well over 10,000 pounds oh my god they're then rinsed in cold salted spring water before sea salt is added to dramatically enhance the caviar flavor you do I want to [ __ ] up my tech guys with okay fingers in and just a stirring yeah faster [Music] they creamy for me it doesn't need any more salt that's delicious seasoned to perfection and matured for four months that caviar in this tin alone will be worth three and a half grand thank you thank you I already good yes this stuff really does get wild caviar I run for its money and I've got the perfect recipe to show it off right lobster and potato salad were the most amazing mayonnaise and that special farmed caviar tied to lobster tails with string as the lobster cooks tail stays nice and straight poached for six to seven minutes bay leaf lemon lime fennel star anise coriander bang pop all the potatoes while says cooking mayonnaise I'd must have pad and white wine vinegar to the egg yolks whisk whisk whisk slowly add the olive oil we don't whisk it enough it splits now to the exciting part a little bit of truffle oil two or three little drops beautiful lobster round nice and straight so it's not easier to slice slice the potatoes seasoned and drizzle with olive oil study the potatoes and give the lobster blast-off heat in the pan let's see 30 seconds each side stop the lobster becoming really Chilean enhances the flavor lightly dress a salad and serve five nice slices of potato five nice medallions of lobster a teaspoon of truffle mayonnaise on the potato finishing the salad with this baby absolutely amazing my god it has to be the perfect dish for the Last Supper a salad of potato lobster truffle mayonnaise and the most amazing [ __ ] caviar

Channel: Gordon Ramsay

Views: 53,394,362

Rating: 4.878315 out of 5

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Id: 88aDJFdUjH4

Length: 7min 3sec (423 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 21 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/TerroristOgre]

Gordon is calming as fuck to watch.

[u/SarcasticOptimist]

It is surprising how much is in one fish. Farmed does make the most sense given you want the greatest number of eggs. Hope it catches on.

[u/[deleted]]

What an awesome video, holy shit. Crosspost to /r/mealtimevideos?