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Seaweeds: A brief introduction - no.10 (23rd April 2020)

Seaweeds: A brief introduction – no.10

Join me as I search for, gather, cook and pickle a few seaweeds

Part of the series - Wild food in Covid times

Join me as I search for, gather, cook and pickle a few seaweeds

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Time stamps

  • 0:00 Intro:The weirest thing I’ve ever eaten (one of them).
  • 5:50 A somewhat absurd search for seaweed on a rapidly incoming tide.
  • 7:47 Bladder wrack. (Fucus vesiculosus)
  • 11:22 Laver (Porphyra umbilicalis)
  • 14:57 Dulse (Palmaria palmata)
  • 19:00 Oar Weed (Laminaria digitata)
  • 19:39 Carrageen (Chondrus crispus)
  • 26:45 Comparison of carrageen and grape pip weed (Mastocarpus stellatus).
  • 28:13 Carrageenan (the extracted gel), great for panna cotta making.
  • 29:08 Sexual lubricant! 29:37 Laver as a wrap for food (fish).
  • 35:30 Pit cooking laver-wrapped sea bass.
  • 40:35 Lost for words, gormless thinking time.
  • 41:08 Pickling kelp (Laminaria) holdfasts.
  • 42:00 Introducing my favourite seaweed identification book.
  • 54:43 Pressed seaweeds.
  • 1:03:13 Introducing a few coastal plants (and their roots).
  • 1:10:50 Deep frying seaweed.
  • 1:14:56 Digging up the pit-cooked fish.
  • 1:18:23 Delicious lunch.
  • 1:21:24 Slipper limpet shells.

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