Comments on: Dried Squid

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:02:12 +0000

My fiancee loves the dried squid and I must admit that although I am not too keen on the texture, I do like the smell. Actually, I am the one who grills it most of the time, as she is pregnant and the smells of cooking bother her. We are in America now and am wondering if anyone knows the exact process for making the dried squid??? Fresh squid is readily available here, but dried is not. Any help would be appreciated. Salamat po!

Ingats,
Brian

By: bayi & ssk

bayi & ssk — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:04:07 +0000

Grilled dried squid tastes wonderful, especially with some chili sauce. However, the smell from one’s mouth leaves much to be desired. Bless you, if you are caught in a packed cinema and the guy seated next to you eats grilled squid. Makes you all queasy and want to throw up. Somehow the smell of one eating dried squid, combined with the air-conditioning multiplies the pungent odor beyond words.

By: bogchief

bogchief — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:10:27 +0000

I’ve seen street vendors cook this by throwing it on a pile of hot coal. I think they score the sides a bit to keep them from curling up. When cooked, it’s cut into bite sized strips and served with sweet-chili sauce. Good with beer.

By: Hchie

Hchie — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:03:59 +0000

Champorado and crispy fried dried “lucos” makes a good combination.

By: ajb

ajb — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:19:09 +0000

Hehe, makes me think of the time I lugged 20 lb half of a jackfruit as carry-on from from Iloilo to Manila. I don’t think anyone noticed the smell!

By: sha

sha — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:41:48 +0000

I laughed at Peng’s story..M doesnt mind me frying
But he really cant stand the smell
Candles, open windows do not help much
so when I fry dried squid M is out but he doesnt mind me eating it in front of him

as Oscar suggests I do the same
the oil must be hot! so you dont get a rubbery squid

By: peng

peng — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:35:14 +0000

Once i cooked dry squid inside the house and my husband who isn’t filipino smell the stinky odour thougth we have a dead rat in the house, until i explain it isn’t a dead rat but a cooked dry squid! I know he does’t like to hurt my feeling but that day our house was a little colder as he secretly opening some windows upstair in the middle of winter. The next day he bought a BBQ grill with a burner on the side so i can cook smelly stuff outside. Well at least he didn’t asked me to stop eating it. All my friends think that was funny. They can laughed all they want but i still going to eat dry squid and other smelly dried fish.

By: oscar

oscar — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:31:47 +0000

There’s a roomful of errors when cooking dried squid. It’s more of an art than a science.

It is recommended that you fry them for a very short time in very hot oil–we call this “ginulat na pusit” otherwise you get a charred sheet of carbon, or a–yes, a bad-tasting gum.