Comments on: Sea Urchin Roe / Swaki / Uni

By: charlie

charlie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:04:28 +0000

The black ones with long, stinging spines are the best, yes, far masarap than the swake! In bohol, they are called â€œtuyomâ€. For the novice, you have to deal with the strong smell of iodineâ€¦

By: daguerrson

daguerrson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:37:31 +0000

sea urchins are called maratangtang in northern Philippines. I love these creatures, they’re so exotic.

By: iyoy

iyoy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:05:05 +0000

haskin,

rather late response, but, yes, black urchins with long and sharp spines are generally edible. harvest them with a forked stick, dump into into a woven rattan basket, and sort of sift the basket so the urchins rub against each other to break the spines. proceed to open as described in mm’s post.

some of the brown ones with short and blunt spines (they can be handled bare-handed)need to be lightly roasted in an open fire to remove possible itchiness to the lips.

By: Haskin

Haskin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:41:05 +0000

umm…. are black sea urchins edible to eat??
because.. i always saw black sea urchins in the rocks whenever we go fishing here in Subic Bay…….

coz….. here…. the waters are protected.. and only fishing lines are allowed, no nets….

umm…. how can i know if its edible or not??

please do tell….

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:38:18 +0000

tim, if you lived in the philippines, you would probably have to get 10 pounds or more of sea urchins to earn a dollar… so from the third world perspective, you aren’t doing so bad…

By: tim griffin

tim griffin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:26:33 +0000

Hi I’m a sea urchin harvester from Maine and we get paid around one to two dollars a pound for the live sea urchins. Does this sound like we are getting ripped off to anyone else? I would love to hear some feedback!! Thank you.

By: Masterlou J.Tablason

Masterlou J.Tablason — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:53:41 +0000

I am an animal science,in my research study we use sea urchin as feed supplement as a good source of protein,fed to the laying quail.Together with my co-researcher,we believe that sea urchin can help to increase the laying performance of quail or into laying birds because of high crude protein contain of sea urchin. Although my research about the laying performance of quail using sea urchin are still on going, we believe that it can help to enhance laying performance.

By: william tait

william tait — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:24:59 +0000

i live in the north east of scotland and have a small lobster boat i often get sea urchin up in the net can any one tell me if there is a market over here for such a thing allways wanted to try one but i think i would like to cook it first

By: d j

d j — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:20:55 +0000

im doing a project on the black sea urchin and part of it is on human contact so im mentioning this ‘roe” which is very interesting

By: Tadoscoppernicus

Tadoscoppernicus — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:08:01 +0000

Yes I agree na the best ito pag fresh. That was a vacation in Panglao Bohol ang we went to Bil-at(beach resort in panglao). That was low tide and that was the time to sea this creatures within the shore. To make the story short I’ve seen a pair of sea urchin. The “swaki” type of urchin. Swaki is better than Tuyom(the black urchin). It taste really good at fresh. It was a grilled swaki at all. Wow that was a great experience!