/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18117062]

Well I was at the beach today meditating and I found I was hungry, so I just started basically foraging around and eating things. I smashed open a mussel and smushed all the sea water out and ate it, and then I ate a little crab shell and all. These seem fine to me but then I just started eating some random sea plants of various types. Just trying their texture and flavour. The gross ones I spat out but the okay ones (kind of vegetal tasting) I ate quite a lot of. I ate a few more raw mussels and a limpet and a cockle type thing.

Okay now I'm home and feeling kind of paranoid about parasites or maybe the plants were poisonous? I feel fine but I ate like basically a full meal of just random shit I found on the beach..

Is this safe?

[Anonymous No.18117206]

>>18117062
No

[Anonymous No.18117237]

op please return to your handler, they have been looking for you all weekend

[Anonymous No.18117242]

>>18117062
are you homeless?

[Anonymous No.18117243]

>>18117062
If you dont die at least you know what you ate was safe

[Anonymous No.18117257]

>>18117062
that's not foraging, that's larping as a 'coon, you daft cunt

[Anonymous No.18117275]

>>18117062
>Is this safe?
of course it is not.
there's only like 2 months of the year oysters are safe to harvest and eat raw, if at all, depends on the discharge of storm water and fecal matter in the water, temperatures of the water to feed natural rises in bacteria, and pollutants.

I remember when I was a kid, and in my grandparents coastal street with milliondollar houses in the 70s, the mangroves across the street from the seawall homes produced land crab season, and those guys which literally cover the roads. It was always black people driving in with brown grocery sacks collecting them off the street to eat. Their diet was literally rotting mangrove muck that smelled so bad. They punctured your tires some years when you drove over them.

Moral of the story. No one intelligent eats land crabs. Buy blue crabs instead.

[Anonymous No.18117333]

Pls stay alive OP, we need people like you to test crayons

[Anonymous No.18117367]

>>18117062
eat some kimchi just in case OP

[Anonymous No.18117402]

>>18117062
The crab gobbler

[Anonymous No.18117407]

>>18117062
There is a reason why ancient man started cooking his food. You fucked up by eating it raw. Eat a ton of garlic and pray

[Anonymous No.18117459]

>>18117062
If nothing else you consumed seawater, you might get the stomach flu/food poisoning later.

[Anonymous No.18117632]

>>18117062
Plants: maybe toxins but parasites I don't think so
Mussels/shells: maybe viruses, parasites I don't know

You should be just fine, or maybe throw up a little.

[Anonymous No.18117656]

I'm cracking up at the image of you scrambling about shoving stuff in your face but honestly kinda based.

[Anonymous No.18117671]

>>18117062
We should start a religion about you anon

[Anonymous No.18118383]

>>18117062
>I ate like basically a full meal of just random shit I found on the beach
Fucking lmao. If you're gonna make this a regular thing you probably wanna familiarise yourself with the local poisonous stuff, yeah. Like this cunt will make you allergic to the sun.

[Anonymous No.18118389]

>>18117062
Your story is retarded

[Anonymous No.18118400]

>>18117062
kek

the state of this website

[Anonymous No.18118520]

Go ask on /out/. Ck isn't going to know the answer to this kind of shit

[Anonymous No.18118538]

>>18118520
Please /out/ doesn’t know shit the salinity of the ocean cooks the crab and mussels

[Anonymous No.18118764]

>>18117062
Absolutely fucking based. I live 300m from the beach and once or twice I found a big nest of sea urchin and I just went to town on them.

[Anonymous No.18118816]

>calling OP a racoon for shovelling random beach garbage into his mouth is raycis
the absolute state of jannies

[Anonymous No.18119982]

>>18117275
There is literally nothing wrong with eating land crabs. All of your seething over what the crabs eat is pointless seeing as bought oysters are almost 100% farmed and all they do is filter the water of contaminants. What animals eat may impact their flavor but just because they eat rotten stuff doesn't mean their meat is rotten. The only thing to really be cognizant of is whether the animal is feeding in an area that is rife with chemical or industrial waste so that you can minimize your lead, cadmium, mercury, etc. consumption.

[Anonymous No.18120376]

Listen, we had billions of people like you in the past, and it's thanks to them that we know what food is safe.
Next time you see a vet, demand his medals. You deserve them more.

[Anonymous No.18120391]

>>18117062
are you an otter

>>18117275
you sound like a bitchmade pussy-ass ytboi and you don't know shit about shit

OP if you don't die or get a bad tummy ache you're probably good. people have been doing that shit for years

[Anonymous No.18121589]

How you holdin' up OP?

[Anonymous No.18121595]

>>18117062
This is how video game protagonists live.

[Anonymous No.18123067]

>>18121589
Must've diedses

[Anonymous No.18123101]

>>18121595
>OP wakes up tomorrow and his inventory is full of rotten oysters
>leaves a giant pile of them in the middle of the road
>everyone just walks around it and acts like they don't see it

[Anonymous No.18123112]

>>18117062
This nigga playin' Skyrim style alchemy

[Anonymous No.18123136]

>>18117062
This is even better than the anon who found the abandoned chinese takeout by some trail and then ate it.

[Anonymous No.18123255]

>>18119982
my oysters arn't farmed and they cost me a dollar each , eat shit.

[Anonymous No.18123370]

>>18117062
I mean if you're serious you should probably go to the hospital. Coastal foraging can be great but you have to know what you're doing first of all, and secondly you basically have to cook everything thoroughly that isn't oysters, and they should only be eaten at certain points.

The fact you apparently ate a crab with the shell on implies you're either joking or seriously retarded though, so well done either way

[Anonymous No.18123390]

You are a strange man OP

[Anonymous No.18123859]

>>18117062
>>18117062
no, eating raw seafood living in coastal areas is in general not safe. there are various common bacteria that can give you food poisoning (Salmonella) or cause an allergy-like reaction (especially raw oysters, my dad had a bad one decades ago and cant eat them anymore since then - google Vibrio vulnificus).

Sea urchins might be okay, as long as you only eat the right parts and clean those before consumption.
The same goes for clams, oysters and the like. Open them and carefully remove the digestive tract, gills and all. Rinse with seawater to get rid of the nasty stuff.
Crabs, escpecially the ones feeding on land or in shallow pools on the coast are very likely riddled with all kinds of parasites and should never be eaten raw.
Be aware of seasnails, some species are highly toxic and might even sting you when collecting them.

Industrial & human waste might also be something to be aware of since many organisms living in coastal areas are filter-feeders and will accumulate things such as mercury, lead and other nasty stuff, especially in their digestive systems.

Depending on how much you ate, where you were foraging, the state of your immune system and your overall physical health you might be fine (relatively speaking). Taking activated charcoal is something i would recommend, it will eliminate at least some of the bad stuff you might have ingested.

As a rule of thumb, the colder the water the better (for mussels, urchins, anemone-type organisms, oysters etc.).
If you want to eat raw seafood, do some research about the species that are living nearby. If there is a fish market/seafood restaurant in your area, take a look around and see what is being sold. Ask if they can show you how to properly prepare it for consumption, which parts are edible and which ones are not.

[Anonymous No.18123934]

>>18117062
Imagine going to the beach for the day and seeing some fucking psychopath smashing open mussels and running after small crabs and just shoving them into his mouth.

[Anonymous No.18123951]

>>18123859
>raw seafood is bad for you!!!
Uhhhh you ever heard of sashimi pleb?

[Anonymous No.18123984]

>>18117242
Op is a man. I do the same thing. Just eat every mushroom I find in the forest. That's what real men do. Get a tummy ache? Walk it off faggot

[Anonymous No.18124010]

>>18117062
Also, be sure to wear appropriate footwear (no flipflops), have a small but sturdy knife with a fixed blade for breaking your findings off the rocks and maybe invest in a chain glove for opening mussels/oysters. Aside from stabbing yourself while opening them, you can also easily get small cuts from the shells which will lead to nasty infections and can even give you contact allergies. My brother got that shit working in a restaurant from preparing lobsters, they have a shitload of spikes on their shell and his hands were riddled with tiny cuts constantly. He got nasty rashes and swellings on his hands and arms, cant really work with fish and seafood anymore without wearing double gloves and even then he gets itchy all over. Its very common among cooks who work with fish and seafood regularly.

[Anonymous No.18124081]

>>18123951
I am a trained cook and worked in a sushi restaurant for 2 years, so i think i have some experience. Eating raw fish and seafood is fine as long as it comes from a reputable source and is prepared/cooled properly. Heck, i love eating raw fish and basically any type of seafood, but there are risks involved, especially when gathering the stuff yourself.
I never said it was bad eating raw stuff, but one should know a thing or two about proper preparation, food safety and potential hazards that might be involved, dont you think?

[Anonymous No.18124129]

>>18123934

[Anonymous No.18124171]

>>18124129
>weebl
memories of a better internet. thanks anon

[Anonymous No.18124184]

>>18117656
>go to the beach
>some schizo starts eating the wildlife while maintaining vigorous eye contact

[Anonymous No.18124197]

>>18123934
I would probably think they were homeless and try to give them food/money lmao

[Anonymous No.18124669]

God made the coastal areas for people like you.

Coastal foraging: It's just nature's buffet, isn't it?

[Anonymous No.18124674]

>>18117062
Most based post on /ck/ in years

[Anonymous No.18126002]

>>18123934