How Sea Urchin (Uni) Is Processed Commercially — How to Make It

Welcome back to How to Make It! On today's episode, chef Katie Pickens is at Maruhide in California, one of the country's top sea urchin processors. Once in, Katie learns how uni is de-shelled, cleaned and sorted.

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[whatmane]

Glad he gave a shoutout to his long time employees👌

[raixbox]

who was the first human to go out in the sea, pick this spiky thing, ram it open and eat its inner bits

[nibrayt]

"This is really therapeutic.."
Employees that overheard her: *Inner eye rolls*

[britishentertainment]

Stepped on a sea urchin and was limping for 2 weeks. They finally broke apart on their own. These days im going to the Japanese restaurant to eat 2 portions of them as a revenge

[tessoy]

“if i tear the urchin, i could cost him money”

next scene: eat two unis

[Blake-czmj]

The host didn't come off super weird and was actually likable which is unusual for this channel...maybe keep her around

[niadurant]

He was low key Trynna make sure she didn’t mess up production 😭😂

[jvvalencia]

The amount of years the employees stayed there (37 & 40 years) says a lot how wonderful of an employer that Japanese guy is

[totallyinconspicuouscarrot]

Workers:*literally slaving away to do this damned job*
Woman: ThIs Is ReAlLy ThErApEuTiC

[ShesABell]

Sea urchin is really good, when me and my mom lived in Hawaii, we used to go out during low tide with a cooler and fill it up. Pour over some freshwater to kill them and crack them open with a spoon. With some soy sauce and lemon 🤤 good times.

Love being Palauan 🤞🏽

[riotgrrl]

"Hey this is very therapeutic"
Tired workers:
"💀"

[JG-pwcr]

Chef Katie is awesome. I love the fact that in all of these episodes shes way out of her element in terms of experience, but shes still willing to jump in and learn how the process of making great things is done.

[tosht]

I've seen videos of divers harvesting sea urchin but never the processing. This was very interesting to me. Great series...love the host. 👍

[makovixen]

I'm glad I live in New Zealand where I can go down to the beach and pick some sea urchin, and not spend $80 on sea urchin wtf

[zidvicious]

As a kid, whenever we went to the beach, my uncle would dive and scoop these out of the sea floor. He would eat it and I would be so grossed out by it. When I started dining out in Japanese sushi restaurants, a friend ordered this and I had to try it out of curiosity. Since then I was hooked!

[jayj]

Fresh sea urchin is the best. I live near the beach, and when it's low tide we just bring cooked rice and sit on the beach while eating it. We open the sea urchins, take out its meat, and eat it straight in our mouths. Sometimes we add vinegar and pepper.

[protocolofficer]

I have eaten it raw, in the shell, with buttered baguette and lemon and thought I’d died and gone to heaven. This was about 40 years ago. Enter sushi restos and my tastebuds are happy once again. Thanks for sharing!

[jeniferjaradat]

I had this when I was in Egypt . OMG the most amazing thing I ever ate in my life. I cant explain how delicious it is, no words could describe it .

[elcrack]

I looove this food, here in chile isn't that expensive, we eat them with lemon juice, salt, purple onion and perejil. On top of a piece of toasted bread, ITS DELICIOUS

[sidrt]

This reminds me of my childhood 😍 we used to dive and harvest them split them open and eat them with salt onion and bread