What`s the best way to skin an octopus?

Cheerz

Bit gritty . . . but it works! Major . . . wheres that photo mate?

Does rubbing the skin of the octi with salt help?

I know someone who used burn't octopus for bait and caught a very large snapper ( 25 lb's ) . They burnt it on a open fire ( threw it on a piece of corragated iron ) . Must have released some natural oils i guess

Depends on where you are and what you intend doing with the octopus. At beach, cut legs off head and rub with sea sand. Takes off tentacles and skin. If you want to eat as opposed to use as bait, wash well to remove sand.

If you want to tenderise, hold by head and beat against rocks before skinning. You may look like an idiot flogging with a dead octopus, but the result is good.

At home, blanche in boiling water. When pink, tentacles and skin peel off easily.

Keith

Thanx guyz.KC,intend using the octi for bait at the Snapper Classic.Read that alot of the non target fish in this comp tend to leave the octi alone.Many winners of the comp have used octi over the years.As mentioned above,not so many fish,but bigger ones when it happpens.Who knows?I`ll give it a crack anyways.Good luck during the Shark Hunt Smudge.That`s a boomer comp Counties runs.Will try that blanching advice KC for eating octi.Have eating octi before,and enjoyed it.May have been baby octi though.How can one catch baby octi?Saw a docco about fishermen in the Med.They went out each evening and laid smallish clay pots on a rope on the sandy seabed.Next morning,most of the pots were occupied by octi.The octi are nocturnal mostly in this area,and inhabit the pots as a new home.Clever eh.

Cheerz  

Here in Alaska, when get great pacific octopus, up to 150 pounds. tough as shoe leather and they have a lot of iodine in them.. The best thing we have come up with to soften them up is a pressure cooker for one hour and fifteen minutes and then boil them in rock salt water for another 30 minutes they cut like butter and it removes the high concentrates of Iodine.  Same for the giant squid we get too much iodine you can't eat them, what a waste it makes your mouth water to see them, but they are simply too iodined to eat.  Pressure cooker does away with the pounding the poor beasts on a large rock on the beach and stops one from looking like a fool doing it.

Mc Tool - if you don't remove the skin the occy bait just bloats and swells up.  Remove the skin, leave the tentacles.

Mc Tool wrote: Cool , thanks Fish Addict , learn something every day. I have never used occy for bait , seen it frozen in the shops tho, wouldnt mind eating one either , actually I have a list of critters Id like to eat. There is something appealing about chewin down on something with way more teeth than me that would kick my arse if it wasnt already dead when I found it 😆.

Use to be a Scottish resturant over in Devonport. Their specialty was Octopus morney,very tender from memory.

Pcj wrote: Mc Tool wrote: Cool , thanks Fish Addict , learn something every day. I have never used occy for bait , seen it frozen in the shops tho, wouldnt mind eating one either , actually I have a list of critters Id like to eat. There is something appealing about chewin down on something with way more teeth than me that would kick my arse if it wasnt already dead when I found it 😆. Use to be a Scottish resturant over in Devonport. Their specialty was Octopus morney,very tender from memory.

Oh yeah ,the Scottish ,nothing would surprise me ....I mean Haggis ?? ffs. My Mother and three Grandparents were/are Scottish ,but Im not ,nah , just because Im Hamish and born on Burns day dont mean nothin 😆