It's a Pacific giant octopus tentacle, it's a full 4 pounds. First I cut it into some foot long pieces then I boiled it in saltwater for 1/2 hour, then I took it out and put it into a baking dish and put a bunch of olive oil and smoked paprika and garlic on it. Then I put it into the oven where it will bake for a good while.

>8 legs
*imagine.jpg*

>boiled in saltwater
how high is your tolerance for salt?

>>21408142
You do realize that salt only goes in under certain circumstances don't you?

>>21408042 (OP)
post pics

>>21408198
Can't, it's still in the oven. I have the BBQ going for my steak and some asparagus and summer squash. I will throw the octopus on a dry cedar plank until it just starts to smoke for a bit and infuse everything at once with smoke flavor a bit, but not too much. We have mac salad that's home made for the other side.

I've done this before many times, the octopus turns out so tender. This is a big one too, the biggest suckers are the size of a silver dollar.

>boiled a half hour
Ive never been interested in octopus but this seems excessive.

>>21408226
This thing is as thick as your forearm, at the root. I chopped it into four individual foot long pieces. The suckers are as big as a dollar coin.

Most people have no idea how to treat it so they don't cook it at home, but it's cheap sometimes, and it's really good and easy. You basically boil the sucker for 1/2 hour which is partly to tenderize it but partly to remove some of the smell, and then you treat it and slow braise it for a couple hours. It's not unlike a pork belly or ham hocks in the way you treat it. Or ribs. It's too chewy to eat otherwise unless you slice it wafer-thin for sushi or deep frying.

crazy thing about an octopus is all it really is is a hyperintelligent inside-out clam

Where do you find these? Do you live in Alaska? This sounds incredible. Please post a photo when it's ready so I can live vicariously through you. Eating a four pound octopus tentacle is my new dream.

>>21408274
PNW yeah.