Caviar should be served...

[chas]

Originally Posted by Lucky Strike

Just bring me the chilled tin and a big silver spoon. And vodka, or pale aquavit.

You mean mother of pearl spoon....

 

[Big Pun]

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by Manton

Should it be wheeled out on a cart with a 19th century scale, the kind where you have to place cylidrical weights on the other side, and also a huge Weber-Kettle-sized bucket filled with shaved ice, into which half a dozen champagne and vodka bottles are shove up to the neck?

Originally Posted by Connemara

Yep. Every night, playa. Except you missed the whimsical part, Mantie. The counter-weights are gold gram weights, to add to the exuberance. Although, I haven't taken any drinks of it yet. I just sit at family meal looking at it sitting there on the bar counter. That little tease.

Originally Posted by iammatt

In a tin, with a spoon and some champagne or vodka. Preferably, it is served to me in a locked room without other people around.

This is my rant about restaurants serving caviar "dishes" that do nothing but take away from the perfection of caviar itself.

We get caviar fed-ex'd to us about three times a week. Today, I received an entire kg of Russian Osetra in 100g containers. I thought of taking a picture and sending it to you, but figured it'd be dumb and not that funny.

 

[r...]

I tought metal utensils and caviar did not mix.

Lumpfish + Popov = Crazy Delicious. If the bourgie quoutient needs upped I just velcro elbow patches to my jacket.

 

[Roikins]

Originally Posted by chas

You mean mother of pearl spoon....

Yep... gotta be a MOP spoon with caviar.

 

[ChicagoRon]

Caviar should be served...

1> OFTEN
2> With Blini or Carr's water crackers
3> With sides of Creme Fraiche, creamed onions, boiled egg whites, and crumbled stilton
4> With vodka
5> From a tin w/ a MOP spoon

For those who don't like Caviar in "dishes".. you're missing out.

Some highlights from my dining adventures:

1> Rick Tramonto's Caviar Staircase (I believe the progression was Salmon, Wasabi Tobiko, American Sturgeon, Golden Osetra)

2> Wasabi Tobiko sashimi (it's really great when it's done right)

3> Hand-harvested michigan steel-head trout roe over a dome of freeze-dried pineapple juice w/ a coconut foam and some freeze dried coconut (At Alinea)

 

[Mr. Moo]

We eat it out of the 16oz mason jars we get it in. Being Russian has its perks.

 

[pejsek]

Black bread and ice-cold vodka (preferably bison-grass flavored). If you're tough the bread is simply for sniffing. Straight is best. In true Russian fashion the cockroaches are optional. Once upon a time this was a favorite breakfast.

 

[crazyquik]

This thread makes me want to buy caviar.

 

[Pezzaturra]

Originally Posted by Manton

Should it be wheeled out on a cart with a 19th century scale, the kind where you have to place cylidrical weights on the other side,

Call it a "Pharmacy scale" next time

 

[Lucky Strike]

Originally Posted by Roikins

Yep... gotta be a MOP spoon with caviar.
Nah, silver is fine.

 

[nootje]

Still amazed this hasnt been mentioned...

it should be served from the belly button of a 18 year old model, its the only and best way to serve caviar..

 

[chorse123]

Originally Posted by Mr. Moo

We eat it out of the 16oz mason jars we get it in. Being Russian has its perks.

Red caviar, though?

I had some American paddlefish a while back and thought it was excellent.

 

[Mr. Moo]

Originally Posted by chorse123

Red caviar, though?

I had some American paddlefish a while back and thought it was excellent.

no, not red.

 

[chorse123]

Good. Russians do seem to like the red...