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Just don't overcook squid, because it turns into flubber. Has anyone seen those Japanese squid popsicles? I lived in Japan for a few months, and at a festival I saw droves of people eating little squids on sticks. Okay, they weren't really popsicles, but they were tiny, tasty, impaled cephalopods.

Squid ink pasta is supposed to be good. I have eaten lots of ink (from exploding chewed pens), and it never tasted good. Perhaps a good squid ink pen would be a solution.
As was mentioned before it needs to be cooked quickly. I would score it in a criss-cross and cook on an already hot griddle. Or in strips in a stir fry. Squid is very much a texture. It needs to be brought out with some sauce preferably acidic. Lemon, tomato, etc. Some people like quid ink. I don’t.
A restaurant I've been to has a sort of salad with either raw or nearly raw squid.  I'd like to know how to make it, esp. to know if the squid really is raw.

fozziebear Wrote:
The main thing about squid is that it needs to be cooked VERY quickly. You can stir fry it for a couple of minutes or ... (sorry not a ver detailed or scientific recipe).


Some of the best recipes aren't very scientific. See my thread on the Asian-Indian wok cooking.

As far as squid goes: I saw a man cooking it on a gigantic Mongolian BBQ which is a large, round, metal surface heated to a high temperature. He walked around the device using two wooden sticks to move the preparation along the surface.

I remember he added sesame oil, light soy sauce, and "oyster sauce". The trick was in the temperature and sauces.

The process was completed in a matter of about a minute with a great deal of steam rising from the surface of the steel.

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