Spaghetti weed

[AngusMcDoon]

It seems the season of spaghetti weed is upon us. It was a veritable carbonara round my prop this morning. Is it just a Scottish phenominominom? Does it have any use? Can it be eaten with Bolognese sauce or dried & woven into eco friendly halyards? Pointless annoying stuff. Bah!

 

[Aja]

Ladies Laces you mean?
Donald

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Is that what it's called? It's not very lace like, foul tentacles covered in snot making it near impossible to grab. Can't imagine what ladies use it for. I come a cropper to it every summer.

 

[Gordonmc]

Eat it.
If you are talking spaghetti seaweed, Himantalia elongata, just rinse it in fresh water then allow to steep for half an hour before a quick boil.
Its best added to linguine or other pasta. Tastes a bit like samphire
Most of the commercially available stuff comes from Brittany but I had some with a seafood sauce in a Tarbert restaurant. The cookie said they bought theirs from a local forager.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Eat it.
If you are talking spaghetti seaweed, Himantalia elongata, just rinse it in fresh water then allow to steep for half an hour before a quick boil.
Its best added to linguine or other pasta. Tastes a bit like samphire
Most of the commercially available stuff comes from Brittany but I had some with a seafood sauce in a Tarbert restaurant. The cookie said they bought theirs from a local forager.

I don't know if the stuff round my prop is that, so I'll probably give it a miss as food. The stuff I find is circular cross section, can be many metres long and is really really slippery. It seems to be common in Scottish waters but I've not seen it in the Irish sea.

 

[KellysEye]

All seaweed is edible except one that is too deep to pick, I've eaten but didn't ike the saltwater taste, there are exceptions fo example one type tastes of bacon. This was in Country File programme recently.

 

[agurney]

I don't know if the stuff round my prop is that, so I'll probably give it a miss as food. The stuff I find is circular cross section, can be many metres long and is really really slippery. It seems to be common in Scottish waters but I've not seen it in the Irish sea.

Last week it bunged up my bog; I had to strip it twice, first time because it fouled the valves so there was no suction, and the second because I hadn't spotted that it had also plugged the inlet.

In my experience this type of weed only seems to be a problem shallower than 3m.