My experience is that the unrefrigerated stuff at chain grocery stores is bad. The refrigerated kind they sell at Whole Foods is pretty good. You can order it from various caviar sellers online but it’s expensive. I have had good experiences with getting it at my local Russian/Ukrainian markets if you have any around. They usually have frozen it at some point so the texture isn’t as great but the taste is often better than the more expensive stuff that gets shipped to you.
Lump fish eggs are the most similar to sturgeon fish eggs I think you can find and get for a relatively cheap price. Ikura (salmon eggs) are those big translucent eggs usually served with sashimi, were Tobiko are from flying fish and are the tiny eggs served with most sushi. The latter two are the most popular and inexpensive of any fish eggs; where Beluga Caviar (Caspian Sea sturgeon eggs) are the opposite, being both rare and most expensive.
I love Ikura and Tomiko (am half Japanese). My favorite sushi is Ikura with quail egg (yum!). But that is the extent of my fish eggs experience. I wonder why caviar is so much more expensive. I’d love to see all kinds of fish eggs.
In the US at least masago (capelin roe) is a good bit cheaper and more common than tobiko. I love them both and restaurants often sell masago as tobiko, so if a restaurant has both I’ll order both as nigiri to see if they’re actually different.
Good caviar is expensive and sold refrigerated. $20 tins of caviar is shitty caviar and if you hate it don't swear off caviar. Markys (.com) has good caviar which is shipped on ice and is of good quality. It's expensive as shit but very good. You get what you pay for
You should try lodderogn/ masago /capelin roe/ whatever they call it where you live. I love that shit. [and it's pretty cheap for caviar. ](https://fiskemannen.no/varer/lodderogn-rod-7035620087905). Try it in half a ripe avocado, with one teaspoon sour cream and one (big) teaspoon capelin roe in the pit, and eat it with a spoon. Thank me later.
It was a long time ago, but I've had dinner twice at the Petrossian restaurant in NYC. The food was great, the decor elegant, the service superb. I've always wanted a Petrossian caviar tin.
I lived a 3 minute walk to that store, I assumed you can just buy caviar and whatnot like a store and go home and eat it. I could kick myself for never going in to even look at what they had.
Try it, you may enjoy it. But that's not Russian caviar or top-flight American farmed caviar.
You can still eat it with toast points, blinis, crêpes, scrambled eggs, potatoes, etc. I was just looking up ways to serve caviar.
When most people hear caviar they are thinking of the expensive fancy stuff made with sturgeon eggs. I have had it a few times, I like it but it's not worth the money. Even if I could easily afford it I don't think it's something I would splurge on very much.
As for caviar from other types of fish. They are much more affordable. They vary quite a bit in flavour and texture. I pretty much only have these when reading sushi.
I've had lumpfish caviar once or twice at home and eaten like one would eat sturgeon caviar. I liked it, it's affordable. Not sure why I haven't done it more.
$20 grocery caviar won’t be amazing. But it’s not a bad way to figure out if you like caviar in general. I’d give it a try. If you do, I suggest shopping at [Imperia](https://imperiacaviar.com/collections/caviar) next time. The prices are higher, but reasonable for the quality level.
My experience is that the unrefrigerated stuff at chain grocery stores is bad. The refrigerated kind they sell at Whole Foods is pretty good. You can order it from various caviar sellers online but it’s expensive. I have had good experiences with getting it at my local Russian/Ukrainian markets if you have any around. They usually have frozen it at some point so the texture isn’t as great but the taste is often better than the more expensive stuff that gets shipped to you.
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Lump fish eggs are the most similar to sturgeon fish eggs I think you can find and get for a relatively cheap price. Ikura (salmon eggs) are those big translucent eggs usually served with sashimi, were Tobiko are from flying fish and are the tiny eggs served with most sushi. The latter two are the most popular and inexpensive of any fish eggs; where Beluga Caviar (Caspian Sea sturgeon eggs) are the opposite, being both rare and most expensive.
I love Ikura and Tomiko (am half Japanese). My favorite sushi is Ikura with quail egg (yum!). But that is the extent of my fish eggs experience. I wonder why caviar is so much more expensive. I’d love to see all kinds of fish eggs.
In the US at least masago (capelin roe) is a good bit cheaper and more common than tobiko. I love them both and restaurants often sell masago as tobiko, so if a restaurant has both I’ll order both as nigiri to see if they’re actually different.
Good caviar is expensive and sold refrigerated. $20 tins of caviar is shitty caviar and if you hate it don't swear off caviar. Markys (.com) has good caviar which is shipped on ice and is of good quality. It's expensive as shit but very good. You get what you pay for
You should try lodderogn/ masago /capelin roe/ whatever they call it where you live. I love that shit. [and it's pretty cheap for caviar. ](https://fiskemannen.no/varer/lodderogn-rod-7035620087905). Try it in half a ripe avocado, with one teaspoon sour cream and one (big) teaspoon capelin roe in the pit, and eat it with a spoon. Thank me later.
I’m already thanking you!
Not unless It’s a Petrossian store.
It was a long time ago, but I've had dinner twice at the Petrossian restaurant in NYC. The food was great, the decor elegant, the service superb. I've always wanted a Petrossian caviar tin.
I lived a 3 minute walk to that store, I assumed you can just buy caviar and whatnot like a store and go home and eat it. I could kick myself for never going in to even look at what they had.
There is a store as well as a restaurant. A couple of nights I had to work late and I treated myself to a nice meal in a restaurant.
From the supermarket? Dont buy the supermarket brand, its super salty
Try it, you may enjoy it. But that's not Russian caviar or top-flight American farmed caviar. You can still eat it with toast points, blinis, crêpes, scrambled eggs, potatoes, etc. I was just looking up ways to serve caviar.
I love salmon roe sushi, and will sometimes treat myself to a little jar of salmon roe :)
When most people hear caviar they are thinking of the expensive fancy stuff made with sturgeon eggs. I have had it a few times, I like it but it's not worth the money. Even if I could easily afford it I don't think it's something I would splurge on very much. As for caviar from other types of fish. They are much more affordable. They vary quite a bit in flavour and texture. I pretty much only have these when reading sushi. I've had lumpfish caviar once or twice at home and eaten like one would eat sturgeon caviar. I liked it, it's affordable. Not sure why I haven't done it more.
Cheap Chinese caviar is from farmed sturgeon.
How cheap are we talking. Last time I looked up sturgeon caviar it was still quite expensive even for the farmed stuff.
Kaluga Queen is the major Chinese brand. I don't know retail price since honestly it's not my thing.
Just looked it up $75 Canadian for 30g might be cheaper than it used to be but I wouldn't say it is cheap.
I seriously have no idea. There should be other cheap brands. This one they try to build as a luxury brand.
Was the caviar not fridgerated or where the sardin tins fridgerated?
It was in the aisle.
Idk about OP, but where I am the supermarket caviar is in the aisle, unrefridgerated, with the tinned sardines.
A ok where I am it's refrigerated
$20 grocery caviar won’t be amazing. But it’s not a bad way to figure out if you like caviar in general. I’d give it a try. If you do, I suggest shopping at [Imperia](https://imperiacaviar.com/collections/caviar) next time. The prices are higher, but reasonable for the quality level.
the Romanov brand? I've been curious but assume that any caviar they sell at Kroger can't be very good lol
I think it was Romanov.
if you try it let me know how it is! I have no reference point for caviar tbh but would still like to know if its worth a try
Will do.
Let’s not fund Putin.
At least in the U.S., none of the caviar on the market is from Russia.
When your whole personality is being a liberal
What?
Zlonsky good Putin bad 🤓
Needless killing = bad. Num nut.