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Caviar is placed in tins or jars that are kept at near-freezing temperatures to allow the fish eggs to age. Caviar is graded based on certain characteristics, which influences its cost and popularity.
Caviar (also known as caviare, originally from the Persian: خاویار, romanized: khâvyâr, lit. 'egg-bearing') is a food consisting of salt-cured roe of the family Acipenseridae. Caviar is considered a delicacy and is eaten as a garnish or spread. [1]
The fish is found primarily in the Caspian Sea, which is bordered by Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan. It can also be found in the Black Sea basin and occasionally in the Adriatic Sea. Beluga caviar is the most expensive type of caviar, [1] with market prices ranging from $7,000 to $22,000/kg ($3,200 to $10,000/lb). [2] [3]
It’s calculated that about half the caviar production comes from Sevruga. Sevruga caviar eggs are a pearlescent grey, and smaller in size than other sturgeon. The flavor is more pronounced than other varieties, often described as saltier, but it can vary depending on the origin of the fish. The caviar is packaged and sold in red tins.
Caviar is a salty delicacy with an elitist aura – it's one of the world's most expensive food items. Here's why, plus where it comes from.
Price: About $6,100 per melon Densuke black watermelons — one of which once sold for more than $8,000 — took a price hit around 2011, though one melon will still cost you a lofty $6,100.
Roe, (/ r oʊ / ⓘ ROH) or hard roe, is the fully ripe internal egg masses in the ovaries, or the released external egg masses, of fish and certain marine animals such as shrimp, scallop, sea urchins and squid. As a seafood, roe is used both as a cooked ingredient in many dishes, and as a raw ingredient for delicacies such as caviar.
Ossetra caviar, salmon crème fraîche, potato shallot croquette, basil oil, egg whites and yolks. Ossetra (also Osetra, Oscietra, Osetrova, or Asetra) caviar is one of the most prized and expensive types of caviar [1] (eclipsed in price only by Beluga caviar).