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so, i checked out hansen caviar, whose american paddlefish roe i have ordered and enjoyed in the past. but i think it's gotten a good bit more expensive lately.

does anyone have any caviar suggestions? obviously, i don't have to have the real thing (so to speak), but i do like it to taste as close to the real thing as possible...

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For my personal preference, I don't think there is truly a way to economize with caviar.

The cheap stuff will never have the flavor or texture of the better grades.

If there is a supplier of fresh caviar in you area who holds tasting sessions, try to attend one.

Personally, I have found that the stuff from "lesser" fish always tastes much too fishy for my palate. Some people like it but I don't.

In this case, you have to please yourself.

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!" Terry Pratchett

 

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Sturgeon caviar is a limited resource both wild and farmed raised. As the wild stocks are depleted, farming has become profitable and other lessor caviars caviars such as paddlefish become valuable. As with any product where demand exceeds supply and profits are high, quality and origin become suspect with lower priced products.

If i want sturgeon, I order Sterling Farms, a well controlled product. But even Sterling, a USA product has increased 2 fold at least in the last 5 years.

This year as last year we will be having a good quality fresh salmon caviar. Some will be about #30/# and some is special from Japan in a light shoyu at $70/#.

Anything else on the market is simply too expensive or too suspect as to quality and origin.-Dick

Edited by budrichard (log)
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