Roe, caviar that is not caviar, eggses, et al.

[ChrisTaylor]

I'm going to go right out and say that, so far as I'm concerned, salmon and ocean trout roe are superior products to caviar. Not just in a bang-for-buck sense. But in the sense if I could buy both for exactly the same price, I'd go the salmon/trout route every time. Wonderful stuff. But there's a product I've yet to experience that I see avaliable damn near everywhere: the unfortunately-named lumpfish roe. Is this something I want to try? Or is it just cheap shit (which, really, on a per-jar level, is only a couple of dollars cheaper than some very nice salmon/trout roe?)?

[Kent Wang]

I agree that salmon roe is better than caviar. I haven't had trout. Is it similar?

There's also snail caviar that's recently been developed; that seems promising.

[cmling]

I find lumpfish roe disgusting.

[crinoidgirl]

Lumpfish roe in a jar as you find it in the supermarket tends to be waaaaaaaaaaay oversalted crap, but it's what I ate until I grew up and discovered ossetra and salmon caviar. The farmed lumpfish is pretty good, but I agree that salmon gives you the biggest taste reward, especially if not oversalted.

[liuzhou]

salmon and ocean trout roe are superior products to caviar

What, in this context, do you mean by caviar?

Are you suggesting that trout roe is "better" than beluga caviar, for example? Whatever "better" means.

[Chris Hennes]

I love salmon roe, agreed. But I'm not sure it's fair to even compare it to sturgeon roe: they are incredibly different products. It's like saying ribeye is better than tuna.