Squid vs Octopus - I on --tentacles-- tenterhooks...

[onebatmotherofNormanBates]

Does anyone understand the difference, culinarily-speaking, between the two?

Octopus is dramatically cheaper..

blimey I cannot do a post without italics, can I?

or start a thread that makes sense. sorry.

With squid, you eat the body - with octopus you eat the tentacles. I think thats it anyway... Personally I don't eat either, but DH and DS are very fond of calamari, and DS eats the tiny octopi in my paella with relish

yum to both.

Octopus gen needs tenderising.

paprika sprinkled on octopus yum, squid fried in chilli and garlic even yummier

Think you can either cook squid for a long time in things like wine + olive oil or flash fry it quickly. Octopus has to be cooked slowly.

Ah ha! thanks my dears - it seems that it is a lenght of cooking-time thing. Squid - very quickly or very slowly. Octopus - only very slowly, sometimes cooked twice to tenderise..

Tonight I am doing both in greek red wine stew.
I will update...

don't like texture of octopus, but like squid

Blehrgh!!

Why did I even open this thread?

It was delicious and nutricious - but I think the octopus could have been cooked for longer. I only did 2 hours and the tentacles were still a little ... chewy.

Recipe here