So yes, you can go and buy your own live geoduck and hack it up to make your own sashimi. I bought mine locally at a 99 Ranch where it costs about $40 for the one shown.
Now, I've cut open other clams before but this is a whole new thing for me. So with some quick Youtubing and googling, I was armed with the knowledge to do some dissecting of my own.
In short do this:
1. Cut into sides to remove the whole soft part.
2. Boil some water and blanch it for 20 seconds or so to remove the skin.
3. Cut off and toss the round gut thing in the middle. This is edible but might not be good enough tasting for most. Kind of like the goo in crabs where it just isn't worth the high cholesterol to eat.
4. Everything else is edible. The protruding 'nose' part is the usual mirugai part you eat at sushi restaurants while the inner parts are softer and not at widely known.
After the dissection, I have finally sliced some sashmi pieces ready for consumption. I decided to slice them EXTRA thick at around 3/8 inch as opposed to the usual 1/16 to 1/8" to really enjoy the texture.
Of course, standard sushi cutting practice applies. I find that owning a set of expensive knives are a requirement when cutting your own sashmi. I found that those steel sushi knives are not really needed. A set of Zwilling J.A. Henckels will do the trick.
How to catch Geoducks
Dirty Jobs actually has an interesting episode about how Geoducks are farms on a wet beach-like area. In their natural state, they are buried 6 feet deep into the sand and it extends its long nose towards the surface. If you come near them, they will retract its nose and it'll be very hard to extract them out of the sand and subsequently eat them.
So the trick is to use a 1 foot diameter or so PVC pipe and jam it into the floor. You then dig out the sand in the middle so the surrounding sand will not collapse back into your hole. You can then get to the geoduck and eat it for dinner! Yay!
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