How can I tenderize octopus effectively at home?

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I’ve read that tenderizing octopus can be difficult. What is the best way to prepare it at home?

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I’m reading a lot of professional cooking contents lately. I have never seen something like that before. Now that would be the dish I’d never hesitate to spend my money on. I hope I’ll visit London and also have that experience in person. Brilliant!
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I learned dozens of techniques from this content. Thank you!
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You've read dozens of techniques
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I love octopus. And while them being tender is the best, I honestly I also like them when they are on the opposite end of tenderness
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same
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I’d like the record to show - I had sorta weird feelings about eating octopus for this reason, but then you made this comment about pigs and it genuinely opened my mind up more to the idea. Cheers.
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You guys are the best Food/Cooking content at the moment hands down!
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Once I am in London I need to visit you guys. You have become my favourite Food content creator, and especially thanks for all these in-depth explanations. Awesome work.
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As a Galician, I'd swap the garlic sauce for good quality potatoes and simple seasoning as they amplify the delicate flavour to the utmost degree :) Polbo á Feira, though admittedly simple (sliced octopus over Galician cachelo potatoes boiled in the same water, served on a wooden platter and drizzled with olive oil, paprika and coarse salt), is a must-try if visiting Galicia, where it's cooked in large copper cauldrons, and best enjoyed while attending the weekly markets (fairs) it's named after: a national treasure.
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My favourite Portuguese dish is polvo a lagareiro. Different to the dish you showed which is also spectacular. Polvo a lagareiro is super simple to make, plenty of recipes and the result is magnificent.
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"I've got some really nice boiling water".
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Really evil and nasty boiling water
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Thanks! I got two large spanish ones in the freezer, so testing this weekend!
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Best food channel.
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I'm not even a seafood person, but Octopus, butter and chilli is one of the finest foods on earth!
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I'm curious about it. Never had. I'm pretty open minded about food.
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’s fantastic. Like squid but much meatier and more toothsome
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My two favourite proteins are 1st mushrooms and 2nd octopus. I love having it cooked over fire but the plancha is the best alternative.
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I developed a taste for octopus when living outside of Naples and also in S Korea for several years, thank you for some great ideas for preparing a tasty snack!
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I love how you guys share techniques and experience and create actually really amazing content (even production-wise), when you are running multiple great restaurants at the same time. For example, just this amazing tip with octopus terrine pizza... I can see many local small bistro's trying this. So cool :)
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Love it, best i've had was in Cyprus. Didn't know it could be this easy.
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GREAT content! In Hawaii where I live, the favorite is boiled and cooled octopus sliced thinly and mixed with chunky cucumber, and kim chee paste. Tako Kim Chee, Cheap and delicious!
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Would love a Morel guide since its in season and im foraging as many as i can lol
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His joy when getting the pizza out. Love this!
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it was amazing
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most satisfying method looked like the last dish... i could eat that every day lol
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