Alinea at Home: King Crab, Vinegar, Aromatics, Seaweed

So my intro to this blog said I would share my failures with you.  This is definitely one of them.  Ultimately, I don't think this is not recipe error, but more user error.  The combination sounds funky, but ultimately I get how it would work.  I just took a couple missteps along the way.

The first step was the vinegar portion of the recipe.  In this case the vinegar got turned into jello.  The jello consisted of salt, white vinegar sugar agar agar gelatin sheets and water.  I soaked some three of the sheets in the water and then mixed the vinegar, salt, sgar and agar agar and eventually combined the two.

Once all the ingredients were mixed together I poured a portion of it into a dish and let it set in the fridge for a couple of hours.

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Now time for the crab.  I've got a whole leg here.  This is sort of where I went wrong.  Long story short I should have cooked the crab in some way before going into this dish.

After extracting a portion of the crab leg, I poured the rest of the vinegar gel mixture over the top and let it set for another hour or so.

One of the flavor component of this dish was seaweed.  I took a bit of this and chopped it thinly.

No pictures of it but I cooked up some sushi rice for the side.  The crab was cut out of the dish and then placed under the broiler for a bit.  Another reason why I wished I had cooked the crab first.  Anyway the picture above is the final plate.  Like I said initially the favors would have all worked, except that the raw crab was a texture thing for me and I could on finish one bite.