Are you ready to pay a few hundred dollars to try an exclusive dish? There are people in the world who pay really big money for some products. These culinary delicacies are of the highest class, you can only buy them at auction. Want to know what is considered food for millionaires? Here is a list of the most expensive food in the world. Here we deliberately did not include products whose price depends on the price of packaging, containers, jewelry or other related items.
List of the most expensive foods:
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Matsutake mushrooms (Japan)
Matsutake would not be so expensive if it were possible to grow in artificial conditions. Another name - shod rowovka, grows only in ecologically clean areas, high in the mountains. In appearance it is similar to a honey agaric, but only on a thicker leg.
The Japanese are very fond of Matsutake, they are ready to pay $ 100 for one mushroom, up to $ 600 per kilogram. Recently, in Japan, the number of matsutake has fallen sharply, so mushrooms are exported from Russia, other Asian countries, Canada. An interesting fact from history: the Chinese recognized Matsutake as an edible mushroom only in 1989, and in 2002 it was listed in the Red Book.
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Coffee Luwak (Philippines)
The musang animal produces the world's most expensive coffee variety - its cost often exceeds $ 1 thousand per kilogram of coffee beans. The drink made from them has a delicate pleasant aroma and minimal caffeine content.
The secret of Luwak coffee is this: Musanga is fed with coffee beans, because their stomach contains a unique enzyme. After that, it remains to wait until they make a full path through the digestive system.
From one ordinary coffee it turns out only 50 gr. grains: they are washed and fried. Mussangs, which are kept in captivity, should spend most of the time in the wild so that an enzyme is formed in the stomach. Then they are caught for the production of coffee. The Filipinos have several months for this, then everything needs to be repeated again.
By the way, on our site thebiggest.ru you can find a list of the most expensive teas in the world.
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White caviar Almas (Iran)
A unique white beluga fish lives in the waters of the Caspian Sea. The caviar of this fish is considered such an expensive delicacy that not so long ago only the shah himself had the right to white caviar. If someone encroached on a delicacy, the shah could order the offender to chop off his hand.
Today, especially rich people can buy a jar of such caviar: it is sold only in London, and the supplier is the Iranian company House Almas. The appearance of the exclusive product speaks for itself - a can of pure 998 gold, and inside a kilogram of pale gray eggs. Such a pleasure costs only $ 25,000. By the way, the greater the age of the beluga, the higher its value: the fish must be at least 100 years old, only after that its caviar becomes suitable for sale.
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Swallow Nest Soup (China)
National Chinese cuisine is fundamentally different from European: will it ever occur to Germans or Frenchmen to cook soup from bird's nests? Whether it’s the Chinese business, they’re ready for anything: the collectors of nests of swallow-salangans are ready to climb without steepness on a steep rock. Chefs pay up to 3 thousand dollars per kilogram of such nests, and restaurant visitors throw at least 100 dollars out of their pocket for one plate of soup from swallow’s nests.
Why does all this cost such money? Firstly, collecting nests is a big risk, besides, you need to have time to pick it up at a time when there are no chicks, and secondly, the nest is manually cleaned from small feathers, which, together with saliva of salangans, serve as the basis of the nest itself. Soup from swallow's nests is not in vain worth a lot of money - salangan saliva contains a lot of iodine, it has a rejuvenating effect and increases potency!
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Saffron (Spain)
Saffron is considered the most expensive seasoning in the world, up to 1 thousand dollars can be paid per kilogram! In fact, these are the dried stigmas of crocus, which grows only in certain regions. The best and most expensive is only in Spain or India.
Saffron is harvested in the fall, for this the collectors have only one week. Lungs, no heavier than a feather, stigmas are collected manually. This is a very time-consuming process: for one kilogram of spice you need to collect about 300,000 petals. Further, the entire crop is sent for processing, where it is dried in special furnaces with a stable temperature and humidity. Even the smallest mistake in technology can ruin the entire annual crop of saffron.
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White Truffles (Italy)
A particularly valuable type of truffle is growing in Piedmont - white. They have been collecting since October. It is difficult for a person to find a mushroom, since this requires a sharp scent - the mushroom grows underground. Previously, people were helped by pigs, who often ate a valuable delicacy. Now this is done by special dogs, they are ready to give more than 5 thousand euros for such snouts. That's because you can make good money in the future, because one kilogram of truffle reaches a price of over 2 thousand dollars. Truffles are usually eaten raw, since after the heat treatment their unique mushroom flavor is lost.
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Black Chicken Ayam Tsemani (Indonesia)
Black as tar, Ayam Tsemani breed is bred in Indonesia. Surprisingly, not only feathers have such a color: the chicken is black, both outside and inside. Her meat, viscera, bones are painted black. This is not due to a special diet, the coal color is the result of a long-standing genetic error and now all Ayam Tsemani are born with high levels of melatonin.
Export of Indonesian black chicken to other countries is prohibited in order to prevent bird flu, so the price for one black chicken in Asian countries can reach $ 200, and in Europe the price increases several times.
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Wagyu Marble Beef (Japan)
The most expensive steak in the world is prepared from vagi beef: the price for one portion is 150-200 dollars, and for a kilogram of marbled beef you have to pay up to 500 dollars. To get tender meat with the perfect combination of meat and fat veins, young gobies are hung on reins, partially limiting their activity.
Vagus bulls are looked after all day and night: the finest grain, regular massage and classical music concerts, and beer is added to drinkers instead of water. The foamy drink subsequently gives the meat a special piquancy.
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Jamon Iberico (Spain)
The most expensive ham in the world is the Spanish jamon, which is made from only one breed of pig - Iberian. A feature of this breed is the natural marble structure of their meat. In the province of Iberico, colossal areas are reserved for the fattening of this breed: for the last 10 months, pigs must lead an active lifestyle so that the shape of their legs becomes "graceful", and the second condition is a strict acorn diet. For a kilo of Iberian jamon, people pay about $ 400.
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Moose House Moose Cheese (Sweden)
Cheese worth $ 1 thousand is produced in Sweden, and only in one place. MooseHouse Farm supplies its products only to the most expensive restaurants. By taste and structure, it remotely resembles feta, but it is much more difficult to cook it: moose can be milked during the summer, milking lasts for three hours.
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Bluefin Tuna (Pacific Ocean)
To complete our list of the most expensive foods, a group of marine fish, the mackerel family. For any fisherman, catching bluefin tuna is a great success, because a kilogram costs more than $ 8 thousand, and the weight of an adult fish is always more than 100 kg. This is a fortune! Such copies are sold only at auctions. At the auction, they are hunted by the Japanese, who use tuna fillet for making sushi.
Unfortunately, people themselves are to blame for the fact that bluefin tuna has become exclusive, as mass industrial capture has reduced the population to a critical scale.
Do not miss, there is an interesting article on the largest fish in the world on our site thebiggest.ru.
P.S.
If you can’t afford culinary delights, but you want culinary delights, thebiggest.ru advises you to learn how to grow curly vegetables and fruits. Hollow curly molds, in which tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelons, apples are fixed very small, change their natural forms. Strawberries in the shape of hearts, star cucumber or square watermelon began to grow in Asia.
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