If you are stung by the fin spikes of this fish you will either get the shock of your life or you may even die if you have very weak heart, but this fish taste gooooodddd …
I got stung many times but on one occasion it was so painful that I thought someone put a blow torch (full blast) to my palm (was holding it when I got stung) or being electrocuted …
Stood on a stonefish once, thankfully there was a friendly Italian doctor armed with a serrated bread knife on the beach, as well as three people to sit on me….
I did this on holiday a year ago – it took ages for the pain to go away. I wish I’d gone to the chemist sooner. Bathing the foot in a solution I got from the chemist made a fantastic difference, although apparently putting vinegar into water does the same thing.
Although if the spines are deep don’t go digging, like you said it’s not a good idea unless you know what your doing and have some sterile equipment :p I’ve read that vinegar dissolves the spines, whether it dissolves deep seated spines is another matter.
i knelt on one as a ten year old… hurt like a motherbotherer
had to have the spines dug out with a sterilised needle and it still got a bit infected. Get it dealt with
While on holiday on Thasos a girl who my g/f and I had got friendly with slipped and put her hand on one of those black spiny urchins. Fortunately I had some very fine-tipped tweezers with me, just in case, and managed to get them out.
Took about an hour, and there were a few tears, mind. Bloody things are fragile as glass, and really difficult to extract without them breaking up.
Kicked one once getting out of the sea in Madeira, loads of spines in my toes, local nurse dug them out with a needle but they were still coming out days later. They are very brittle and don’t come out in one go.
During my uncles insurgency in Malaya he used urchin spines ground into a paste in a Suribachi to poison his guards and make his escape.
Bloody hell, maybe he should have made sure they were cooked all the way through.
I’d be mortified if any of my guests became ill.
Perhaps he should have stuck to a fragranced saffron rice and sauteed vegetables.
Years ago I stood on them in the red sea,I couldn’t put any weight on my feet for a couple of days.Got back to the kibbutz a week later,by then I was only limping a bit & was told that my body would reject them a few weeks later.Sure enough a few weeks later my feet started hurting again as the spikes were pushed to the surface of the soles of my feet.I suppose it’s the same process as when your body rejects a splinter.