Why Your Caviar Tasted Off (And How to Make Sure It Never Does Again)

If your last tin tasted properly fishy or metallic, that's not "just what caviar tastes like" — good caviar tastes clean, briny, faintly nutty. Never fishy.

The problem

Most bad experiences trace back to broken cold chain — the tin got warm at some point between farm and fridge — or a supplier cutting corners on freshness.

The fix

Buy from someone who can tell you exactly how it's shipped cold, and refrigerate the second it arrives. Every tin from Caviaro travels cold-chain from a three-generation sturgeon farming family, so what lands on your spoon is what left the farm.