Celebrity chef Bobby Flay at a live cooking demonstraton. - Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images For all but the most experienced or merely cavalier among us, octopus can be pretty tricky to make at home.

This video follows an attempt to cook an octopus with no fire available. Snow becomes the dominant element shaping the process. Traditional cooking methods are replaced by environmental adaptation.

If you've ever come across this unusual tip - putting a cork in the pan when cooking octopus - and thought it was superstition or an eccentric chef's trick... know that there's a reason behind this ...