The Oyster Thread
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They’re gross. Period.
Yes.
Unless they’re so big you need more than one bite.
Unless they’re so big you need more than one bite.
For eating raw, I think sweet and briny ones from cold waters are the only way to go. Ideally eaten while sitting next to the bay they're harvested from.
I'll concede that those flabby and otherwise unpalatable gulf oysters are the superior choice for a fried oyster po' boy where you want some more juicy meatiness.
I'll concede that those flabby and otherwise unpalatable gulf oysters are the superior choice for a fried oyster po' boy where you want some more juicy meatiness.
I was gonna talk about my thoughts on them and all about how I feel but I don't want to seem shellfish.
Petites raw as shooters. For big ones I do them pretty often my family loves them. I pop them open raw and throw them on a hot grill on the half shell.
Top them with butter, garlic, cilantro, tabasco, pepper jack and bread crumbs. Just a small amount of each and cook until bubbling. Awesome.
Top them with butter, garlic, cilantro, tabasco, pepper jack and bread crumbs. Just a small amount of each and cook until bubbling. Awesome.
Florida Gulf coast oysters are absolute bangers. Anything coming from Apalachee or Oyster Bay are wonderful and really taking over the high quality mantle from Apalachicola (RIP). A blend of briney but sweet. Boonedocks Oyster Co and Oystermom will harvest fresh ship to you.
Chesapeake is kinda overrated. I don't love the oysters from there most of the time but have had a few great experiences.
I like em raw or fried. Grilled is acceptable only if you have them on there just long enough to melt the cheese. Steaming is meant for crabs and clams...it just makes oysters fishy and gross.
West coast ones are totally different but I love the sweet, mellow flavor. Pacific or Shigoku are very nice. We usually order a tri-species sampler from Taylor Shellfish when I'm visiting west coast family. They're just so little!
Tried a sampler from a bunch of different suppliers when I was up in NH recently, the Spinney Creek, ME ones were outstanding.
Chesapeake is kinda overrated. I don't love the oysters from there most of the time but have had a few great experiences.
I like em raw or fried. Grilled is acceptable only if you have them on there just long enough to melt the cheese. Steaming is meant for crabs and clams...it just makes oysters fishy and gross.
West coast ones are totally different but I love the sweet, mellow flavor. Pacific or Shigoku are very nice. We usually order a tri-species sampler from Taylor Shellfish when I'm visiting west coast family. They're just so little!
Tried a sampler from a bunch of different suppliers when I was up in NH recently, the Spinney Creek, ME ones were outstanding.
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Maine and Massachusetts oysters are imo much better than Chesapeake. Replying to your comment only to say that you missed out on the Island Creek oysters. Those ones are swell.
Stopped at an oyster bar in Philly to kill some time before my flight. Thinking of you @Ok__mode_6953
Little ones are Kumamoto (sweet, lightly briney) and the bigger 2 are Pink Moons from PEI. Much more briney but quite good.
Little ones are Kumamoto (sweet, lightly briney) and the bigger 2 are Pink Moons from PEI. Much more briney but quite good.
The only way to eat oysters is in front of the TV with your significant other, laughing ironically at Friends reruns while sipping wheatgrass juice and warming your feet in an electric foot massager.
I'm in the pacific northwest, with cold water on 3 sides of me.
So good. Best as a beach snack, at midnight in winter low tides digging clams in moonlight, with a shot of tabasco.
So good. Best as a beach snack, at midnight in winter low tides digging clams in moonlight, with a shot of tabasco.
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That looks like a great plate.
I actually love oysters and don’t need more than a lemon slice, and maybe some diced shallots in red wine vinegar for me to be happy - I just couldn’t cope with all the oyster talk anymore
Michi
I dislike attempts to rewrite history
A very good friend of mine (sadly no longer alive now) and I used to go out together to eat oysters and enjoy a good glass of wine alongside. One of those afternoons while we were eating, I suggested "why don't we have an oyster party at my place". I contacted all my friends who I knew liked oysters to come along, together with their partners (even if they didn't eat oysters).
The rule was simple: I'll cater with the usual things, charcuterie, salads, breads, and so on, but everyone has to bring along as many oysters as they think they'll eat, plus a few extra. Amazingly, we ended up with twenty people and nine different kinds of oysters.
That was an interesting and fun experience. Being able to taste different oysters from different regions side by side was quite an eye opener. It's amazing how much oysters vary in texture and flavour. Anything from soft and creamy to firm and briny. One of the more interesting ones were giant New Zealand oysters. They were about the size of my palm (the oyster itself, not its shell). I did enjoy them, but it's the sort of thing I'll eat every now and then. They are quite a mouthful, so to speak, and a bit over the top. Still, delicious!
The ones we had were a tad larger than the one in the photo below. (Sadly, no-one thought to take pictures that day.) I do remember vividly eating nearly sixty oysters that afternoon
My personal best was at an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet on Fraser Island when my father was still alive. We decided to have an oyster eating competition. I won, with one gross (144) oysters
The rule was simple: I'll cater with the usual things, charcuterie, salads, breads, and so on, but everyone has to bring along as many oysters as they think they'll eat, plus a few extra. Amazingly, we ended up with twenty people and nine different kinds of oysters.
That was an interesting and fun experience. Being able to taste different oysters from different regions side by side was quite an eye opener. It's amazing how much oysters vary in texture and flavour. Anything from soft and creamy to firm and briny. One of the more interesting ones were giant New Zealand oysters. They were about the size of my palm (the oyster itself, not its shell). I did enjoy them, but it's the sort of thing I'll eat every now and then. They are quite a mouthful, so to speak, and a bit over the top. Still, delicious!
The ones we had were a tad larger than the one in the photo below. (Sadly, no-one thought to take pictures that day.) I do remember vividly eating nearly sixty oysters that afternoon
My personal best was at an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet on Fraser Island when my father was still alive. We decided to have an oyster eating competition. I won, with one gross (144) oysters
I remember having an absolutely giant oyster-like thing in Japan once. It was a long time ago, so I can’t remember if it was cooked or not (I think not?) but it was so large they cut the meat into 4 pieces (still served in the sheel). Wonder what that was.
Yoshi
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Kumamoto for the win!
Yoshi
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Michi
I dislike attempts to rewrite history
Now that's an oyster!
Hey nice, yea that's what I had. Not sure the one I had was quite that big, but close.
As mentioned before grew up eating fresh Chesapeake blue point oysters & blue crab both were in abundance in 1950's early 60's before came to Hawaii. At Kahala Hilton a luxury Hotel would strive to get best food sources. Lobsters from Antarctica oysters from New Zeland. Both cold waters. Their Pacific oysters I really liked. Raw in the half shell. Certain seafood very cold water makes for great product.
I can't read Japanese, possible that's a small plate & a child's hand. Still a large oyster.
As a teenager worked on a scallop trawler during the summer dredging on the continental shelf saw some amazing things come up in that dredge besides scallops. Huge Lobster. Got paid by share most
money had ever made. Used it to come to Hawaii.
You can make a whole poboy just frying up that one!
PSA: if the restaurant looks like it’s only serving oysters as a one-time special, and the place is empty except for your party, and even the side sauces taste a little off, just don’t.
This PSA brought to you by a weekend of norovirus and Vibrio vulnificus
This PSA brought to you by a weekend of norovirus and Vibrio vulnificus
Vertigo
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Thoughts and prayers my dude, that sucks!
aporigine
The slow blade penetrates the winter squash
I was lucky enough to have blue crab from its home waters (mid-70s) on the MD/DE state line. Good stuff.
Yep fresh Blue crab was plentiful in Hampton where grew up on the water. Oyster piles, blue crab traps were everywhere. My family were boat builders grandfather, great grandfather.
My dad built a sailboat & a hydroplane speed boat for me as a kid. He worked foe NASA.
From 1966- 1975 kepone poison a insecticide waste was dumped directly into James River from Hopewell VA. This travesty was found out when worker got severely ill from exposure to kepone. It affected trace amounts in fish, crab & oysters. A ban on seafood with 3% kepone was in affect for years after. Came to Hawaii in 1969 found out from my father. Bald eagles on our property as small kid remember them up high in the pine trees. Later no eagles was caused by DDT sprayed on marshes to kill mosquitoes. I have heard that bald eagles are back in VA. after decades. So have first hand view of man's ignorance.
Silent Spring was a book that woke up many. We still live in a world of tremendous waste, with instant knowledge because of technology many younger people are our hope for reforming thow away societies. Sorry for the rant.
aporigine
The slow blade penetrates the winter squash
I remember that Kepone became a headline mid-70s.
The things we are still finding out. Microplastics. PFAS. Pseudoestrogens. The dark side of the miracle of polymers, polychlorinates, other petros.
Little Skookums for the win.
