How to Shuck Oysters (Without Snapping Your Shucker) & the Best Oyster Knives
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Time to shuck some delicious diamonds of the sea, it's oyster time baby! Seaside Mike is here to give us his top tips on opening oysters without snapping your shucker, and which oyster knives are best for the job.
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How to Shuck Oysters (Without Snapping Your Shucker) & the Best Oyster Knives
East Coast/ West Coast Rivalry 0:00
Oyster Anatomy 1:30
How to Shuck! 2:08
How to Not F*ck Up 3:40
Which Oyster Knife is Best? 6:35
How to Make Mignonette 9:20
For less cooperative oysters...
Okay, I just shucked a dozen oysters -- all downward-facing, covered in little barnacles, none with gaping apertures at the terminus, and all with extremely-flaky shells (the front just crumbled when I tried this gentleman's technique). By the time I was on my sixth oyster, I'd hit my stride. By the time I'd shucked my eleventh and twelfth oyster, I had it down to a science and did in seconds what had taken me minutes before. The secret to my success was finding the lateral split-line (not a technical term) and beginning there -- the point where the bivalve bisects. I found I could spot it by looking for the darkest line among the shell layers and inserting my knife there (didn't cut myself once in this procedure, thanks to the towel technique demonstrated in this video and a surgical glove on my right hand). Once I got the two sides separated -- careful to avoid penetrating the oyster within -- I found that my oysters needed to be separated on *both* sides of the shell, which I did with a combination of knife and fingers.
(Hopefully, this explanation will help someone. My oysters came fresh from Puerto Penasco, which might explain their idiosyncrasies.)
That's a great tip, thank you!
Grew up eating oysters on the east coast, my pops was an Italian chef and ran a kitchen. In the summer we would open 3 dozens oysters and clams on the half shell, they were amazing with lemon and butter. Decades later I moved to the west coast and I was so surprised how different pacific shelf fish taste! Now I’m a home cook, this video is spot on 👍
Thank you!
Great vid! And thanks for the mignonette bonus! YUM!!
10 out of 10 Thank You
I LOVED the last couple of seconds. Great video.
Thank you!
Agreed that was commitment 😆
I gotta make another trip to knifewear to get myself an oyster shucker. I can take ‘em or leave ‘em, but I just need it for work.
Well I was doing every things all wrong .... Thank you for teaching me the Skill ... We will enjoy great times the correct way .... Peace and Grace ... 100
Very tutorial
Everything I've wondered about this sport was covered here.
Thank you!
Damn here I Am working at a busy hotel and terrace in downtown Montreal just killed 400 covers and stabbed myself with a shucker somewhere after the 200th oyster of the night... I also shopped at the Ottawa store for years both Knifewear and Kent of Englewood ... thanks for the years service and thanks for the video I don't plan on stabbing myself for at least another 1000 oysters. Best luck to all new cooks out there, head down move those fuckin hands and always say yes.
What about those gulf coast oysters?
What the shuck!? I didn't know that, I was shucking the other end.
XLnt!
You should try the East Hampton Shucking tool, it's the safest and easiest way to open oysters. You dont hold down the oyster down with your hand. It keeps your hand away from the knife. You won't hurt yourself.
Woah, I want one!
very well explained......and fyi, i im a shucker
Glad to hear it!
Why do some people use Gluf oysters interchangeably with East or West or sometimes describe them as a different catagory entierly?
Honestly, not sure! That's just what the internet told me 😅
@@KnifewearKnives Thanks for the response.
I feel like that oyster was already opened, but thanks for tips!
Oystergate
I just put them in warm water and they open themselves.
How long will an oyster last once opened?
Probably an hour or two if they're on ice and you plan to eat them raw. Cooked, several days! They last week's unopened in the fridge though.
Soft body, the shell is also part of the oyster.
For the real novice put live oyster in the freezer They totally relax the nectar hardens and DOSEN’T spill when you pop the lid
But, but, but … where’s the Scotch whisky? I love simple lemon juice on fresh oysters, but a wee bit of Scotch is my favourite.
I've never heard that, I'll try it!
That sounds seriously decadent! Must try.
can one eat7drink the juice from the oyster pls ???
Absolutely, as long as it's fresh!
Pls?
eating some tonight
Nice!
My dad was shucking oysters when I was a kid and the knife went through the center of his hand.
YIKES
Please pass the hot sauce.
Easiest way is not to eat that crap. Done. Won't break your knife, stab your hand, or get sick from what is probably the most disgusting of all seafood available
So can we safely assume by your statement you do NOT like oysters? 😃
I really appreciated that you went into the different shapes of oysters because often times in videos, they only show you easy ones where the hinge is obvious
So why are you here?
Who says I’m eating it? Serve it to other people and they pay you money.
I adore oysters but last Thursday they gave me the mega shitters! Just made it in time to the loo, blimey 😅
Not Gona lie got a Murphy knives oyster 🦪 chucker and the tip broke
Bring it in, we can fix that!