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Someone please describe the flavor of a raw oyster!
I like the smoked ones in a can, but the concept of eating them still disgusts me and reminds me that we humans/animals too are just another flavor of meat.
I like the smoked ones in a can, but the concept of eating them still disgusts me and reminds me that we humans/animals too are just another flavor of meat.
I've also had fried Rocky Mountain Oysters served on a platter. After I learned what they were, I was taken aback more than a little.
Raw oyster taste like the salt marsh smells. Salty, earthy, and kind of funky for lack of a better word.
I've never tried them smoked. I used to be of the opinion that anything other than fresh and raw was an abomination, but I've mellowed with age. I've recently discovered that good fried oysters are delicious and can see how adding a smokey taste would compliment the raw flavor. My question becomes what is the texture like for smoked oysters? Does it have the firmness of a fried oyster or still the gelatinous oily slurp of a raw?
I've never tried them smoked. I used to be of the opinion that anything other than fresh and raw was an abomination, but I've mellowed with age. I've recently discovered that good fried oysters are delicious and can see how adding a smokey taste would compliment the raw flavor. My question becomes what is the texture like for smoked oysters? Does it have the firmness of a fried oyster or still the gelatinous oily slurp of a raw?
Raw oysters taste like sex. Pure and simple. I could eat them day in and day out. And, if you have to ask what sex tastes like, well... maybe one day, he he. :
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Thier was a lady here about 10 years ago tha died from eating raw oysters. And I have to ask, forgive my ignorance, is the big pouch of something basically oyster poo?
Abita Amber and a dozen oysters in NOLA last weekend. Five days in NOLA and I had the opportunity for oysters once...tragic. And, I agree with Cosmic.
Hawke, fold and stuff. Ha ha
Ssjones, looks great. We only ate two meals outside of our hotel, because of time. I wish we had of hit more of the local dives.
Down in Pensacola they have an "Oysters Pensacola" at most of the restaurants, and it is the best way to eat them cooked that is better than raw. They put a small piece of bacon on top, a slice of gouda, and lightly smoke them over a wood fire. Then you dip them in a hollandaise sauce. My kids used to beg for them when we would go to the beach.
Ssjones, looks great. We only ate two meals outside of our hotel, because of time. I wish we had of hit more of the local dives.
Down in Pensacola they have an "Oysters Pensacola" at most of the restaurants, and it is the best way to eat them cooked that is better than raw. They put a small piece of bacon on top, a slice of gouda, and lightly smoke them over a wood fire. Then you dip them in a hollandaise sauce. My kids used to beg for them when we would go to the beach.
I'm in Baltimore and raw is the way to go. There are some great spots all around here. As for smoked, I wasnt very familiar until I found a stall at the local farmers market where a lady was selling various smoked seafoods. Absolutely delicious.
As for pairing though, I can see how the flavors would compliment each other but I tend not to eat and smoke too close together.
As for pairing though, I can see how the flavors would compliment each other but I tend not to eat and smoke too close together.
Well, it's rarely fatal in healthy adults that receive medical treatment, but food borne illness can and does occur with raw seafood, just the same as in undercooked red meat or unwashed vegetables.
Many vendors will purge live seafood prior to sale. I don't recall seeing many oysters with a black pouch, but yes, poo is what that would be.
Raw oysters are usually gulped down in a single swallow or swallowed with a single bite if they are large. It's not typical to chew them first. What you taste is mostly the oysters natural juice, a bit of salt and sweet and something that can vary from lightly fruity all the way to musty depending on the variety and age. By contrast, smoke firms up the oyster and makes it more like a clam.
@hakchuma, no big sack of poo on oysters, but you do eat them whole so that includes the digestive track. He's a picture of oyster anatomy if it sets you mind to ease:
In the gulf, we have Red Tide (no, not Crimson Tide) but when it is Red Tide, stay away from the shellfish. I got hold of some bad oysters once, but it wasn't that big of a deal. I just passed out and woke up in the ER. I was fine, not even a stomach ache, but everyone that was in the car while I was driving were quite shaken up, ha ha.
I went on TDY to Panama City in I think '75. We went to an oyster bar the first night there and the oysters were 50 cents a dozen, and many of them were too big for one mouthful. I don't remember how many I ate, but I was full of oysters and beer.
While living in South Korea, I used to eat oyster barbecue a lot, you take them alive leave them on fire and they start to cook and open by themselves. Also in case you go to Turkey don't miss that street food called stuffed mussels (Midye Dolma in Turkish), it is one of the best sea foods ever.
The daughter and SIL gave me this cast-iron Oyster pan for Christmas. Guess we'll have grilled oysters and raw for New Years.
Right out of the shell, some lemmon and a couple of drops of original Tabasco. But every once in a while I use smoked tabasco or a drop of Bullseye Hickory Smoke for that smokey taste. I love them a la Rockefeller too.
The Damascus blade looked a lot better Al. Don't go cheap on your soon to be son in law!
I once was the unwanted or pending son in law, until my father in law realized that at some point in time I was going to have a say on how often we were going to travel to Old Greenwich to see him an his wife. Since then he treats me like royalty.
Cheers,
J
The Damascus blade looked a lot better Al. Don't go cheap on your soon to be son in law!
I once was the unwanted or pending son in law, until my father in law realized that at some point in time I was going to have a say on how often we were going to travel to Old Greenwich to see him an his wife. Since then he treats me like royalty.
Cheers,
J
I seem to like oysters any way I can get them -- smoked, raw, steamed -- but I have to admit, fried is my favorite. My wife knows how to do that so they don't absorb much lard and stay pretty dry. Smoked are tasty little devils with a chilled dry white wine.
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