The all Encompassing Oyster thread! Raw, roasted, grilled, baked or however you love them. Home Cookouts and beyond!

[CHIEF 5095]

It's when a man learns to be a man, not a kid.

CHIEF

[conVINCEd 21473]

Shucking ain’t that hard.  I wouldn’t want to do it for a living, but a few dozen isn’t a big deal.  The first time a tried it I used a dish towel and a regular knife.  That was hard.  I got a purpose-built knife and a glove and it has been much easier.

[Anastasis 23473]

crab cake and grilled oysters in chorizo butter. 

 

[Anastasis 23473]

[MrPhlegm 3413]

Far from coonass so be gentle... the shucking has been a deterrent from getting them in the past, just whips my ass even with a good oyster knife. In recent times I’ve resorted to just popping a tray of them into the oven and they pop right open after a couple minutes. Does that create any health issues ‘soft heating’ them like that? They’ve gone into pasta dishes mainly after so they get flash cooked in the end anyhow.

fuck pasta. too much starch.

[Buzzrock 14953]

Niiiice.     PRO TIP:  Hire a couple shuckers.....  It's a lot of work to shuck oysters. It's more of a pain than picking crabs, which is a very social, beer drinking activity.  
It's site visit Tuesday tomorrow for my Chesapeake Bay projects because it's gonna be 70, I'm driving the convertible, and there's a killer oyster bar near 2 of my jobs.
 

Man I couldn’t disagree more. I hate picking crabs but I can sit around all afternoon shucking oysters. Plus the payoff is the entire oyster instead of a million tiny crabmeat shards.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

15 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

 

Man I couldn’t disagree more. I hate picking crabs but I can sit around all afternoon shucking oysters. Plus the payoff is the entire oyster instead of a million tiny crabmeat shards.

 

Well.... you don't see many oyster shucking events (around here at least).  You do see crab feasts all Summer long.  I've been picking crabs since I was 5 or 6, it's a skill.. a gift...  Oysters are just work IMO, but your results may vary.

[Anastasis 23473]

Last batch of gulf oysters shucked very easy. Did 18 in just a few minutes. 

Edited April 18, 2021 by Anastasis

[Buzzrock 14953]

Gulf oysters kinda freak me out. That’s a warm stew they are living in.

[Anastasis 23473]

On 4/18/2021 at 6:11 PM, Buzzrock said:

Gulf oysters kinda freak me out. That’s a warm stew they are living in.

Gulf don't give a shit. Happy hour is on. 

Edited April 23, 2021 by Anastasis

[Anastasis 23473]

TBH, I totally missed the transition from the bivalve thread to this one. But gonna throw the scallops down here.

[thrillhammer 684]

On 4/18/2021 at 6:11 PM, Buzzrock said:

Gulf oysters kinda freak me out. That’s a warm stew they are living in.

maybe there's a reason gulf oysters are some of the largest in the world.  there's a lot of food there for them to filter out.  apalachicola bay had for a long time the best tasting, most sought after oysters until that fishery died out.  nothing wrong with gulf oysters.  in fact, i prefer them to all the east coast, west coast, japanese, and european ones ive tasted.

[smuggs 9354]

Some oyster-related news that has us here in LC excited - they're opening a Drago's in L'Auberge this summer:

 

https://www.kplctv.com/2021/04/27/dragos-seafood-restaurant-opening-inside-lauberge-casino-resort/

 

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LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Drago’s Seafood Restaurant is set to open its sixth location inside L’Auberge Casino Resort Lake Charles this summer.

“Drago’s is a unique mix of Cajun, Creole, and New Orleans style food, and nothing makes me happier than to watch people enjoy our food. Lake Charles is about the get the most unique family restaurant,” said Tommy Cvitanovich, owner of Drago’s.

The restaurant will be located in the space that previously held Le Beaucoup Buffet.

 

[Brisketexan 105465]

Have had oysters a couple of places the last week.

La Joie in Cedar Park -- nice selection of east coast oysters on the halfshell.  Their grilled oysters....are okay.  The ones we make at home are significantly better.

Went to Eddie V's last night, had an assortment.   The gulf oysters were solid.  Tried some Pemaquids, they were plenty good.  And then had some blue points....and dammit, it just keeps coming back to the fact that on the half shell, blue points are my favorite oyster.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Merroir oyster bar Locklies, Va on the Rappaganock river 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

On 4/24/2021 at 8:36 AM, thrillhammer said:

maybe there's a reason gulf oysters are some of the largest in the world.  there's a lot of food there for them to filter out.  apalachicola bay had for a long time the best tasting, most sought after oysters until that fishery died out.  nothing wrong with gulf oysters.  in fact, i prefer them to all the east coast, west coast, japanese, and european ones ive tasted.

What's the taste that you get from the gulf oyster that you like better than an East Coast or West Coast or other varietal ? 

[thrillhammer 684]

6 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

What's the taste that you get from the gulf oyster that you like better than an East Coast or West Coast or other varietal ? 

the taste is not much different, maybe less saltier than east coast.  it's the size i like.  if i'm going to pay $2+ for one stinking oyster i want it to have more volume than a tablespoon.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

4 minutes ago, thrillhammer said:

the taste is not much different, maybe less saltier than east coast.  it's the size i like.  if i'm going to pay $2+ for one stinking oyster i want it to have more volume than a tablespoon.

Gotcha I  like a saltier oyster and I don't like a gigantic oyster I don't want to puy ones but  I like   Them  to be an inch and inch  to an half long at the most

[Wally Pryor 5263]

Quality Seafood still the best place to buy em shucked and raw?

[Pescado_Rojo 19443]

I've had good luck with Whole Foods this year. A couple weeks ago, Gulf Oysters were 55 cents each for prime members. I bought a whole sack for $55. 

[Brisketexan 105465]

25 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I've had good luck with Whole Foods this year. A couple weeks ago, Gulf Oysters were 55 cents each for prime members. I bought a whole sack for $55. 

And they were among the best gulf oysters I've ever had.  Good brininess, clean flavor, no bad ones.  And they were easily shuckable -- only one or two in the whole bag was tossed out unopened.

[Hpara759 1781]

headed down to fish out of Ingleside....any recommendations on a restaurant that does oysters ( Ingleside/Corpus) area? 

[Brisketexan 105465]

headed down to fish out of Ingleside....any recommendations on a restaurant that does oysters ( Ingleside/Corpus) area? 

Water Street.

[horn4life 3784]

oops I looked in my started threads and misread 2021 for 2022, and the 16th isn't the 19th... so oops.

Edited June 16, 2022 by horn4life

[Texzilla58 4745]

My time visiting east coast cities and then living in Portland I found cold water oysters to be my preference over gulf oysters. I prefer them smaller when eating raw.

We would go to one of the farms in southwest Washington and eat a bunch there while they shucked a bunch and cleaned the shells so I could take home and grill easily.

I like em on the half shell with a variety of sauces, chargrilled with butter and garlic, fried, and roasted.

I love the Bonnell’s dish of Oysters Texasfeller, and the Rockefeller at 801 in Des Moines, and grew up on the Four Flames barbecued oysters in Memphis as kid which were fried and dousedjin barbecue sauce.