OYSTERS

[jetro 5,349]

4 minutes ago, fenman1# said:

Done a few weeks on trawlar boat too never stayed there after first winter only job you go home in winter and say thank f**k I'm home

No joke on them, especially if your on a prawn boat. If the fishing good, no sleep lol

Atb j 

[JDHUNTING 1,817]

I've found if your a little hard up then you can find a shell on the beach, hoich a load of phlegm up and spit into the shell add some water out a rockpool that's been in the sun for a minimum of 3 hours and hey presto tastes just like oysters. Only think that lives in the sea I'm not sold on. Only had them raw to be fair I'd bet there grand cooked properly. I e put them in beef stews in the past aswell can't notice them at all but it was really nice so hopefully did something. Got that from a high fearnley eatitall recipe.

 

Had this platter in the summer I could tuck into it again about now

[JDHUNTING 1,817]

Got a few in my fish tank and all.know a good spot I can collect them by the hundreds

[Accip74 7,112]

We love them! Especially me & the boy. Not sure I’d ever bother with them at home, more of a nice little ritual to down a few oysters before a meal in a restaurant.

Back in the good old days when we were free to visit restaurants we ate most of our oysters over in Zeeland at a little place attached to an oyster farm or more recently between lockdowns a Spanish place in Eindhoven. Those were the days!
 

 

Edited December 18, 2020 by Accip74

[WILF 44,299]

I like almost all sea food but I have never been able to eat oysters.

 

[downsouth 6,836]

16 hours ago, jetro said:

Scallops are a better fish to eat. 

Gently fried in butter, non garlic for me, I want to taste the fish 

Atb j 

Spent a couple of winters Scalloping on my pals boat out of Rye harbour on the East Sussex coast.We would get a fresh uncut loaf from a bakery on the way every mornig and cook the scallops fresh as we picked them off the deck.Never had them taste so good since.

[downsouth 6,836]

Living 5mins from Whitstable which apparently has the beat oysters in the Uk and the famous oyster restaurant and festival I have them from time to time.Dont mind them but theyre not at the top of my list of shellfish.

[jetro 5,349]

15 minutes ago, downsouth said:

Spent a couple of winters Scalloping on my pals boat out of Rye harbour on the East Sussex coast.We would get a fresh uncut loaf from a bakery on the way every mornig and cook the scallops fresh as we picked them off the deck.Never had them taste so good since.

You should try them raw, a sweet, creamy salty texture, very nice espically since their that fresh

Atb j 

[jetro 5,349]

3 hours ago, WILF said:

I like almost all sea food but I have never been able to eat oysters.

 

I think lobster is the most over rated shellfish going. Crab meat is way ahead for flavour and texture imo 

Atb j 

[big sid 1,119]

never had them do they taste like mussels or whelks

[chartpolski 20,409]

Don't like them raw, but had them in Australia topped wth bacon bits and other stuff, Oysters Kilpatrick I think they're called, very nice.

I agree lobster is very over rated, and over priced. I'd prefer king prawn or tiger prawn any day !

Cheers.

[downsouth 6,836]

33 minutes ago, jetro said:

I think lobster is the most over rated shellfish going. Crab meat is way ahead for flavour and texture imo 

Atb j 

Bang on.Crab claws are much better value and taste just as nice if not better.

[downsouth 6,836]

14 minutes ago, big sid said:

never had them do they taste like mussels or whelks

Nothing like whelks.If you saw what a whek has as its last meal I doubt youd ever eat the rank dirty things again.

[downsouth 6,836]

Girl I grew up with and her husband who Ive known for years own a couple of seafood stalls down here.Fatal if I'm passing one of them on a weekend as I always end up stopping for a chat and leaving a good 40quid lighter.

[jetro 5,349]

Anyone eat limptis, barnacles, lovely in a soup, as well as razor clams, tastes like squid.

Atb j