Oysters

[JEBar]

when we are in the mood for oysters and plan to fix them at home, we usually buy them in the shell, clean them and then steam them .... we even made an oyster cleaner and steamer that has served us well for many years .... I made the basket by bending old style metal bread racks from a mountain country store into a basket that hold a half bushel .... fill it with mud covered fresh oysters in the shell and cut loose with a pressure washer .... flip the basket as needed and you and clean the half bushel in a few minutes .... the steamer is a commercial, stainless steel double boiler .... I drilled the holes in the upper section .... place it on a turkey fryer burner and you can steal a bunch of oysters in a hurry .... sadly, buying a bushel of oysters has priced itself out of our pocketbook .... now days we buy them already shelled by the pint or quart and instead of steaming we poach them .... to do so we purchased a thin muffin pan from Walmart .... the heat is provided by our Holland Companion Grill .... we poach the oysters in a mixture of drawn butter, lemon juice and garlic juice .... after being sufficiently cooked we keep them in warm in a cup of the same mixture .... we serve them on a saltine cracker .... my wife likes to sprinkle shredded Parmesan cheese on hers

[CT_Shooter]

Your poached recipe sounds really good. I love oysters, too, though I usually eat them raw and prefer them in the shell. There are several CT oyster farms that keep a steady supply of Blue Points available all year long, they're currently about $1 each. Yum.

[JEBar]

can't handle them raw but have a good number of friends who do .... in our part of the country, most seafood is fried "Calabash" style

[Mags]

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yuk, snotty little things

[markiver54]

Your poached recipe sounds really good. I love oysters, too, though I usually eat them raw and prefer them in the shell. There are several CT oyster farms that keep a steady supply of Blue Points available all year long, they're currently about $1 each. Yum.

We're with you Stan...love them on the 1/2 shell. Been eating them that way our entire adult life. A little Mignonette sauce, topped with a little Caviar, or, just Tobasco and lemon! Love them!
might have to try the poached method sometime also. We do love them fried as well.

[RetiredSeabee]

Love oysters, steamed, fried, smoked, poached, stewed, raw....... pretty much any way it could be possible to eat them.

[Dahliathemeh]

Eeewwwww...

[Mistered]

Love oysters, steamed, fried,

Especially the Rocky Mountain variety fried...........

[JEBar]

for home use we have an Outset Cast Iron Grill Pan with 12 Oyster Slots... ours can be seen in the first thee pictures, the last two are promotional pictures .... being cast iron it is heavy and heavy duty .... it is too large to use with the grill we use at home and on the road .... at home we use it in the oven and while traveling we can use it with or 3 burner camping stove .... we've used it to cook oysters in the shell, on the half shell and shelled .... we are ordering a smaller one to use with our camping grill

[Mistered]

Man thats some purdy welding leather for grilling!

[JEBar]

any more, my welding gloves are used for handling hot cooking gear than they are for welding

[markiver54]

for home use we have an Outset Cast Iron Grill Pan with 12 Oyster Slots... ours can be seen in the first thee pictures, the last two are promotional pictures .... being cast iron it is heavy and heavy duty .... it is too large to use with the grill we use at home and on the road .... at home we use it in the oven and while traveling we can use it with or 3 burner camping stove .... we've used it to cook oysters in the shell, on the half shell and shelled .... we are ordering a smaller one to use with our camping grill

Oysters...bring em on!! Don't even have to cook them for me...

[JEBar]

I have several friends who enjoy them raw but I need to have mine spend some time with a fire under them .. .. same way with sushi, the only way I'll eat it is to cook it a while first ...

[BigAl52]

I know a few guys that have eaten them raw and ended up flat on there back in the hospital. No raw ones for me. Dad liked them raw with tabasco sauce. I like them smoked.

[JEBar]

I like them smoked.

what wood have you found works well for smoking oysters

[markiver54]

I have several friends who enjoy them raw but I need to have mine spend some time with a fire under them .. .. same way with sushi, the only way I'll eat it is to cook it a while first ...

What form of Sushi do you cook?

[JEBar]

What form of Sushi do you cook?

no clue, once the word Sushi is mentioned, I'm out of the conversation .... for me the reality is I simply don't care for the taste of fish .... do enjoy several types of seafood .... as noted above, we did order a smaller Cast Iron Oyster Grill Pan with 6 cups (for lack of a better term) ====> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MR ... UTF8&psc=1 .... interesting to read that it can also be used to cook corn bread, drop biscuits, single serving mac 'n' cheese and such .... we believe the grand kids will get a kick out of us making "special" individual servings of mac 'n' cheese for them .... these pans must be a pretty good seller because they are out of stock with more due in a little over a week from now

[GunnyGene]

Eeewwwww...

I bet you don't like escargot either.

[Mags]

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ditto on both

Eeewwwww...

I bet you don't like escargot either.

[BigAl52]

Jim
I use only Hickory and Mesquite. Either one of those I like. I have used Apple and a few others. Apple does a good job with pork. But Im not to fond of it with any of the other meats.