This Video Explains the Best Way to Eat Fresh Oysters.
You may know how to peel oysters , but do you know the best way to eat them fresh? This video provides some tips for making sauces and side dishes, and getting them from the shell to your mouth.
In this video from the YouTube channel Zagat , chef Michael Cressotti gives skinny skinny a plate of fresh oysters on a half shell. Here are some important tips:
- Eat the first plain of oysters by swallowing it straight from the shell (this is nature’s spoon). This will get you a good taste of the liquor (the salty liquid that surrounds the oyster meat) and prepares your taste for the rest of the plate.
- Don’t drown oysters in hot sauce or cocktail sauce so you can really taste the oyster meat and liqueur. A small spoonful of a cocktail fork will do.
- Add lemon juice to oysters one at a time, right before you eat them, instead of squeezing lemon all over the oysters at once. Otherwise, if you don’t eat them quickly, the acid can change the taste and texture of the oysters.
For that matter, you should eat the oysters the way you like. These are your oysters, and you paid for them. That being said, if you drop liquor and drown oysters in so many fillings that you can’t taste them at all, you may just not like fresh oysters. In this case, there are cheaper ways to fix a cocktail or hot sauce.
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