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Anybody else like these things?

I don’t mind them slightly steamed or grilled and mostly eat raw. Of course only quality stuff.

Local clusters from Charleston pictured here. Delicious. This is my second haul in less than three weeks.

Had to have a taster before I take them to a buddy’s birthday gig tomorrow. Dirt bikes, guns and oysters.

Here is a photo of a raw taster, perfect!

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Smoked, steamed, fried, stewed, casserole, or raw. Raw is my favorite. Casserole or oyster stiffing are favs also. My neighbor for 12 years had a oyster roast for about a 75-100 folks as an all night event. Thousands of them with beer, liquor, and wine. Who knows what that cost. Last year I bought a case and 6 of us smoked and ate until stuffed.
 
Last night‘s dinner in Conway.
 
Keep it up and you'll have 2 or 3 more kids 😉
Gray said:
Anybody else like these things?

I don’t mind them slightly steamed or grilled and mostly eat raw. Of course only quality stuff.

Local clusters from Charleston pictured here. Delicious. This is my second haul in less than three weeks.

Had to have a taster before I take them to a buddy’s birthday gig tomorrow. Dirt bikes, guns and oysters.

Here is a photo of a raw taster, perfect!

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Grew up land locked and seems like eating a booger. Sell me. I’ve got Xmas coming up and would like to add some new stuff this year. Other than “love them” what’s it all about?
 

Full Moon Oyster Bar | North Carolina

The Full Moon Oyster Bar is a popular watering hole and seafood grill located in Clemmons, NC, Southern Pines, NC, Morrisville, NC, Jamestown, NC, Concord, NC, Atlantic Beach, NC, and Asheboro, NC.
www.fullmoonoysterbar.com

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Gray said:
Anybody else like these things?

I don’t mind them slightly steamed or grilled and mostly eat raw. Of course only quality stuff.

Local clusters from Charleston pictured here. Delicious. This is my second haul in less than three weeks.

Had to have a taster before I take them to a buddy’s birthday gig tomorrow. Dirt bikes, guns and oysters.

Here is a photo of a raw taster, perfect!

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You posted this in the cooking forum and I was worried you were going to turn them to rubber flavorless nonsense. Instead you DELIVERED!!! Today OP was THE MAN!!!! If they gotta be cooked you are getting bad oysters!!!
 
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LeeMajors said:
Keep it up and you'll have 2 or 3 more kids 😉
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Nope. Asked the doc to make it stop and made a visit. It’s all for fun from here on.
 
PXL_20211021_162316178.jpgOysters kind of grow on you. The raw ones seem like salty snot at first, so many people only like them cooked. I feel the more you eat them the less cooking you want. I personally like mine steamed a bit, but they can easily be overcooked. The salty ones are the best in opinion. Occasionally I will use some type of sauce, but I do not really like to hide the taste. I do tap each shell with something hard while I am washing them to make sure I do not cook a dead one.
 
Charlie said:
View attachment 405672Oysters kind of grow on you. The raw ones seem like salty snot at first, so many people only like them cooked. I feel the more you eat them the less cooking you want. I personally like mine steamed a bit, but they can easily be overcooked. The salty ones are the best in opinion. Occasionally I will use some type of sauce, but I do not really like to hide the taste. I do tap each shell with something hard while I am washing them to make sure I do not cook a dead one.
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So the more you eat salty snot the better you’ll enjoy it? Great sales pitch there. 🤨
 
Raw oysters are delicious. A little hot sauce and/or mignonette. I’m drooling thinking about it.
 
The world’s three best foods live on the bottom of the seas. Oysters, scallops, and crabs.
 
I just moved here from the Town of Oyster Bay, Long Island (like in that Billy Joel song - but not too near him!). Every year the village has an oyster fest where everyone tries to outdo everyone else's oyster recipe - delicious. My friend met his wife there 30+ years ago, then moved from near there to Charlotte.
 
Yall are going to have to help me out here. I was raised in house where seafood and fish wasn't welcome.

I had my first raw oysters a couple of years ago while on a business trip to Boston. The people I was with knew I had never ate raw oysters before. They ordered a big tray of different kinds of raw oysters and got me to try all the different varieties of them and they were really good.

Fast forward to 2019 and Myrtle Beach SC. I was at an upscale seafood restaurant and decided to try the local fresh oysters. OMG, they tasted just like the saltwater marsh outside smelled at low tide, nasty!

I haven't even tried to find local oysters here in NC since that experience. So it's hard for me to get excited about trying them again.

What am I doing wrong?
 
I love them on a saltine cracker with a smidge of horseradish and couple of drops of Tabasco! [emoji39]


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Gray said:
Anybody else like these things?

I don’t mind them slightly steamed or grilled and mostly eat raw. Of course only quality stuff.

Local clusters from Charleston pictured here. Delicious. This is my second haul in less than three weeks.

Had to have a taster before I take them to a buddy’s birthday gig tomorrow. Dirt bikes, guns and oysters.

Here is a photo of a raw taster, perfect!

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Steamed with a squeeze of lemon!
 
I’ll eat oysters about any way you can prepare them. Whether it’s in stew or raw I love them all.
 
Oysters to me are like women.

I’ll eat them anyway I can get them.

Raw, steamed, fried, Rockefeller,
In a stew. Whatever.
 
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dirt bikes and oysters!

Both kids 10 and 7, rode the dirt bike today for pretty much the first time. 2 stroke 80!
 
I got a bucketfull this afternoon. Murrells Inlet Oysters, best around. Most oysters come from inlets where rivers run out into the ocean, where the oysters get a fair share of fresh water. Murrells Inlet is 100% salt water all the time, no rivers running out to the ocean here.
 
Steaming some oysters on the BGE now! Pics to follow!!!
 
My grandfather owned an oyster bar . A steamed oyster was the first real solid food I ever ate.My mother had a picture of me at one year old eating one and me nawing on a chicken legI absolutely love oysters any way you want to cook it. Raw ,steamed, oyster stew ,fried buffaloed, in hot sauce,roasted on the grill with parmesan cheese like they cook them at Full Moon Oyster bar in Morrisville.Those are killer.
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MikeS. said:
My backyard is literally Stump Sound. I harvest our own. The wife and I love them anyway we can get them.

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I've always heard the Stump Sound oysters were awesome but never tried them............anywhere you can purchase them ?
 
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That is a pea crab. They're a parasitic organism and they taste great. If you get a bunch of them sauteeing them quickly in brown butter, thyme, and garlic is tasty.

Good Carolina oysters High Tiders, Carolina golds, Carolina Dreaming

Massachusetts oysters are generally awesome, especially Well Fleets and Half Moons

Virginia oysters at least those from around James River are not good...super brittle shells and dirty AF inside the shell
 
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I've always heard the Stump Sound oysters were awesome but never tried them............anywhere you can purchase them ?
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I know of 2 places in Sneads Ferry where I buy from If I don’t get them fresh, I mean 30 seconds out of the water fresh, from the guy that just harvested them on the edge of my place.

But… I don’t know the names. I’ll find out and get back to you.
 
Ohhh oysters. Natures lil filter delicacy.

Fresh pack of saltines, sliced up lemon, horseradish and some cocktail sauce. I can put a hurting on a bushel and a 6 pack.
 
MikeS. said:
My backyard is literally Stump Sound. I harvest our own. The wife and I love them anyway we can get them.

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That's where my favorite come from! Family lives in Jacksonville so I always try to get a bushel or two to eat with them. Very lightly steamed. I don't mind fighting alittle to crack one open but raw is just too much work, but I'm eating them as a meal not an appetizer. Hands get tired normally before I fill up 😂
 
cold1 said:
Yall are going to have to help me out here. I was raised in house where seafood and fish wasn't welcome.

I had my first raw oysters a couple of years ago while on a business trip to Boston. The people I was with knew I had never ate raw oysters before. They ordered a big tray of different kinds of raw oysters and got me to try all the different varieties of them and they were really good.

Fast forward to 2019 and Myrtle Beach SC. I was at an upscale seafood restaurant and decided to try the local fresh oysters. OMG, they tasted just like the saltwater marsh outside smelled at low tide, nasty!

I haven't even tried to find local oysters here in NC since that experience. So it's hard for me to get excited about trying them again.

What am I doing wrong?
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You're not doing anything wrong. Oysters vary in flavor based on location, how much it rained prior to being harvested and how they are prepared. Like others have said most oysters are harvested near fresh water rivers run into the ocean.(don't ask me why) but if there is a lot of rainfall they can taste anywhere from fresh to awful due to nasty runoff. If you buy oysters from a seafood market you can buy different "grades" of oysters. It's seperated by price of where they come from. This is a major difference if you are eating them raw because there's nothing to mask that flavor like breading or being in a stew.
 
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