The foreshore where I live is owned by the Crown and so the freedom to glean and harvest the tide's gifts is given to 'the people'. For over fifty years I have picked oysters from this and other Crown foreshores for personal consumption. I have not seen one other person picking foreshore oysters in many years now, and when most people think of oysters they often contort their faces and explain how horrid they think oysters are to eat.
I often ask folks if they like eating cockles and mussels and get positive answers, and then I explain that if oysters are boiled for three minutes then they are even more delicious than the big Irish mussels that are sold in our foodmarkets. And they are so large that three of the biggest oysters can be a small meal.
And so I collect them, open them and cut out the oysters which I then boil for three minutes.... this cleans out each oyster as well as cooks it.
I never ever eat an oyster uncooked, and shellfish poison paralysis can be the result of doing that... I often think of Moses' Law about shellfish in connection with anything like that.
For the OP I'll show one picture for interest. DSC02577.JPG
I often ask folks if they like eating cockles and mussels and get positive answers, and then I explain that if oysters are boiled for three minutes then they are even more delicious than the big Irish mussels that are sold in our foodmarkets. And they are so large that three of the biggest oysters can be a small meal.
And so I collect them, open them and cut out the oysters which I then boil for three minutes.... this cleans out each oyster as well as cooks it.
I never ever eat an oyster uncooked, and shellfish poison paralysis can be the result of doing that... I often think of Moses' Law about shellfish in connection with anything like that.
For the OP I'll show one picture for interest. DSC02577.JPG
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