I'm an Oyster Shucker's wife. I'll explain.
On Saturday Mark and I were supposed to go over to Fanø with our friends Emma and Brent to take part in an oyster hunt. The couple that run the brewery (Mahalia and Ryan - see previous blogs) wanted volunteers to help them collect oysters for a special brew on which Ryan was working. However, for a variety of reasons we decided not to go but the lovely Emma collected a small pillow of oysters for us that she recommended we prepare Kilpatrick style.
So the engineer in the family got 'tooled up' for some serious shucking.
This delicate operation was quickly abandoned for a more tried and trusted engineering technique ......
The Hammer! (apologies for the gratuitous bum cleavage)
Oysters Kilpatrick - now you see them .....
Now you don't!
Small dogs like the too.
Mark demonstrating that despite his unconventional shucking technique he managed to retain all 10 digits!
On Saturday Mark and I were supposed to go over to Fanø with our friends Emma and Brent to take part in an oyster hunt. The couple that run the brewery (Mahalia and Ryan - see previous blogs) wanted volunteers to help them collect oysters for a special brew on which Ryan was working. However, for a variety of reasons we decided not to go but the lovely Emma collected a small pillow of oysters for us that she recommended we prepare Kilpatrick style.
So the engineer in the family got 'tooled up' for some serious shucking.
This delicate operation was quickly abandoned for a more tried and trusted engineering technique ......
The Hammer! (apologies for the gratuitous bum cleavage)
Oysters Kilpatrick - now you see them .....
Now you don't!
Small dogs like the too.
As a person who can't slice bread without removing a digit (only two small kitchen-based injuries this week....so far), I'm full of admiration for the Chief Shucker's technique (oo, er!). However, the question occurs, why are you not in possession of an oyster knife? I know why I'm not, but you've clearly done this sort of thing before so.....?
ReplyDeleteOnly the second time I have had oysters, as it goes! The first time was in a restaurant so shucked by someone else, as it were! I adore mussels but am easy ozey about oysters.
ReplyDelete