"Rodney Myrvaagnes" wrote in message
> >
> I chew them myself, but I won't buy them already shucked.
>
> I urge you to learn to shuck them, or get your SO to do it. Even if
> you will cook them, they are better when just shucked. More so eaten
> raw.
>
> If you are leery of the oyster knife, you can break the shell with
> pliers at the end away from the hinge. Then you can cut the adductor
> muscle through the opening without risk of cutting your hand.
>
> If you are not serving on the half shell, there is really no harm
> doing it this way. It just doesn't look very elegant.
>
> Rodney Myrvaagnes



I'm lucky that I live in an area of commercial crabbers and oysterers. I
get my shucked oysters from a waterman living only about a mile away and
they're very fresh. Yes, we have an oyster knife and my husband can shuck
oysters, but if you don't want them on the half-shell that day and have
hungry mouths to feed, shucked oysters are a lazy woman's friends! Oysters
are delicious any way you fix them. Take heed, Charlie!

Dora