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"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:

> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
> > sf wrote:
> >> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:05:36 -0500, "jmcquown"
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does this sound about right?
> >>
> >> Good luck! IMO: If they are already frozen they are dead. I tried
> >> frozen once and it was a complete flop. Never again.
> >
> > Well, he's had them before and told me they open up. Most people know you
> > should not eat mussels that don't open. So really, I can't imagine why
> > they'd sell them this way if they knew they were dead.
> >
> > Jill
> >
> >
>
> That's not logical. When they're alive in their native environment, they're
> constantly washed with sal****er, which keeps them from freezing. Take them
> out of the water and freeze them, and I *suspect* it will kill them. But, if
> freezing is the only way to ship them to the backwater places, then that's
> what you get. Just cook the things.

But if they were alive when frozen, they DO pop open.

I can get whole fresh frozen mussels and clams, and have cooked both.
So far, I've never had one _not_ pop open on cooking, but she is correct.

Discard any that don't. The muscle that causes them to pop open on
cooking degenerates in a dead mollusk so partial rotting does tell.

The only thing that rots faster on death than seafood is reptiles.
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