date night – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg date night – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 How-To: Shuck Oysters at Home http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/shuck-oysters-home/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/shuck-oysters-home/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:00:22 +0000 http://www.ingoodtastemag.com/?p=7973 Like knowing the how to crack and cook a whole lobster, shucking an oyster is a skill that you might not need every day, but it’s a very handy trick to have up your sleeve when the opportunity arises. It’s a skill that we’re still working on honing, but master shucker Matt Balikov, who posts behind the oyster bar at Chicago’s seafood mecca Pearl Tavern, has perfected the craft quite impressively. Though there is an old adage dictating that we should only eat oysters in months that have the letter “R” in them, that rule no longer applies. Balikov says that this rule comes from a time when we did not have strong and efficient means of refrigeration for transportation. Since we can now send oysters from coast to coast in a matter of hours after harvest, they are generally considered to be available year round. There are some types that can only be purchased in certain time periods for reason such as ice sheet formation, accessibility to harvest locations and individual farmers preferences,but in general, seasonality is no longer a major issue for oysters. With the widespread availability of oysters from coast to coast, we taped Balikov to give us some tips […]

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