A couple of weeks ago when I was browsing Hog Island's Oyster Cookbook, I came across an interesting and truthful quote by food legend M.F.K. Fisher, "There are three kinds of oyster-eaters: those loose-minded sports who will eat anything, hot, cold, thin, thick, dead, or alive, as long as it is oyster; those who will only eat them raw and only raw; those who with equal severity eat them cooked and no other way." While I love oysters in any way, shape, or form, my mother only enjoys cooked oysters. What kind of oyster eater are you? Do you prefer fresh and cold or baked and savory?
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Would You Rather Eat Raw or Cooked Oysters?
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Aren't cooked oysters in the same boat as well done beef? Granted, I wouldn't order them far from the beach, but then why would you?
1i would have to say a big no to any kind of oyster. it's just not my thing at all!
2oysters are the one food I really dislike, cooked or raw, doesn't matter. I just don't like them.
3I love raw oysters! It's our Thanksgiving tradition to shuck oysters and enjoy them with champagne before the big meal.
4I like both variations, cooked, or raw.
But I only eat them in areas where they "grew up".
5I don't think I've ever had them cooked. I LOVE them raw...with a cold beer!
6Raw.
7I don't really eat oysters...they kind of gross me out.
8Raw oysters only, especially with cocktail sauce and horseradish!
9I have never tried raw oysters, but I love oysters rockefeller!
10Oysters are for making pearls only! ha ha ha I won't touch them, but my husband loves them raw, with horseradish, and a couple of Coronas!
11I've only eaten cooked oysters. I want to try raw someday
12Sorry, not a fan of Oyster ... no matter how it's cooked (or not).
13If you have never tried a fresh one...try just one small one topped with a bit of some type of sauce. You will taste the ocean. My partner recently got brave and had some and now will have one or two every time we have them!
14Raw! With some fresh lemon.
15Of course a fisherman is offering it.
Yummy...
Fresh from the sea, raw. Add cracker, lemon, hot sauce. My mouth is already watering! I could eat 2 dozen!
16Ew.
17I can kind of force myself to eat them if they're cooked and not too huge, but I could never do it raw. I'm trying to get better about eating seafood, but slurping it raw and juicy out of the shell is just too much for me!
18Oysters in any form make me spew. And the worst part is that I actually like 'em...just can't eat 'em.
19chilled over rock salt with just a drop of tabasco and lime juice!
20gross either way...
21raw or cooked, I prefer them Steamed. If I eat them raw they cant be too huge, cracker size is best.
22I LOVE LOVE LOVE raw oysters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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