Les Huîtres

Comment Les Ouvrir?

Appears in
top 1000Ripailles: Traditional French Cuisine
Ripailles

By Stéphane Reynaud

Published 2008

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OYSTERS: HOW DO YOU OPEN THEM?
For the clumsier ones among us, protect your hands.
  1. Place your thumb 1 cm from the end of the blade.
  2. Insert the blade between the two shell halves at the level of the muscle located in the upper two-thirds.
  3. Cut through the muscle horizontally.
  4. Lift and remove the upper half-shell without tearing the oyster meat, which must remain whole.
  • n°5: 30 to 45 g
  • n°4: 46 to 65 g
  • n°3: 66 to 85 g
  • n°2: 86 to 110 g
  • n°1: 111 to 150 g
If you haven’t found any pearls, make yourself a necklace from oyster shells of different grades.