For those who for the first time decided to decorate the holiday table with oysters topical is an issue how to open oysters in house conditions. It is simple to make it, however without special knowledge the opening of an oyster can turn into a problem.
How to open an oyster?
There are several ways as it is correct to open an oyster:
- By the most known method how to open an oyster without oyster knife, the way of opening by means of lemon juice is. Drip on shutters of a mollusk several drops of juice of a lemon and wait about five minutes. Shutters will reveal, and it will be possible to regale on a gentle delicacy without effort.
- Before opening an oyster a usual knife, it is worth washing her with flowing water. It is necessary to remove with a rigid brush from a sink dirt and sand. After that it is possible to start opening of an oyster. If there is no special knife, it is possible to use usual. However it has to be not really thick, strong and with a short edge. The oyster should be taken in a towel, the sharp party up. The knife should be placed between two shutters and to turn accurately that the oyster revealed. At the same time it is necessary to try that the sink sharply did not turn and juice was not spilled.
- It is the best of all to open a sink by means of an oyster knife. It has the blunted end that reduces risk of traumatizing hands during opening of oysters. Also, as well as when opening by a usual knife, an oyster clean and wash out. After that the sink is put in a dense towel that it was more convenient to open. The oyster knife is placed between shutters and, slightly turning it here and there, try to obtain opening of a sink. In a sink there can be a sand which should be cleaned off accurately a knife. After that it is necessary to carry out by a knife under a mollusk finally to separate it with a sink.