/ck/ - Food & Cooking

they are quite good, yes.

shrimps are better and octopies are the best

>>16767043
Ovtoginas don't really have a flavor. It's all texture.

>>16767052
and what a texture it is

>>16767027
They are breddy gud

Fra Diovla

>>16767052
maybe if you're eating shit octopus

>>16768828
The
>you're not eating a good quality variant of said food argument
Maybe you just like the seasoning, and are too stupid to realize that it's not naturally part of tge octocunny?

how do you eat them? why dont you get rid of the shells beforehand? this looks like a pain in the ass to eat

>>16767027
I have never eaten a fresh mussel.
Only canned mussels.
All my life only canned.
some day i will try frozen mussels.
at least they come with the shells.
that would be nice.

>>16770688
You will eat the canned sea bugs

>>16770692
i wish to eat a frozen mussel :)

>>16767027
A pub I used to go to had 25 cent mussel night, same way some places have wing night. They had 4 or 5 preparations, like tomato and basil, white wine, butter and garlic, etc.. or just plain steamed. I remember getting drunk and eating 3 or 4 dozen per night, with 5 or 6 pints of ale over a few hours.
Those were the days, boys.

I really don't like the shells in the dish, WHY? Is it to avoid some scam were people use a slightly different shellfish? Is it just to show everyone you're eating mussels and are super fancy? It's like poorly deboning a fish and leaving me to pick them out fuck you you lazy fucks

>>16770809
the clacking and clattering of the shells is pleasant to the guest's ears.

>>16770766
holy fuck what I would give to experience that. Im born and raised midwest so mussels aren't so hot here.
>>16770809
if you cook them outside their shell they lose their juice and dry out fast. it's not pretension you dumb faggot it's biology

>>16770831
Yeah but can't the chef spend a few seconds removing the large inedible parts before serving it to me? I'd understand if it was like oysters and you eat them from the shell. Imagine an oyster stew or something and they just throw whole oysters in the shell into some soup it's retarded

>>16770847
the shells are not inedible, cooked correctly they become soft and spongy.

>>16770856
I'll admit that I googled that despite knowing it's retarded

>>16770863
lmao got 'em

>>16770847
mussels are like oysters though. the shells are similar to bones but on the exterior. you wouldn't expect chicken wings pulled off the bone, gristle and all, on your plate for you.
no, what you're implying is a handicap. maybe you should go to a hospital where they serve dumb retards food that's impossible to choke on

>>16770847
the real reason they leave shells on the plate is because it looks like you get a bigger meal.

>>16770897
Stop being a fag

>>16770948
Thank you

>>16770952
youre welcome honey.

>>16770897
You didn't have to murder him like that

>>16770658
The Shell works as a sort of spoon to scoop out the sauce and the mussel comes off with little effort when you eat it from the there.
You obviously get your hands dirty like that, which is why over here they are always served with those refreshing lemon-scented wet towels to clean your hands afterwards.
You can eat them with cutlery but sometimes it's just more of a hassle than getting your hands dirty so yeah, it's way better to serve them out of the shell if you don't want to use your hands. I suppose it's to save time since it already takes a lot of work to clean the shell before cooking the things.

>>16767027
Is it true that you should only eat them during the colder months (all months that end with r)?
What about frozen ones?

>>16770995
Yeah dyeing the summer they lose weight so there's not as much meat on them, better waiting till its cold and they've chubbed up a bit

>>16770995
frozen ones caught during JD jfk ffs if fine but dont gf ta reda

>>16771000
Wasn't the real reason algae blooms ? I don't remember too well, but I think algae toxins are concentrated in mussels.

>>16770766
sounds comfy as fuck

>>16770995
You're thinking of raw oysters. All that shit is all farmed nowadays anyway so no worries year around.

>>16767027
dude bro my local bar used to have mussels, ribs, and wings in piles.
i should have married that waitress.

>>16770831
>Im born and raised midwest so mussels aren't so hot here.
how close are you to the great lakes? lots of bars around lake erie serve mussels

>>16770897
>food that's impossible to choke on
aka red clam chowder

Used to cook 20kg+ on a busy shift.

They are a breeze to cook. But a fucking chore to clean. Debearding that many mussels is a depressing task.

>>16770897
>you wouldn't expect chicken wings pulled off the bone, gristle and all, on your plate for you
man i wish

>>16767027
Why are muscle and mussel pronounced the same?

>>16773514
Indiana. I talked to a chef here once and he claimed he was the only restaurant in town ordering fresh mussels from piazza (the "local" scysco). scysco will deliver fresh food too but I think it's just my shitty city with bad taste

>>16773514
Not that Anon, but I live within a mile of Lake Michigan, and there are almost no seafood places here. The ones that do exist import their fish and shellfish. It's for the best; the Great Lakes are polluted to high holy hell.

>>16770897
Do they keep the bones in chicken soup on purpose before serving it? Do they serve your pasta with chicken wings in it instead of deboned chicken breast?
No, they don't, you fucking retard.

>>16770766
There's a bar a few miles over that has a bucket of muscles in those exact three preparations you mentioned. It even comes with soft bread that you can soak in the sauce. Holy fuck is it good.
I haven't been there since before covid. If the weather is nice this weekend maybe I should walk up there alone just to pig out.

>>16775061
>the Great Lakes are polluted to high holy hell.
not really, not since the 70's

>>16775101
don't go home alone, anon.

>>16767027
I usually steam them in a white wine broth. What kind of sauce is in the OP?

>>16767027
Tie me to a mussle and fire me at Red Lobster I am ready.

>>16770897
Lol based and true

>>16775590
If it's anything like how they do it over here, it's just oil, garlic, parsley, tomato sauce and a bit of the filtered broth that the mussels were cooked in. Plenty of garlic goes both in the tomato and with the mussels beforhand. God tier recipe

>>16775853
Sounds delicious. I'll try something like that next time.

>>16767027
Mussels w/Green sauce from a Spanish restaurant always hits the spot.

>>16770995
Just make sure that they're from a crowded restaurant.

>>16773539
I've gotten some serious fucking food poisoning from mussels before. There must've been a spoiled one in the pot, or somebody pried open a dead one. Why is shellfish so fucking risky?

>>16770809
>mussels
>super fancy

>>16777508
anything that isn't tendies is super fancy for plebs

>>16777485
what part of the world were you in when this happened?

>>16767027
You’re dead on. I have a belgian pub in my town that serves mussels and fries that are amazing.

>>16778375
1st world

>>16767027
Based muscles

>>16773539
>Debearding that many mussels is a depressing task.
i will never eat mussels after spending 10+ hours every week debearding. the smell lingered on my hands which ruined eating anything for the rest of the day. don't even get me started on barnacles

>>16768828
>eating the most intelligent sea creature
they can show you feelings with their colors of how they like or hate you

>>16778838
never saw barnacles on a menu before wtf

>>16767027
mussels are amazing. Tried them for the first time this year and fell in love.

>>16767027
Wow that looks like diarrhea water

>>16779534
Go see a doctor

>>16779534
You would know

>>16779551
>>16779553
Triggered snail eaters

My mom loves them so I used to eat them a lot. I don't get it, they're good but as a seafood lover I wouldn't say I distinctly prefer them over any other kind. I mean, I guess they are better than some more bland types of fish if neither are prepared well. But even a flavorless whitefish is pretty damn good if you bread and fry it. One fourth of July a few years ago the family hosting made this amazing authentic Italian seafood pasta. As part of that dish the mussels were absolutely great.

What can be done with the broth besides bread?

>>16770658
You have a big bowl in a corner of the table that you throw the shells in while eating

>>16779954
juice for the macaroni

>>16775091
You've never had bone-in braised chicken with in a sauce? Because OP's image is mussels served in their cooking liquid.

>>16779957
We just throw them on the floor and not give it a second thought, kind of like peanut shells.

>>16767027
True, my mussle bro. Its not holiday until i had mussles in white wine garlic broth

>>16781015
That looks good, big enough to share with a girlfriend.

>>16781015
They are so good

what are some good beers to pair with mussels?

>>16781062
Maybe Hoegaarden or some other wheat beer.

>>16781062
Budwiser, it's the king of beers.

Only a dumb fag would bother pairing some overpriced bullshit beer with mussles.

>>16781062
lagers and pilsners if you go with the garlic and/or white wine varieties.

>>16781101
>>16781157
You people have been drinking way too much to have come with silly bullshit like that.

>>16781160
Throw all that shit including the cat into the kitty litter bin.

>>16781160
Cute katte.
>>16781168
He asked a question and I answered. How is it bullshit?

>>16781168
Your opinion is noted. And discarded.

>>16770766
Fat whales like you ruined it for the rest of us.

>>16781589
Cry, bitch.
I got mine.