Bozeman: is it really that bad anymore?

[Hem]

What do they taste like? No crude jokes please. mtmuley

If you've never eaten oysters, clams, or mussels ...tough to describe.
Tastes like the sea,...
Its the texture that people struggle with.

 

[mtmuley]

If you've never eaten oysters, clams, or mussels ...tough to describe.
Tastes like the sea,...
Its the texture that people struggle with.

My fish food comes from Montana. mtmuley

 

[INMT]

If you've never eaten oysters, clams, or mussels ...tough to describe.
Tastes like the sea,...
Its the texture that people struggle with.

Some of my favs, texture don’t matter. My dad moved to and grew up in Maryland. I grew up visiting and eating blue crabs, clams, mussels and oysters. Love them To this day.

 

[Hem]

Some of my favs, texture don’t matter. My dad moved to and grew up in Maryland. I grew up visiting and eating blue crabs, clams, mussels and oysters. Love them To this day.

Yep, I grew up on the same.
Extended family, not blood, had an island of the coast of Maine. Visited a handful of times. Fond memories of rowing a boat out to intercept lobstermen to buy a meal. We would go down to the rocky shoreline to flip over seaweed for mussels. Build a fire, lay down a layer of seaweed, then mussels, then cover with more seaweed. Steam until done.
Wife's family is on the coast of Washington. Look forward to our summer visits. The seafood, especially crab, is awesome.

 

[Rack Daniels]

What do they taste like? No crude jokes please. mtmuley

Salty and savory but really depends on so many things. Biggest thing is small scale joints want to make every dollar count. If you steam or boil or otherwise cook the oyster and it doesn’t open- give a gentle tap or two. If the oyster doesn’t open it could indicate that the oyster is dead and is unsafe to consume. Shellfish poisoning. Places “could” pry them open and serve them anyhow but it would be a potentially deadly cost. Best to look up recipes and buy them “fresh” at winco or an IGA or something…

 

[Carnage2011]

If you've never eaten oysters, clams, or mussels ...tough to describe.
Tastes like the sea,...
Its the texture that people struggle with.

The texture is what ruins them for me. My wife talked me into trying them last summer. The minute that thing touched my throat it came right back out…along with everything else I ate that day. Those things are god awful!

 

[BigHornRam]

6-8 , once a year.
Only if I am on the coast.

And only in months with a r in them, September through April.

 

[BigHornRam]

The texture is what ruins them for me. My wife talked me into trying them last summer. The minute that thing touched my throat it came right back out…along with everything else I ate that day. Those things are god awful!

Not supposed to eat them in the summer. Wife must have been trying to poison you.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Leave it to "death by sushi" to unite the board.

 

[BigHornRam]

Yep, I grew up on the same.
Extended family, not blood, had an island of the coast of Maine. Visited a handful of times. Fond memories of rowing a boat out to intercept lobstermen to buy a meal. We would go down to the rocky shoreline to flip over seaweed for mussels. Build a fire, lay down a layer of seaweed, then mussels, then cover with more seaweed. Steam until done.
Wife's family is on the coast of Washington. Look forward to our summer visits. The seafood, especially crab, is awesome.

I had a bad experience with cooked mussels at a Potlatch, Idaho restaurant once. Mussels were being purged from the entrance and exit at the same time. I'm not a fan of them anymore. Clams, crab, and oysters are hard to beat though.

 

[dfbeatty65]

More rude self entitled people that expect you to hold the door but won’t do you the same courtesy. Drivers think where they are going is more important than where you are going. Businesses cater to the retired and wealthy, and wonder why nobody wants to work and everyone wants to spend. When I started renting it was $400 a month for a 2 bedroom. Now I’m paying 1800 for a 3 bedroom. My coworker is paying 2200 for a similar apartment. Development is eating away at every last piece of farmland, and the newcomers are utilizing every last piece of public land that would typically hold game, to walk their dogs and film for commercials and shoot their microwaves. Nobody waves in the county roads anymore, hunters want to beat you to a spot rather share information and work together. Stringers full of fish rolling down the riverbank and heads of elk cut off left to rot. All things I never saw much of 10-15 years ago.

 

[Hem]

I had a bad experience with cooked mussels at a Potlatch, Idaho restaurant once. Mussels were being purged from the entrance and exit at the same time. I'm not a fan of them anymore. Clams, crab, and oysters are hard to beat though.

Ya know @BigHornRam ...eating mussels DOES invigorate certain activities that are pleasurable.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Best to look up recipes and buy them “fresh”

Good advice.
Freshest oysters found years ago as I was water skiing Hood Canal near Puget Sound. Swinging into a bay with a nice beach for lunch, I dropped the ski rope and my ski settled into a bed of oysters. Unloading the beer and snacks, we filled the cooler with fresh oysters. Salt water from the Hood Canal flavored the fresh oysters nicely.

BTW, Bozeman wouldn't be that bad anymore if a fresh oyster bar would open.

 

[Forkyfinder]

Raw fish is good and I've not been sick from it. Like some other life risks - sometimes it's worth it sometimes it isn't , make good choices. Raw beef is better though, done right .

What do they taste like? No crude jokes please. mtmuley

@mtmuley it really depends what you have them with. Vinegar/lemon/soy sauce is common with them raw and it produces slightly different flavors to compliment the oyster. Id say it sort of tastes like a slimy shrimp. I also like oysters Rockefeller style - which is how id recommend having them if you aren't sure if they are fresh and high enough quality to consume raw. It's actually not hard to cook, worth a try.

Oysters Rockefeller

Oysters Rockefeller is simple to prepare but so impressive! It's a perfect dish for Christmas, New Year's Eve or Valentine's Day.

www.thewickednoodle.com

 

[TOGIE]

As a former sushi line cook (nigiri and sashimi was my station) in Wyoming I can honestly say this: It's always gonna be a gamble eating raw fish in the interior west.

now you know this just ain't true. with usda freezing standards for parasite safety your sushi on the coast or inland was flash frozen and sent straight to the restaurant.

a top tier sushi restaurant in denver is serving sushi that is functionally no less fresh than you can get in hawaii at the end of the day.

you're conflating rural wyoming thawed food safety and handling standards with "interior west" quality. just cause the manager forgot he thawed the fish 6-7 days ago in a suboptimal refrigerator cause he "powdered" up in the bathroom after doesn't mean that's how it works in every restaurant

 

[Rack Daniels]

Me too, friend. Me too.
Be the change you want to see in the world…

 

[Hem]

Most people swallow oysters whole out of the shell....a little squeezed lemon on top. I like to savor them a bit before they go down.

 

[Carnage2011]

Not supposed to eat them in the summer. Wife must have been trying to poison you.

I have no idea. We had a buddy here from Washington that brought a bunch. I can look back at pics of when he was here but probably won’t waste the time lol

 

[BigHornRam]

Most people swallow oysters whole out of the shell....a little squeezed lemon on top. I like to savor them a bit before they go down.

I suppose to a purist like you, dunking them in seafood cocktail sauce is the same as dumping ketchup on a good steak?

 

[Ben Lamb]

now you know this just ain't true. with usda freezing standards for parasite safety your sushi on the coast or inland was flash frozen and sent straight to the restaurant.

a top tier sushi restaurant in denver is serving sushi that is functionally no less fresh than you can get in hawaii at the end of the day.

you're conflating rural wyoming thawed food safety and handling standards with "interior west" quality. just cause the manager forgot he thawed the fish 6-7 days ago in a suboptimal refrigerator cause he "powdered" up in the bathroom after doesn't mean that's how it works in every restaurant

I eat the sushi from Safeway, so...

Also, nu-uh.