Mussels are a special delicacy among seafood and oysters have a special position. But do you really eat them alive?
- Oysters are considered a luxury delicacy.
- They should taste particularly good when opened fresh and raw.
- Are the mussels still alive?
The shell of the oyster hardly suggests that it hides a coveted delicacy . It looks rather unspectacular, gray and crusty and yet when you see it, the hearts of many gourmets beat up.
However, just as many shy away from the thought of eating, after all, for the ultimate enjoyment, the oysters should not only be eaten fresh, but also alive . But is that really true? Does it twitch on the tongue, or how should you imagine? To clarify this, we need to look at how to prepare oysters before eating .
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Are oysters still alive when you eat them?
It is important that the oyster shell is tightly closed before preparation. This is the only way to ensure that the oyster is fresh, still alive and that the precious sea water is still contained. This way, oysters can survive a whole month out of the water . If the mussel is open, it is old, no longer tastes good and should also no longer be consumed for health reasons - by the way, this applies to all types of mussels *.
If you now open them with the oyster knife and cut the oyster sphincter, it should be according to the portal "SimpleMost" as if they were cutting the backbone of a vertebrate . In addition, the muscle is very close to the heart. So it may well be that oysters are killed by opening them, or at least just die. Since oysters do not move visibly for us - so there is no twitching on the tongue - there is no way to check this. You only have the "reassurance" that oysters have no brain and therefore should not feel pain stimuli - or at least process them as vertebrates would.
If you still want to try oysters, you don't have to eat them raw. Oysters are also a pleasure when baked or wrapped in dough .
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