deposit a couple of checks at the bank

fiddle with my bike

RATE

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17608485)

I've never shucked an oyster before. I'll be learning off of youtube.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17608489)

I will post pics as soon as I'm done.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17608939)

*puts on cap and jacket*

*gets 3 leashes*

*rounds up three cats and leashes them up*

*grabs glass and heads outside*

Alright guys, push that water out of the ground!

*waits patiently for cats to use their kneading instinct to push water out of the ground*

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17609019)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17609047)

Any advice?

the trouble I'm having is preventing the bottom shell from being broken.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17609211)

I bought six, and so far I've shucked 4 and fucked up all of them.

I have two more chances for a perfectly shucked one.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17609207)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610563)

They're usually $1.50, or $2 if they shuck them for you. Sometimes I go to the market and just buy one and savor it while I'm buying other stuff.

But you get six free oysters when you buy an oyster knife from them.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610571)

oysters in the bag with my new shucker:

http://img153.imageshack.us/i/img0329xu.jpg/

After being scrubbed:

http://img263.imageshack.us/i/img0330t.jpg/

As per directions I read online, I put the oysters in the freezer for three minutes, and then laid them out on a towel, ready to be shucked:

http://img200.imageshack.us/i/img0332yy.jpg/

Oyster 1: As per instructions, I folded the towel over and got a good grip on the first oyster. I slid the oyster shucked into the hinge until I felt I had a good bearing. Then I twisted. Unfortunately, instead of the top popping open, the bottom of the oyster broke. I lost quite a bit of the brine:

http://img812.imageshack.us/i/img0333o.jpg/

http://img718.imageshack.us/i/img0335dj.jpg/

http://img534.imageshack.us/i/img0336mi.jpg/

Oyster 2:

Same thing happened, only this time it broke and crumbled. This time I ate it with some tabasco, which I had never tried before because I usually don't like tabasco. However, I happened to have some, since I saw some tiny bottles for sale somewhere and I bought it because it was cute:

http://img703.imageshack.us/i/img0339kd.jpg/

http://img862.imageshack.us/i/img0341r.jpg/

Oyster 3:

This oyster was a tight little bitch that I had to chip away at until I could get my knife in. This time I was pretty careful to get the knife in farther, but then it just ended up breaking in the middle. This time I got a bowl, though, so I could catch the dripping brine:

http://img829.imageshack.us/i/img0343fk.jpg/

http://img228.imageshack.us/i/img0344vn.jpg/

http://img684.imageshack.us/i/img0345bs.jpg/

Oyster 4: This one broke in the middle too. :(

http://img703.imageshack.us/i/img0347l.jpg/

http://img716.imageshack.us/i/img0348xv.jpg/

Oyster 5: Ta da! This one didn't break. I really don't see what I did differently, but I guess with experience they stop breaking. However, I didn't do a great job of scraping off the top shell - I left a little oyster on top. I did greedily lick the top shell clean though.

http://img34.imageshack.us/i/img0349ns.jpg/

Oyster 6: This one also didn't break. And on this one too, I also didn't do a perfect job of scraping the top. There was also some debris, as you can see, floating in the brine of oyster 6, so I had to pick that out.

http://img813.imageshack.us/i/img0350n.jpg/

The final product: Oyster 5, along with the bottom and top half of Oyster 6. I realize it would have been more elegant on a beautiful plate with crushed or cubed ice, but all I had was an ice pack.

http://img818.imageshack.us/i/img0351vd.jpg/

The aftermath, with my dated signature:

http://img688.imageshack.us/i/img0353hf.jpg/

Also, please do not comment on my hands and nails - I will be getting a manicure on Monday.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17609886)

a little red from gripping oysters

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610099)

But this variety, which I tasted last week at the store, isn't too *ocean-y* so it was easy to eat 6.

The sad thing is that they're alive when you eat them, though :(

Oysters are the only live food that I eat.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610145)

You swallow them and they die slowly in your belly as you digest them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster

"Oysters must be eaten alive, or cooked alive."

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17618377)

were you satisfied with them?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610149)

As stated above, I usually can only eat a couple of oysters at a time, but these were good enough to eat 6.

I usually hate tabasco but tabasco went perfectly with them.

I was also told to eat the with vodka - like put an oyster in a shot glass, cover it with vodka, and then swallow the whole thing. I'll try that next time.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610169)

Food bloggers are douchebags.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610148)

please go off somewhere and die.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610647)

I'm all oystered out.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610155)

http://videos.nymag.com/video/How-to-Shuck-an-Oyster#c=GT6MGZ2XYS8B7X1H&t=How%20to%20Shuck%20an%20Oyster

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610291)

And obviously no, it doesn't just pop open if you wiggle. In the first few cases when I did that the bottom shell broke.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610316)

Though it's pretty clear that it's not as easy as it looks. I thought it was just sliding it in and twisting, but I guess it's more to it than that. You sound like you've never done it before.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610537)

*snickers*

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610543)

I didn't freeze them tho.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17612732)

this part of the movie actually made me cry as a kid

How far I've come. . .

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610097)

Did you cry when you watched that as a kid?

I distinctly remember getting really fucking upset.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610592)

I mean there's sadness in kids movies now, but they don't make light of it. It's *meaningful*.

Like when the mom died at the beginning of finding nemo. Or the first twelve minutes of Up.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610669)

I really don't get why the bottom half kept breaking when I twisted. Maybe I was just holding it with my other hand at the wrong pressure point?

ps, who are you? I've been seeing your name a lot lately.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610359)

I have been thinking of leaving for a while and I am more serious about it after what happened last night.

I do genuinely like a fair number of people here though, so I am having second thoughts.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610378)

Your gf came on and a tinychatter made fun of her?

You have to prepare non xoxo people for xoxo man.

Once I left my computer open and my mom poasted for an hour or so under my moniker. People here insulted her as rasqie, and they made her cry :(

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610446)

I came into my room thinking my night with the two of them was over. So I threw tinychat on. Then they called me into the other room and I forgot to turn off t-chat. She a few seconds later went into my room and I tried to run in and stop her from going on cam because I knew people are dicks. But my roommate wrestled me to the floor to prevent me from closing out my shit because he wanted to embarrass me or something. Maybe he thought I had porn up or something. Not sure.

Anyway, she walked in and frape immediately called her fat and ugly. She was shocked and hurt. I came into my room finally and shut off my computer. She asked if these were my friends and why they were so mean.

I didn't prepare her for xo because I didn't intend for her to be exposed to xo. Plus I don't think being a poaster should give people carte blanche to be dickwads and cunts. But frape is a terrible human being, so whatever.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610609)

Sorry man :(

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610638)

http://www.amazon.com/Oxo-Good-Grips-Oyster-Knife/dp/B00004OCLC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301171044&sr=8-1

I paid $18 for a hinge top popper shucker plus tax, and it came with six free oysters.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610542)

I would have posted a pic of me actually doing the shucking, but I only have two hands.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610688)

shucking oysters seems like too much work.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610690)

Maybe I should do a step by step thread on chicken curry.

Shucking oysters did seem like a lot of work. I just wanted the experience of doing it. I'm sure I'd get faster with experience.

Also, a lot of people get injured the first time they shuck. So I was very careful about the pressure, which is probably why it took so long.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610707)

i promise to give you at least 5 180's if u do this

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610729)

I make chicken curry the fattening way, and I've cut out rice until the wedding.

So it might take a month or two.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17610777)

I wanted to wait until babby is born, so it would have a childhood dog. But he wants one now, and I relented.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17612816)

i knew you would!

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17612958)

lol, who are you

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17612993)

My purchase was overshadowed by this rich woman who was making a several hundred dollar oyster purchase for a party, but as I waited she talked me into trying them with tabasco, which I did. It was pretty great.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17612648)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17612744)

in fact, I wouldn't even touch seafood until I turned 21. I had one bad experience of being forced to eat fish sticks at a carnival when I was 4, and I stayed away from seafood until the age of 21.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1600679&forum_id=2#17612775)