Dinner thread?

[Dundee]

Still getting fed......bacon burger and shoestring fries

[veitnamcam]

Barstard!

I thought the 3 doz a had a few weeks back would tide me over for another season but seeing your post got me salivating and today I drove past guytons and there it was again on the blackboard....Fresh Bluff Oysters .....I couldnt stop but incredibly I managed to talk the wife into picking me up some ☺

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[Beaker]

I thought the 3 doz a had a few weeks back would tide me over for another season but seeing your post got me salivating and today I drove past guytons and there it was again on the blackboard....Fresh Bluff Oysters .....I couldnt stop but incredibly I managed to talk the wife into picking me up some ☺

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Lol. Maybe she other motives!

On a serious note though, bluff oysters are really something special. I've tried a few oysters around the world, and none that I've had match them. (Some in southern France were the closest, but not by a small margin)

[veitnamcam]

Lol. Maybe she other motives!

On a serious note though, bluff oysters are really something special. I've tried a few oysters around the world, and none that I've had match them. (Some in southern France were the closest, but not by a small margin)

A local dredge oyster matches them....in fact a few years back there was a local taste testing involving chef's and other so called experts and none of them could tell the difference reliably.
Our local dredge oysters are every bit as good and in fact better because I can eat them straight out of the shell....here bluff oysters fresh would be at least 2 days old by the time I mouth them but most probably more than that.
Dont get me wrong I bloody love em but our local ones if they ever recover are just as good but better for me as they are truely fresh....I could legally go and get some next time I am free but dont want to disturb any scollops or have any potential hassel with mpi and dredge/closed scollops.

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[Beaker]

A local dredge oyster matches them....in fact a few years back there was a local taste testing involving chef's and other so called experts and none of them could tell the difference reliably.
Our local dredge oysters are every bit as good and in fact better because I can eat them straight out of the shell....here bluff oysters fresh would be at least 2 days old by the time I mouth them but most probably more than that.
Dont get me wrong I bloody love em but our local ones if they ever recover are just as good but better for me as they are truely fresh....I could legally go and get some next time I am free but dont want to disturb any scollops or have any potential hassel with mpi and dredge/closed scollops.

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Feel free to send some north,

You are right though, fresh is best.

Also, one big piss off is when you get oyster at a restaurant and they serve them on ice. They need to be at room temp or sea temp. Ie warmer than 0-5 Deg to really taste them.

[veitnamcam]

Feel free to send some north,

You are right though, fresh is best.

Also, one big piss off is when you get oyster at a restaurant and they serve them on ice. They need to be at room temp or sea temp. Ie warmer than 0-5 Deg to really taste them.

My weeks beer money went on that doz so I will be sending sfa Oysters north!, move back to the coast and send em north to me!

[Beaker]

My weeks beer money went on that doz so I will be sending sfa Oysters north!, move back to the coast and send em north to me!

Not really relevant to this thread, sort of, but I need a multi purpose dredge for scallops and oysters. (Like a kevs dredge type....) will pay. And share the spoils.

[veitnamcam]

Not really relevant to this thread, sort of, but I need a multi purpose dredge for scallops and oysters. (Like a kevs dredge type....) will pay. And share the spoils.

I have one but is not being used and is not for sale....buy a kevs.

Actually I will moderate that, on a smooth sandy bottom there is no need for tines at all for scollops or oysters....Tines are for rough or hard mud/rocky bottoms and one should never use a dredge with pointy prongs made from a single 6-12mm round bar as sold by burnsco and others.
Tines should be either rounded points cut from flat or round bar bent into a rounded point (my preference) so as not to damage the shelfish themselves and minimize bottom disturbance.

[Beaker]

Will do.

[Gibo]

Ban the dredge!

[veitnamcam]

Ban the dredge!

All I heard was ban scollops and oysters.
NO!

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[Moa Hunter]

Lol, personal weakness aside........


The omelette was really good.......and the rum was/is too.

Intrigued where you got the Porcini. One oak tree near here produces a few each year but pickings were lean this autumn.

[Beaker]

Intrigued where you got the Porcini. One oak tree near here produces a few each year but pickings were lean this autumn.

Boric market, in Auckland. Were fresh really nice.

[Rushy]

Boric market, in Auckland. Were fresh really nice.

A heads up that they are doing cheap lamb shanks at the moment Beaker.

[Gibo]

Plutonium Maddog venison jerky into the narinade tonight, dehydrater tomorrow night. Hope i dint get too carried away with the heat