Oysters for Beginners | How to Shuck and Serve Oysters | Food Wishes

Hello, this is chef john from foodwishes.com with oysters for beginners.

That's right, i'm going to show you how to open and serve oysters like a pro, even if you've never done them before

in your life. And this is actually something i struggled with for a long time before i learned this easy game-changing technique.

But before we get to that, let me show you the one tool

you must have to make all this possible.

And that would, of course, be an oyster knife, which usually has a nice big fat handle attached to a relatively short, very dull blade.

But we still need to be

careful, since even though these edges aren't sharp, the very point at the end sort of is.

And by the way, these come in two styles, ones with a perfectly straight blade and

then ones like this have a little bit of a curve at the end, which is the type i prefer.

And then, before we harm any oysters, let me show you the key movement to this technique, which is,

once we place the tip of the knife in the right

spot in the oyster, we're going to pivot the knife back and forth like this, keeping that blade perfectly flat.

Okay, what we're not going to do until the appropriate time is twist the knife like

this. And at no point in the operation will we be moving the knife up and down, trying to pry it open like this.

Oh no, this is the movement until we push it in far enough to do anything else. So let's go ahead

and grab an oyster and try this out. And what we want to do is place this on a towel with the flat side of the oyster up, right?

That's the top. And.

That rounder, cup shaped shell is the bottom, and then the key spot we're looking for is this little notch at the point of the oyster where the two shells come together,