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Maguano
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so my extended (wife's side) family is getting together for the annual trip to the jersey shore. not the MTV jersey shore (i like locally, about 4 miles from the ocean, but the house that my father in law has been renting since we was 10 is on right on the ocean). long story short, apparently this years theme is oysters. does anyone have any good recommendation for :
1) a great variety
AND
2) not bad shipping.
-locally we get either Blue Point or Wellfleets in ABUNDANCE.
i've looked at many online places, and can judge what to get based on shipping to NJ, but i'm looking more for taste/size/do i need to chug this slime down review. I know VA has some good varities (and some folks from around here) as well as New England.
ready set shuck!
1) a great variety
AND
2) not bad shipping.
-locally we get either Blue Point or Wellfleets in ABUNDANCE.
i've looked at many online places, and can judge what to get based on shipping to NJ, but i'm looking more for taste/size/do i need to chug this slime down review. I know VA has some good varities (and some folks from around here) as well as New England.
ready set shuck!
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@geth move this to help-advice-forum
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Damariscotta, PEI, and Rhode Island have all been tasty to me.
Malpeques (from PEI in Canada) are great, as are some of the Maine oysters (Pemaquids and whatnot).
So here are a few things.
The place you get the oyster matters more than the type of oyster itself. Getting local oysters does jack shit for you if they spend 3 days being processed at the warehouse, a day being shipped and unpacked, followed by 3 days in the cooler till they get into the rotation. At many restaurants that is standard, pretty much every place you've been to claiming fresh oysters is on this sort of schedule. And on Monday you may be looking at Oysters they got last Thursday or Wednsday. So you want a place where they circulate out oysters regularly.
Local shops order from the wholesalers too. That little seafood shop where you know the owner and everything is so fresh cause they sourced local...Yeah they ordered from the same wholesaler that Safeway and Kroger do. However they generally treat their seafood better after delivery which is very important, and makes the seafood last longer.
So that out of the way, East coast oysters that are pretty good. Long Islands (blue points), Chesapeaks, and wellfleets are all pretty good. I like Malpaques (PEI) and Wianos too, but they were always more expensive so I ate them less. I do not like Chincotegues and Apalachicolas, they don't taste very good. Gold Band Oysters are easy, because they come shucked, but the process removes some of the flavor.