Welcome back to Vermont Edition Summer School! Get ready for a treat because on this week's installment, we have something special for the seafood lovers out there: how to shuck an oyster.
While you don't need to cook oysters before enjoying them, getting them out of their shells to eat can be quite a challenge. To learn, we spoke with Didier Murat, co-owner of Vergennes Laundry - an espresso bar slash restaurant in Vergennes.
"Opening an oyster, it's a little scary".
Murat says that how you open an oyster will depend on variety of mollusk you have purchased: "So you can open the oyster either by popping the hinge off or by slicing through the muscle. Some oysters will break their shell at the muscle if you pop the hinge off, so in that case you have to come from the side and cut the muscle. And that will depend on the variety of oysters - you basically have to try".
For more of our Summer School series, listen to Vermont Edition every Monday this summer. Next week we'll find our Scottish heritage and learn to play the bagpipes!
