I'm sure you've experienced this at some point in your seafood tasting ventures...
A gorgeous mussel dish at home or in a nice restaurant: you take the tasty orange morsel of flesh out of its shell and bite into it. You're about to savour flavour and texture and all of a sudden.... CRUNCH. Curse, swear, your meal is ruined.
The grit in mussels has got to be one of my biggest peeves in cuisine. When I cook mussels, I clean them with a small brush prior to cooking but this doesn't do the trick completely.
All you shellfish enthusiasts, please give us a hand. What is a good method for getting rid of the damn grit?
Thank you. This will restore my confidence in mussel cooking.
A gorgeous mussel dish at home or in a nice restaurant: you take the tasty orange morsel of flesh out of its shell and bite into it. You're about to savour flavour and texture and all of a sudden.... CRUNCH. Curse, swear, your meal is ruined.
The grit in mussels has got to be one of my biggest peeves in cuisine. When I cook mussels, I clean them with a small brush prior to cooking but this doesn't do the trick completely.
All you shellfish enthusiasts, please give us a hand. What is a good method for getting rid of the damn grit?
Thank you. This will restore my confidence in mussel cooking.