Need to know as I am cooking them at a barbecue on the weekend.
2006-08-18 00:57:56 · 16 answers · asked by Jenni 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Yeah sure
2006-08-18 01:01:47 · answer #1 · answered by www.tonizek.com 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check some other sources. This is a FALSE myth started in 1979 by an English cook book. Before that folks ate unopened mussels and never had a problem, I still do. Look at the science, not the myths.
2016-09-05 12:02:13 · answer #2 · answered by John & Roe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what do you mean off?
I know when you cook them and they don't open they were usually dead to begin with. When you cook mussels they open their shells to try and release some of the heat before they die.
2006-08-18 01:02:22 · answer #3 · answered by Bopeep 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the mussel didn t CLOSE before it was cooked it was dead. The reason you see a fish monger tap the shell before they sell it, they are checking to see if it is lively enough to shut itself tight. Use your common sense and your olfactory sense. Open the shell and smell it. You will know RIGHT AWAY if it is bad.
2015-06-23 06:45:15 · answer #4 · answered by Kati 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the shells don't open during cooking toss the little guys out. They weren't any good to start with! This goes for any bivalve you cook.
2006-08-21 19:45:46 · answer #5 · answered by soxrcat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enough people believe that so that I don't serve the unopened ones to others: I eat them myself.
I am not dead yet. And I went to Uni in Belgium, so I ate a lot of mussels.
2006-08-18 01:02:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true. I've seen this in a number of shellfish recipes. Shellfish should be live when you cook it. If the shells don't open when they're cooked, the shellfish wasn't live and can cause food poisoning.
2006-08-18 14:58:06 · answer #7 · answered by Garfield 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they dont open they are not good that means they are dead the best way to keep them alive prior to cooking is keep to keep them in a open container so they can breathe.
2006-08-18 01:02:43 · answer #8 · answered by Trish C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should boil them while they're alive, and then they open as they're cooking. If they don't open, DON"T eat them. You could get seriously ill. That means the muscle has already died, and will release toxins.
2006-08-18 01:06:11 · answer #9 · answered by mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rules are that before cooking discard any that are open and do not shut when tapped, and after cooking discard any that have not opened!
2006-08-18 06:39:17 · answer #10 · answered by wily_kitt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well as the daughter of a fisherman I wouldn't risk eating the ones that don't open
2006-08-18 01:02:12 · answer #11 · answered by witchfromoz2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋