there is cartalige i found, do you eat that part with the meat???
2006-12-18 12:50:41 · 6 answers · asked by Jenna & Daniel H 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
The mussels should be debearded before cooking. They are very simple to eat. The mussels open wide when they are cooked. I just break off the top part of the shell and use it to scoop the flesh that is in the bottom part and eat it right out of the shell. Everything you scoop out is edible.
2006-12-18 15:58:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
just eat the meat inside... nothing to debone except the shell.
Cartilage? Hmmm... No cartilage that I know of, but there's a muscle in the mussel that opens and closes the shell that still intact in the cooked mussel. It looks like a small round cylinder attached to one part of the shell. Sometimes I eat that and sometimes I just leave it alone figuring it's not worth the trouble.
2006-12-18 12:54:41 · answer #2 · answered by Dave C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yum! Mussels. No cartilage, no bones. Scrape the muscle out if you want, dip it in butter and down it goes. You asked this question again, saying there's some brown thing inside with little antenna things poking out. Here's the routine:
Mussels start as swimming larvae that attach themselves to something and then they spend the rest of their lives filter feeding. There is a "beard" which hangs out of the shell, this is the fibrous material it attaches with. That's probably the brown stuff you referred to. You can rip it out with pliers before you steam them or cut it off after. Or just pull it out as far as it wants to come and trim with scissors. Then you scrub them and press the shell halves across each other to see if it pops open revealing black mud. You seldom find them but if you do, it messes up your potful so it's a reasonable and easy precaution. You can also put them in a basin of cold water after scrubbing them and stir in a handful of oatmeal or cornmeal. They will commence filter feeding and shove out more grit and waste. Not that it's necessary; I rarely do it.
Enjoy!
2006-12-18 13:15:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mussels are in shells and they dont have cartilage
2006-12-18 12:58:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont even try to eat the whole thing. Its a shell. you'll break all your teeth..............lol.
pop it open. put some lemon and some tobasco to it and eat the inside flesh. it yummy..............enjoy
2006-12-18 13:06:06 · answer #5 · answered by movie_buff 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you even know what a mussel is?
2006-12-18 12:53:35 · answer #6 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋