Foraging for Mussels w/ Size and Taste Comparison

Hi guys, I have a very simple video that should be delicious, it's very easy to do, you can do it yourself even if you don't have any experience. It's a little tough today so you have to be very careful when you go out here but if you look along the rocks you can see all the

mussels

and you might not know it but that's exactly what they sell in the restaurants and they are so easy to grab that you can also get them yourself. Now it should be common sense that there is a small muscle

size

and there is a large muscle

size

and this right here I consider a small size to be something you can eat, but it is very small and the way to grab them is to grab them with your hand , so it helps many to have something. gloves with you when you go out here, but there are three small muscles here.

I'm going to grab them, put them in my bucket, and make a

comparison

between the small, the medium, and the extra large, to see which ones

taste

good. the best, so I have my scale here and this is exactly 10 pounds. This is the bag limit for one person in California per day. It's definitely enough to feed a family. Those are stones too. The muscles are a lot lighter than that now if you look. In the muscle group you can see that the small ones are at the top and they get bigger as you go down, so when the tide is low you can go out here and grab the big ones, when the tide is high even these small ones will be cutlery and you can We won't be able to get them now if we look down here, we can see an extra large one, you know, they get even bigger than this one, but in my opinion, it's big, it's extra large size, so we're just going to take one of these because this is basically the equivalent of four or five small ones and since I'm here anyway, I'm going to grab a couple of medium ones and add them to the bucket also now there's a very long list of things you should know when you come here things like that you don't want to extract muscles from the same rock or all the muscles in that rock will be gone, you want to extract them in certain patches, a lot of little things, but no Today we're going to get into those things, today we're just going to talk about how easy it is to cook

mussels

and how easy it is to get them.

Now boil these mussels and steam them in some fresh water. I don't want to use salt water or else the mussels are going to be too salty, so enough water to boil or steam them is all you need. You've got the huge, the large, the mom large, which goes in two medium sizes, one smaller than the medium size, and three babies, so. Let's try them and see which ones are the best. I'm going to cover this to keep you warm while those muscles cook, this is the perfect time to talk about where to find the muscles.

Now you can find them on any A rocky coast like this and the muscles will be found in the intertidal zone should be self explanatory, but you can see the top line where those muscles are there on that rock which is the high tide line right below where the muscles stop, which is the loss. tide line, so the muscles will be found in the intertidal zone between those lines and that is the only place you will find them, you won't find them up high where the water doesn't touch and you won't find them below where the water is always now , these mussels only take about five to seven minutes to cook and you know they're done when they open up like this, but one thing that's very important when going out for seafood and mussels is that you have to make sure they're in season, if they're not in season you can get amniagic shellfish poisoning, lose your memory permanently, maybe that's why I've been having short term memory problems lately, what was I saying again?

Still, you should make sure to go out during certain times of the months when it is colder and the water temperature is colder. Do I really have amniotic shellfish poisoning and is that because these mussels are filter feeders and when they filter those algae I don't? I don't know the whole process of why you're not supposed to eat them during certain months but that's what it says and always call the biotoxin hotline that will give you all the information you need along the west coast of California if it's safer for the Nazis. mussels clams or any other type of seafood that simple it falls apart so easily they are ready to eat now that the mussels are cooked I am here to proudly announce the answer that humanity has asked for thousands of years does size matter? maybe women too and I think I know the answer the small one, a little salty,

taste

s like clams, very edible, not as chewy, overall good experience, the medium sized clam overall a slightly stronger flavor than reminiscent of squid in texture, comparable to the texture of squid, but overall decent, the extra large, a sandy, soft and chewy bite.

Overall, the experience was just a bad bite, so I think we have a clear winner here and it's the little guys. The only problem with these big muscles is that sometimes they are so close to the ground that that's where they filter the sand, but a lot of the time the smaller ones, oh I forgot to have more, the smaller ones like this are higher up on the rock so the sand doesn't get there, they don't get rocky, that's actually pretty sweet, that size is perfect, I like it there. I could eat them. I could eat them if I had to.

I could eat them. These medium size. You may have a little hair. A little hair never hurts, but you can just pull it out, but you can see all the poop that's in there. Well, you see the poop in there, I mean poop, sand whatever you call it, it's being filtered out and you could rip it off and let's see if that makes this experience much more pleasant and enjoyable. Wow, hey, the medium and small ones rip off the poop bag. I don't know why I've never thought about that before. Put them in a clam chowder which is good and that's how you can get mussels very easily in your tidal area.

Don't slip on the rocks, grab the small ones, don't grab the big chunks and you'll have a great time enjoying a muscle-packed meal with all your friends and family. Happy New Year to all. It only takes about five or seven minutes for these muscles to cook. The small ones cook faster, of course, when it's hot and the big ones take time. A little more but I'm going to throw this water away and while it cools I have to tell you something very very important, don't pour boiling water on your leg.