Cleaning mussels
Submitted by jighead on Sat, 2012-12-01 05:08
I am interested to hear peoples methods of cleaning mussels prior to cooking. I normally scrape them with a chisel to get all the crap off but it takes a long time. There must be a better way to do it. Some homemade inventions even?
dumper
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Scaler bag. If you're using
Scaler bag. If you're using a boat that is
gilligan
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Now that's a good idea...
Now that's a good idea...
sarcasm0
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The way the pros do it
Is with a large horizontal perforated drum that spins I think with a water sluice to remove debris you can see at least one down in rockingham at mooring near the causeway. You could try to find a front loader washing machine on a verge collection and see what is required to get it up and running. I think also at $3-4 a kilo cleaned not many have gone macguyver on it.
When we do dive for mussels we generally just give em a quick hit with a clean steel wire brush while holding with a glove and straight onto the barbie plate with a squirt of chilli sauce when they open.
If im cooking chilli mussels or a 'mussles in sauce/soup' recipe then I just buy them and beard them.
kfish
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I just use steel wool and
I just use steel wool and scrub them in a bucket off fresh water.. all the crap comes off really easy. and rip the beards off
Walfootrot
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Use a cement mixer. works a
Use a cement mixer. works a treat. or put them in a sack, run the garden hose in the sack and rub/roll in on the grass.
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
jighead
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Thankyou
Some good ideas to try there thanks for that.