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mojo_norte
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Fresh Oysters?
Does Baja Norte have Fresh Oysters?!
Any good?
Big/small?
Where to buy-?
Season?
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Sharksbaja
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I have eaten the San Quintin oysters a few times and found them pretty good. They are cultured there and are available most of the year. As with any
oyster though, I'd not recommend eating them in the warmer months when they mey be milting. A good way to turn someone off to them!
Their size is very important to me. Typically, the smaller, the better imho.
I've tried many types from many places. I favor West Coast oysters as the water is generally colder and the nutrient level is greater than say the
Gulf. Phooey on those.
They can be found right on the sides of the road headed south at the many seafood stands just north of the town. You can also drive out to the farm
area and puchase them.
Check to see they are sealed or rather close upon handling. This will insure a live animal is inside.
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Winchester Bay has great Oysters, some of the best I've eaten, I'm sure you've tried them haven't you Sharks?
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We have a winner
| Quote: | Originally posted by castaway$
Winchester Bay has great Oysters, some of the best I've eaten, I'm sure you've tried them haven't you Sharks? |
Another food snob.  Winchester Bay (Umpqua) oysters are what we sell.
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A nomad after my heart or stomach in this case, we used to get them all sumer long when we had our tackle store in Winchester now I only get them
every now and then, I guess I'd better plan a trip over, plus I heard the crabbing isn't too bad right now.
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Sharksbaja
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We have been serving Umpquas now for about 8 years. The only ones in Newport doing them for many years. Never had one complaint. Come by and I'll
treat you to some, "Sharks" style.
. I like those oysters for a number of reasons. They are thin-bodied, grown on seeded lines in deeper colder water and they are sweet. Also they
will sometimes only milt for a few days leaving them available for most the year. They still sell them but I don't do them when they are.
Yes, I am the sensitve(what chef isn't) type but also a bit grouchy(what chef isn't) with this weather. Look at my other posts.
We have had the coldest, wettest miserable winter I can remember in the last 18 or so yrs. Need mo Baja.
Yeah the crabbing has been good in the bay lately. If you can brave the chop every other day.
edit for lame sp.
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Sorry to piggyback on your baja norte oyster thread but I just want to pass on this tasty tidbit..we buy awesome and cheap oysters from the coop plant
in La Bocana....outstanding.
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San Quintin Baja Norte has three oyster farms that I've bought from. I think I paid $20.-$30 US for 20 doz. Make a right at the corner of the
military base. Dirt road about 8.5 miles from main road.
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Pics. oysters
Pics of Senior Reyes oyster farm. Like the previous replies I like the smalls, better than the large oyster. That's why I go to the farms, so I can be
a picky Americano, but not a ugly one.
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Oysters! Ever heard of Louisiana?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Oysters! Ever heard of Louisiana? |
Yes! Those are very tasty, Cypress..and I shucked my share in New Orleans and all over the East Coast. American, Eastern Bluepoints, Gulf, or
Louisiana...they're all the same species, but those from Louisiana are without a doubt the best of the best. Succulent, salty, fat, and with a sweet
finish.
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My favorite are the small ones from Johnson's Oyster farm near Tomales Bay in Marin County California. Use to buy them by the bushell..... and oh,
sooooo sweet.
Johnson bought the seed oysters in Washington state.
Grows them on strings hanging off of floats in the cold Pacific waters off the Marin coast....... good all year round.
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Mr. Johnson and his wife Pacita showed me great hospitality many years ago 1983 I think, when I got turned around going there and arrive after they
closed. He came out invited me into his house. We talked Phillipine politics, while his wife fed me, before I bought my oysters. It helped that I just
got out of the AF, from Clark air base. That where I aquired my taste for oysters. Same kind of treatment I get when I'm in the San Quintin area.
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Occasionally when I can't obtain the Umpquas I'll serve up Ekone oysters from Willapa Bay Wa. These are excellent oysters but tend to have a longer
milting cycle depending on bay temps. Another choice that I can get are called "Triplets". These are a very clean lab cultured species engineered to
stay sexless tho they have been know to go off.
The funny thang about the milting stage is that once one goes it's like a domino effect and triggers the rest to go.
I've had many folks exclaim their preference for NW oysters once they've tried them. Now that doesn't mean they are all suited for eating raw. In
fact a local shallow water farm here discourages the practice and imho a good idea.
I'd like to hear more about Baja oysters.
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Tonc C,
Welcome to the board !
Glad you had a chance to meet the Johnsons, wonderful people. Learned the oyster farming business after WW2 in Japan , I believe. I always
thought his wife was Japanese, sweet lady.
Like I said, they grew the sweetest oysters ..... I could eat a bushell right now !!!
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They have fresh oysters at a store along the highway in San Lucas, not all the time, but every now and then. Pompano, Most folks lose their taste for oysters if they have to shuck 'em. Not an easy chore. FDA law requires opened oysters to be washed and placed in fresh water, this
reduces the flavor and causes the oysters to absorb the fresh water, one of those osmosis things.  Will probably get over in the MS-LA coastal area sometimes next winter to open a sack or two.
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Cypress,
Do you mean Cabo San Lucas ??
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Cypress
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CaboRon, No. This San Lucas is a small community, a little south of Santa Rosalia. There are two small stores on the west side of the hwy., it's the first store you see when heading south.
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OK, Thanks,
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Cypress, I know that little tienda at Ejido San Lucas well. It has the standard red Tecate sign out front.
We stop there frequently to buy some chichirones for fishing trips out of Camacho's landing at San Lucas Cove. While there we always check for the
oysters sold in the 1 pint to 1 quart jars. I first noticed them about 5-6 years ago, plus we also have a door-to-door vendor who brings them to
Mulege and into the Bay. They are quite good...if fresh!
I dearly love making oyster soups and stew...stuffed oysters...Oysters Rockefeller (thanks again, New Orleans)..and shucking and eating raw on the
spot. Hood Canal many years ago in Seattle was a favorite spot to use our oyster knives and bottle of sauce for Washington's original native Olympia
oysters...yum. Also, we RV down to Newport, Oregon annually to attend the July 4th campground-mania with our Oregon amigos, fish offshore, and buy
many oysters from the local farms. Great fun watching the oyster-shucking contests, eating oysters, and having tail-gate cookouts in the marina
campground. Salmon on a cedar plank and Oysters Rockefeller...what could be better!
Locally in Conception Bay we used to eat lots of the tiny mangrove types that were found in clumps along the many mangale swamps next to the shores.
We would hold the clumps over campfire coals and use toothpicks to pluck them out..tiny, but tasty and fun to do.
There was once a La Paz university scallop and oyster research project in the south end of the Bay..but the results were not conclusive as to whether
this type of farming would be possible in the Bay. One can always hope.
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