Razor clams

[Brynglas]

I've eaten them raw, served sashimi style with wasabi and soy. Fantastic. They're also very good steamed. Better than boiled for me. They cook very quickly, like scallops.

 

[dasy2k1]

I bought them yesterday from an extremely reputable fishmonger - they were closed with just the foot hanging out. Overnight in a very cold fridge they have opened right out.

Yep, sounds like you killed them with too cold a fridge

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[Robson Valley]

The oxygen concentration in seawater is a lot less than the oxygen concentration in air. So, they get "stoned" on oxygen. With no source of internal body heat, they go really sluggish in the chill of a refrigerator. The fish monger people keep the shellfish on display in crushed ice. Most of them seem to want to open in the cold. They spread them out and give each one a "poke" with a finger. They sell me the ones which close.

How do you "mong" a fish? Anyone know?

 

[Hairy Steve]

The thing to watch out for is over-cooking - we mostly eat them with past so we steam them until they just open, barely a minute, drop them into cold water to stop the cooking, finish the rest of the dish, chop them up and warm through in whatever sauce we're having.

 

[crosslandkelly]

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[hughlle1]

Like most shellfish, there are endless great recipes. A personal favourite is to steam/simmer them in a "thai" concoction, chilli, lemon grass, coconut, coriander etc.

 

[fhaggis]

Hi, older thread i know but rather than starting a new one..

anyone know the best places in Scotland to get razor clams? ideally as close to Glasgow as possible?

cheers

 

[GGTBod]

i'd say that would be the first criteria to avoid is near any built up areas, you're looking for sandy beaches at the extreme low tide down into the water under the sand, a good sign they are on a beach you are on is seeing the half-shells kicking about as everything likes eating them, you'll find them all around the coast of Britain, sea lochs are great for them if they have plenty of little sandy and pebble beaches, good thing is you can get loads of other shellfish on the pebble and shale beaches to go with them, Loch Fyne is pretty amazing for shellfish but maybe you don't want to travel so far

 

[Brynglas]

To buy or to forage? I've foraged them on beaches down near Ayr/Turnberry just make sure that the beach and seaware clean with no nearby outflows. The best thing though is to head West to Argyll, lots of pristine coastline, just have a walk along a sandy beach at low tide and look for the depressions where the clams have burrowed, drop a bit of salt in and up they pop.

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[Jamesburn1441]

Hi just a quick one
I have been trying to find razor clams for a while
I have a place in abersoch northwales
Dose anyone know the best beach to forage round there ??
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[Jamesburn1441]

Hi just a quick one
I have been trying to forage razor clams for a while now .... no luck
I have a place in abersoch northwales
Just wondering of any good beaches to have a forage on for the clams