Oyster roast

[lowcountry]

Cooked over a steel plate with a burlap bag is the way I grew up eating oysters. First time eating them like this after being gone for 4 years. Tonight we had clusters from the Folly River which is south of downtown Charleston.

Get the plate nice and hot.


Cover two shovels worth of oysters with wet burlap bag, roast for about 7 minutes or so.


Serve on table and enjoy.

 

[Charlie R]

Last time I had it that way was at the Atlantic House on Folly Beach.

Saltines, Tobasco, and cocktail sauce. I'm jealous.

 

[HamSlamma]

Local guys,,,,,cool! I love oysters from the folly river!
Not real big,,,but the flavor is the best.
I remember the Atlantic house.

 

[Charlie R]

I remember the Atlantic house.

OK, past tense (My 8th grade English teacher is rolling in her grave).

Did it finally fall into the ocean, was it condemned, or did the owners finally get tired of "rebuilding" it after hurricanes?

 

[HamSlamma]

A storm took it out,,,I think it was Hugo,,,not sure

 

[Chdamn]

There’s a big contractor up here in Greensboro that does this every spring. He has a cinderblock pit with a giant steel plate on top of it behind his building just for this purpose.

He drives down to the coast and picks up bushels of oysters covered in ice every year and drives them back.

It’s awesome.

 

[Gray]

I've got a friend who lives on James Island who will haul them to me occasionally but he's become less of a traveler after selling his rock crawler and then his dirt bike.

I great friend of mine passed a little over a year ago and owned several one off restaurants in the area. For about 15 yrs as long as I told him him Tuesday before noon I could pick up any oyster I wanted Friday after noon. 100 restaurant grade select blue points per box ran about $45. A couple boxes of that and a slab of ahi tuna accompanied many a camping trip or for that matter any given weekend.

I miss oysters and my buddy...good times.