How to Eat Mussel Flesh Completely

Mussels are bivalve mollusks that happen to be yummy and edible when cooked! Whether steamed, baked with garlic cheese, or stewed, mussels are deliciously tangy and tastes like the sea itself. Now usually when we eat mussel flesh, there is this cylindrical stub that's left on the shell. This article shows you how to eat the mussel flesh off its shell completely, so you don't have to miss a single morsel!

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• cooked mussels
• your fingers
• your innate ingenuity!

1. Baked Mussels Take the mussel shell, with its flesh still clinging to it, in your hand.
2. See the wider end of the mussel shell? Position the shell such that its wider end is nearer your thumb. By "wider end" I mean the part of the shell that does not end in a sharp point, but rather its convexly curved other end.
3. With your thumb, scrape the flesh from underneath it, making sure that your thumb comes in contact with the cylindrical stem of flesh, and push towards the pointed end of the shell. Feel the give of the stub as your thumb scrapes inwards and up towards the direction of the pointed end of the shell.
4. Cooked mussels galore! Voila! You have successfully removed the mussel flesh in its entirety, without leaving any part of the flesh hanging on the shell, and are ready to eat the whole darned sinfully tasty thing! Waste not, want not, my friends! Enjoy eating your cooked mussels!