Originally Posted by
nicolas75
For oysters, as for fruit and vegetables, there is a concept of season, and the right season for oysters is winter, and more precisely the months with 'R', i.e. from September to April.
You can eat oysters all year round, but you should be aware that the breeding season is from April to August, and during this period the oysters will be milky.
So, depending on your tastes, if you like milky oysters, you can also eat them in summer.
Today that is nowadays actually only true for uncultivated european rock oysters that are actually very hard to get by. Most cultivated and farmed oysters are steril and don't breed anymore and therefore can be eaten all year round. That's at least what I was told in Bretagne and also Scotland when I asked about this rule that I also knew about on oyster farms.
Last edited by Mora; Apr 28, 2024 at 8:10 am