Boiled Clams For Cooking

Simple Ways to Boil Clams: 13 Steps (with Pictures)

WEBMay 4, 2023 · Slicing up a lemon and throwing it into the water also adds flavor and helps with the fishy smell from the clams. 3. Bring the water …

1. Tap clams with an open shell and toss them if they don't close. When clams rest, they sometimes open their shells slightly. Go through your batch of clams and pick out each one with an open shell. Give it a slight tap with a spoon. If the shell closes, the clam is alive. If it stays open, then the clam is dead. Discard any dead clams. Every clam batch has 1 or 2 bad clams, so don’t worry if you find a few dead ones. Never eat clams that were dead before cooking. They could be contaminated with bacteria and make you sick.
2. Soak the clams in cool saltwater for 1 hour to remove any sand. Fill a bowl with cool water and dissolve 1 tablespoon (14.8 ml) (17 g) of sea salt for each quart (0.9 L) of water. Place all the clams in the bowl and let them soak for an hour. The clams will open up and start expelling any sand they had inside them. The water may start getting cloudy. This is normal, and means the clams are being cleaned. The clams may also extend their tongues slightly out of their shells. This is also normal.
3. Transfer the clams to another bowl of clean saltwater and soak for 20 minutes. After an hour, the original water will probably be full of sand. Fill a clean bowl with water and the same salt mixture you used before. Then take each clam out and place it in the new bowl for another 20 minutes. Remove the clams by hand when you take them out. If you use a spoon, you could pick up some settled sand and re-contaminate the clams.
4. Scrub the clams under running water to remove remaining dirt. Take each clam out of the bowl and hold it under a running faucet. Use a brush and scrub each clam’s shell to remove any remaining dirt.

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New England Clam Bake / Clam boil – no sand pit …

WEBJan 6, 2024 · Top the whole meal with a large, peeled whole onion nestled into the top layer. Cover tightly and steam 30 minutes, maintaining water …

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1. Into the bottom of a large 5-gallon pot equipped with a steam rack or the bottom of a large lobster steam pot, add 1 quart of water.
2. On top of the steamer rack or into the top half of the lobster pot, place cleaned and quartered potatoes, in the bottom of the pot. Next top the potatoes with the ears of corn. Top this with steamer clams.
3. Next, add fish fillets wrapped in parchment pockets, paper lunch bags, or sealed aluminum foil packets. Add the sausages and hot dogs (if using). Add the lobsters or crabs. Top the whole meal with a large, peeled whole onion nestled into the top layer.
4. Cover tightly and steam 30 minutes, maintaining water at a full rolling boil.

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