Razor Clam Cleaning - A How To with a Special Trick!

[Usoldier09]

in philippines we get this things near the river and we dont clean it like this you just wash them with cold water and boil them or grill

[cincinatus90]

Just one question. Are you viet?

[onLYbyMoon]

That was very amusing to watch. Thank you very much.

[noitskelly]

Are you viet.?

[AK49BWL]

@noitskelly Viet? Not sure what you're referring to.

[superultramegaman5]

@AK49BWL vietnamese*

[AK49BWL]

@superultramegaman5 No, definitely not lol.

[LaoSoftware]

That's a very cool idea. Thank you for sharing. Now we know how to clean our razor clams.

[thewizardofahhs]

He's not cooking them, he's blanching them to kill them before cleaning.

A few seconds in the hot water, then dunk them into cold water lest they get tough.

[superwhiz88]

all you need to do is get some clean sea water and let it stay in there for three days.. so the sand can spit out .. then cook it..

[KUPHSER]

impressive, i wish it showed you cook em up aswell they look so nice. 

[heelrunner]

Can you cook them witout the fussy cleaning???

[AK49BWL]

@heelrunner Not a great idea..... It'll be like eating sand, for one.. And I don't think it's a good idea to eat their organs either.

[h3llom4te]

How can you tell the difference from a geoduck neck and a razor clam neck when they stick out of their hole?

[AK49BWL]

@h3llom4te The most noticeable difference is the color of their necks.. Geoduck necks tend to be redder.

[kunstinflammen]

Look quite meaty and delicious, quite a bit of meat on them! Makes good eatin'

[808Hea]

Honestly u can eat the food sack. ITs only filled with plankton.

[oep308]

they look nice :) could just eat some now

[SharpShots2]

Wait is it Hot and Cold make shells Break Like Glass do ?

[808Hea]

@SharpShots2 The heat forces them to try to escape out of the shell.

[x0Shadowar0x]

haha put them into alcohol firstly to make them drunk so that they die drunk babe hell yeah give em so fun lmao!

[AK49BWL]

@x0Shadowar0x Haha!

[iroc464]

dont some clams have sand inside thier systems that has to be purged by letting them stay in some kind of starch solution? or does this process eliminate that?

[AK49BWL]

@iroc464 They all have sand as far as I know, but I've never heard of having to purge them... We just cleaned out the sand ourselves with the spoons, even before we started using this method. Occasionally we'll miss a tiny bit, but it's not a huge deal if that happens.

[sfurner]

This was very helpful, thanks!

[amazingdany]

Can one eat them raw?

[AK49BWL]

@amazingdany I wouldn't, but I don't know if you safely *can* or not.

[ophrynion]

This is cruel mate):

[deathxtra]

listen carefully, and you can hear the clams screaming in ain

[AK49BWL]

@deathxtra Haha! It's not the water boiling you're hearing...

[llamadu]

I take my entire clam net full of my limit of razor clams and dunk it in a boiling or near boiling pot all at once. This way I minimize the chance of burning my fingers and don't use as much fuel to heat the water for so long. Then I throw them all into a cool bowl of water and pull them all out of their shells.

[decepzionjames12]

I never knew bout razoe clams. Im from cali so i dont think we have th here

[Smoko42]

whats a razor clam i know razort fish same thing?

[northernpike56]

Think I would have used tongs for that boiling water dunk...

I've used that method for soft shell clams, works well :-)

[AK49BWL]

Well, I think he would have too.. He did mention it sometime before we started, but as we weren't exactly planning to even go clamming, we didn't bring everything along, haha.

[resmas7672]

Wish I had seen this before shucking 100+ clams at Ninilchik over Memorial Day. With my hands. In the cold. We will be buying a camp stove for sure!