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I'm an amateur oyster shucker, but we are eating more and more. Suggestions on a good oyster knife and glove please.

Thanks.. BP...

I chargrill my oysters. So I put them unopened on the grill until they start to barely open. Then I pull them off the grill and they're easy to open with a good oyster knife.
Then I put the stuffing/filling in them, lay on a large grilling pan and grill them until done.

Here's a good tip when grilling them. Take a large sheet of aluminum foil and crinkle it up. Then pull it out semi-flat to cover your grilling pan. You can now "nest" your oysters by pressing them into the crinkled foil and keeping them more upright, so the juices/filling doesn't spill out.

I've not seen an oyster in the shell.

A good stout blade with a pointy tip and a couple of folded towels is all I've used my whole life.

In today's day and age, I'm not big on raw shellfish, so I grill my oysters. Lots of great recipes for grilled oysters out there. I bought my oyster opening knife at either HEB or Academy when I was down on the gulf coast. I just use a plain leather work glove (see my post above, I heat them on the grill to get them too partially open).

I pry them open on the hinge side, there's usually a spot to get leverage with the oyster shucking knife.

One of the best meals I ever made was when we were vacationing on the gulf coast. I grilled bacon wrapped venison fillets, grilled oysters and paired it with a Becker's Vineyards red wine. 100% Texas sourced meal!

I've been given several oysters knifes over the years. They need to blunt and easy to fit the hand. Seems most fit the bill.

I use a silicone glove. Towels work fine. I was given a chain mail glove. That sucked.

Have several homemade ones and a blue-handled, store-bought one. One was made from an old butter knife, likely on a grinder . . . seems folks are making them out of railroad spikes these days. As for gloves, we always just used an old, leather work glove.

https://carolinaoysterknife.com/

We have been using these... or a homemade version thereof forever...

https://www.katom.com/135-10151.html

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Toadfish makes good ones. I have gifted them a couple of times.

The cheap dexter Russell's work fine. The poly.knit type gloves with the rubber coating on the palm side work fine and are cheap also.

I have used a Dexter russell oyster knife and a leather work glove. Not hard to figure out after opening a few.

I like a shucking tool that has a broad blade and a big handle. I looked on Amazon and the Amourate oyster knife is very close to what I like. The reason I like this style is I insert the tool in that perfect spot and rotate the knife and one has to overcome the muscle that opens/closes the shell and that can be tough. The one I actually use is locally made and I live near the Gulf Coast.
As far as gloves - I use a hand towel, but most work gloves should work for you. Good shuckin'

Until you get use to it, I would highly recommend getting 2 or 3 cheap ones with a finger guard - new shuckers tend to "muscle" shells apart until they learn where the sweet spot (hinge point) is. Frequently the hand slips and knuckles get sliced or chewed up. I would also buy some cheap cotton and leather work gloves that you can throw in the washer afterwards.