Raw oysters are a summertime delicacy. You can shuck them on your own with just a few tools and a flick of the wrist.

Use a kitchen towel to hold your oyster. "It's the safest way to be," Kolender says. Put the kitchen towel flat on a surface.

The biggest holiday party flex? A raw bar. Photo by Chris Simpson / Food Styling by Julian Hensarling / Prop Styling by Thom Driver When I think about the moment I fell in love with food, I think ...

This browser does not support the video element. This browser does not support the video element. Fresh oysters, still holed up in their shells, can be intimidating to the less experienced. Even armed ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nothing beats a freshly shucked oyster. While you can enjoy great oysters while dining out, there's a certain pride that comes from shucking ...

Found Oyster and Queen's Raw Bar & Grill chef Ari Kolender prepares shucked oysters with mignonette in the L.A. Times Test Kitchen. (Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles Times) Ari Kolender knows oysters.

Adam Rothbarth was the former Food & Kitchen Writer for VICE's shopping page, Rec Room, and contributes to Chicago Magazine, Eater, and more. So, we talked to Bill Nevruz, former East Coast ...

It's seafood season so get your "mussels" ready because we're shucking oysters and fileting fish with Chef Aaron Bludorn at his newest restaurant Navy Blue in the Rice Village. And with everyone ...

I might have been 21 or 22 when I finally was able to stomach raw oysters. I would try one a year, just to see if I could eat them. The texture, however, was just too odd for me. It took practice and ...

The biggest holiday party flex? A raw bar. When I think about the moment I fell in love with food, I think about oysters. I was maybe 12, and slurping down a raw oyster felt like an alarming dare. I ...

Ari Kolender knows oysters. His two seafood restaurants — Found Oyster in East Hollywood and Queen’s Raw Bar & Grill in Eagle Rock — serve tens of thousands of oysters a week. Between them they’ve ...