5-8 minutes.

Oysters, also known as oysters, is a common marine shellfish, oysters because of its rich nutrition, tender meat, fresh flavor, unbeknownst to the West oysters are known as the "milk of the sea, God's gift to the magic food", loved by people.

There are many ways to eat oysters, you can bake and eat, you can make soup and eat, you can fry and eat, and so on a variety of ways to eat, there are people directly in the seaside pry open on the eat, but the simplest way to make oysters or steaming, steamed oysters can keep the most original original flavor.

Oysters, if they are not open shell steaming, cold water on the pot, you need to steam about 5-8 minutes, but also according to the size of the oysters to adjust the steaming time. Because the head of large oyster meat, due to thick meat internal heat conduction is also slower, coupled with the unopened shell, the oyster heat speed becomes slower, so the time also needs to be increased appropriately as appropriate.

How to choose oysters

1, to look at its overall shape, to look at the thickness of the shell, the thicker the shell of the oyster, it means that the oyster meat is the thicker the more, some of the oyster shell looks very large, but very flat, this type of oyster basically is not fat.

2, is to look at the surface of the oyster, oysters are mainly rely on the ocean inside the micro algae, and organic detritus for food, so that the surface there will be a lot of attachments, if these attachments are too much, do not go to the selection of the more cleaner the better to pick, and it's a little bit of yellowing shells will be special! The most important thing to remember is that it's a good thing that you're not a big fan of the brand.

3, is to smell its flavor, oysters it is itself is a very fresh fresh flavor, so that we buy a smell, if there is a smell, so do not buy again.