Steaming sea oysters with cold water can better ensure that the temperature inside and outside is the same, while the use of hot water, it is easy to lead to the outside of a short time to heat ripe, the inside is not cooked.
The time required to steam sea oysters in different states is not - the same, probably between 3-13 minutes:
1, sea oyster meat. Shucked oyster meat is not large and relatively easy to mature, usually 3 minutes after the opening of the steamer can be mature.
2, open shell sea oysters. Sea oysters open shell steaming, steam can act directly on the protein, after opening the pot can be steamed for 5 to 7 minutes.
3, whole shell steamed sea oysters. Oyster shell is thicker need to steam for a longer time, usually after opening the pot of small sea oysters steamed for about 10 minutes, large sea oysters steamed for about 13 minutes.
The sea oyster (oyster) is a bivalve mollusk of the oyster family, oyster genus. Sea oyster two shells of different shapes, rough surface, dark gray; the upper shell in the middle of the bulge; the lower shell attached to other objects, larger, rather flat, smooth edges; two shells of the inner surface of the white smooth, in the narrower end of an elastic ligament is connected to the middle of the shell there is a strong closed-shell muscle to counteract the ligament's tensile force.