Oysters have a brush under cold running tap water and wiped. Sink wrap in a clean cloth or kitchen towel and squeeze to the table with the flat side up, so that the compound leaf watching you.
While continuing to keep the shell with one hand to hold a knife along the top flap to cut the muscle that holds the shell closed. Upper leaf emissions, and lower gently removed from tissues that do not shed juice. Tip knife to remove shell fragments.
Lower leaf clutch tightly between your fingers. Movement towards you, hold a knife under the oyster to cut the muscle, which is attached to the oyster shell.
