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Pan-broiled Oysters

Pan-broiled oysters are oysters cooked in butter on a hot pan and served immediately.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,184 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Pan-broiled Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Drain the oysters on a cloth to remove moisture.

  2. Heat an omelet pan over high heat and add the butter.

  3. Drop the oysters into the pan one by one, turning each before adding the next.

  4. Once the pan is full, shake it briefly and turn the oysters onto a square dish with toast points in the corners.

  5. Season with salt, pepper, and a bit of butter, then serve immediately.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Oyster + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Oyster + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,663 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Oysters
Are the main ingredient, cooked briefly in the pan until just heated through.
Butter
Coats the hot pan and adds richness and flavor to the oysters.

The step that matters

Drop the oysters into the pan one by one, turning each before adding the next.. Oysters cook quickly and can overcook and toughen in high heat, so adding them one at a time and turning each keeps the pan from cooling too much and helps them cook evenly.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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