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Behind the Scenes: Island Creek Oyster Farm in Massachusetts

These photos should give you a sense of what life is like for the typical oyster grown at Island Creek Oyster Farm on Massachusetts' south shore, just north of Cape Cod. It's an ideal habitat for oyster farming because it's protected on three sides by land and open to Cape Cod bay. At any one time, there are between 15 and 20 million oysters growing here. They start their lives about the size of a pepper flake.

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Post a Comment | Posted by Andrew Janjigian, November 18, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Tagged: behind the scenes, Massachusetts, oysters

A Virtual Tour of Kenji Alt's Food Lab Kitchen

After the great tours we've been getting of the Serious Eats office, you asked for it, so here it is: a virtual tour of the Food Lab's kitchen. If you're expecting fancy gear, lab coats, a sterile environment, and a multi-million dollar laboratory, I'd recommend you look elsewhere. As you'll see in these photos, I'm just a normal guy with a pretty normal kitchen, some nice (but still consumer-level) gear, and a couple of exceptionally cute taste-testers.

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83 Comments | Posted by J. Kenji López-Alt, July 21, 2010 at 9:45 AM
Tagged: behind the scenes, Dumpling, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, The Food Lab

Inside an Oyster Packing Plant

In his latest post, Gerald takes us into the Crystal Seas oyster packing plant in Mississippi where each worker hand shucks 8-10 oysters a minute. The oysters are triple-rinsed before being collected in six pound buckets and the empty shells are planted back in the Gulf of Mississippi to become the new homes for next season's oysters. See more photos on Gerald's website, Foodite— I especially like the the ones of the oyster "waterfall."...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Robyn Lee, June 20, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Tagged: Behind the Scenes, food processing, oysters

Waffle House Grill's Cook's Cheat Sheet

Nick Gray recently posted this amazing photo of a Waffle House Grill Cook's Cheat Sheet—the position of each condiments on each plate are a code that allow the chain's cooks to visually keep track of multiple orders without having to refer to paper tickets. [via kottke.org]...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 8, 2007 at 6:43 PM
Tagged: awesome, behind the scenes, chain restaurants, cheat sheet