Name: Gordon Tries Smoked Oysters | Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
Uploaded: 2025-07-17T08:05:04.000Z
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I'm here in Maine, on North Haven Island, where I'm going to harvest oysters with Adam, a local farmer of America's favorite mollusk.

This little tiny bed can produce 250,000 to 300,000 oysters a year.

I'm walking through the water thinking, where are these things?

So the freshwater comes from a freshwater pond up here.

And then the two meet, and it creates really good algae blooms.

So you get the advantage of the tides, obviously.

The extreme tidal fluctuations of this estuary and the mixing of fresh and salt water are a part of what makes this the perfect environment to grow the oysters.

I grew oysters in the pond for years, and I had this kid harvesting for me, and he shucked the oyster and dropped him on the bed, and they created a natural spawn.

So I came down the next morning, and the whole 17-acre pond had three feet of foam on it.

And I was like, oh, my God, what's going on?

Some of the oyster larvae swam into this connected estuary, where they ended up thriving on the gravel bottom.

So Adam now replicates this process for each new batch.

For me, it makes a big difference, having these free-range, bottom-cultured oysters, because they're spread out.

They're not hanging horizontally, vertically.

They literally are laying on the bed of that river, and then this surge of salt water against the fresh water, it's just producing, you know, a perfect oyster.

Honestly, some of the best oysters I've ever eaten.

So these oysters here are market oysters, so this is, like, half-shell market.

The big ones, like this one we got today, that is not a half-shell oyster.

And then this is what it looks like after 24 hours of smoking.

We pack them in virgin olive oil with a couple other little secret ingredients.

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Gordon Tries Smoked Oysters | Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted

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