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re: If You Haven't Been to Casamento's, Just Do It!
Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:29 pm to Gris Gris
Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:29 pm to Gris Gris
quote:Yeah, it's not usually a discernible amount of money if you're talking a dozen. I just usually can't talk myself out of the raw.
I would rarely eat more than a dozen of them, so I'm not going to be too worried about the different in the money. Unless I know they just aren't that good, I'll probably order them every time I see them on a menu.
I have a friend like you though, always orders them. So I at least get to try them at many of the places we go. Feel like a cheap arse when I type that out
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Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:30 pm to BRgetthenet
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quote:35¢ apiece at home I've never done the math. 1 sack(90-100)-$30 Garlic-$3 Butter-$4 SnP-$2 Parmesan-$4 43/99=.43/oyster give or take Shucking an oyster and dumping that stuff on them and watching them char might be worth $1/piece to somebody from TX, AR, MS, AL, or FL.
Have to add in every cost. It costs something for the gas or propane to chargrill them plus the time and effort to shuck and do it yourself. Probably takes at least 30min to an hour or more to set everything up and clean. I would round up to $.50 each and multiply that by 12 to give you about $6 cost for a dozen. Most restaurants work on 2.5-3+ times the cost of the food cost which makes it not that out of line with everything else they are charging.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:31 pm to JasonL79
Exactly, Jason.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:32 pm to glassman
quote:
. I think they have the best raw oysters in New Orleans
They don't cook those. They shuck them. I can buy a sack of oysters and shuck some decent ones as well. That being said, I will agree with you that Casamentos does serve good raw oysters.
quote:
And the best fried seafood.
Fried seafood is fried seafood. It isn't anything to write home about. My personal favorite in the New Orleans area would most likely be Rivershack, but even then it isn't something that is immensely better than comparable New Orleans restaurants.
quote:
A 90 year old stand alone restaurant is
based on nothing but history and nostalgia, not the actual quality of food or cooking.
The "World Famous" oyster loaf! Freshly fried oysters topped with soft, warm lettuce and tomato. Heavens to Betsy we forget the buttered Wonder bread!
This post was edited on 4/4/13 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:33 pm to JasonL79
I think around $13 is fair for chargrilled oysters. Any more is too high.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:34 pm to JasonL79
Tack on the vent and hood system many places have to put in specifically to handle them. Not cheap.
This post was edited on 4/4/13 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:35 pm to LSUballs
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think around $13 is fair for chargrilled oysters. Any more is too high.
Not many restaurants would make it at double their cost for their selling price for everything. It's expensive to run a restaurant and pay for rent/mortgage,labor,insurance,utilities. Not to mention the huge startup costs it takes.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:39 pm to LSUAfro
quote:
Tack on the vent and hood system many places have to put in specifically to handle them. Not cheap.
Yep usually a $1,000+ a foot for those things plus the electricity of running them all day long.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:45 pm to 12Pence
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Fried seafood is fried seafood
Yep. Screw it, just go get the fried shite at Long John Silvers. It's all the same anyway.
Beer is beer. Bread is bread.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 1:51 pm to 12Pence
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Fried seafood is fried seafood
quote:
Wonder bread
Proof you have no clue what you're talking about.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 2:13 pm to TigerWise
They were delivering Evangeline bread when I was there. Walked past us with a big box of it.
Frying seafood in lard produces a finer fried product and it's apparent if you have taste buds.
Frying seafood in lard produces a finer fried product and it's apparent if you have taste buds.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 2:15 pm to JasonL79
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Most restaurants work on 2.5-3+ times the cost
This is before labor though, so there is no reason to add labor to my cost at home.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 2:49 pm to notiger1997
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Yep. Screw it, just go get the fried shite at Long John Silvers. It's all the same anyway.
shite. Why did I waste my time at those places in New Orleans last weekend then? There's a Cap'n D's on my way home from work here in Birmingham.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 3:47 pm to Gris Gris
quote:
Frying seafood in lard produces a finer fried product
Sure does. As well as having seperate frying pots for each individual item. A lot places all fried seafood ends up tasting the same. Not there.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 5:21 pm to glassman
Add one more positive vote for Cassamentos.
Posted on 4/6/13 at 11:56 am to glassman
quote:
Frying seafood in lard produces a finer fried product
Sure does. As well as having seperate frying pots for each individual item. A lot places all fried seafood ends up tasting the same. Not there.
All of this. After seeing reference to the idiot child 12pence post in my thread, I had to come check this thread out.
It is absolutely absurd to suggest "fried seafood is fried seafood". And mentioning Casamento's in the same sentence as Johnny's Pizza is weak trolling.
Posted on 4/6/13 at 11:58 am to VOR
We should all let it go.
His mom dropped him on his grape too many times as a small child.
His mom dropped him on his grape too many times as a small child.
Posted on 4/6/13 at 12:47 pm to BRgetthenet
Frying, just like any other cooking method, is an art.
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