How to clean Geoduck and Horse Clams.

Educational This is my way of showing the viewers what they are missing out on their daily limit of clams in the state of Washington.

okay i have the gooey duck and horse clam here anyway normally i will blanch these to get them to pop out of their shell in this case i’m going to cut them out of their shell and then show you what they look like after i’ve cut them out of their shell i’ll be back in a few minutes okay so the horse clam when they’re closed there’s muscles here and muscles here down under and when you open it up there’s the muscle on both sides here’s the muscle on both sides okay on a gooey duck they’re kind of attached along the shell see here’s part of the gooey duck here attached and then it has a couple muscles here and here same as a horse clam so there’s the muscle right there anyway on a horse clam you have the skin to get rid of on the neck and you have basically a little bit of lungs in a gut bag that’s in the tail so some of this tail is a waste but some of it right here is really good on a gooey duck you have the whole neck all the way down and then around here and the tail that’s all good meat you just have this bit of gut bag right here to take off just like so just like so and that’s garbage anyway we have left is a hard skin here and all the way up the neck and we’ll blanch this and show you how to clean that next on the horse clam basically we’re going to separate the neck okay so now we just have the neck and we’ll blanch this to pull this skin off on the neck or i mean on the tail here you have basically i’m going to call it like on a razor clam the ribbon or the zipper these pieces and those are good for clam strips once they get blanched so i’ll put those in this bowl and then the tail here basically you have the gills a little bit of muscle these are really chewy and they get stuck in between your teeth you can keep them so i’ll trim that and then by the way i’m cleaning it on the back end of my tailgate in my truck because i was trying to do this over by where i clean these things dog was barking next door neighbor’s dog so of this tail you just slice this out get rid of the dirty stuff and this is a really good chunk of meat the rest of this is good for crab bait all right so i have three more to do then i’ll get back to you on after i blanch them okay i put parts of the body and zipper into the blanching water first so i can show you the gooey duck next and a horse clam i’m gonna get these out put them in the cold water let the water start coming to a boil so i wanted to partially cook these plus these ribbons still have a bit of this tough uh outer skin on the edges that i got to clean off and kind of see with the brown i know it’s getting a little steamy so i’ll wipe off the front okay we got a muscle left so i think that’s it what we’ll do next let’s take the uh gooey duck just drop the gooey duck in with its neck and all and we want to go we want to put it in long enough for it to cook the neck to get that outer skin to slip and then we want to put it in cold water so that’s pretty much it i lift it up feel the neck it’s starting to slip already kind of see it slip in here so i’ll give it one more like 10 more seconds and then i’ll put it in the cold water and i’m not counting so close you don’t overcook them but i can put that gooey duck into that cold water and get it to stop the cooking process i don’t want it fully cooked so now i can take the horse clam next put them in all right so they’re in there and they take a little longer for cooking for slipping so i just have to kind of you know give it time pick one up check it these are a lot harder to pull the skin off and if you overcook them the meat on the neck gets really soft and squishy so you don’t want to overcook them so it’s not slipping you well it’s slipping a little there i’ll just give that one a little longer this one here is not moving yet these just take a lot longer to pull so i’m going to shut the stove off anyway that one’s slipping there so i can get the meat off that one so pretty much all of them will be ready to pull out again i don’t want to overcook them because they they will they’ll get really soft just got one tip left so i’ll get back to you when it’s time to show you how to peel these off and what you should be doing to clean them so i’ll be back in a minute okay here’s the gooey duck after i blanched it and cooled it down you should be able to just grab the this outer skin if you’ll notice how it peels off and then watch the neck a little bit of shell left there you should be able to just grab this outer skin it peels off just like a sock big long sock you could call it something else if you want but this is youtube for family and i’m not going to call it so so you have that that’s all peeled off and you have this big long outer skin that i just blanched and peeled off and it measures approximately stretched out guessing three feet so that’s that one now my son went home with the other uh gooey ducks so i’m showing you the one that i mostly dug with him anyway any of the scraps go towards crab bait so also what i’ll do here is right here at the the tail this is a stronger piece of meat and i’m undecided on how well this stuff’s supposed to be but some people like it i guess it’s just really strong if you’ve ever had lobster and you had the lobster tail and you know what that flavor tastes like and then you have the claw from the lobster well this definitely tastes strong strong flav this flavor is just super strong so this is edible i’ve had i’ve gone to a restaurant and ordered a gooey duck and ended up with very strong flavored meat and i know it was that that piece right there so now you got the neck well this neck you can trim a little bit of the some of the stuff off of the edges again it’s going to be better flavored from here on up to the neck next thing i’ll do is just split right down the siphon hole if i can follow it right you can see that okay trying i’m missing it it was a long day today i uh my the to to get where i was going to get these gooey ducks was three hours so my day was three hours up three hours back a couple hours of digging that’s the gooey duck now you can cut it in strips for for fried clams or make steaks whatever you want to do well give me a minute i’ll clean my hands off and show you a horse clam okay i’m showing you the horse clam i got one there that i started here i’m going to show you all this dark colored skin it peels off but it’s real tough to peel off basically you can go right where the two halves are it seems like there’s a seam there and just grab and peel to one side it is really really difficult to peel so what i will do start peeling this off and then i will get back to you once i have one of them peeled all the way and then i’ll show you the rest okay well i’m pretty close to being done peeled on this one on this side but you start from one side you just work it very carefully to the other as i was showing you and if you can get turned around the corner with that same piece of skin go for it just like so all right i’m gonna set this one down this is the zipper you have that tuft of skin there you just grab an edge and peel it off grab it and peel it off just like so anyway it comes off pretty easy for this but but the necks are always hard so anyway what you do is you take and tip the neck the tip of the neck you just cut the tip off and you do what i showed you on the gooey duck you just go right up the the middle of this or this outside siphon and then you go in the middle and cut that to flay it open and that’s a nice chunk of meat you can tenderize these and dip them in egg and cracker crumb i just cut them in strips dip them in egg and cracker crumb these taste really really good and they also work good in chowder so clam chowder all right so this guy here is almost done i’ll show you again that came off fairly easy compared to some i’ve had in the past so i don’t want to make this video too long might have already gone over for just showing you how to dig them so i’ll just snip that get in the middle here i did both anyway just like that big chunk a big clam steak right there so all right there you go i might also add because these are harder to clean a lot of people elect to not keep these you can keep seven and this is a lot of meat that people pass up on their daily limit they’re not very they’re not that easy to dig but they’re not that hard to dig either snip that off right there so you know this is this is extra meat when you drive for three hours i didn’t get my limits i didn’t care to get my limits i just want to do this for the video but you drive an extra three hours or three hours and there and three hours back you might want to bring some some meat back so all right that’s it well this is the next day because yesterday was a very long drive to get these the gooey ducks and the horse clams anyway what you see here is one gooey duck and four horse clams worth of meat i didn’t keep the mussels uh there was one of the horse clams that had the top of its neck cut off i put that towards crab bait so i got myself a good pile of crab bait this is three and a half pounds for four horse clam one gooey duck imagine how much weight you can get with seven horse clams this size and three gooey ducks that size uh you’re looking at probably seven eight to ten pounds worth of meat so this is a daily limit that a lot of people pass up just because these are too deep and i understand and you don’t find as many of these they’re harder to find um and these when you dig them well that’s they’re a little harder to clean that’s that’s the biggest thing people leaving behind because they’re a little harder to clean they taste good in chowder clam chowder they taste really good so anyway if you liked this portion of my videos of cleaning gooey ducks and horse clam please push the like button if you want to see more push the notification bell if you haven’t already please subscribe i am going for a hundred subscribers this year 2021 on uh my channel so i only have 33 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