I have been stockpiling ingredients for DIY frozen food. We are 70 miles from a real fishmonger so I have to rely on what we do have locally seafood wise.
Today I found that Aldi has a "seafood mix". It has calamari (squid), mussels, shrimp, and bay scallops. I bought it mainly for the mussels and squid since no one else in town has them. It says the ingredients are raw so I grabbed it. I noticed that other "seafood medley" mixes have raw shrimp etc but they have cooked mussels in them. The species of mussels in the mix I bought are mytillus chilensis. I am pretty sure mine are raw. The other mixes do list that the mussels are cooked and mine says they're raw. How would one know if the mussels were cooked and they didn't list it that way in the ingredients? After looking at pictures of raw Chilean blue mussels and cooked ones they look the same to me.
I know that when in doubt I shouldn't use it. Like I said I am about 95% sure mine are raw. I just wonder if one could tell whether or not frozen mussels and clams in mixes are raw or cooked.
Today I found that Aldi has a "seafood mix". It has calamari (squid), mussels, shrimp, and bay scallops. I bought it mainly for the mussels and squid since no one else in town has them. It says the ingredients are raw so I grabbed it. I noticed that other "seafood medley" mixes have raw shrimp etc but they have cooked mussels in them. The species of mussels in the mix I bought are mytillus chilensis. I am pretty sure mine are raw. The other mixes do list that the mussels are cooked and mine says they're raw. How would one know if the mussels were cooked and they didn't list it that way in the ingredients? After looking at pictures of raw Chilean blue mussels and cooked ones they look the same to me.
I know that when in doubt I shouldn't use it. Like I said I am about 95% sure mine are raw. I just wonder if one could tell whether or not frozen mussels and clams in mixes are raw or cooked.
