Help - accidentally froze mussels

[Cooking-Fool]

...i bought a couple pounds of live Muscles and stuffed them in the freezer a couple hours by mistake,,,,,

some of them are open...and wont close when i tap on them.....but when i put them into the wine to cook they opened themselves more......can i still eat them??

[keltin]

Sure, you can still eat them. You say they were fresh and only frozen for a few hours, so they are basically still “fresh”. The muscles open up when they die. The ones that opened in the freezer are just dead…..which is what was going to happen to them in the pan anyway. The freezer didn't do anything to them but save them from being cooked alive.

[Cooking-Fool]

GREAT now I can eat my delicious muscles in white wine.......

TAHNX

[kitchenelf]

Next time just put the mussels in your refrigerator - in a cooler spot. Make sure they can breath and they are not wrapped totally in plastic. You can always keep them in the bag, with another towel under them and put them in a bowl of ice - but not directly on the ice.

The only problem I see is you don't know which ones were already dead and could possibly upset your tummy

If any shells are broken do not eat those as they were probably broken to begin with. Those would NOT be ok to eat.

Enjoy your mussels - I LOVE them!

[llvllagical_llkook]

Muscles are lovely to cook with. I cannot eat them due to allergies but I do cook them, wearing gloves.

[auntdot]

I am with the elf here. The old tried and true 'don't eat those that don't open when cooked' cannot apply here.

I would think those that opened were alive when they met their chilly demise. But probably many, if not all, of those that are closed are healthy also.

It depends upon what you feel comfortable eating. Me, I would probably toss the lot and resolve not to do that again.

Just my humble take on things.

And if there is anything better than mussels meunierre I haven't tried it.