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Old 06-03-2013, 05:20 PM   #1
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Scallops question

I don't like lobster, it has a funny aroma and taste to me. Strangely enough, scallops do too only it's a stronger aroma. Not fishy, not spoiled, just odd and it is the same with fresh or frozen. But the weird thing is it makes me nauseous when I cook them. Why? I absolutely love seafood including clams and shrimp so why do lobster and scallops turn my stomach when I smell them cooking? More so scallops because they're done in a pan. I don't get it.
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Old 06-03-2013, 05:38 PM   #2
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Could be the beginning of shellfish allergy? Well that, or maybe you just don't like them.

Get some skate or black tip and see if you like it. They taste very similar to scallops, maybe better than what makes it to the Michigan market, and you would have no shellfish issues.
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Old 06-03-2013, 05:39 PM   #3
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No shellfish allergies. I just wondered if I'm the only one that can smell a stark difference in them.
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Old 06-03-2013, 05:47 PM   #4
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My serious guess is that what you are getting in your local market isn't as fresh as it could or should be, and there is plenty of room for mishandling shellfish by the time its get delivered to locales far from its origin. The shellfish is possibly smelling "off", which is a smell that you would not like, and it being past its prime could easily make you feel nauseous.

Careful with shellfish allergy though, it can come out of nowhere, almost like its a cumulative effect in some people.
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Old 06-03-2013, 05:51 PM   #5
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I do think scallops and lobster smell different from one another and both different from clams. Though, really fresh seafood smells mostly of the sea, like a salty sweetness. Imo, once it starts smelling of more than that its past its prime.

The old saying is a good fish market should not smell like fish.
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Old 06-03-2013, 05:52 PM   #6
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Genetics??

Were you ever given the PTC (Phenylthiocarbamide)test in school? Some say PTC has a bitter taste, while others experience no taste at all. You either have the PTC gene or you don't.

Same with ability to smell certain odors, like "asparagus urine", for example.
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I have not had that test but I can definitely tell when I've eaten asparagus and it's also a very offensive odor to me. My sense of smell has always been very sharp along with my sense of color and audio tone.

Carmine, you mentioned a salty-sweetness. There is a distinctive overly-sweet smell to scallops to me. Again, I have no concerns about the scallops I bought being fresh, my nose is very, very sensitive.
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Old 06-03-2013, 08:07 PM   #8
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Some inforkmation. A scallop, as you see it, is only a small part of the animal, it is only the muscle that opens the shell. The rest of the beast is discarded. Call it the white meat.

There's some taste similarities to lobster, but in reality, they aren't even in the same genera. Totally different critters.

IMO, you just don't like scallops, and something about the smell turns your stomach. Nothing unusual there, some people react like that to various things, with or without a discernible reason. So being able to eat clams and oysters but not being able to tolerate "white meat" scallops is sort of like loving steak but being repelled by the smell of ham. Nothing unusual here, as far as I can see.

btw, my wife loves crab. Lobster? Uh uhh. Kinda turns her stomach.
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How about mussels? Now, imo, that is one foul tasting and smelling shellfish! Sometimes people add them to spaghetti sauce; taints the whole batch.
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scallops are often treated with a solution (phosphates if I recall correctly) to keep them 'plump'.

http://fshn.ifas.ufl.edu/seafood/sst...f/18th_418.pdf

that might make one sick, but I have not researched to see if the symptoms you describe are associated with that solution
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