Meet The King Caesar, The Biggest Oyster

It’s not every day that a four-inch oyster appears on your plate, but that happened to us at last week’s Brooklyn Oyster Riot in New York City. Its name: King Caesar. Its producer: Duxbury Bay Shellfish. Its crazy factor: Market size is three inches and the popular Kumamoto oyster clocks in around two inches.

So King Caesars are knife-and-fork oysters, if you will.

"The XLs are more for real oyster lovers," Duxbury Bay Shellfish founder Paul Hagan told us. Its flavor is more intense than that of a market-sized Duxbury Bay oyster, which is briny up front with a buttery and sweet finish. ”It’s more powerful [in flavor]. You’re getting more more brine, and that’s what it all boils back down to: It’s just more oyster.”

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