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Claude AuCoin, Executive Chef at Digby Pines Resort in Nova Scotia, says that really fresh scallops shrink vertically and expand horizontally but regular scallops do the opposite. Totally Scal...
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Why do fresh scallops shrink vertically and expand horizontally, but regular scallops do the opposite?
>Claude AuCoin, Executive Chef at Digby Pines Resort in Nova Scotia, says that really fresh scallops shrink vertically and expand horizontally but regular scallops do the opposite. [*Totally Scallops: Not Just Another Cookbook* (2009)](https://www.saltscapes.com/8-kitchen-party/1069-finally-a-cookbook-on-scallops.html) by Judy Eberspraecher. p 160.