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Patrick McMurray

Patrick McMurray

World champion oyster shucker, oyster sommelier, and culinary educator based in Toronto — holds Guinness World Record for fastest oyster shucking (39 oysters in one minute).

Aug 3, 2026

17:38
[laughs]
17:39
... you, winner gets to go.
17:39
And that year, the manager that I knew, Murph G. Murphy, he's just called Murph, he won that year and he got to go to world championships.
17:47
And I'm like, "Wait a minute, this is insane." So yes, now we get into the contest for funsies- I got good at what I was doing, and eventually I got into the winning end of things, and then won the Canadians, then I won...
17:59
I got to go to the Worlds, and I, I won the World Championships in 2002.
18:03
First and only Canadian to do that.
18:05
Very few of us on this side of the pond work with that oyster, so it's a different species and a little bit- Mm ... of a different technique on how to actually open it.
DanHOST
20:45
Yeah.

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