HELP! How can I get this mussel out?

[JDM625]

Ok, this is the most ridiculous thing! I was scrubbing mussels for dinner lastnight, and one slippery fsucker flew out of my hand and went down the overflow pipe!

I've tried chopsticks, tongs, a knife, bottle brush but due to the angle, nothing is working. I can unscrew the S bend/trap underneath, but the hole within the overflow isn't wide enough to push the mussel through. Maybe I could push it up though?

Any other ideas to get it out before it stinks?

Can you boil him in situ - somehow it feels like a boiled mussel will smell less than a raw one. Although that might make the shell open and therefore wedge more.

If you're using cleaning chemicals just remember not to mix them, you can accidentally make very nasty gasses.

Please. Film. This.

It probably is.

Poor thing.

Hopefully he'll finally be rescued tomorrow.

What about a tape measure? Is the overflow hole/gap wide enough you can get the metal end down and then hit the release button?

Huh. What do you know? Froggy doesn't really want to talk about it but he went through a thing or two, working undercover, back in the day:

This is a brilliant shout.

And this is an excellent thread 😆😆

Vacuum attachment or make a very narrow nozzle and attach it to the vacuum tube. This will lift it out.

A chisel (skinny) and a hammer, and cash the poor little chap out?

Have you tried just smashing it up with something? Alternatively could you fashion a miniature fishing net out of a wire coat hanger and some netting or fabric?

Or, better still, try your local aquarium department to get a miniature net on a wire handle. You can also get all manner of implements for gripping small things to extract from fish tanks.

Can I just say it's so nice to read a thread where NO ONE is falling out, making snarky comments or being rude? It's just a thread of people properly invested on the well being of Maurice, and everyone just having a laugh! So refreshing 💕💕

Can you lob a couple of frites, and a glug of cold lager down so he goes knowing what could have been. Minus the boiling and eating.

#teammaurice

Not very helpful but your sink is so lovely and clean

Apart from that mussel in the overflow.

And so night falls.

I love this thread following in anticipation of mussel emancipation day

Also requested it for Classics!

And gutted they've taken away the laughing emoji because I would be hitting that button for every single one of @Redheadedstepchild s posts 🤣🤣🤣

This is like when those Chilean miners got stuck.

Oh god, I hope there are two girlfriend mussels ready to greet him once he’s freed and it aaaaaall kicks off 🍿

Honest to God, what are the chances of a mussel of the right size flying towards that pipe at precisely the right angle?!
I think this is a bit of a miracle, OP.

I had to check if mussels are girls and boys, rather than hermaphrodites like snails - yes, and I’ve learned a useful new word ‘gonochoric’.
of course we don’t know if Maurice is male or female at this point.

And it IS Pride Month, so I retract my earlier assumption of gender and sexual orientation

This whole situation is frustrating Froggy so much. He used to be in a Top Secret Undercover Fully Amphibious Unit of the Special Boat Service. Going down wells, searching caves, sweeping underground bunkers...Just an average Wednesday on the borderlands of the 'Stans for Froggy and his Squadron just a few short years ago.

He keeps ribbeting on that he and the lads would have had Maurice out in a jiffy, back in the day.

And yes, It's Special Boat Service not the SAS. Froggy detests that Andy McNab with a passion. He thinks that he's a fraud.

My understanding it's that it's the SBS who are the real tough guys, and the SAS are a bunch of wusses by comparison. I'm sure Froggy will confirm.

This thread is wonderful! <<applauds>>

I was avoiding clicking on it because I hate shellfish, but I was bored, decided to have a look and it's so funny.

I am now fully invested in the fate of poor Maurice, and am desperate to know if he's been rescued yet.