I've also cut up lots of Abalone shells. I used the same method to cut as Tracy did. I used a 18 tper inch metal cutting band saw to do the cutting and then the belt grinder to do sizing etc.. The biggest thing I saw was the shells had to be a huge th

On the CA board, a question was asked re how to prepare abalone, since the poster had never tried it, and apparently it is available (live, farmed, in tanks) at Ranch 99 in San Diego (and perhaps elsewhere at Ranch 99)...

There once was a time when abalone, this most succulent of shellfish, ... then brought to the farm site and cut up into small pieces before being fed to the developing abalone. Three years later ...