After arriving at the stream, he casually picked up a rock and knocked out all the inner nodes of the bamboo.
Although bamboo is hard overall, its inner nodes were quite fragile and broke with a single strike.
Once the nodes were cleared out, what remained was a single, long, semi-circular bamboo trough.
Since splitting them into sections was too much trouble, he decided to just cook with the entire stalk placed over the fire.
It just meant setting up a few more fires.
After preparing the bamboo troughs, he soaked them all in the stream. This would allow the bamboo fibers to absorb plenty of water so they would last longer when placed over the fire.
He shucked all the American Oysters, removed the meat, and arranged it in a single row inside the soaked bamboo troughs.
