dumb question about shrimp

[disneyinseptember]

OK, this is a really dumb question, I have never had peel and eat shrimp. How do you eat it? Do you need a special utensil to get the shell off? How do you get the vein thingy out? I keep reading about how good it is and we are eating at Ohana's this week- I want to at least LOOK like I know what I'm doing. Thanks a bunch!

 

[daisyduck123]

You just pick it up, peel off the thin covering, and eat. I never pick the vein out unless it is a big, ugly black one. If it's threadlike thin, I don't bother. I don't think you can taste it. One more thing, you don't eat the tail. Don't worry, when you actually have one in front of you, this will all make sense.

 

[GailT]

don't worry it is easy, you just break the shell down and peel off, as far as the vien goes you take the tip of the knife and run it down the middle and it should pull it right out. I havent eating at Ohanas for a few years and I don't remember the shells and viens being there, maybe someone else will know the answer if I am wrong. You'll love Ohanas

 

[lyncruiser]

It's not very easy to devein the shrimp at the table. And, eating a shrimp with a big vein still in it is, to us. quite simply pretty gross. So we don't go to places that serve peel and eat shrimp!

 

[jann1033]

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[jann1033]

guess i'm tacky, i just peel the shell and basically at the same time peel out the vein with my fingernail and leave it with the shell on the plate/ it usually comes out pretty easy but personally i would rather have cold p and e shrimp since if there is a sauce on them it is pretty sloppy. wondering about Ohana since it sounds like a sweet and sour ie stickey sauce

 

[Frantasmic]

take the shrimp and hold it in your left hand by the tail.


Pinch the legs near the top and unwrap counterclockwise, discard shell.

Pinch the tail now and pull off remaining shell.

Discard any shell that this process didn't work for.

If you want to devein it, you cut down the middle (back of the shrimp) and take out the stringy vein (however, I think that would be more gross than eating them).

These are boiled shrimp, so the stuff that remains doesn't have any cooties and doesn't taste like anything. it might be a bit gritty is all.

 

[Amyality]

I hold the shrimp by the tail then grasp the legs and rip them off. Then just peel the shell off and use bite the shrimp off the tail. If there is clearly a lot in the "vein", I just don't eat it, othewise its fair game. My mom will only eat deveined shrimp but, I guess the prissy shrimp eater gene skipped a generation.

 

[disneyinseptember]

Thanks guys-can't wait to try it!

 

[LuvN~Travel]

Actually the peanut sauce at 'Ohanas, was great for the shrimp. I didn't think it was any messier than any other sauce. I knew about peeling them, but daughter actually bit down on one before I could stop her. The look on her face was hilarious. Of course after that she went back to the wontons.
Kim

 

[disnut8]

This reminds me of when my husband was in an officer's school in the Air Force. The assignment was to "train" the entire class on something. He chose to teach them how to peel shrimp (we lived in Biloxi, MS at the time). I went out and bought 10 pounds of shrimp and my then three year old son and I spent an entire afternoon beheading the critters (they were dead) and cooking them.

Grade on the assignment? A+.

Frantasmic has the right way of doing things.

 

[Frantasmic]

We southerners know our shrimp. I worked at a seafood place and had to peel and devein 10 pounds popcorn shrimp (70/90) each night.