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The Absolute Best Way to Cook Shrimp, According to So Many Tests
Never eat an overcooked, rubbery shrimp agan. Never!
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Posted on 12/12/2021 2:25:10 PM PST by mylife
n Absolute Best Tests, our writer Ella Quittner destroys the sanctity of her home kitchen in the name of the truth. She's seared more porterhouse steaks than she cares to recall, tasted enough types of bacon to concern a cardiologist, and ranked potatoes from “most forgettable” to “potatoes we’d like to marry.” Today, she tackles shrimp.
Humankind’s first known shellfish feast occurred sometime around 163,000 B.C., in a cave on the southern coast of South Africa. Many millennia later, excavators found a bowl of roughly two dozen edible creatures, including mussels and at least one barnacle that had previously resided on the belly of a whale.
Humankind’s most bizarre known shellfish feast occurred sometime around 7 a.m. last Tuesday in my apartment. It consisted of just me, a whole pound of butter, and more shrimp than would comfortably fit in my crisper drawer. I emerged several hours later, grease-battered, weary, and surprised by several of my findings. It was, in other words, an average Absolute Best Tests trial day.
Let’s make like a crustacean and dive in:
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Hell, theys good raw, but scampi is my way
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:25:10 PM PST
by
mylife
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:26:19 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: mylife
You boil it until it turns the right color, take it out and pour cold water over it quick.
To: Telepathic Intruder
dont want it over cooked...
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:28:37 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: mylife
I can cook them fine, it is the heating of any leftovers that rubberizes them.
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:29:38 PM PST
by
doorgunner69
("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
To: mylife
This is gonna be worse than a gun porn thread
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:29:46 PM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: doorgunner69
As a rule when I cook shrimp there’s usually no leftovers
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:30:45 PM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: doorgunner69; cpdiii
Indeed, cpdiii makes a fine shrimp gumbo.
what leftovers?
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:31:51 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: mylife
Steamed MD crab style.
But yes, they are often overcooked and split open.
Also, big shrimp = overrated. The smaller the better. Same with lobster, etc. (Not crabs - they have ZERO nasty spongy meat.) Bigger = older = tougher. Spongy enough already! Yuck.
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:32:28 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: mylife
The engines in Alaska told me to throw it in boiling water and the moment it floats, take it out, let it cool a bit, and EAT IT. Of course they were right.
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:32:41 PM PST
by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
To: mylife
Hell, theys good raw, but scampi is my way
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Even the shrimp in a shrimp cocktail are cooked.
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:33:04 PM PST
by
bramps
(t's the Islam, stupid!I )
To: mylife
Steamed in a pot with beer and Old Bay. Done.
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:34:13 PM PST
by
Hatteras
To: Hatteras
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:34:42 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(I'm in the control group. I identify as "vaccinated".🤡)
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:35:34 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: mylife
Grilled with a simple marinade of garlic, S&P, and olive oil. No more than 2 minutes on a side depending on size.
L
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:35:44 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: bramps
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:37:38 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: mylife
George Costanza is my hero!
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:39:07 PM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: Lurker
works for me but I use red pepper flakes’ and a bit of with wine at the end...
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:40:40 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
To: mylife
As long as the wine is in a glass I’m fine with it.
Best,
L
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:42:03 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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posted on
12/12/2021 2:42:24 PM PST
by
mylife
(Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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