PRAWNS?

[tim]

Once again, this may not be a recipe, but it directly affects our eating habits.

PRAWNS â€" the larger, Scampi type & above.” De-vein before use”. OK â€" so:

1.   Have all the battered prawns (poor things!) that you buy been de-veined? Have you suffered?
2.   When you have paella â€" or some such â€" at a party, do you peel your in-shell thing & de-vein it? And how do you dispose of the debris? You have a finger bowl at the ready??
3.   All the frozen, peeled Scampi that I looked at tonight have their ‘veins’ intact. Yuck? So do I really clean up 30+ prawns before supper? I did!
4.   I do de-vein tiger prawns â€" bigger ‘do’! - if I can find them from a sustainable source â€" have you tried? â€" but what a chore? And yet many are vein free.
I would value some serious comment.

[tim]

[westsussexlottie]

I won't eat battered prawns or "scampi". I always devein them.
It takes ages but I wouldn't eat the contents of any other sea creature's stomach (no I am not an oyster or mussels fan) so why prawns. No thanks...
Also they can be high in pollutants in their digestive tract.

[Doris_Pinks]

Tim
1. I don't buy battered Prawns

2. Yes, and hopefully the good host has provided a dish for the shells, and a finger bowl!  (If not there is always your napkin, so long as it is paper!

3.  I would have!

4. I have always done mine this way, excuse Margot!! But is a clear way of showing!!
http://www.pbs.org/everydayfood/tips/tip_06.html

Sadly I can't eat them anymore as we think I have become allergic to such stuff, how I miss it, meat can be sooooooooo  boring!  :'(  :'(  :'(  :'(

[Mrs Ava]

oooer.  Well, I devour all seafood so dread to think what sometimes goes through me!  I do always devein larger prawns, but am not about to sit and go through a punnet of little pink shrimpies which are sandwhich bound and devein them!  I don't buy them battered, only ever fresh, and if all things are equal, only from the 'hut' on Mersey Island or the fella in Maldon.