Shrimp Peeler – For the Kitchen, Boat, or Beach Dinner

Shrimp peeler – don’t leave home without it. Headed to the beach or to an oyster roast? Bringing along your handy gadget, or cooking in the kitchen with it, is the way to go. How in the world could a person clean their all-natural shrimp more quickly?  You are right on target if you say that a shrimp peeler is the answer.

How can a shrimp peeler make life easier? Well, first off, let me say that anytime you are near palm trees or shrimp, life is off to a good start, and can only get better!! Besides being fantastic cuisine for the home chef, shrimp to me mean beach time, sun, sand, and surf.

If you enjoy home kitchen cooking, and appreciate practical kitchen gadgets, this is a definite one to add to your list!

A shrimp can be peeled two ways. You can either do it by hand with a paring knife or you can use these little shrimp peelers. With the knife, you will get one or two nicks in your hand, believe it!

And, let us face it, deveining a shrimp is not the most glamorous thing in the world, actually it is kind of gross. Most people learn that the so-called “vein” is actually the digestive tract because shrimp do not have real veins like humans. I will let your thoughts on this go whatever way they want to!

If this is too gross for you, or you simply do not want to go through the pain to devein a shrimp, then the shrimp peeler is going to be your best bet. A lot of these peelers have been around for centuries, so they have to work if they have lasted this long! You have to main types of peelers.

First off, you have a machine which gets rid of the “vein” and the shell and the little legs on the shrimp. These are awesome because you simply put the shrimp into the opening of the machine and it takes care of the rest and discards the “vein”, shell and legs into a little store away place.

Think of it somewhat like a juicer – out one end comes the juice, and out the other end comes the peel. It is pretty much the same mechanics except for the fact that it will not juice your shrimp! The second type of shrimp peeler is a hand-peeler that will devein and peel the shrimp.

These are going to come in an array of mechanisms depending on the one you buy. Some of them look like flowers cutters, while others look like ice cream scoops and even more others that look like paring knives (but they are not!). They all work the same way, the “stem” part of the peeler which is usually a hard plastic or metal will slip under the shell while another piece of plastic or metal will act as a “scooper” to scoop away the veins.

This can be done in literally two measly seconds by using a peeler and best of all you will not get all that gunk on you and you will not smell like a shrimp for the rest of the night! Most people will admit that this is not a gadget they use a lot, after all how many times a year do you eat shrimp? But, most people still choose this as their gadget of a lifetime because it is quite helpful.

Also, if you live or vacation in a place where the shrimp are indiginous like the Gulf Coast or Maine or the Southeast Atlantic seashore, your shrimp catch is hopefully plentiful, with plenty left over for shrimp festival time throughout the shrimping season. So, for someone like you, you would probably get even more use out of this than for the sad rest of us lot who haven’t the joy of casting shrimp net when we want a shrimp dinner.

As essential as an oyster knife, the shrimp peeler is an important kitchen tool.

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