Recently stopped caring about removing the shells on shrimp and I just eat them with the shell on.
Does anyone else do this?
i knew a guy making a million a year by buying shrimp shells from a food processor for practically nothing and grinding them into dust and selling them as protein powder for gym dudes for $40/bottle.
twitches in FDA
It’s got the Cadmium bodies crave.
I mean, would it work as protein powder?
Your body has a hard time digesting them so it will likely give you a hell of a stomach ache/bad shits if you keep doing that. Just take them off man.
Noted, I haven’t actually experienced any issues personally but I’ll monitor for any abnormalities. Dropping carbs has actually been amazing on my digestive system.
I have only tried eating the tails of fried shrimp but I have never had any stomach issues for years caused by this. It does have the bonus of grossing out my kids when I do it.
It never occurred to me that the shells would be edible. I mean, I don’t eat clam or oyster shells.
When it’s crispy fried shrimp, yes. Any other time, no.
They can be used for flavoring but I would not eat the shells.
No. I did switch to eating larger shrimp so there’s less work involved.
There are ways of cooking shrimp that break the shell down to the point that it’s more like crispy salmon skin.
There are ways of cooking shrimp
That’s kinda when I said ascrew it and just ate the shell. It was some Chinese style shrimp with the heads still on. Took the head off and my fingers were so messy, I just couldn’t be bothered peeling the whole thing so I just ate it and haven’t stopped since.
No, but I do something similar. I eat corn on the cob without unwrapping the husk.
I have been encouraged/peer pressured to eat shrimp with the tails on. I declined and ripped them off.
When I make Scampi, I use the shells to make a shrimp stock to cook the shrimp and butter. Broiling jumbo shrimp with Bay’s Seasoning in the shell means I take the shell off before eating it.
Stock is a smart idea
I’ll take stock in that idea.
I suspect it’s like eating your fingernails or hair.
But, tactical dot!
Just due to texture alone, shrimp and other crustacean shells are a hard pass for me.
I, too, many years ago got tired of the process of removing shells and now just crush 'em shell on. It’s been about a decade and no issues thus far.
Only if they’re small and fried
I don’t, because it would require a trip to the hospital. Ain’t allergies fun?
But they’re not exactly easy to digest anyway, and how they’re cooked matters to the people I know that do eat them
For small shrimp yes to save time but for larger shrimps no
