How to shell & devein Prawns 3 ways | Paul Breheny | The Hook and The Cook 

Thank you...I had them as a gift and did not know how to shell and devein them

Works I'm sure. I'm a Floridian who has peeled many many shrimp/prawn. I use a tool and it takes the shell off and the vein, too. But, I learned something here, taking the vein out at the start was new to me. I am not that concerned with the vein, a lot of us just eat away. Thanks !

Just what I was looking for a clear simple and concise answer, perfect thank you.

Thank you chef, the third way is what I'm looking for ;) good to see you again!

Just peeled my very first prawns :) I was pretty scared at first, I guess that's what I get for being brought up in a city haha! I was more comfortable after peeling my fifth one or so

Thank you, Sir! Your third method saved the shrimp from getting thrown in the trash. Not knowing this makes the process extremely frustrating.

Very interesting i ate shrimp bfore but never prepare it for my self but now i hve learnt how to do it on my own thanks alot blessings

First-time easy to clean,thankyou

Simple . short .. superb ... !! exactly what I have been looking for :)

Thank you very much for this tutorial, it's very useful :)

yes thank goodness that third method saves so much time and less mess, I'm not chef but I do feel pretty fancy now peeling me prawns quickly whilst everyone else is hand picking shells aha

Thank you! It is an excellent video

it is a very nice video..superb......Thank you! for making this video for us....

Thank you so much. Very helpful

Great... I liked the 2nd way

Great. Thank you

love watching seafood related videos before bed

Wow that's really cool ways to deshell prawn👍

Thank you Paul this was very helpful =)

Brilliant video...thankyou so much for this just before I make a prawn dinner for a family ;)

Brilliant

Great Video! Thanks for sharing.

awesome!!! I tried my own way before this video but I ended up breaking the prawns in half. thank you so much!!!

Very excellent video your second method was superb 👍

Thank you

Another method is to push a tooth pick right through the side of the prawn tail, underneath the vein and lift it up until it breaks through the top of the tail, bringing the vein with it. You will end up with a very small tear in the tail, but you're going to chew it up and eat it anyway, so who cares. I was delivering some stuff to an Asian restaurant in Townsville years ago and saw an old bloke deveining prawns with this method. I've used it ever since.

To devein means to remove the prawn intestinal tract cheers guys.👍

Nice video, the only one I watched that actually helped me.

excellent! thank you

Thank You everyone for the kind comments if there is anything else you would like to see on the channel. Feel free to let me Know. Warm Regards Paul :)

wow you are a chef and it takes you forever to do these shrimp havent you ever heard of pinch pull???? or the 2nd joint method? I will teach you how to do this

That was great tutorial! Thank you

Excellent

amazing

Great skill

Second method was easy and good For 5kilo aslo I would love to use the same method...thank you

Thanks a ton..

super super !!!!!!!!!!! very use full tips

awesome.. thanks

You can use a scissor to cut open than a knife. Chef upali Sri Lanka

So helpful. Thanks!

Thank u. 👌👌👌

thanks chef

Beneficial thanks a lot

Watching this while watch MKR (when Gianni and Zana didn't clean their prawns forcing the judge to do it himself). Great methods and my mum is going to teach me irl soon :)

That was shockingly useful; you might be surprised :) Thanks :)

This is awesome. Great help.

Thanks for sharing 😍

nice presentation..thank you....

Amazing 😍

Subscribed.

Second way is cool. Thanks

I like the first way the best because I can be sure it all came out. I am trying it on some huge, Argentinian shrimp when I next cook them. I ate some crunchy ones of same last month and then found out I ate shrimp poo. My stomach still turns thinking about it.

Have you seen Kill It And Grill It's easy fork method? It's a game changer.

I like the second way

Thanks for making this video. Very helpful

this is great tutorial

Well showed excellent

thanx i loved da ideas

thanks alot but second method is very nice & easy.

So good

thank you very helpful

thanks. very helpful.

Very cool

Yum, looks delicious!

Perfect way thanks

really helpful! thank you!

Jolly good, thanks for that.

thank you for the information

Nice

Luv it!!!!

i love this!

oyster n sushi salmon n prawn r seafood right. lil lemon or wasabi adds that touch, Thats fresh!! raw is eatable n is good for building your own immune system naterally. im 33yo n cant remember last tym ive needed 2 see a DR except 4 an skin allergy caught from my dog. btw im SUB

We LuV them Shrimp'e's as my g/daughter call's them especailly on the Barb'B so good & EZ 2 do TY ;)

So does the vain on the bottom where the feet are need to be removed also?

thank u

Thanks:)😃😄😅

see, I have always been told to remove the head as soon as you catch them. This video didn't, others haven't either. So, with some species< do you?

Thank u for this vid!!

My favorite way is to buy the prawns/shrimp already pealed and de-veined at my local Wal-Mart and yes I know that Wal-Mart made a ISIS Black Flag themed cake but that was in Louisiana I don't live in that state.

realy helpful,

Good, but how to remove d black vein & leave d shell on for barbequing.?

legend

Does this work with cooked Prawns as well? I don't have much trouble with the deveining, it's the peelinbg I'm terrible at.

when your saying devein your mean to pull out the intestine right? or both?

What about the vein on the bottom

I can eat shrimp tempura in my sleep, too!

Nice and simple cheers mate

Hi, I have a question.. I bought unshelled prawns and I tried to devein it like you did, but I can't find anything.. no veins... but on the inner curve, I did find a black line that I removed... and on the tail part there is a line that I removed too by cutting the back.. my prawns look really ugly.. but seems like the job is done. what did i do wrong? it's my first time deveining prawns. thank you.

Good video not here to say anyones wrong but just call it how i see it , there's a 4th way though where you devain the shrimp fully, i noticed you just did the top didn't say anything about the underside vein? Maybe it's not necessary? Correct me if i'm wrong

How can something that tastes so yummy, be so gross to prep

During cleaning, shrimp have their legs torn off and are decapitated and disemboweled. As their bowels are ripped out, poop spills out and often gets all over the shrimp.

One question: i heard there are veins at the underside of the prawns.

There are two "veins". Yes we know they are not really veins, but that's what they are called. Anyway a few places on the net cover removing both veins, but I've found no vids on YT.

I swear I thought the name of the youtube channel was the hookahandthecook lol

If prawn small how can clean

There are 2 veins one at the back and one at the front. I have not seen any chef till day showing or removing the vein which is on the front side.

Why we have to remove vein is it tastes badd

My fishmonger told me you don't have to bother to devein and so I never have, but now I'm worried I met get poisoned or something if I don't do it.

Isn’t it a strange thing. How can you have a BIG shrimp.