50 People Try to Peel and Devein Shrimp

You know you can just buy these at the store,

already cooked?

(classical intro)

Okay. (groans)

What is this?

I think they're snails.

Can I peel and de-vein the shrimp?

Probably not.

Um.

I assume peel means just to take off the outside.

Just trying to think of what method

won't cause me to chop my fingers off.

Can I just? I'm just gonna do it with my hands.

(intense music)

Why do they have so many legs?

Ugh, gross!

Doesn't seem to be cooperating with me too well.

Yeah that's not gonna work.

Let's try with a knife.

(slicing)

Okay, that kinda worked but not really.

Now, time to de-vein this bad boy.

They haven't made a tool for this?

Do you guys have a de-veiner?

So how do you get rid of these veins?

I'm gonna cut it open.

Ooh.

I see the vein.

I do not know what the vein actually is.

Literal sh(beep)t.

Ew, feels like cloth. That is so weird.

Yeah, I have no idea what I'm doin' right here.

I got enough o' the vein out that

no one's gonna get ill from it.

We've all eaten shrimp poop.

Whether you know it or not.

I don't know how to de-vein.

I'm not gonna lie.

Okay. I can do this.

First, grab a knife.

Make a slit along the back.

And then you pull the tail off.

Grab 'em by the legs to peel.

Just pull forward. Just kinda pinch.

Alright. So, now we're de-veining.

This is the vein. It's blue, it looks like our veins.

That's what you don't want to eat.

Some people like eating poop, I'm not a big fan of it.

Pull it down through the back.

(classical overture)

Oh, look, it's coming out.

Booyah! It's out.

Whoever wants you to de-vein a shrimp is a punk.

I'm kosher, so I'm gonna say no.

Sorry.

(chuckles)

(tape rewinding)

So, we're gonna peel and de-vein a shrimp here.

I'm gonna show you two methods.

We're gonna start with the more traditional way.

You're gonna start by grabbing here,

and working your way around the shrimp

from the feet on one side to the feet on the other.

And just peeling that back.

We can leave the tail on for something

like a shrimp cocktail, or we can simply

just sort of pinch at the tail and peel back.

And remove the tail from the shrimp.

The next thing we're gonna do is take our pairing knife,

and then come through with the pairing knife

directly on the back side of the shrimp.

And that's gonna reveal the vein here;

which you can see right here.

This is the digestive tract of the shrimp.

I'm gonna take the tip of my pairing knife

and then just take it right out.

Just like that.

For the second method here, you're gonna lay the shrimp

sideways on your work surface.

You're gonna come in with the blade facing away from you.

And you're going to both peel back

and slice at the same time.

So we're peeling the shell and we're opening up

the digestive tract all at once.

Go ahead and just pull the vein right off.

Okay?

So, our shrimp looks like this.

(classical overture)

Can you de-vein my? Shut up! No!

I'm not de-veining your shrimp.

I'm done. Tell me de-vein nothin'! Nope!

Veins stay in!

(Classical outro)