Let’s be honest: Shrimp are great when you don’t have to deal with them in their raw glory. All those little legs and shells and veins — who wants to mess with that slippery stuff? Fortunately, ...

Shrimp is a tasty weeknight dinner, but cleaning them is far from fun. The process involves rinsing, de-shelling, and deveining the shrimp — which is tedious, especially if you’re cooking a large ...

No matter the preparation, most recipes call for shrimp to be peeled and deveined. Here’s how to do it at home with nothing more than a paring knife. What exactly is a shrimp vein? It’s actually not a ...

There are some tasks in the kitchen that can be a real pain in the butt, like deboning fish (though fishmongers will do it for you on request), removing shells from hard-boiled eggs (vinegar makes the ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. The “vein” that runs down the back of a shrimp ...

Q: When a recipe calls for cooking shrimp with shells on, what’s the best way to devein them? — Elizabeth Kampa, Livonia, Mich. A: There are many fancy kitchen gadgets for deveining shrimp. Although ...