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05-20-2011, 3:06am | #1 | ||||||
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Is there a difference in quality with frozen shrimp?
When you go and buy frozen shrimp and it has Extra Large for $6. But there is another brand selling for $15. Can you really taste the difference in shrimp? Are there different types of shrimp? What makes one more expensive than the other? Or is it all bullshit?
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05-20-2011, 5:56am | #2 | ||||||
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Depends on where it came from
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I prefer wild caught gulf shrimp, versus "Farm raised in Thailand, Vietnam, China, or anywhere else". Wild caught from North or South American are usually more.
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depends on what street corner. and yeah, theres a difference in the taste...
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Generally speaking, the further you get inland, the crappier the taste.
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who would ever buy frozen seafood?
aside from red lobster |
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Shrimp are either wild or salt water, or farmed, usually in fresh water. there is a difference in taste, natural salt shrimp has more flavor and firmer meat. Sold usually by how many per pound, as in 6-8, 30-40, etc. But......when they cook shrimp for freezing, they cook them only till they just turn pink to keep them from shrinking much, so I find the cheaper ones shrink quite a bit when you finish cooking them for use, and for safety.
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Hmm... just doesn't seem right no matter how you say it. |
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Do yourself a favor. Avoid farm raised shrimp.
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Most stores just go to the frozen section and grab a bag from the freezer and dump it out in the meat department
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I like the frozen Tiger shrimp.
Couldn't tell you if there is much difference though. |
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I just go to the shrimp boat
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Me too, but I don't like shrimp.
A friend owns a shrimp boat, and will occasionally drop off some shrimp. They are frozen, but they are frozen in the salt water they were caught in. I don't know if he is just bull shitting, but he said that makes a difference. |
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I can tell you that if you can find frozen Alaskan shrimp, BUY THEM! They are fantastical, serious. The best shrimpies you'll ever eat.
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Absolutely! Gulf shrimp are the best. I have not tried Alaskan...
As far as the freezing, there are fishers/suppliers who immediately flash freeze the shrimp on the boat. If you get these, they are fine. Any other freezing is nasty tasting, at least to me, but I am also used to fresh Gulf seafood whenever I want it. I would never buy frozen seafood from any grocery. |
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You gotta be careful buying shrimp from some of the "foreign" shrimpers, even buying them off the boat. A few years ago an undercover investigation down here found that some of the Vietnamese shrimpers were taking shrimp that had was quite a bit past prime time and washing them in Clorox to get the smell and discoloration out of the meat.
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