How to squeeze lemon and peel shrimp without getting your fingers dirty?

[ChristianPFC]

How to squeeze lemon and peel shrimp without getting your fingers dirty?

 

When I get a dish served with a slice of lemon, I squeeze the lemon with my left thumb and index finger, pressing it against the fork (hold in my right hand). So I get the juice on my dish, but my fingers become dirty. How can I squeeze the lemon without getting my fingers dirty?

 

(Well, I could try to clean them with some of these flimsy tissues – that’s a different subject. I first lick them clean and then wipe them dry on my handkerchief.)

 

In Europe, we have devices like this to solve the problem:

 

 

 

but the slices of lemon are cut in a different way in Thailand.

 

Why are shrimp usually in their shell? Mostly it’s just the tail and the last segment, but sometimes the whole shell, often cut open at the back to allow easier peeling. I manage to peel shrimp with fork and spoon without getting my fingers dirty, but I wonder why they don’t remove the whole shell.

[kokopelli]

Wear plastic gloves.

[Guest fountainhall]

Open a bottle LOL

 

 

Can't help with the shrimps, though.

[lukylok]

If you had ben taught to peel fruit with knife and fork, to eat a fish on the bone, or to carve a bird...... taking the shell from shrimps should be no problem.

Now why leave the shrimps unpeeled ? Just because they are more tasty cooked that way.

 

And remember : you are not to lick your fingers in any circumstances !

[Rogie]

Now why leave the shrimps unpeeled ? Just because they are more tasty cooked that way.

 

 

I've never undertaken a blind tasting, but I'll accept that as a fact. Crabs and lobster and other shellfish are cooked in their shells so why not prawns and shrimps?

 

 

And remember : you are not to lick your fingers in any circumstances !

 

Sorry Lukylok, I don't know your nationality, and that maybe so in some countries, but a certain white-haired and goatee-sporting American has urged that when gorging on his 'southern delicacy' that his countrymen should lick freely and copiously. 

[KhorTose]

If you had ben taught to peel fruit with knife and fork, to eat a fish on the bone, or to carve a bird...... taking the shell from shrimps should be no problem.

Now why leave the shrimps unpeeled ? Just because they are more tasty cooked that way.

 

And remember : you are not to lick your fingers in any circumstances !

Actually there is a tool unlike a knife or a fork for this.  Often the local casinos in the Seattle area have shrimp buffets where you have to peel your own and this is what you should use.  If plastic is too plain for you, I have seen them in stainless steel and silver.  This tool will both split the shell and devein the shrimp.