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- Hey y'all, today we're going to cook some shrimp.
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One of my favorite meals, or appetizers,
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or you can do so much with shrimp.
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I could probably eat seafood the rest of my life
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and never eat anything else.
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And there's several different ways,
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okay I'm turning my water on to boil,
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several different ways to cook shrimp.
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You can steam shrimp,
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where you just use a little bit of water,
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like a half a cup or a cup of water
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and half a cup of vinegar.
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And then you steam 'em or you boil 'em.
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And you put water, season your water,
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and you bring it to a boil.
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The biggest thing with shrimp
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is do not overcook 'em.
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If you overcook 'em, then you end up with like an eraser.
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You can't eat 'em, you can't chew 'em.
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A lot of times you have precooked shrimp.
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If you have those, then they're probably already overcooked,
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so then once you heat 'em up, they are overcooked.
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So my favorite thing is to get fresh shrimp
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A lot of times, like I said,
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steaming is a great way to do it.
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And you can also saute shrimp, which is a good way.
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I like to put garlic in it and butter,
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and they turn out really great like that too.
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But okay, we're gonna season the water.
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We gotta bring it to a rolling boil.
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But what we'll do is take a teaspoon of salt.
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You don't need a lot of salt
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because the Old Bay has a lot of salt.
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A teaspoon of pepper.
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Old Bay, to me is just a great seasoning for shrimp,
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because it's got so many different flavors to it.
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And it just brings out the taste of shrimp.
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And I just go by eye.
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I don't measure it, but a good little bit of Old Bay.
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And bring that to a rolling boil.
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A lot of times too, I don't do this every time,
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but a lot of times you can take your shrimp,
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and before you cook 'em, and you take them and
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put some Old Bay on there, on the shrimp themselves
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before you cook them.
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And lot of times I'll put a
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like a half a cup of vinegar,
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just white vinegar into the shrimp.
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It doesn't change the, you don't get the acid taste
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It just makes 'em easy to peel.
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But if you do it right,
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you won't have have any trouble peeling them.
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And this goes without saying,
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you get wild Georgia shrimp are the best.
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They don't get any better than that.
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These come from my buddy Russo's seafood.
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Okay, we got a rolling boil.
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That's what you want.
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You want your, and when you put the cold shrimp in there,
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See how the boiling stopped?
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And the big thing, what you need, we need
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to do now is keep close tabs on the shrimp.
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You want 'em to turn pink
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and not have the little opaque have, see how,
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see how it's turning pink?
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You want 'em all pink.
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But you need to keep testing them
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at the most three minutes.
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But it doesn't take long to cook 'em.
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But it doesn't take long to ruin them either.
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- [Staff] Do you let 'em come back till the boil
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or you just wait for 'em to get cooked?
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- I never wait till they get back to the boil.
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I'm gonna say in two to three minutes,
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but I'll take one out and test it.
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And if it peels, I'll cut 'em off.
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This is what I do to make sure I don't overcook 'em.
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I test them as they go along.
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They've been in there almost two minutes now.
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See how easy it is to peel?
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- [Staff] It's a perfect peel.
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Take it, I'm cut the, cut the heat off and take them out.
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Because just sitting in the hot water will
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and can overcook them.
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Okay, shrimp are ready.
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And now I take some Old Bay
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and sprinkle it on to cook the shrimp.
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To me, you can't get too much of this hardly.
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But see how pretty and pink they are?
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And always remember the worst thing you can do
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is overcook a shrimp.
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Okay, now look how pretty those are.
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See how easy it is to peel?
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Okay and cocktail sauce is a great, great thing.
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Okay cocktail sauce is really great
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with just boiled shrimp.
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We'll put a little bit here.
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And one more time here.
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Me and Paula always argue about leaving tails on the shrimp
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or taking the tails off.
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And I always say, if you especially,
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I like to take the tails off on all of them,
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but Paula says, leave the tails on
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because it'll be a little handle.
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Well, I said, well I've got a fork.
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I use that for my handle.
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And, but she'll do it with a shrimp scampi or shrimp,
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And so you gotta reach in there in this hot food
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and get your shrimp tails off your shrimp
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where you could do it before you cook them.
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So we should vote on that.
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See tails on and tails off because I'm right.
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Take the tails off because you don't eat the tails.
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once you do this now, you can have your leftover shrimp.
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You can make shrimp salad.
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We used to make shrimp omelets when we were kids,
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And then I kind of learned how to do it,
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but it's just, they won't go bad.
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I don't care how many you cook.
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Remember Georgia Wild Shrimp, that's the best.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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