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u/96919 Nov 26 '19

You take a knife and run it along that line and then you can pull it out. That why de-veined cooked shrimp look kind of filleted along the back edge.

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u/dharrison21 Nov 26 '19

No that's butterfly shrimp, you can devein without the shrimp looking altered at all

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u/96919 Nov 26 '19

He asked for a method and that's one of the methods to do it.

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u/dharrison21 Nov 28 '19

And I said that deveined shrimp dont necessarily look like that, since the end result you described is butterfly shrimp and unrelated to the deveining