Bad Shrimp
I bought frozen uncooked jumbo shrimp today. When I sliced the shrimp down the back to clean them something that looked like sour cream came out of it. Then another had some pale orange stuff that came out. I cleaned them thoroughly and deep fried them but now I'm wondering if something was wrong with the shrimp. Please help ease my mind.
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7 Comments:
Correction to my post. It looked like cottage cheese and not sour cream.
Bubbies at 7:39PM on 08/17/09
the orange was the fat in the shrimp. not to worry. the cottage cheese phenom, i would guess (though I should know ) to be either :phosphates injected into the shrimp (released after a chemical reaction) or simply a natural protein-release of the shrimp themselves. of all the shrimp i've ever dealt with, none have oozed this nasty goo that I'm envisioning.
emilytaylor at 10:26PM on 08/17/09
have lived in south louisiana for all of my 60 years and eat shrimp at least twice a week but have never used frozen shrimp. emilytaylor is correct about the orange stuff being fat but i'm also unsure about the cottage cheese thing and would not eat it. if you can't return it to the store don't throw it away, spoiled shrimp is one of the greatest fertilizers on earth, your plants will love it.
olddad at 9:40AM on 08/18/09
I'm with olddad, I cook fresh shrimp all the time and have never seen that white stuff. Sounds yuckey. The orange fat is a good thing. Gives lots of flavor to gumbos, stews, etc.
NO_Pam at 10:55AM on 08/18/09
How did the thawed shrimp smell? If there was no off odor, then it was probably just phosphates. I rub my thawed frozen shrimp with about a tablespoon each of kosher salt and sugar and then let it sit in the fridge for about 25 minutes. Then I rinse them well, dry them and proceed. I find that helps with removing any lingering phosphates, but it's not really necessary.
Amandarama at 11:30AM on 08/18/09
Phosphates would not look like cottage cheese. they are not injected into shrimp, so the solution would be clear. Opaque fluid is protein degradation, yeast or mold or a bacterial problem.
Meat guy at 11:50AM on 08/18/09
Were they gulf or east coast shrimp or imported from some hell hole like China or Vietnam? Farm raised or wild?
tusti at 4:02PM on 08/18/09