On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 3:05:50 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-03-30 2:10 p.m., Gary wrote:
> > Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>
> >> Yeah,it takes a few minutes to skewer them so get a very large shrimp.
> >> Have you at least tried it?
> >
> > Tried it once, Ed. Most of the grilled flavor comes from
> > drippings hitting the coals then smoking the food above. Shrimp
> > don't drip so why grill them? I prefer a shrimp boil or just
> > butterfly them and quickly cook in a frying pan with oil and
> > garlic.
> >
>
> It is a quick and easy way to cook really good shrimp. My introduction
> to shrimp, back in the days when they were very expensive here, was deep
> fried. Then I discovered boiled shrimp. I later learned how to fry them
> and, better yet, to grill them. Boiled shrimp are pretty bland. I much
> prefer them grilled.

Dry tends to concentrate the flavor. Boiling leaches the shrimp flavor
out into the water.

Cindy Hamilton