Shrimp Butler

What's this?

Long story short: turn the handle to devein a pound of shrimp — shell-on or off — in one minute.

From the website:

Introducing The Shrimp Butler®

The quick, clean and easy way to prepare fresh in-the-shell shrimp at home

The Shrimp Butler serves up succulent, perfectly-filleted fresh shrimp in your home that look like they were prepared in a fine dining restaurant!

This sleek non-electric cook’s tool will make you feel pampered in your own kitchen!

With just one turn of the crank its patented razor will slice and fillet your shrimp shell and either destroy the vein or expose it for easy removal.

You can then cook fresh shrimp with shell on or shell off, and serve them as flavorful delights.

The Shrimp Butler works best with small shrimp (e.g. 41-50 count) to extra large shrimp (21-25 count) — either raw or cooked.

Benefits:

• Safety — no more sharp knife

• Time savings — peeling is much quicker and vein is removed or exposed for quick, easy removal

• Quality of cut — clean, perfect cut right down the center of shrimp and every ounce of shrimp meat is preserved, unlike the ripping, tearing effect of plastic stick tools

• Versatility — allows you to cook with shell on or off and you can split raw or cooked shrimp

Features:

• Durable ABS plastic

• Weighs two pounds

• Dishwasher-safe

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$29.95.

[via Bonnie S. Benwick in today's Washington Post Food section]