alan wrote:

> Ahh...silly me. I stopped by the local housewares shop and I guess
> when people devein shrimp, the knife just literrally cuts down the
> back down the entire shrimp to reveal the vein.
>
> I've always stuck to how I was doing it , which was just slit a bit by
> the shrimp head so I could reach the vein and then pull it out !
> Hell.....a paring knife should do the same then......

Exactly, which leaves me wondering why anyone would need a special tool to
devien a shrimp.