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shrimp/pan

How long to cook shrimp & prawns

Two things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 3:00

What size?

Shell on?

Shells insulate — and they are also where most of the flavour is.

How to tell without a timer

Off the heat now. They go from perfect to rubbery in seconds.

How it goes

  1. Side 1 of 2. Leave it alone — it releases when it has crusted.
  2. Side 2 of 2.
Every combination, as a table
What size?Shell on?Time
Small (salad shrimp) Peeled 1:50
Small (salad shrimp) Shell on 2:10
Medium Peeled 3:00
Medium Shell on 3:35
Large Peeled 4:10
Large Shell on 5:00
Jumbo / tiger Peeled 5:45
Jumbo / tiger Shell on 6:45

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

Cooked the same way

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