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What is the difference between raw and cooked prawns?
I know this sounds like i'm an idiot, but i was thinking in terms of eating them. When I do the grocery shop I come across them both and they're both frozen, you cook them the same way, the only visible difference I can see is that the raw ones are grey in colour. Is there any advantages/disadvantages to buying one over the other?
4 Answers
- ?Lv 76 years agoFavorite Answer
The difference between those grayish colored prawns are raw and need to be cooked or add into stir fries etc before you can eat. When the prawns/shrimps are cooked they turned pinkish and can be eaten as is as shrimp cocktails or added to stir fries too. The advantage for buying cooked prawns is to save time in preparation, time to shell and devein the prawns and disadvantage is precooked prawns are more expensive, not fresh and you may not get the sweetness from the prawns because the sweetness has already lost in the boiling water.
- DanielLv 56 years ago
A cooked one you know has no disease and just has to be heated and you can eat it cold. A raw one still needs to be cooked .You can eat a cooked praw after it thawed like shrimp cocktail, but you have to do more prep for raw ones
- Sal*UKLv 76 years ago
depends how you want to use them. Use the grey for cooking - and the others just for cold eating!
