What is the red stuff in shrimp heads?
Chef's answer
I never knew what this stuff actually was. Yes, it is normal. That's the shrimp's heptopancreas, their digestive organ. It's delicious- rich, sweet, shrimpy, and briny..
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Sometimes when you cook Bacon, some white gloop oozes from it. This is salt and water.
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Answer has 5 votes. Sometimes when you cook Bacon, some white gloop oozes from it. This is salt and water.
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