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01 · Tonight

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The plate

Dinner · 30 min · Amounts not specified

Shrimp boil skillet

One pan, not a stockpot. Lemon and hot sauce in the dripping butter.

The sheet · 4 plates · 30 min

easy

Why tonight. One pan, not a stockpot. Lemon and hot sauce in the dripping butter.

What it needs

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  • shrimp
  • potato
  • corn
  • sausage
  • lemon

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: hot sauce, butter.

Method

  1. Everything in by cooking time: potatoes first for fifteen minutes, corn for five, sausage to warm, shrimp for three.
  2. All in at once is why most boils give you rubber shrimp and hard potatoes.
  3. Season the water heavily. It is the only chance the potatoes get to be seasoned from the inside.
  4. Drain it and toss with butter, lemon and hot sauce, then tip it onto the table.

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What the method is trying to make happen

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Published minimums for what is in this

Published minimum internal temperaturesFish and shellfish: 63°C, 145°F. Ground beef, pork, lamb and veal: 71°C, 160°F.Fish and shellfish63°C / 145°FGround beef, pork, lamb and veal71°C / 160°F40°C50°C60°C70°C80°C

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

shrimp
Cooks in about two minutes and is ruined in three.
potato
Waxy holds its shape, floury falls apart, and almost every potato complaint is the wrong one for the job.
corn
Sugar that starts turning to starch the moment it is picked, which is why frozen often beats fresh.
sausage
Seasoned fat and meat that arrives pre-flavored, so it does double duty as protein and as the base a dish is built on.
lemon
Acid you add at the end, not the start.

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