What is the difference between a prawn and a langoustine?

Question

I know prawns are small and the you get Tiger Prawns, but I saw a television show cooking langoustines and th e chef said they were also known as Dublin Bay Prawns, so why aren't they just called prawns

Answer 1

Because they are actually crayfish, which are like small lobsters.

Answer 2

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What is the difference between a prawn and a langoustine?
I know prawns are small and the you get Tiger Prawns, but I saw a television show cooking langoustines and th e chef said they were also known as Dublin Bay Prawns, so why aren't they just called prawns

Answer 3

Prawns and Langoustine are differentiated by growing region - Asian prawns - American langoustine. Basically they are both a crayfish breed that comes from fresh rather than salt water. Prawns and langoustine are a prettier and fuller presentation food than shrimp as they puff when cooked where shrimp tend to coil and shrink. If a recipe calls for langostine you may use prawns and vice versa you may also sub shrimp but the taste will be slightly different and you should either purchase Jumbo Shrimp or 1/2 pound extra to make up the meat difference. Hope this helped.

Answer 4

Pull this question out in a roomful of chefs, and you'll have a brisk fistfight on your hands!

Generally it goes like this:

This term has several definitions:

1. "Prawn" is most commonly used to describe a species of shellfish that is part of the lobster family. These prawns have minuscule (very small) claws and bodies shaped like tiny Maine lobsters. Their meat has a sweet delicate flavor. They are 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters) long and have pale-red bodies deepening to dark-red tails.

Included in this definition of "prawn" are Dublin bay prawn, Danish lobster, Italian scampi, langostino (Spanish), langoustine (French), Caribbean lobsterette, and Florida lobsterette.

2. "Freshwater" prawns are prawns that migrate from saltwater to freshwater to spawn (lay eggs). They look like a cross between a shrimp and a lobster. Their abdomens are narrower and legs are longer than those of shrimp.

3. The term "prawn" is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially one that weighs at least one-fifteenth of a pound...

...So!

It's kind of a catch all, using appearance (1) and (3) weight, and (2) Hiking habits.. or is it leg length? I don't know.

You almost can't be wrong!

Best wishes!

Answer 5

Prawns are edible, shrimp-like crustaceans,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prawn

The Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (also called Dublin Bay prawn or langoustine), is a slim orange-pink lobster up to 24 cm long found in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea as far north as Iceland and northern Norway, and south to Portugal and the Mediterranean Sea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway_lobster

Answer 6

My understanding is that what I would call a prawn in Australia is called Shrimp in USA. A shrimp in Australia is a tiny little prawn about the size of a fingernail.

Answer 7

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Shrimp, prawns and langostine are all basically the same thing: Sea Bugs! (arthropods) Actually, crayfish and lobster as well. They're all related. Langostine are noted for a lobster like flavor Scallops are bivalve shellfish like clams or mussels, and you're right...they're all yummy!

Answer 8

When I hear prawns, i think of shrimp.

Langoustine looks like a mini lobster, but the meat is sweet like crab-meat

Answer 9

It's all about the size, shrimps,prawns,langoustine,crafish,lobster,they are all from the same family.

Answer 10

Different Names?