laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) (02/21/86)
Now that we are talking about seeds and nuts in net.rumor... I am sitting here hacking with a pile of brazil nuts and a vise-grip lockwrench. I am wondering if there is an easier way to get Brazil buts out of the shell. Some brazil nuts come out cleanly, but more than hald of them stick to the nut husk. Is there some secret I haven't been able to figure out? How do the nut stores get the whole ones they sell (roasted in oil -- bletch -- I want mine raw) out in one piece like that? -- Laura Creighton ihnp4!hoptoad!laura laura@lll-crg.arpa
jin@hropus.UUCP (Jerry) (02/22/86)
A few devices reviewed in _Home Food Systems_ Roger B Yepsen ed. Rodale Press 1981 (yes, the same folks who bring you Prevention and Organic Gardening, their books are generally quite good). Potter Walnut Cracker $34.50 (then) Fred Klingensmith, Inc Sapula, OK 74066 Texas Native Inertia Nutcracker $14.98 Charter Co, Inc Bickett Blvd P O Drawer 10938 Raleigh, NC 27605 I have tried neither one but from the review I would go with the Texas Native (rubber band powered) rather than the Potter (leverage). Personally I rather pay the premium for preshelled refridgerated (sp) raw nuts at the local health food store or (better, but further) food co-op. Jerry Natowitz ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jin The Master Baker
darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP (Darrell Long) (02/23/86)
In article <539@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) writes: >Now that we are talking about seeds and nuts in net.rumor... > >I am sitting here hacking with a pile of brazil nuts and a vise-grip >lockwrench. I am wondering if there is an easier way to get Brazil >buts out of the shell. Some brazil nuts come out cleanly, but more than >hald of them stick to the nut husk. Is there some secret I haven't >been able to figure out? How do the nut stores get the whole ones >they sell (roasted in oil -- bletch -- I want mine raw) out in one >piece like that? > > >-- >Laura Creighton >ihnp4!hoptoad!laura >laura@lll-crg.arpa Try popping them into the microwave for a couple of minutes, they'll open right up! :-) -- Darrell Long Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, San Diego UUCP: sdcsvax!darrell ARPA: darrell@sdcsvax
kendalla@orca.UUCP (Kendall Auel) (02/24/86)
The Brazil nuts you get with the shells on them are the kind that are impossible to get the shells OFF of. For a few cents a pound more, you can get the shell-able kind. The nut practically begs to come out of the shell if you get these kind. Once I got the unshellable kind, and found out that tossing them out of a 3rd story window helped loosen them up.
jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) (02/24/86)
Put the whole bag of nuts in the freezer over night. The nuts will actually
come out of the shells whole.
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jcpatilla
..{seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!aplcen!osiris!jcp
Look for beauty in all things; let the fountains of delight refresh your heart.prastein@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (02/24/86)
Try freezing them for several hours before cracking. I do it that way. Still don't get 100%, but MUCH better than 50%
laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) (02/25/86)
Thanks for the replies about nutcrtackers and speciality nut stores.
You can stop now -- I got this wonderful reply from Peter Reiher
at UCLA.
From lll-crg!LOCUS.UCLA.EDU!reiher Mon Feb 24 12:10:21 1986
Freeze 'em, then defrost them, then crack them. Works like a charm.
They're still a bitch to crack, but at least they come out whole.
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Peter Reiher
reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
{...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher
It *does* work like a charm! Really and truly it does. This is better
than Christmas -- you can get *anything* from usenet. wow. And I am
using a standard 10WR (the WR means that I have a wire cutter edge)
lockwrench (vise grip) made by Dewitt-Petersen-Neer Mfg Co. It works
on all nuts and is the best nut cracker I know.
I'm hacking on a sun workstation, reading news in one window and eating
brazil nuts while drinking Anchor Porter (dark beer). The sun set on
San Francisco Bay a few hours ago, and I watched it. Did I die and
go to heaven without noticing...
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Laura Creighton
ihnp4!hoptoad!laura utzoo!hoptoad!laura sun!hoptoad!laura
laura@lll-crg.arpa