Walnuts

[beenherebeforeagain]

Hmmm....kinds of walnuts here....
- Windshield assaulters
- Footing destabilizers
- Roof denters
- Driveway pancakes
- Insect havens
- Squirrel (aka "tree rats") bait
- Found in pesto & fudge

lawnmower blade desharpeners

 

[ChristineM]

Our dining room table is walnut.
We bought it at an auction 40 years ago.
It was made around 1840-50 or so.

Ours is rosewood made about the same time

 

[Revoltingest]

Ours is rosewood made about the same time

Nice wood ya got there!
(Do not misread that.)

 

[ChristineM]

Nice wood ya got there!
(Do not misread that.)

Methinks got wood is an americanism. But i got yah.

 

[sooda]

Not black ones, they are american. I hear the flavour of the black ones is better but yer basic European walnut will have to do.

Much better...…...

 

[Aupmanyav]

But we must have the world's most beautiful greens in our "bush" as compared to the drab monotone green of northern hemisphere forests.

You could have included one or two images.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Our dining room table is walnut.
We bought it at an auction 40 years ago. It was made around 1840-50 or so.

Our dining table seats six and is most uncomfortable (high) with equally uncomfortable iron chairs (small round cushions). But my son would not change it. It was given to him by his friend who also misguided him in his house plan. May the devil take him.

 

[sun rise]

difference between a walnut and dog poo.

Now if you had a high quality nose, that would be trivial.

walnut syrup?

That sounds really good.

 

[Vinayaka]

I'd be going nuts scrounging, and collecting. I was a squirrel last lifetime.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Not black ones, they are american. I hear the flavour of the black ones is better but yer basic European walnut will have to do.

I will see black walnuts in ice cream, but I never see them in stores. Perhaps they are more difficult to shell than English walnuts.

 

[Subduction Zone]

After reading this I can see why black walnuts are not sold in stores whole:

Black Walnuts - Harvesting and Cooking Black Walnuts | Hank Shaw
But you can order them already cracked for what seems to be the bargain price of $15.00 a pound after reading that previous article:

Black Walnuts | Walnuts | Nuts.com

 

[ChristineM]

Now if you had a high quality nose, that would be trivial.

Trivial anyway, just not nice.

 

[ChristineM]

I will see black walnuts in ice cream, but I never see them in stores. Perhaps they are more difficult to shell than English walnuts.

Shelling walnut is a highly paid trade here. Mostly done as home work, a truck will drop off a couple of tons of unshelled nuts. With nothing more than a wooden mallet they are shelled. Payment is good for complete halves (known as cerno), less for bits of broken nut.

That delivery of nuts will take 3 or 4 months to shell and pay a family upkeep for a year.

Very hard and boring work for few months then take the rest of the year off.

@Revoltingest gave me the idea of pesto, and you bring up ice cream, wonder if it will work well with European walnuts???

 

[Subduction Zone]

Shelling walnut is a highly paid trade here. Mostly done as home work, a truck will drop off a couple of tons of unshelled nuts. With nothing more than a wooden mallet they are shelled. Payment is good for complete halves (known as cerno), less for bits of broken nut.

That delivery of nuts will take 3 or 4 months to shell and pay a family upkeep for a year.

Very hard and boring work for few months then take the rest of the year off.

@Revoltingest gave me the idea of pesto, and you bring up ice cream, wonder if it will work well with European walnuts???

I would think that European walnuts might work better in a pesto. The mellower flavor would be similar to pinenuts. I figure one cannot go wrong with either. Go nuts!

 

[ChristineM]

I will see black walnuts in ice cream, but I never see them in stores. Perhaps they are more difficult to shell than English walnuts.

Just been reading up. Black Walnuts are not really cultivated for food and are more difficult to shell

 

[Subduction Zone]

Just been reading up. Black Walnuts are not really cultivated for food and are more difficult to shell

Did you read the first article that I linked? After reading that fifteen bucks a pound for shelled one's sounded quite reasonable.

 

[ChristineM]

Did you read the first article that I linked? After reading that fifteen bucks a pound for shelled one's sounded quite reasonable.

Here unshelled are about €5.50 a kilo, shelled about the same for 250 gms. Works out around €22 per kilo. I guess about €10 ($11) per pound

 

[Subduction Zone]

Here unshelled are about €5.50 a kilo, shelled about the same for 250 gms. Works out around €22 per kilo. I guess about €10 ($11) per pound

for Black Walnuts or European Walnuts?

 

[Revoltingest]

Our dining table seats six and is most uncomfortable (high) with equally uncomfortable iron chairs (small round cushions). But my son would not change it. It was given to him by his friend who also misguided him in his house plan. May the devil take him.

Some furniture is so cruel.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Very hard and boring work for few months then take the rest of the year off.

Don't they use some machine to apply the right amount of pressure?