How to Store Nuts at Home - Features Peeled and Inshell

Many housewives love to make reserves for future use, but if they know how to make preserves, how to store nuts is known only to ones. It is not enough to bring a product from the store and store it on a free shelf, you will have to conduct several important manipulations, especially if you need to save the cleaned cores. Approaches used for this at home, virtually independent of the type of product. If desired, you can choose the best option for influencing hazelnut, walnuts, pine nuts and even more exotic cashews and macadamia.

The universal instruction for the preparation of nuts

The success of the event directly depends on the ability to choose a quality product.

When choosing peeled nuts or inshell products, the following points should be borne in mind:

1. A food product must exude a very delicate and pleasant odor. It clearly should be noted notes, characteristic of a particular type of nuts. At the slightest hint of rancidity, mold or increased humidity from the purchase should be discarded.
2. You need to try the nuts before buying. And it should be not the product that lies on the display in the cleaned form, and with his own autopsy specimen. Bitterness or excessive texture softness are obvious signs of a spoiled component. Do not try again, thinking that just got an unsuccessful nut, it is better to abandon the whole party.
3. Even if you need to store peeled nuts, buy them better in the shell. Self-processing blanks will maximize the shelf life of products.
4. It is not superfluous to inspect the bag in which the components were stored. It is necessary to be convinced of the absence of larvae, adult insects, mold and strange spots on the burlap.

Advice: It is highly not recommended to purchase a product that was originally packed in polyethylene. Often such products begin to deteriorate rapidly after they hit new conditions. This is explained by the long absence of contact of nuts with oxygen, which allowed them to stay in the right state.

Universal recommendations how to store nuts that are distributed to all kinds of nutritional components:

• Specialists do not recommend immediately purchasing too many nuts. Despite the fact that there are approaches that can keep the product for a year, the taste of them will still change. It is better to determine what volume of products will be eaten within 2-3 months and limit it.
• The main factor, because of which quickly rotted peeled nuts - air. While inshell products are recommended to be kept in canvas bags that ensure a constant air circulation, the bare cores should be placed in sealed glass jars or plastic containers.
• Storage temperature should be stable. The products are well preserved at room temperature and standard humidity, the main thing is that the products do not get direct sunlight.
• To preserve the peeled nuts for half a year, you can use the freezer. Pre-treated cores are placed in plastic bags and frozen with preservation of all useful properties. Repeated freezing is prohibited!

In addition to the above points, there are also specific recommendations that apply to walnuts and pine nuts. Cashew is stored only in a purified form, at room temperature, in a refrigerator or freezer. The shelf life in this case ranges from 1 month to 2 months and 6 months, respectively. Hazelnut is very undemanding due to its special texture, but it will not retain its properties for more than three months at room temperature or half a year in the freezer.

Walnut Storage Features

Walnuts are cast with a high content of healthy fats, but it is for this reason that they are faster than the rest of the products get a rancid taste and smell.

To save cleaned kernels( this is the kind of them you need to procure), you need to adhere to the following rules:

1. Fresh product must be fried in a hot skillet without oil for a quarter of an hour. After this treatment, the product is cooled and sent to storage.
2. If nuts are eaten within 1-2 weeks, they can be poured into a glass or plastic container with a sealed lid and put in a warm, dry and dark place. At high humidity, mold can appear on nuts.
3. To preserve the freshness of the product at home for 2-3 months, it is necessary to place the workpiece in a dry container without a drop of liquid and place it on the top shelf of the refrigerator.
4. In the freezer, walnut kernels can be stored for up to a year. They need to be wrapped in food film and set the unit to the fast freezing mode. Before using such products, it should not only be thawed, but also heated in the oven for about 10 minutes, then the kernels will become even more delicious.

In a shell it is recommended to store only green nuts, and then in the form of jam, tincture or specific candied candied fruits.

Important points in the storage of pine nuts

In this case, again, it is not recommended to purchase peeled nuts, the best option will be hand-made processing of cones and the formation of blanks. To obtain the optimal result, we perform the following manipulations sequentially:

1. First, bumps should be slightly burned on an open fire or heated in a conventional frying pan. Cooled specimens are cleaned by hand or using a special mill, extracting nuts.
2. The resulting nuts are again fried in a dry frying pan for a quarter of an hour. To interfere with them it is necessary constantly, otherwise the product will burn.
3. Next, lay the workpiece on the canvas and dry in a dry and warm room for 2-3 days, stirring occasionally. You can additionally cover the mound with a tarpaulin.
4. The finished product is laid out in sacks of canvas or soft fabric. We remove them in a dry, dark, warm place, inaccessible to rodents and insects.

In this form, the product can be stored for up to six months. Purified nucleoli can be stored for no more than a couple of months. For this, we spread them in dry and clean plastic bags, which are hermetically closed and put into the refrigerator. If the cedar kernels need to be kept for three months, then they need to be kept in the refrigerator again, but not in polyethylene, but in a glass jar with a tight lid.

Regardless of the approach chosen, the product should be regularly tested, cleaned of the missing nucleolus, in some cases even further calcined( if a specific odor of increased humidity has appeared).