How to clean pine nuts correctly?

Pine nuts are not only delicious but also very useful product that contains many vitamins and trace elements, and decoctions, flour, tinctures and other products from nuts are used incosmetology and folk medicine. But many do not know how to peel pine nuts, and prefer not to contact this product just because of this.

We click the shell with the teeth

Of course, advising to crack nuts with teeth is not the best idea, because there is always the risk of damaging the enamel. Therefore, you can resort to this method only at your own peril. How to peel a nuts with a minimum chance to damage your teeth? They should be split in the most vulnerable place - in the middle, do it slowly and smoothly.

This can be done only by healthy teeth without holes and seals. It must be remembered that if a nerve has been removed from the tooth before, it becomes especially fragile, unnecessary burden to it to anything.

Pine nuts are a very high-calorie product, and they can not be eaten much at a time. And to clean a small number of nuts with teeth for a snack, of course, you can. But what if you need a much larger number, for example, for a dish on a festive table?

Other ways of

The cedar nuts shell remains strong enough at a temperature close to room temperature. But a strong heating or, conversely, cooling can make it fragile.

1. Nuts should be placed in the freezer for a minimum of several hours, so that they evenly cool. Then, without directly getting out of the package( so that the shell does not scatter in all directions), they should be gently suppressed with a rolling pin. Do not put too much effort, otherwise the shell will break apart with the shell. An important point - after freezing nuts are not stored, and they must be quickly consumed.
2. Pour nuts into the pan, without adding any oil there, and warm, stirring occasionally, for 15-20 minutes. Or instead, pour them in a thin layer on a baking sheet and send for a few minutes in the oven, heated to 100-120 degrees. Sometimes from the warming up of the shell bursts itself, and the grain of nuts can only be reached. But even if it remains intact, it can now easily be split with fingers.
3. The previous method can be improved - after heating quickly pour the nuts into a container with very cold water, you can even add ice cubes there.

Like many other seeds, nuts are well soaked when they are in the liquid for a long time. It is enough to soak them in clean water for a period of from half a day to a day, and cleaning them will not be difficult. But the peel of nuts is best cleaned in dry form - so it will be much less sticky - that to the very core of the nut that is to your fingers.

If you need to clean nuts at home, you can use any improvised tools - pliers, garlic press, meat grinder, hammer.

Recommendations

Of course, the simplest solution if you want to eat cedar nuts - buy them in a cleaned form, and not try to clean yourself. But they should not be bought on the market by weight, where they were kept unknown, and it is not clear under what conditions. The product should be packed, pay attention to the integrity of the package, the date of packing and the expiration date. And then the nuts will only benefit.

The remains of a nutshell can not be thrown out, if there is a cottage or at least a small area. They will be an excellent means for mulching the soil, i.e., to create a protective layer on its surface that will prevent weathering, washing out of the soil, to prevent the growth of weeds and the formation of a dried, hard crust. In the soil, the optimum moisture level for the plant will be maintained, and the temperature drops will become less noticeable.

It is obvious that the kernels of nuts are much better preserved taste and useful properties, being in the shell, so at home they should be cleaned shortly before they are eaten. Peeled nuts should not be stored for a long time, they acquire a rancid taste.

Extraction of nuts from cones

As a rule, pine nuts are already sold out of cones. But if you suddenly get whole cedar cones in your hands, then you need to know how to properly extract seeds from there.

1. Do it better with gloves, so you do not have to try to clear your hands of resin for a few days. For the same reason, it is worth wearing clothes that will not be pitiful.
2. From a ripe cone, the nuts fall out very easily, they do not have to be picked out. It is enough to twist a bump in your hands, to knock it against the wall of a pot or a plate, and most of the seeds will pour into a substituted container.
3. If it happens in nature, then cones can be placed entirely in a fire, as when baking potatoes. From fire, resin burns out, and nuts can easily be taken by hand. And when there is a bucket or another large container at hand, the bumps can be welded, the boiling water will wash all the resin out of them, and the nut shells will be soft and thin.

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