The Easiest And Best Way To Shell Pecans
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2020
- I've tried other fancier ways to shell pecans and I can unequivocally say this is the best method to shell pecans. I literally learned how to use this pecan sheller "cracker" at my Grandad's knee, so I thought I would share with you.
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00:10 I promised the Ediful Gardens Podcast Listeners I would show my Pecan sheller
00:40 How you pronounce Pecans in Texas
01:00 Talking about Native Pecans and how difficult it can be to shell but its really worth it because the nut is so good
02:00 Let's talk about where you can forage for pecans if you don't have pecan trees
04:14 My Grandad taught me how to use this pecan sheller or cracker
04:40 What's great about this handy tool is that you get whole pieces or whole halves anyway
05:23 demonstration of how and where to start and a sort of anatomy lesson of a pecan
06:45 Where to cut on the sides going by the inner membrane between the 2 halves
07:35 This does take a little bit of practice
08:00 A good whole piece
08:29 how to finesse a little bit with this sheller
09:20 A closer look at the membrane inside the pecan
09:43 No extra pecan tool needed
10:42 I have so many great memories of doing this with my Grandad
11:45 Made by the York Nut Sheller and another name is the Texas Nut Sheller out of San Angelo, Texas
12:25 With other nut shellers you don't get these good whole halves... Ask me how I know! - Навчання та стиль
Are you going to go hunting for pecans?
We just bought a new property with one huge pecan tree.
@@bryanhauschild4376 congratulations!
I’ve got 9 trees on our lot, my neighbor has 7 or 8, the church across the street has given permission to harvest their 4 trees, and the city has an old house next to the church with 5 trees. All within 100 yards of my front door.
Right now I have 60 lbs collected just from my yard - and I had to leave 3 of mine because I haven’t cut the grass under them LOL
This is the first year I’ve ever cared about them - but your spouse getting cancer changes lots of things 😇
You start to see each day as a blessing, and pecans becomes
a gift from God.
If nothing else, they’re free food - and at the prices people are willing to pay these days, well, I don’t profess to know how God works…. But maybe found money is part of his plan, too.
@@dahutful nice!!!! Jackpot!! God’s blessings are all around our job is simply to get out there and pick ‘em up.
@@NannetteBlair I like to make cheese pecan cookies each year at Xmas, but when I saw the price of pecans it the store ($13/lb), well, I about sh|t my britches.
Then it hit me: hey dummy - you are surrounded by pecan trees. Literally! Get off your lazy buster and harvest them!”
So here we are.
Love you and thanks
Actual content starts at 5:22
ah.. read it too late
Thanks!
I use a small pair of channel locks and a pocket knife. Works pretty good
Thanks for the video, it’s interesting to see this tool. Perhaps you can make a two minute version with just the intro to the tool and the shelling procedure?
I might just do that.
Where can I get it to buy the cracker thank you
Thank you. I collected lots of p'cons from a native pecan tree just growing alone on a local street. They are a goodly size, about first digit of adult make thumb size. Letting them air dry for about a week allows the kernel to shrink enough to be loose. They are tasty too. The shells are easy to crack with minimal damage to the kernel. I use a 10 in groove joint tool. It allows for good control and the long handles provide good leverage. I will attemp to germinate about 25 or more of them. But my research about the process is just beginning. 😊
Awesome! I learn everything through trial and error but I have many, many, many volunteer pecan trees growing up and around my existing pecan trees. It’s almost a weed here. Lol.
Also if you can get some trees of your own started you can graft a more desirable variety onto yours!
I’m here because I can’t remember what we called the membrane and the internet doesn’t even seem to acknowledge the membrane exists!
Back in the 80s my parents moved to Missouri and somewhere they found a nutsheller that was powered by a rubber band.
It shattered the shell and the meat came out whole without being broken.
It worked on lots of different types of nuts.
They no longer have it, I don't know why, but I've been looking for one like that for the last 30 years.
You could shell nuts in about 10 seconds.
You would putt a nut in the chamber and close the cover, then pull the hammer back and let it fly.
And then open the cover, take out the meat, and the shell fragments would fall into the bottom chamber.
The cover was like a piece of pipe that slid back and forth on a track.
The rubber band powered Hammer was a piece of wood on the track.
The hammer would fly forward and hit a metal anvil or spacer with a cone shape hitting the nut and shattering it.
To much talking
You’re not from the south are you? 😂
People are strange. The video helped me and was pleasant to watch.
great tip to use the TX pecan sheller once promos ended after about 5 minutes plus- thank you, because I have poked my fingers to pieces using a sheller and picker to dig out the meat.
I love pecans and I live in pecan heaven down here on the Alabama gulf coast on semmes/mobile area and almost every single store and corner has pecan trees a bunch of churches are filled with pecan trees, they taste like sweet butter and a good amount of oil they are so good down here they are so oily and have an amazing butter taste. And all the parks here have atleast a tree or 5 and one park has 65 trees, I got a roller thing that is like a oval round shaped basket on a stick and you roll it and it picks up pecans and any other type of tree but you gotta pick off the ground but it's so easy you just roll it till it full spread the wires apart to empty then keep rolling you can get a few buckets in about 15 minutes with this tool and it will save your back
Thank you
Great
❤lav dis
Do you wash or rinse the nut meat before final storage / processing? Ive found the dust to be bitter and I am wondering how to get that off of them.
No I don’t. I do kind Of blow them off. 😬 tho.
What and where do you get that tool? Can't find it anywhere.
I just ordered some for Christmas gifts on Amazon
Me eating pecans as im watching this
Lucky you! Here in Texas ours are still green on the trees. I saw pecans in the store this weekend $30!!!! Yikes.
Who makes that tool? What is it called?....The York Nut Sheller...Thank you...............Cheers, Jim
At minute marker 11:45
@@NannetteBlair Hi Nannette. Thanks for this video. I'M buying a York sheller tonight!!!!!!!!
@@jimjakosh2506 awesome!
Supposedly the guy who invented this got the idea by watching squirrels eating pecans
Really? That is cool. Gotta get inspiration from somewhere. Makes sense.
I just bought one. It better be good or Im gonna be mad at you. - - just kidding. Thanks!
Lol! Well it has been used in our family for three generations. It does take a little practice.
Ayyyy I live I'm angelo!
Where do you get that tool?
I got mine at a truck stop here in Texas I I think.
@@NannetteBlair thanks, found one on eBay!
@@bryanhauschild4376 awesome! It does take some practice.
@@NannetteBlair with your help it was a breeze. Now to work towards being faster.
I use a thread ripper to take that little piece out
That’s a good idea
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What is the tool called?
The York Pecan Sheller aka Texas Pecan Sheller. Company is out of San Angelo TX
Thanks for your video. It would be nice if you Can provide us the name of the tool ?
Hey thanks for the question. It’s at the minute mark 11:45 and in the description but it is called the Texan Nut Sheller and also know as the York Nut Sheller made in San Angelo Texas... Which is where my Grandparents lived. It’s kind of one of the best kept secrets of Texas. Lol
@@NannetteBlair Thank you for the answer
Im in weatherford
Howdy neighbor!
Can I dry pecans out of shell after harvest?
Do you mean dehydrate? I always keep mine in the freezer.
I’m not sure dried would be good as the oils in the nut is what makes it sooooo good. And good for you.
It works but takes forever. We have so many that we need a machine
First view of tool cutter at the business end is at 8:30
I like that your grandpa shelled nuts for his wife’s feted pies
Well, after 6 mins we actually got to shelling....
We caught neighbors picking up pecans on the street our tree hangs over the fence. We allowed it, but gave me the sense to get my booty out there and get my pecans inside the fence. But they are SO HARD. To shell. Lol I shelled pecans for 2 hours got like 2c of nuts. Lol. And some wasn't even salvageable bc I used pliers. 😂 Even extra gentle... It's still tooo much pressure. I realized in those two hours how sensitive pecans are the shell is a little bit tough but if you don't crack the shell just enough there's no way you're getting that pecan out so you have to crush the shell just a little bit more but then you chance breaking your nut. Pro tip to anyone out there reading this don't use pliers.
Lol. Yeah... that’s why I did this video.
make a barter with the neighbors to shell them or at least crack them for you for a percentage of the crop.
I wouldn't even ask to pick up fruit or nuts that fall into the street. If someone gets mad about that, my respect level for that person automatically goes to zero with no way to earn my respect back. It's permanent. From that moment onwards, we are major enemies for life. If your family member dies, you get no condolences from me. If a tornado hits your property, you get no help from me. If I see you have a severe accident, heart attack, etc. in your back yard, and I'm the only person who sees it happen, tough luck. You'll either crawl to the phone in agony and call for help, or your corpse will be found later on after someone realizes you're missing. I don't care if your lifeless body is in full view of myself or my children. You brought this on yourself for choosing selfishness. Yes it's like that. Once you've ruined your relationship with me, that's it. You'll get no sympathy.
Damn there's a lot of exposition for a 30 second shelling process
Misleading title. One thing that isn't easy is hunting through your long video for the actual instructions.
Talks to much and it does not take 15 minutes to explain how to shell pecans.
The only place inn the world where it is pronounced like that is the South.
That’s what makes it right! 😉. Haha!
Why not talk about the tool.
Talks waaaaay too much !!
It doesn't take all that to shell a pecan im 81 an grew up on farm please get your stories right 😂🎉😅
How do shell pecans?
Less talking!!!! Less BS!!! WE DON'T NEED FAMILY BS! JUST GET TO THE POINT!!!
Want a different answer ask different answer ask a different girl.
You can't or don't pronounce pecan (pecaun or peacon) it's pronounced pecan (just like it spelled )(pee- can) for those of you who can not read english either.
A p-can is something one uses in the middle of the night. Or so I’m told. 😳😂🤣