Walnuts | How to Harvest, Store, Roast & Eat
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- A run down of how and when to harvest walnuts, how to store them to keep for the longest amount of time, how to roast them and the best way to eat them
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It's good to see a fellow walnut lover. It was in about 2010 when I visited a walnut orchard in the South West of WA, a cooler region of Western Australia when I tried my first fresh walnuts. I was amazed at how different they were to walnuts that could be bought in the local supermarket. Very often nuts in the supermarket are almost rancid or nearly inedible and nothing like fresh nuts. It seems walnuts and particularly pecans which as you may be aware are botanically related are very disappointing as far as flavour goes. As I mentioned previously, where I live, I grow 3 macadamia trees and a pecan tree. The macadamia tree produces very good nuts particularly when roasted, but even so, having a fresh walnut is a better taste experience. The pecan tree variety I grow I haven't tried the particular nut, Cherokee, but am sure it should be very good. The walnut orchard I visited in the SW of WA where I tried my first fresh walnuts I was interested in buying in 2012 but it sold before I was ready to purchase it. ( The orchard plus the house was not expensive.) I don't know how it is in England with regard to predator birds, but in Western Australia where I live predator birds are a major pest for nut orchardists. In Western Australia there are not many big nut orchards, but in the east there are many covering cashew, macadamia, pecan, walnut, almond, hazelnut and chestnuts depending on the climate and water requirements being met. Good luck with your walnuts, my favourite nut!
yeah, i also love to nut
You've inspired me to buy a orchard in the south of France just for growing. Fancy being my Gardner
Your offer is far too generous to accept!
Never before have I noticed or paid attention to that fan setting on my oven. Now I use that for warming bread, too!
Walnuts turned out very delicious. Salt helped.
Thank you for a good video.
We are harvesting our first ever crop off a 50ft plus tree! I have been going out a couple of times a day and picking them up! I had no clue how long to dry them but thanks to you I do now! I will also be cooking them like you have done!
Thanks for the simplicity of your vlog! 👏👏👏
Thanks. My dad has a walnut tree but he didn’t know how to dry them. Definitely trying this!
First video of yours I've seen. Your voice is the one I use when I'm pretending to be "elegant and proper" lol - hi from Michigan.
I have to make a few comments after seeing what can be done instead of eating walnuts raw. I love walnuts, where I live is a bit too hot to grow a walnut tree, that produces walnuts, however, I was able to get a single walnut off my California Tulare variety container grown walnut tree. I visited Tasmania, Australia several months ago and tried some of the local walnuts. They were perhaps amongst the best walnuts I had ever tried. In my yard I have 3 macadamia trees and a pecan tree which has produced it's first set of nuts and am very keen to sample them provided the crows don't get them in the next few months. Regardless, fresh walnuts would be my favourite nuts surpassing macadamia and even cashew nuts which I rate nearly as good as fresh walnuts.
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I couldn't want this more. What a voice! Posh but not detestable, somehow.
Hahaha, maybe a future video series! Very kind of you
I'm here in Appalachia trying to figure out if i cleaned my black walnuts good enough, after spending an hour taking of the hulls and another couple hours scrubbing and rinsing them, and this guy just picks them off the tree ready to dry!
I don’t think my tree gets enough water to do the full process. If I wait for the nuts to open on their own, they all dry up and are no good. So this year I picked them all while still green and I guess I’ll have to dry the hulls, clean the hulls off the nuts myself, then go to drying the nuts. It’s a big old overgrown tree on the property I bought 3 years ago, I never had a walnut tree before. But 2 years now and the massive amount of nuts it produced got wasted… so here’s to trying!
I soak my walnuts in salt water for about 20 minutes. This removed the tannin and the walnuts are not bitter
Do you then do 300° and 20 minutes as well? Thanks
hi, just seen your video. I have just harvested a bag of english walnuts from random tree down the road in france. Got them home, cracked some open and they were very bitter. The husks had opened well and they were clean. If i leave them in their shell will they ripen more?? many thanks, juliet
Brilliant video! Our walnuts planted a few years ago now are fruiting for the first time - the trees take a few years to mature before fruiting it seems. Will be trying your recipe out for sure come early Autumn
I've gathered five carrier bags full after a couple of hours from an estate where I go metal detecting. Got a lot of work on my hands shelling them now.
I was just watching this by chance and gotta say. think I have a little crush lol
We pick our English walnuts from the ground and have very rarely found any worms or bugs. I hope people will actually crack a few "grounders" open and still find good nut meat!
I am growing a Carpathian English walnut tree in Vista, California, USA. southern California (San Diego county) latitude 33º . It was planted 5 years ago as a bare-root tree, and is finally growing good. It struggled quite a bit the first 3 years. I hope the climate here will allow it to produce nuts. I wonder though if the tree needs another tree or another variety to pollinate the flowers.
Do they still keep their health benefits if cooked this way instead of raw or soaked....Thank you Jeff
I’ve just discovered a walnut tree near by and been watching for a few weeks now. Yesterday I found 5 on the floor, no signs of bugs or rot and been watching the tree for a while. I’ve just removed the hull and the nut shell is exposed now. Do you think this will be ok to eat once dried out? Thanks 💚
Should be fine as long as it’s ripe - unfortunately you’ll only find out when you crack the shell. 😬
Thankyou very much for your video, have just done a batch of walnuts and they are absolutely yummy..
I came to learn about walnuts. I leave feeling seduced.
I want this walnuts
Your voice is soo.... fluid
Can I pick my English walnuts before the birds eat them all. If I can how big should they be? Thanks!
It’s not so much a question of size, more of how easily the walnuts are coming out of their husk. The thumbnail picture is ideally what you should be looking for.
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Wow that's cool!
Why olive oil? Wouldn't that change the whole walnut taste and experience? Why not drizzle them with cold-pressed walnut oil? Or would this oil be damaged by the time spent in the oven? I know it is delicate and perhaps the heating would cause it to deteriorate. Just wondering if you would know. I think the olive oil would impart its own flavour - taking away from the subtle walnut flavour from the nuts themselves.
Great question! Personally, I like the slightly peppery flavour of Olive Oil so for me, it’s a flavour choice and enhances the flavour of the walnuts. Re using walnut oil, unless it’s INCREDIBLY good quality, I think it’s like using a tin of chopped tomatoes to bulk out cooking some beautifully home grown cherry tomatoes - the flavours are technically the same but I’d prefer something to enhance the flavour rather than mask it with a ‘similar but not quite so good’ one.
Like to grow from seed .never seen a eslnut tree.they loaded with DHA omega three .
Exactly how long does one need to wait before cracking the walnuts ? I’m watching the video and I heard you say “a couple of days” to “a few months”. How long exactly would you recommend ?
Once the husk has pealed off, they are ready to eat.
You can crack them as soon as they're dry really, best to wait at least 3 days and eat them within a year. Try one first and if you find it's a bit bitter, then it may need a little longer
LMAO! What if your tree is 25 ft tall? Ive harvested walnuts off the ground for years, I get around 20 - 25kg per season of dry walnuts in their shells, Yes some get hit by bugs but only like 5%
Sounds like you’re really hot on it! The longer they rest in the floor, the more likelihood of getting some infestations - obviously you’re pretty efficient in picking them up so it’s isn’t as much of an issue for you
@@TheGourmetPantry Exactly, You have to pick them up within 3 days when you have a big tree and cant manually pick them.
Awesome video, thank you
The "floor" or the ground?
Can you bake them directly with shells?
I wouldn’t recommend it - if the shells are completely airtight then they may explode. Also, the whole point of baking them (as you can actually eat them without cooking them) is to give them some more flavour with some salt and oil - if you bake them with the shells on, the flavour will be in the shell which is the part you won’t eat, so not much point - especially as you’ll have to crack them open to eat them anyway.
I live in London. I was wondering if it's warm enough in london to grow walnuts? And can I grow them from the nut itself?
I'm just up the road in bedford. I've got a nice tree I've grown from a nut. As long as it's in a sunny enough spot it shouldnt be an issue I suppose...
You need a fresh off the tree nut though... I'll post you one if you like? its harvest time now so theres plenty about.
@@fishyc150 Any chance you can post me some walnuts to grow? I'm int the north west of uk? How long before it reaches fruiting size?
@@alizcool1 walnuts are just forming right now. Wont be dropping till august or so. I'd gladly send you some when they're ready. I gave away nearly 1000 to the community to eat around Christmas last year. There is a special procedure for getting them to germinate, they need to go through a winter either for real or in a cold fridge then soaked to kick start them... that can be found on line easily enough.
So yes I'd happily do it... but needs to be after harvest. I think it's about 7 years before fruit and get more as it gets bigger...
@@fishyc150 if I grew a tree in a pot would it stay miniature but still fruit?
Thanks
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Is oil optional
You can use without but the oil allows everything to cook more evenly and helps the salt to stick. If you decide not to use it, keep a really close eye so they don’t burn.
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Not bugs. Insects
Haha, I stand corrected!
Bugs is colloquial. A spider isnt an insect, a worm isnt an insect but all are "bugs" and "creepy crawlies".
You forgot to soak them.
Soaking can help remove the bitterness but if you let them naturally dry, I personally find it doesn’t help that much. Defo a great idea though if you’re not leaving them long before eating