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Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: danny clifton] #6605211
08/28/19 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
that's the way most do it here. run over them in the driveway to get the hulls off, (gravel drives not paved) then a hammer to crack them and dikes for fine tuning and a pick. An old hand crank corn sheller works real good. Quart jar of black walnut meat will fetch a good price at a farmers market. nothing better in fudge or brownies. Put some in a batch of home made vanilla ice cream. Will make ben and jerry jealous

Danny, can we say dykes on here??? LOL

You nailed it!


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Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: charles] #6605216
08/28/19 10:20 PM
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The old hand corn sheller is the best IMO, but for a few dry the green hulls and crack with a channel locks.

Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: charles] #6605334
08/29/19 07:08 AM
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Butternuts (White Walnuts) are my favorite.

Couple gallons of nuts in 5 gal bucket with water to cover ,
Set untill hulls darken. (couple days at most)
Paint mixer on a cordless drill.
3-4 minutes of stirring and they are Hulled.
Anyone who has seen the shell of a Butterrnut will see why its so fast and easy.
Toss any floaters away.

To crack;
Leather glove and hold "longways" in a good vice.
( I cup the nut to contain any that may gernade)
I tighten until i hear the crack, and then slightly more to hear a light crunch.
Bigger pieces left, are then opened with Dykes, if needed.

I do several bushels every fall.
Larger pieces are turned into a "Maple Glazed Nuts" .
My Moms old recipie, for friends and family at Christmas.

Smaller pieces are for adding to cakes , fudge . ect.

Good Homade Walnut crackers all over youtube.
This one looks interesting for DIY I deas.

Homemade Nut CRacker


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Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: ~ADC~] #6605463
08/29/19 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by ~ADC~
Originally Posted by l1ranger
you gotta crack them without crushing - a regular nutcracker wont do it.

I do a few (and hickories too) with a pair of channel locks - adjusted so that they cannot crush the whole thing.
but its slow.

if you need to do a bunch, you are probably better off buying (expensive) or building something made to crank it out.

something like this is top notch, but expensive to buy. https://www.photomagnets.com/theworldsbestnutcracker.html


Says right in the ad it won't crack black walnuts though.

We always just used a hammer on a solid brick and side cutters to pop open access to bigger pieces like huji mentioned.


it sure does, wrong link

https://www.photomagnets.com/best-black-walnut-nutcracker.html


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Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: charles] #6605468
08/29/19 10:28 AM
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My mom used to spread them out in the driveway for a short time to get the hulls off then sit on the porch for hours with a hammer and chunk of I beam. She had it down to a science of breaking them things open. Me not so much, my fingers took quite the beating.
I remember going to school and seeing the other kids with black fingers and hands and knowing they had been hulling Black Walnuts.


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Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: l1ranger] #6605593
08/29/19 02:13 PM
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If you are serious about cracking walnuts and getting 1/2 pieces, look at walnutsaw.com or email Dave Berry at walnutsaw.bis@gmail.com as he has invented a walnut saw that saws the nuts open. Works on hickory nuts also.

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Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: charles] #6605726
08/29/19 06:16 PM
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This is how I do it, I have three chunks of 1 1/2 inch black iron pipe, they are cut just a tad shorter than a black walnut. I also have a chunk of 1/2 inch thick iron about 4 inch square. I set the pipes on a oak stump or board, put 1 nut in each pipe lay the iron on top and smack it with a hammer. It cracks the nut nice but does not crush it. A nut pick gets the meat out with many large pieces. All above posters have good ways of removing hulls. I put them into a 5 gallon bucket green with a little water and pound them with a short post. Dump on my peat moss sifter then hose clean. I store them in a collapsible fish basket till cracking them. Keeps the squirrels out of them. All the squirrels have black faces around here when they start dropping good.


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Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: charles] #6605882
08/29/19 10:11 PM
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All of this talk about work, I'm going to the grocery store and just fork out the money.

Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: Feedinggrounds] #6605898
08/29/19 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Feedinggrounds
All the squirrels have black faces around here when they start dropping good.


Now that is funny, I am going to have to pay closer attention to the squirrels packing them off.


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Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: charles] #6605933
08/29/19 11:52 PM
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Why in Heaven's name would anyone eat, let alone bother to crack open a black walnut? sick


Now a Brazil nut is another story. They are a bugger to open without destroying the meat, but they are at least edible.

(Can't say what we used to call them.) whistle




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Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: charles] #6606054
08/30/19 09:34 AM
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The best tip that I can give is is after you get done cracking them let the nuts set for a few days and then the meats will loosen up inside the shells and they're much easier to pick

Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: Cathouse Jim] #6607196
09/01/19 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Cathouse Jim
Originally Posted by Feedinggrounds
All the squirrels have black faces around here when they start dropping good.


Now that is funny, I am going to have to pay closer attention to the squirrels packing them off.

It is true! Lol little buggers have black faces and paws! I have big Fox squirrels Grays and Blacks here, the Blacks, well they are already black. I will say stepping on walnut hulls barefoot is akin to stepping on Leggos! My wife has knocked a couple holes in the siding shooting them out of the lawnmower, I figure its a small price to have her cut all the grass.


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Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: charles] #6607202
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when I was a kid my mamaw and papaw used sharpened horseshoe nails to pick the meat out of the shells

Re: Cracking walnuts? [Re: charles] #6607247
09/01/19 08:45 AM
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My wife's grand father was a cigar maker and had cracking and cleaning black walnuts down to an art. I'm told it was his winter thing to relax and crack and picking nuts.My mother inlaw had quart jars of dried nut meat he picked, she used at Christmas for baking..
I unfortunately only met the man when he was on his death bed. My wife seemed to be the only person he recognized at that time and called by name..While we were there talking with him his hands went constantly. They told me he was picking nut and did that right to the minute he died.

I've only ever found dealing with them Black walnuts nothing but frustrating. Squirrels been hauling them along my fence top for a good week now. Going some where across the street someone else yard with them and I hope they bury them there. I find them stuck in weird places. Had one stuck in throttle linkage of my truck, that could been bad. At least it stuck on the wife and wouldn't let her push peddle down instead of wide open.

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