Chestnuts: friend or foe?
Tonight my parents and I tried our hand at roasting chestnuts. Now, seeing as we are Jews, this was a new experience - an experiment, if you will.
We looked up how to roast chestnuts in The Joy Of Cooking. It warned that unless you puncture the shell, the nuts can explode. So we stabbed the shells with forks before putting the nuts in a 450 degree toaster oven.
Well, after 14 minutes we heard a loud pop. One nut had exploded - violently - all over the toaster oven. So we took them out. Within a minute, another blew. The blast radius covers the area from the window to the fridge (about 15 ft).
All in all, the chestnuts were delicious, but they're fuckin' deadly weapons. Clearly our roasting technique needs work.
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We looked up how to roast chestnuts in The Joy Of Cooking. It warned that unless you puncture the shell, the nuts can explode. So we stabbed the shells with forks before putting the nuts in a 450 degree toaster oven.
Well, after 14 minutes we heard a loud pop. One nut had exploded - violently - all over the toaster oven. So we took them out. Within a minute, another blew. The blast radius covers the area from the window to the fridge (about 15 ft).
All in all, the chestnuts were delicious, but they're fuckin' deadly weapons. Clearly our roasting technique needs work.
Posted via LjBeetle