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From: darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP (Darrell Long)
Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.cooks,net.veg
Subject: Re: Brazil Nuts (how to get the suckers out of the shell)
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Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 19:08:11 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 22 19:08:11 1986
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In article <539@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) writes:
>Now that we are talking about seeds and nuts in net.rumor...
>
>I am sitting here hacking with a pile of brazil nuts and a vise-grip
>lockwrench.  I am wondering if there is an easier way to get Brazil
>buts out of the shell.  Some brazil nuts come out cleanly, but more than
>hald of them stick to the nut husk.  Is there some secret I haven't
>been able to figure out?  How do the nut stores get the whole ones
>they sell (roasted in oil -- bletch -- I want mine raw) out in one
>piece like that?
>
>
>-- 
>Laura Creighton		
>ihnp4!hoptoad!laura 
>laura@lll-crg.arpa

Try popping them into the microwave for a couple of minutes, they'll
open right up! :-)
-- 
Darrell Long
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, San Diego

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