Class is back in session! Today, chef Ann Ziata from the Institute of Culinary Education walks us through the best method for opening and preparing nearly every nut you’ll encounter in the kitchen. Watch as she cracks, hammers, and pries her way through the list, so you’ll know precisely what to do the next time you feel like going nuts.
00:00 Intro
00:42 English Walnut
01:42 Black Walnut
02:11 Brazil Nut
03:06 American Chestnut
04:10 Hard Shell Pecan
05:02 Paper Shell Pecan
05:49 Almond
06:53 Macadamia
07:18 Dwarf Chestnut
07:56 Hazelnut
08:37 Acorn
09:55 Peanut
10:44 Kola Nut
11:19 Soft Shell Almond
11:47 Pili Nut
12:24 Gingko Nut
13:10 California Pistachio
14:04 Turkish Pistachio
14:41 Pine Nut
15:51 Young Coconut
17:29 Mature Coconut
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How To Crack Every Nut | Method Mastery | Epicurious
48 Comments
I fanud peenut
Who else got recommended this during November ?
Pity that she is woman there still one tipe nut that still not cracket that nut always in pair
Chestnuts roasting on a open fire 🎄🌰
Me: wanting to sleep
Youtube: wanna watch someone play with their nuts?
1:25 "you are using a model 405 english walnut it can be opened using a model 405 english walnut"
I need a better nutcracker. Need to buy the one she has.
Ok hammer it is.
😊
What brand of nutcracker is that? It looks efficient!
1:56 use the hammer!
7:02 hammer!
8:50 yum, uh… Hammer?
I’m way too immature to make it through this video lol
I cannot eat fish
You're a pretty squirrel 😁
That one squirrels on the nuts
Me with a treenut allergy: interesting
What about coco de mer?🥲
I've always done mature coconuts with only a cleaver, just go around the circumference with the spine like a hammer and it'll split much cleaner than with a hammer
Now I can bust my nuts like a real boy
Alternate title
“How to bust a nut”
Coconuts are NUTS??
As a professional nut cracker i use a simple tool that works every time… A rock
No hickory nut? Dafuq?
On one hand theres the table manner tools and one the other hand theres nut cracking tools which is the most random leverage tools ever lol
13:55 Baklava 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
14:04 Turkish Pistachio 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
I've always thought of almond milk as a modern invention but I learned recently that it was popular in the middle ages!
my southeast asian soul cries at her cutting the coconut like watermelon…. you scoop them out… why cut…
Me, watching even if im allergic to nuts:
me: has very bad nut allergy
also me: okay but its every kind
Likes cracking nuts ✔️
you all are freaks
Deez nuts
11:13 you woke up a nut!
What a cracking video
Peanuts are a nut
You forgot cashews
If you don't have Macademia or can't afford it, Pili Nut is uncannily similar to Macademia Nut. Oily, buttery, and practically melt in your mouth
Everything you need Macademia for, you can use a Pili Nut with and practically never notice a difference
Peanuts are legumes not nuts
Literally every line is this video is just….lol. I hate my brain.
there is actually one more nut
no sheanuts???
To be fair, the coconut isnt a nut but a fruit. But you can use a coconut as a seed to grow a coconut tree
I was just looking this up cause i was curious. Like how pineapples grow in bushes (i think) and not trees.
Tbh i like learning about things
I’m allergic to nuts so i thought it would be very useful to watch this
This brings a whole new meaning to busting a nut 0_0
4:12
no. it is a french word, there is only one correct way to pronounce it.