I just started foraging these this year while out in the woods gathering paw paws. Anyone have any recommendations for a good cracker that can open hickory nuts and black walnuts too, if possible? Sledgehammer works of course, but hard to get it at the right power to open but not demolish the nut meat.
Cracking open hickory nuts?
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On the farm we would throw/ put walnuts on road to the barn and run them over for a period . It would get the green husk off .Which is just nasty . pressure was them on a steel grate we had . Always like using a nice pair of pliers or I have used a vice . Never messed with hickory nuts .we had chestnut trees also .Those things .. like chestnuts but those spiked balls hurt . Anyway farm is no more . Days gone by.
https://www.grandpasgoodygetter.com/ works on anything I've ever tried....
You need a hammer and hard surface, tap them standing up on their ends and you will need a nut pick. They are a lot of work but tasty in banana bread and we make a pie with them using a pecan pie recipe.
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Thanks for the tip, I was whacking them on the side and they were either making my sledge bounce off or exploding and shooting pieces all over the place. I figured how to hold them with my pliers and whack them on the ends which worked better.
Still going to try other tips I saw on youtube and try and get nice halves out of them. The nuts dented my workbench wood vice faces though! I collected several pounds Sunday and the trees still have more hanging.
That looks like serious machinery, but $170... Tempting but I don't have nearly enough to make a it worth it. I have the same pair of snips he used in the video, so that was helpful info too.
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