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Since my discovery that the Fab Forum is the font of all knowledge, I have found myself seeking answers here.
May I ask if anyone knows how to roast chestnuts perfectly? What is the secret? I have tried it, with mixed results from utter failure to ‘wow! This is perfect’ but can’t seem to repeat it. How difficult can it be to simply roast a nut, consistently???  Yet, this skill evades me!
I love hot chestnuts fresh from the oven and the scent wafting through the house. It is nearing roast chestnuts season but I find it has become quite rare to find a street vendor offering freshly roasted chestnuts on a cold day. 
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"Since my discovery that the Fab Forum is the font of all knowledge, I have found myself seeking answers here.
May I ask if anyone knows how to roast chestnuts perfectly? What is the secret? I have tried it, with mixed results from utter failure to ‘wow! This is perfect’ but can’t seem to repeat it. How difficult can it be to simply roast a nut, consistently??? Yet, this skill evades me!
I love hot chestnuts fresh from the oven and the scent wafting through the house. It is nearing roast chestnuts season but I find it has become quite rare to find a street vendor offering freshly roasted chestnuts on a cold day.
Is it too soon to speak of Christmas? It’s a 365-day affair in my world!!"
try tossing them in a very hot pan with little or no oil, I used to buy them from street vendors in budapest prepared that way (although they were doing it over coal).
Worth a try tho |
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"try tossing them in a very hot pan with little or no oil, I used to buy them from street vendors in budapest prepared that way (although they were doing it over coal).
Worth a try tho"
Oh...so frying rather roasting, so to speak. Thanks, I'll give it a shot. |
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"try tossing them in a very hot pan with little or no oil, I used to buy them from street vendors in budapest prepared that way (although they were doing it over coal).
Worth a try tho
Oh...so frying rather roasting, so to speak. Thanks, I'll give it a shot."
yeah, the street vendors would just toss them in a huge pan over coals, absolutely delicious.
havent tried it at home myself , but now im curious. |
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"try tossing them in a very hot pan with little or no oil, I used to buy them from street vendors in budapest prepared that way (although they were doing it over coal).
Worth a try tho
Oh...so frying rather roasting, so to speak. Thanks, I'll give it a shot.
yeah, the street vendors would just toss them in a huge pan over coals, absolutely delicious.
havent tried it at home myself , but now im curious. "
They're hard to find nowadays, it seems. I've been thinking of stirring them in hot sand, just to try it.  |
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"In the house growing up we had a open fire and a chestnut roasting pan. Score them and put them over the embers… delicious  "
I see. That makes sense!! Cooks it evenly throughout. That has been my trouble, getting it to cook throughout the whole nut. |
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