Foraging for Sweet Chestnuts: Techniques to Gather, Open, and Roast! 

We're searching for sweet chestnuts today, showing you how to open and gather them then what we do with them once we get them home. They're a wonderful source of free nutrition in October and November and readily freezable for use in nut roasts, pies, soups, and to liven up vegetable side dishes. Hope you enjoy watching our approach to one of my favourite forages of the year. Do share your chestnut stories and cooking advice in the comments!
Chestnut links (these use different techniques to ours, but why not try. I've picked up a little advice from this research to apply next time!):
food52.com/blo...
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