Making Pickled Walnuts - Part 1 - Picking, Pricking, Brining 

We used to use the juice for tie-dyeing - it was very colorfast!

It's 11:30pm and im deathly allergic to walnuts, yet here i am! That's how you know you make good content.

I’ve never wanted a pickled walnut so bad in my life.

After seeing this video a while back I decided I had to try them. I ordered through a British Imports store and they really are delicious. Thank you for introducing them to us. I love all your videos as they are so entertaining.

You know, I can't really explain how much I love this channel. It's so soothing and calming and interesting.

One of my favourite pickles - My favourite sandwich is corned beef and pickled walnut- best ever combination.

Seriously, you pickle the whole walnut - including the shell! Never knew that, I assumed it was just the nut inside. Edit. Aha, you pickle them before they grow the shell. Now I understand. I thought the shells were softened by the pickling

My son's wife's people, in the South of France, make a liqueur from walnuts when they're at this stage. Never worry about the stain. A man after your own heart will say, "At the walnuts"? and you'll say, "Aye!, what are you making with yours"?. And a new friendship will be born. Much like seeing someone with purple stained mouth and fingers. "Ye were at the bilberries"! "AYE!" accompanied by the biggest bilberry stained smile.

Never heard of pickled walnuts but what I have seen and never tried is pickled milkweed pods. They pick em while still green and small. Also, spruce tips are a thing too. Just the green new branches of spruce pickled. It all sounds so interesting.

tbh the looks alone remind me of a thousand year egg. but i wont judge a book by its cover. but if i read it and it still makes me gag... and im glad i read the description because i misunderstood 80 instead of 8

As a kid I was a walnut-lover and a thumb-sucker. Which is why I know that even if you stain your hands intensely with sap from the green nuts because you can´t wait for them to be ripe soaking the skin long enough will clean it perfectly - at least if you soak it in spit...

All I know about pickled walnuts I learned from Graham Oakley's children's book "The Church Mice at Christmas". When the church mice received a hamper of Christmas goodies, they gorged on the good stuff, and all they gave the vicar was a tin of asparagus and a jar of pickled walnuts. We wondered, what the heck are pickled walnuts?? Thanks for answering that question. (My children are all grown now, but I have saved those books for my grandchildren, who love them as much as their parents did.)

such a satisfying video to watch, every question i had about what you were doing or about the walnuts themselfs you answered immediately!

I place the green walnuts into a 3 litre Ziploc plastic bag as I prick each one, which in turn is stood inside an old ice cream tub or similar for support. I add the brine then zip close the plastic bag. I also prick the walnuts over a ceramic plate. No plastic bowls or chopping board to chuck away due to indelible staining. A cut green walnut is ideal to cover scratches or water stains on dark coloured furniture.

I picked some green walnuts today to give this a try - I've never eaten a pickled walnut before but was intrigued after seeing you eat them in one of your other videos. I did a solo bilberry challenge today and was quite chuffed when i got home to find the weight was roughly the same as yours and Jenny's combined haul. I didn't have any cornflour so substituted with custard powder and it seems to be okay... I'll taste it tomorrow. Thanks for the inspiration 🙏😊

Wow did I just hear 8 years? This is amazing!

Walnut juice is an unusual dye in as much as it doesn't need a mordant, or something to 'fix' it, as you've found with your skin. Every autumn my little grafted walnut tree gives me over 1000 nuts, and my right thumb turns a dark brown. The nail is dyed as well, and the last stripe of colour on that is growing out at the end of January. I give my husks away using a local Natural Dyes And Weavers group on fb. This year my lovely neighbour cut off some overhanging branches and threw them back for me; with about 100 nuts on. So I have made pickles, and want to watch your Part 2 to see if I did it right. I made them once before and didn't like them, despite regularly making picked Nasturtiums and others. BUT that time I didn't follow a recipe, whereas this time, I think I did, to some extent.

In Greece they make whole walnut fruit preserve. One of my most favorite things ever

the gentlemans olive

I'm about to try making this for the first time! Last year we waited too long and the walnuts went hard so I made Nocino instead which is nice, but this year, the trees are prolific and I'm determined to lay in a batch.

I do love pickled walnuts especially at Christmas with Turkey. Meats and cheese board.

Wish I could get them here,I really love pickled walnuts.

Was in the middle of watching your latest video and though hey, I need to find a pickled walnut recipe. Low and behold, more Atomic Shrimp!

I know this video is old, but I seriously had to comment that I've learned so much from watching your videos. Seriously thank you! I live in Ohio, US, so there are walnut trees in every patch of forrest you can find. Though, I do think they're black walnuts, but I would love to try this with those.

ive never heard of pickled walnuts! very intrigued, i have three black walnut trees on my property her in Missouri. might this in spring!

Your videos are so incredibly entertaining -- even making pickled walnuts seems interesting, love the variety! :)

I have two large walnut trees in my Canadian backyard and have never heard of pickled walnuts before. They sound tasty!

Prehistoric dyes were fixed with a 'mordant' - in most cases, human urine. I remember an episode of 'Time Team' where this was done.

I have tried pickled walnuts and they are quite amazing. Thanks for this recipe.

Me thinking ooooohhhhh that stains... wonder if it could be used as a natural dye? Five minutes later atomicshrimp is thinking the same!

I made some last year. They're delicious! Very lovely flavours. I made them with sherry vinegar, because I could not get malt vinegar in stores in Germany, so they turned out a little bit on the tart side, but never the less amazing. I will surely make some this year, too. I had ordered som malt vinegar on the internet already.

you are an absolute well of information, thank you so much for sharing it with us

It would never come across my mind to pickle a walnut. A WHOLE walnut. But I will watch how you do it :)

I'm making some right now, thanks for the inspiration!

Nice white chopping board you had there ;)

Thanks very much for this helpful series of videos. I started to brine my first ever batch of green walnuts yesterday. I hope it is all right to tweet a link to your video on my Twitter page. Another video online created by someone else shows that the walnuts are pricked all over many more times than you do. Does this make any difference to the end product?

Ive never tried pickled walnuts but you make me hungry lol xx

Walnut sap. The poor man's henna. How many times I've thought, nah, I don't need gloves...

My dad loved these on a full English..

do remember to have a cloth ready for when the walnut juice squirts up to your face!

wtf i didnt know this was a thing. ty for the information

Now hang on, me and my brother made up pickled pecans as a joke. Are you saying people actually pickle nuts??? Wow!

Let me just talk about Pickled Walnuts for a moment... ours never last anything like that long. I Walnut tree only a year with a massive crop. And yes words cannot describe them bliss.

i never know that pickled walnuts was a british food. i was first introduced to it in bulgaria so i assumed they were eastern European

I don't have any walnut trees around me (that I've found, anyway), but I have a metric ton of hickory trees. I would think that this would be possible with them as well (albeit they will be much smaller).

Does anyone know if pecans can be substituted?

Saw you talking about this in your most recent video and had to wonder just what the heck it was. Now I know! Wonder if you can do this with black walnuts, we have tons of those in my yard.

The only walnuts I've ever seen in the wild are black walnuts because I live in north America. They are huge and have green shell that is bumpy.

Hi there, fab fab video. Thank you. I left mine in the brine for longer than a week second time around. Maybe 3-4 weeks as they still looked half green. Once removed and dried they looked the same as yours so I pickled as in video 3. Will it be ok? Thx

In Turkey some people make whole wallnut jam its a weird ingredient for me

Enjoyed! TYVM!

I luv pickle walnuts

i wonder if one can dye fabric with that juice

You actually got pickles older than my kids lol

I got so excited to make these with Eastern black walnut, but after a quick Google, apparently they're no good. 😞. Have to use either English or California walnuts.

Can you pickle other nuts Mike ? I'm very allergic to Walnuts and Pecans (its the papery husk) so would love to pickle a different nut !

I am currently trying this with my walnuts but have noticed mould starting to grow on the top surface during the pickling process. Do I need the throw the whole lot? Is it the temperature causing it?

What happens if you just put them straight into vinegar?

I’ve just pricked my walnuts ready to follow your recipe and it occurred to me that a lot of fruits seem to be extremely early this year so I should at least cut one walnut in half . I believe mine are slightly further along than what you have , and mine have a slightly yellowy shell forming . I can cut thru it , but it’s definitely tougher than the rest of the inner . Am I too late already to continue ??

Great video. Can I ask what month you picked the walnuts as I’ve just picked some but the shells have started to form so no good for pickling this year. I’m in Leicestershire

Could you use the juice as dye?

Watched the vegan blood saudage Mk II where you used these in the recipe. Then got recommended this

I remember seeing a young walnut tree when I was a kid, and thinking the sap smelled like tea-tree oil. Is that a fair comparison?

"We'll just look at one... of deez nuts"

Do they smell anything like green black walnuts because that smell makes me gag.

I know this is an old video but could you tell me how the shop bought ones compare to these home produced ones. Just bought some Opie brand ones and i really like them. Am i right in thinking that now is the time to pick walnuts if i want to try it myself? Cheers.

Im going to have to make these but im going to have to find some one with a walnut tree

Hi, is your brine just salt and water?

Pickled walnut!! I ate one of these a while ago and got the biggest migraine ever :( weird reaction but I got other people to eat them and they got the headache as well. Weird that yours were so old and still good? Any idea why mine were bad? They were shop bought

Lovely series large batch on the go but ours are not fully black after second brining despite being left in the brine for 10 days. Advice?

so, i've got a black walnut tree right behind me, would those be suitable? i really want to try this

Wait, wait, wait: You're telling me the one thing I absolutely hate (the smell of the walnut oil juice) is the primary flavor of the pickle? I'm out. I was watching this the whole time thinking, "Better be worth it if he's ignoring the smells and stains." Turns out, you're doing neither, rather actually embracing it. I have no relationship to any of this at all, I am not the target demographic. They smell absolutely horrible and stain for weeks.

What do they taste like apart from textural descriptions. Like an olive? Like a grapefruit? They smell like poison and look like rotten death.

Does this apply to black walnuts or only to English walnuts?

For Atomic's food eating videos I turn on subtitles and keep the sound off. I hate the sound of anyone, not just AS, chomping away too close to the mic, and talking as they do. The video's are still brilliant, and I can get his mellifluous tones on his non-eating vids :-)

I take it these are "English" walnuts. Can you do the same with black walnuts? I don't see any reason why not...

Does this work with black walnuts?

It's like a vegan balut.

American Black Walnuts, when they are ripe dye your skin black

most brittish thing ive seen

14 or 18 yrs? Wha!??

I'm hungry

wow. i threw so many of them as useless. NO MORE!

Looks like okra in its young state