Blanching them in a baking soda and water solution is by far the most effective method in my experience (30+ years in professional kitchens). It does add an extra step, though, because you have to then roast the nuts after you remove the skin.
Thank you 🙏🏻. My recipe calls for toasting the nuts after the skin has been removed and I wasn’t sure if reversing the order would work out the same way
I just did the sieve method. 80% of the skins came off, 15% needed hand rubbing. 5% need intensive hand rubbing. Overall very effective, and no dirty towels! Thanks for this tip. I’m making a Dobos Torta cake (a Hungarian cake) for Christmas. I need hazelnuts for the top, and crushed caramelized/nuts to coat the sides of the torte.
Blanching works really well, and not just for those, any nuts you want skinned, blanch it. Potatoes? Blanch it just don't overdo it ro you'll turn some things to mush.
I wanted to taste them because a RU-vidr said they were good, at first I just put the whole thing in my mouth and it was bitter. That’s when I watched this video, I don’t have a nut cracker, I just hit it with the thing you use to smash up meat. And I tasted the inside and it wasn’t much better. At least in my opinion
what ambient noise was it from 0:00 until 2:18 ? sounds like a generator, fridge or something i might be wrong any ideas? it was a relaxing white noise indeed
I'm going to finally harvest our Hazelnuts, we have a huge hedge of them about 40 feet long and the Hazelnut bushes are now 25 foot 'trees' lol. No sense letting the moles have them all since there are literally thousands of them.
tried both methods - didn't work very well. kept toasting them longer but that didn't seem to help either. now my hands are very tired from rubbing a pound of toasted hazelnuts in a sieve for 30 minutes.
Gave up and did blanching method. I just rinsed them in a colander rolling them around with a wisk and *poof* all done in like 2 minutes. I will take that with the "extra" step of roasting afterwards any day of the week. Now THAT was easy! One day I will laugh at this...just not today 😅 ....okay...maybe today 😂
Did not work for me. Rubbing the nuts in a towel might work if you stand there and do it for 2 days. Taking the skins off is labor intensive nightmare.
Just put almonds in a skillet, I prefer cast iron, turn heat on medium, keep stirring the nuts till they become fragrant. Easiest way I found to roast almonds, I do pecans the same way.
Tried roasting and then the towel AND strainer method. Neither worked perfectly for me. Seemed to be a great method in the video. It did remove maybe half of the skins, but not all unfortunately.
Kathleen they both work quite well, if the skins aren’t still coming off then you need to roast it a bit more. If it’s well roasted the skin peels right off. Hope that helps
Hey Thomas ! Thanks for this video ! Could you do the same for chickpeas' skins ? Those are a real pain to remove and I think I don't have the right method to do it. I hope you read this. Keep up the good work and I wish you some wonderful holidays !
Add one teaspoon of baking powder to the chickpeas and stir constantly over medium heat for 2-3 minutes, then add the water. Skins will "melt" and no need to remove them, resulting in a very creamy hummus.
#kitchen conundrum. -Hi Thomas , How do we determine how much baking powder and baking soda to put into all purpose or cake flour of a cake recipe that usually uses self raising flour but only all purpose flour is available?Thank you
I tried the towel, I tried the sieve, ½ of the bag, the skins came off, other ½ would not budge. So I tried to blanche them, and that really didn't work at all. I toasted them for 20" @375'. So I'm just gonna have to continue on w the recipe to make a chocolate hazelnut praline wrap for this cake. Perhaps the nuts were old? I don't know... But for the skins to come off ½ of them was super frustrating... Ugh
I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I toasted at 400 for 8 minutes...tried rubbing, and rubbing, and rubbing. Put back in for 5 more minutes. Rubbed and rubbed again. Tried the sieve. Barely nothing. 5 more minutes. Same rubbing again...toasted 5 more minutes....I have been at this for 45 minutes with getting a real workout and I have 1 cup of "mostly" skinned hazelnuts. "Easy" is hardly the worst I would use here.....I don't understand what I am doing wrong. I've used the towel, the server, paper towels, and peeling them individually. 😢😢😢
Wait until they're well and truly cooled before blending otherwise you'll end up with hazelnut butter really fast, but I've done it this way and it works. Honestly though, I usually just leave the skins on for hazelnut meal.
If I were a millionaire I would find a way to meet you and hire you to answer my questions and for everyone I would give you a million😁 ..... would you please do some videos for keto recipes....and is there a way for me to make flat bread (Naan) with coconut flour and Glucomannan (as gluten replacement ) using yeast baking????
The Nefarious Nerd thank you for taking the time to reply. I did think about it later and realized that he was using double negatives in his sentence. Those always drive me crazy.
Cansu K I did try the roasting toasting method with almonds and it did not work and had to use the blanching method but the skins on almonds are much harder to remove than hazelnuts thank you for clarifying his use of double negatives in his sentence.
you are wrong dude, the FASTEST AND EASIEST way to remove the skin is using a mortar and pestle made of rock obviously, and smash those nuts, when u get the hazelnut free remember to remove the little twig that is sticked together
1) You are upset regarding his Grammar, not his English. If you're going to be nitpicking, present yourself without blame. 2) While you may be correct, it is fully understandable; understandability is the point of a spoken language. 3) Spoken languages evolve and reflect the speakers origin, education, and priorities. Looks like his priorities are in sharing kitchen tips and tricks with people who appreciate them. 4) Troll fed.
