Re: [gardeners] Weekend report
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:18:29 -0600
In my younger days I was far too unwary, and bought unshelled macadamia
nuts at the market. Sledge hammer just bounced off. Weight of the car
wouldn't crack the shell. Never got to eat a one. How does that
nutcracker work? Margaret L
>Yes, a macadamia nut's shell is very, very hard, indeed.
>
>One of the reasons macs are so costly is that it is both difficult to
>crack the shell and to do so keeping the kernel whole.
>
>We purchased a mac cracker from a macadamia coop in San Diego County a
>year ago, for the incredible sum of 70 bux. I've never spent anything near
>that for an ordinary nutchracker. But guess what: it works like a charm,
>even enabling a neophyte like me to crack out some nuts with whole
>kernels. Wow!
>
>It is really an experience to crack such nuts, because their shells fly
>everywhichway, at incredible velocities, owing to the hardness of their shells.
>
>How is Jim doing??
>
>Ron