The Fastest and Easiest Way to Remove Skin From Hazelnuts- Kitchen Conundrums with Thomas Joseph

Some recipes call for skinning hazelnuts to avoid adding a bitter taste to baked items or when adding to a favorite recipe. Thomas Joseph shares two easy methods to remove those bitter skins.

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[jays]

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.

[mycelsium]

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[vickyarvanitis]

It takes forever to clean hazelnuts this way. Blanch then toast is my preference. The nuts come out perfectly smooth then I toast without the skins.

[balexic]

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.

[twentyonep]

The taste of roasted hazelnut = Heaven 👌🏻😍

[Arcanua]

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.

[beecy]

One million subscribers! Congratulations 😍

[JayBizz.]

I wanted to taste them because a YouTuber 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

[RickandStephMoore]

I'm in Oregon and I have a hazelnut orchard by my home. This video was helpful!

[basbleupeaunoire]

I just bought a pound of hazelnuts, and this video is super helpful!

[eatingcheating]

Thank you for the help how to remove skin from hazelnuts! That was *helpful* !

[staceyebiner]

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.

[lauraknuckles]

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.

[DuffyElmer]

So nice when the background hum stops around 2:19

[edita]

Didn't have either of these tools at home so I used a mincer, worked great!

[mariejoseepitre]

Congrats on one million subscribers !!

[Barbarra]

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.

[golden]

Great information as usual Thomas, but what was with the sound here?

[christianoliveros]

hi!!! can you make a video talking about what is a good method, steamed cake or baked cake? pls... thank you

[ranozziinlove]

Wow wow! Super tip. How can i remove pistacchio skins? Is the same to this?