How to Peel Chestnuts Easily, Quickly, Safely!

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How to Peel Chestnuts Easily, Quickly, Safely!
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In this PIATTO™, video recipe, we'll learn how to peel chestnuts easily, quickly and safely! By the end, you'll have peeled chestnuts that are still raw inside and perfect for making chestnut flour or using in the recipe of your choice.

YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO...
Choose chestnuts (What are the characteristics of a healthy chestnut? How do you tell a bad chestnut from a good one?)

Prepare chestnuts by scoring (cutting) the skins of the chestnuts. We'll show you an amazing trick to score chestnuts safely using simple kitchen scissors— here @Victorinox scissors!)

Cook chestnuts by pre-soaking them to make peeling chestnuts easy.

Looking instead for how to peel chestnuts after roasting?

Our easy tips will make working with chestnuts a holiday joy. These lovelies are used in many Italian holiday dessert recipes.

Buon Appetito!

INGREDIENTS

Chestnuts — preferably ‘marrone’ or ‘marroni’

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[Mat-fwky]

Thank you so much for this video. Peeling chestnuts has always been a stress inducing nightmare of trying to salvage the nutmeat stuck inside hard unyielding shells. I just finished peeling about 50 chestnuts and it took maybe 5 minutes. I don’t think scored them all lengthwise or the right depth but he end result was so satisfying. For me, about half the chestnuts had issues with the skin staying on but I’ve found when you use them in a roasted stuffing that skin disappears and doesn’t affect the final product at all. And the happiness of having a whole, skinless nut pop out effortlessly was such a nice thing to behold. Also, using the rubber gloves has a wonderful added benefit for anyone who does get a stubborn chestnut: they prevent hard chestnuts bits going up your fingernails..a miserable torture of Thanksgivings past. My full bowl of shelled chestnuts is prepped..eliminating one of the formerly most unpleasant parts of cooking the meal.

[Pianoprac]

Thankyou so much for the tip about the scissors that really helped!

[mrtopcat]

The best made and explained video on this subject that I found.

[jarisiri]

Wow ..they opened nicely. Hope your method will do. Every method i tried before opened my fingures. Will give it another try. Thanks.

[Journeyofcheng]

It did not work on my chestnuts that I tried today. The inner layer were stuck to the chestnuts. Any reasons?

[GooberAlwaysWins]

I have a chestnut tree directly behind my house, thanks for the instructions

[josephmccarthy]

Thanks for the really useful video, it was really easy and it worked really well :)

[setsukonagano]

Amazing! I can't wait this fall to make chestnuts rice and more.Thank you very much😫

[heiditam]

Thank you for this video! Let me try it!

[shuearie]

Silly me, I've always boiled them then slicing them after they're cooked. Thanks for the easy instructions.

[ebenezeradumarfo]

Here in 2 days on this friday here in Catalonia we will celebrate a festival called "La Castanyera" in catalan. In this day we especialy eat chest nuts but i am sad because this year is the last one we will celebrate "La Castanyera" because the next grade we will not celebrate it.

[jiaqiwuu]

Any tips of those of us who haven't gotten it to work? The shell comes right off but the skin is still stuck

[nickmeale]

When I eat them raw I just soak them for 8 hours then they are so easy to peel

[hopealgeo]

I wish I’d found this before I murdered my nail beds. 😫

[carinakaarli]

The outer shell comes of easily, but the inner peal is realy hard to get off! I never get then as perfect sa in this video and end upp having to use a knife to cut it off.

[kfizzle]

I tried this and they dont taste that good but they do peel easily

[khedrball]

Is there no quick way to just open the chestnuts without all the boiling, heating, and transferring. I don’t care if they’re not whole as I’ll be making them for a chestnut and cream pasta sauce.

[helenkieser]

I have an even better way. Soak chestnuts in water overnight, boil in water, do not cut chestnuts, and peel whilst hot

[sebastijanmaglovsky]

after 3 minutes boiling they were raw inside

[theonlysjc]

Or if you don't want to wait an eternity just cut and peel with your fingers