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Re: Mixed Nuts

by ChefJCarey » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:55 pm

Sue Courtney wrote:
Howie Hart wrote:Okay, so you open a can of mixed nuts. You know you like some nuts better than others, so you pick them out first. How do you rank the nuts? I like all the nuts, but my order of favorites is:

#1 - Pecans
#2 - Cashews
#3 - Peanuts
#4 - Filberts
#5 - Almonds
#6 - Brazil nuts


Filberts? So you got me hitting the google page and my suspicion - due to its omission by almost everyone - is right. They are what I would call hazel nuts. Or are they? Interesting facts on the filbert here.

Macadamias are gorgeous, but you'd hardly ever find them in a can of mixed nuts. Too expensive, I guess.


99% of the filberts (that's what the growers here call them) grown in the USA are grown in Oregon - most of those here in the Willamette Valley. I pass dozens of orchards just tooling around doing my daily chores.
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Robin Garr » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:34 pm

Robin Garr wrote:#1 - Pecans
#2 - Hazelnuts
#3 - Almonds
#4 - Brazil nuts
#5 - Peanuts
#6 - Cashews


Hey! Who left walnuts off this list? I think third or fourth, in a dead heat with almonds.
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Cynthia Wenslow » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:15 pm

Robin Garr wrote:I've been resisting joining the fun of putting down a list because I really find it difficult to rank things that I like. The correct answer is, "Whichever I had most recently," or maybe, "Whichever I'm in the mood for at the moment."

Much depends on circumstances, too, and as others have said, freshness.


:lol: Robin, you so often answer things in exactly the same way my mind works. I just rarely put it all out there in the reply to a post!
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Robin Garr » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:26 pm

Cynthia Wenslow wrote::lol: Robin, you so often answer things in exactly the same way my mind works.


As the old saying goes, "Great minds slurp in the same trough." ;)
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Robert J. » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:46 pm

Robin Garr wrote:
Robin Garr wrote:#1 - Pecans
#2 - Hazelnuts
#3 - Almonds
#4 - Brazil nuts
#5 - Peanuts
#6 - Cashews


Hey! Who left walnuts off this list? I think third or fourth, in a dead heat with almonds.


They were on MY list. I love 'em.

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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Mike Filigenzi » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:46 pm

Well, I'd have to go with the following:

#1 - Cashews
#2 - Almonds
#3 - Pecans
#4 - Hazelnuts
#5 - Peanuts
#6 - Brazil nuts

As far as single-variety nuts go, we eat more almonds than anything else, but that's because my wife likes them on her cereal. Therefore, we always have a bag of them lying around.

On a tangential note, I just received 20 lbs of green walnuts from Mt. Lassen Farms. They'll be chopped up and thrown into vodka this weekend as part of the annual nocino-making process.


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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Karen/NoCA » Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:21 pm

1. Cashews
2. Macadamia
3. Pecans
5. All the rest
6. Pine Nuts
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Howie Hart » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:01 pm

I like walnuts, but they're not in "Mixed" nuts. Nor are macadanias or pine nuts. :?
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Robert Reynolds » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:02 pm

I have seen mac nuts in some "premium" mixes at, of all places, Walmart!
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Bob Ross » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:23 pm

Howie, here's a cute little piece on whether the legend on the Planter's Mixed Nuts can -- less than 50% peanuts -- is really true:

http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/nuts/nuts.html

It pays to be skeptical! :)
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Robert Reynolds » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:46 pm

Bob Ross wrote:Howie, here's a cute little piece on whether the legend on the Planter's Mixed Nuts can -- less than 50% peanuts -- is really true:

http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/nuts/nuts.html

It pays to be skeptical! :)


:roll: Ok, that was one crazy site.
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Howie Hart » Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:11 pm

Bob, you have too much time on your hands to find all these sites. But keep it up! 8)
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Bob Ross » Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:00 am

I was remembering a battle years ago, Howie, involving enacting the rules for what proportion of mixed nuts have to appear in various grades of mixed nuts. Led to some prevent dense bureaucratic verbiage, and this comic relief lightened my search.

My company had a very incidental interest in the regs, but it was very interesting how complex a can of mixed nuts is.
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Larry Greenly » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:09 am

Regarding Brazil nuts and selenium content (you may find this interesting): http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/archives/herb_home_remedy_qa/brazil_nut_warning_causes_worry.asp
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Re: Mixed Nuts

by Bob Ross » Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:11 am

NIH has similar information/warnings, including the extreme variability in the levels of selenium in a single nut:

http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/selenium.asp

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