[Sca-cooks] Walnuts and nut cracking devices

[Stefan li Rous]

Phlip commented:
> A friend of mine in SE Ohio has an interesting device, basicly a corn
> stripper- strips the kernels off the cob. It's about 36 inches high,
> with a
> weighted wheel, and you feed the corn in one end, and the kernels come
> out
> of one spout and the cobs out another- looks kinda like a big coffee
> mill.
> When he gets walnuts, he tightens down an adjustment, and it does a
> really
> nice job or stripping the green rind off of the walnuts, too- he then
> lets
> them dry for a season, and has lots of walnuts in the shell every fall.

So, what does your friend do with all these walnut shells? If he is 
just throwing them away or burning them, perhaps there is a small 
market in them by selling them to SCA folks wanting them to do natural 
dyeing. Or if doesn't want to bother with this, perhaps you could get 
them from him cheap and resell them.

Stefan
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