Boiled Peanuts

[Mooseherder]

In this case, Crock Pot Peanuts.   
I made them about a month ago and they were some good.
Put a little more heat to em this time. ;D
They'll take a long day before they are just right.

[SwampDonkey]

What does it do to them Mooseherder. Soften them like a baked bean?

[SwampDonkey]

I was going to say, I love peanuts, but they don't agree with me too good. You sure got enough salt products there chum. ;)

[pineywoods]

What does it do to them Mooseherder. Soften them like a baked bean?

It just RUINS um !!!!! I like them raw....

[zopi]

mmmmm...boiled p-nutz...me likey!

I like em right off the trailer in the drying shed too...

[Mooseherder]

My problem is I never met a Peanut I didn't like. :D
I'll eat them any way as long as their available. ;D
Boiled is just to mix it up some.  They're good and soft and fun to throw shells in a firepit while having conversation. ;)

Last recipe was salt, Cayenne and worstershire.  I added a few ingredients this time but didn't use but a fraction of the amount of salt a normal recipe calls for.

[SwampDonkey]

Oh! your doing it with the shells on. That's a mess.  :D :D

[Mooseherder]

They have been on low all night and are about 50% done.  I just bumped it up to high so they will be ready this afternoon. ;)

[Mooseherder]

They're getting there.  ;D
I just tried about 30 of them to make sure. :D
It's reducing well and should be ready in a couple hours.

[beenthere]

What's the preparation after the boiling (crock pot treatment) is done?

Looks like the peanut is still in the shell.  All eaten together, or shucked first?

Dried, then shucked, then eaten?

On another note, is that a coffepot spigot in the background?
Sorry for being so nosy... ;D
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[scgargoyle]

I like to throw a handful of garlic cloves in with mine, too. The missus likes the garlic better than the p-nuts!

[Corley5]

Those look good  8) 8) 8)  I wish I liked boiled peanuts  :(  I've tried ever since I was a little fella visiting my Grandparents in Fl.  Grandpa told me they weren't any good but I didn't believe him.  I didn't like them.  I tried a few years later as a teenager and still couldn't develop a taste for them.  I tried again as a young adult and they were even Cajun flavored and still didn't like them.  The 1st time Dee and I went to Fl together I tried them again as she was interested too and we didn't like them.  That was the last time.  I figure Zach and his little brother are gonna wanna try them someday and I'll try again too.  I hope they like em  ;D  But I do like grits  ;) ;D ;D 

[Mooseherder]

What's the preparation after the boiling (crock pot treatment) is done?

Looks like the peanut is still in the shell.  All eaten together, or shucked first?

Dried, then shucked, then eaten?

On another note, is that a coffepot spigot in the background?
Sorry for being so nosy... ;D
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You peel and eat them while hot.  I got the FirePit all ready and hot to sit around and throw shells into. ;)
I suppose some folks might like to eat or shuck on the shells but I don't.

That spigot in the background is Drinking water because our well water is undrinkable. :(
We also have a jug in the Fridge.  That one is for the dogs and Coffee, etc.

I tried Grits again last week in Tennessee...........yup, still didn't really taste like anything. :D ;D

[Mooseherder]

Here is the finished product and they taste good.
Took almost 24 hours. :D

[SwampDonkey]

It's still going to take some convincing chum.  :D ;)

[Polly]

 8) 8)   polly got some in south carolina and she loves them someone please put the resipee on this and i will tell her thanks

[bd354]

  we just boil the pnuts in a fish cooker with no seasoning until the nut is soft and add salt after turning off the heat. i was always told the nuts would absorb very little salt or whatever while they were cooking. let them sit for a while in the salty water, the longer they sit the saltier they get.

[Don K]

A fella I work with did a batch in a big pressure cooker. Didn't take long at all he said and really drove the flavor home. I tried one, it was good. Might be alot faster than a crockpot.

Don

[WDH]

I boil them in a big pot on the fish cooker outside.  Takes about 4 hours.  Mmmm, good. 

[bd354]

yeah, i've seen a pressure cooker used before and it really cuts down on cooking time. we cooked some unsoaked dried lima beans in a pot with plywood for a lid and a brick on top. amazing what a little pressure will do. didn't take long compared to what it usually takes.

[DanG]

If you can boil water, you can boil peanuts.  Just put the peanuts in the water. : :D  Dump a bunch of salt in there with them.

Like most things, fresh is best.  Around here, they are referred to as green peanuts, which just means they haven't been dried.  Most of the boiled peanuts you can buy "ready to eat" have been frozen, and are kinda black and mushy.  I don't care for them very much.  You won't have much luck trying to boil dry peanuts, either.

Usually, there are some "pops" in the batch.  Those are just immature nuts that haven't filled out yet, but the hulls are soft so you can eat the whole thing.  The hulls of mature ones are woody and inedible.

If you would call grits a "comfort food", then boiled peanuts would be a "comfort snack."  It is a pretty labor intensive way to eat, so enjoying them is more an activity than anything else.  It is a two-handed job, and your fingers get all messy, so you pretty much just eat peanuts when you're eating peanuts. :D :D

[Don K]

Ate a pound of em at every one of my stepson's football games this year.

Don

[DanG]

I was gonna post something about the peanuts at high school football games, but you beat me to it.  I haven't been to a game in years.  Do they still have those guys circulating in the stands with bags of peanuts?  They used to have a choice of boiled or parched.  Parched peanuts were just dried ones that were roasted in the hulls, and you ate them the same as boiled ones.  They went a lot quicker, because the shells were brittle and all ya had to do was mash them and the nuts would just fall out.  The taste is totally different, though.  Eating parched peanuts is like making your own peanut butter with your teeth. ;D

[WDH]

I like them boiled better, but parched is good too.  My Dad used to parch them, and that brings back good memories.

[CLL]

I lived in Alabama for 15 years, never could get used to boiled peanuts. They always reminded me of boiled okra, sort of slimey, like eating oysters! I don't eat anything I can't chew.

[SwampDonkey]

 :D :D :D

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I like them alot, just with salt and mabe some cloves.

I always look forward to going down to Georgia and stoping at a penut stand.

When I was in China they had boiled penuts as a side dish with almost every meal, and they were allready shelled. That spoiled me. I could get 4 on my chopsticks!

Jon

[Tom]

They must've been real thin and real sharp.  :D

[Lanier_Lurker]

If you can boil water, you can boil peanuts.  Just put the peanuts in the water. : :D  Dump a bunch of salt in there with them.

Like most things, fresh is best.  Around here, they are referred to as green peanuts, which just means they haven't been dried.  Most of the boiled peanuts you can buy "ready to eat" have been frozen, and are kinda black and mushy.  I don't care for them very much.  You won't have much luck trying to boil dry peanuts, either.

Usually, there are some "pops" in the batch.  Those are just immature nuts that haven't filled out yet, but the hulls are soft so you can eat the whole thing.  The hulls of mature ones are woody and inedible.

If you would call grits a "comfort food", then boiled peanuts would be a "comfort snack."  It is a pretty labor intensive way to eat, so enjoying them is more an activity than anything else.  It is a two-handed job, and your fingers get all messy, so you pretty much just eat peanuts when you're eating peanuts. :D :D

DanG has nailed it.

The key to good boiled peanuts is getting them fresh and green, and perhaps even immature.

Being raised in the middle of the Southwest Georgia peanut belt, I've been around boiled peanuts all my life.  Actually, getting nuts right off the vine a week or three before they are fully mature gives the best results.  The shells are soft and oftentimes can be eaten along with the nut - as DanG says.

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Ah Tom yer such a coconut, ya just line them up and then pick them up real easy.


I got ALOT of practice, was there for a year back in the 80's

Jon

[DanG]

If I ever have the misfortune to be sent to China, I'm gonna take a fork with me. : :D

[Weekend_Sawyer]

and they would be saying  "Look at the Bezu with a fork!, can't use chipsticks, what a barbarian!"

a bezu is a big nose, they think we have big noses. :D

[DanG]

They're right.  We do have big noses.  We also have forks. ;D :D :D

[SwampDonkey]

Hard to get ahead of that crowd down in the far SE. :D

[WDH]

You mean China ??? ??? ;D.

[DanG]

I have china, too.  I eat off of it with a fork!

[Magicman]

The only threads that I found on boiled peanuts were a couple of years old, and my peanuts are not.  They are fresh from the Farmer's Market and good yeah.  I like um after they have had time to soak up the juice.

Kinda like popcorn.  I don't know when to stop eating them.   

[Chris Burchfield]

I've eaten my fair share.  Couple of years ago, I bought a 40 lb. bag of new crop out of Mississippi.  They must have been Goliath.  They were huge.  I don't know of anyone who grows them up here.  I don't think the soil is sandy enough.

[WDH]

They may just be my favorite treat.

[iffy]

 tried some for the first time at a bbq place in Idaho Springs, Co last year. Probably the last time too. Didn't seem to have a taste for them. Was telling my son in Winter Park, Co about them and he and his wife started laughing. Being raised in Kansas neither I nor my son knew anything about boiled peanuts previously. His wife is from Alabama but was born in Pennsylvania. She doesn't have much of a drawl, but she had an old friend from Alabama visit and she really had a drawl. They were sitting around talking and his wife's friend was trying to tell them where a shop or something in her home town was, and she said "it's raght by the bowled peenus place". My son said "what place"? She repeated it a little slower "bowwled peeenus". He said "what"? In a very exasperated tone she said it real loud and real slow "bowwwled peeeenus" He looked at his wife and she translated "boiled peanuts". He said "what the heck is boiled peanuts"? and then they both just sat there looking at him. :D

[Weekend_Sawyer]

 I had a friend ask once "what are bald peanuts? I have never seen a hairy one"

I'd like to have some right now.
Jon

[Magicman]

I've been to peanut boilings where a wash pot was used to boil them in.  Of course, some folks may not know what a wash pot is either.  :D

[WDH]

If it is big, black, cast iron, and has three pointy little legs, then I know what one is  .

[DanG]

I have a wash pot, and I have boiled peanuts in it.  They was good!  8) 8) 8)

[Magicman]

When you boil peanuts in a wash pot, you better invite the whole DanG fambelly, cause that's a bunch of peanuts.

[Weekend_Sawyer]

They freeze well.

[WDH]

I can attest to that fact, and I take advantage of it.

[DanG]

When you boil peanuts in a wash pot, you better invite the whole DanG fambelly, cause that's a bunch of peanuts.

The whole DanG fambelly was eggzackly who I invited, along with some friends.  We roasted weenies around the edges of the pot while the peanuts cooked.  Anybody who wanted to left with a coffee can full of peanuts when the party was over.

[Magicman]

DanG, you just went and made me want some more.  I think that another run to the farmer's market will be in order.