OT/ Best way to clean black walnuts after they are shucked

Tom jd50 · Sep 29, 2013

I was wondering the best way to clean black walnuts after they have been shucked. I don't have an old wringer washer or an old cement mixer. I tried a power washer,but pretty messy. I was wondering if any one has made some type of tumbler to just let them roll around all day. Thanks for all replies.

RayP(MI) · Sep 29, 2013

I throw about a gallon of walnuts in a 5 gallon bucket, hit them with a power washer. Circulate them around for a while, pour them out on a slab of concrete to dry. 'Bout the best way I have found, and I do have an old cememt mixer. That tends to laeve a lot of husks, and a bunch of dirty residue.

D beatty · Sep 29, 2013

My grandfather and dad would use a cement mixer. They would wash them enough till clean. It also takes away that roughness off of the shell.Grandpa would shell the nuts and sell the meat and mom and dad just enough for our owen use.

greygoat · Sep 29, 2013

We used to jack up a Model A Ford, we had a
chute built from a 2 X 6 bottom, and 2, 2 X 6 sides, that fit under the wheel. Kids would throw the Walnuts under the wheel, and ,(car running, and in gear) the car would shoot them out, peeled, against a backstop, or a garage wall.
Car was jacked up just high enough to spin the
husk off an average walnut.
I've seen it done with a Crosley car, or a 49
Chevrolet, Chute was made accordingly, to fit
the tire size.

Ozlander · Sep 29, 2013

Leave them lay outside. The squirrels will clean them for you.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 29, 2013

When I was a kid, we had a neighbor whose walnut tree overhung our driveway. He also bought walnuts at his hardware store, for a local logging and veneer company. So we'd take Pappy's Farmall Cub and run over the walnuts until the hulls came off...usually doing it early in the day. By late afternoon, with the sun shining on them, they were ready to pick up and haul over to the hardware store and sell back to the guy whose tree they came from.

huntingreen2day · Sep 29, 2013

I laid them on an expanded trailer bed and washed them with a water hose a few times. Roll them around with a rake.

Scott-SD · Sep 29, 2013

I think either here or youtube someone used a small hand cornsheller to clean the green husk off of walnuts.

pete 23 · Sep 29, 2013

If you have them shucked, which we used to do in a hand operated corn sheller or by hand, just let them lay on something dry for a couple of weeks and they are ready to get the real work done of cracking them and picking out the meat. We always let them lay on a granary roof for a month or so to dry up before husking. I cracked enough a couple yeas ago for a couple pounds of meat and no body wants them. Most still laying around here in cupboard somewhere. No nuts go well with my dentures.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 30, 2013

Jack 1 rear tire of a non limited slip rear car or truck about 1" off the ground, on a concrete driveway, start it, and let the tire spin, roll the nuts under the spinning wheel, it will hull them. Or search youtube, there are lots of variations on this theme.

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