Whole Raw Chestnuts 2 Pounds

Small in size and 40% rotten. Came with some white specs of mold on top of them.

Some of the worst chestnuts I’ve ever had. Roasted them like I normally do and over half were inedible and the rest hard and plain tasting. Very disappointed.

Smells and tastes great after roasting

3/4 of them were rotten. Roasted them the day I received them. None of them were fresh.

They arrive damp. Take them out of the wrapper immediately and wash and scrub with hot water, no soap. Pat dry. Roast them in a pot WITH A LID. You must use a lid as some may explode. It takes longer in the oven, but then there are no burn marks and it smells great. You know they are done when you hear one or two explode in the pot. Take them out, DO NOT OPEN LID ON POT. Let cool. The chestnuts are delicious and HUGE, completely suitable for Thanksgiving stuffing or salting. Your house will smell like a Manhatten street corner in December while roasting! (the pot is a bugger to clean) What we didn't use we fed to the squirrels. PS. Image is after roasting.

I'm not sure where the chestnuts were from but I feel they may have been imported from far away. It took them over a week to get to me and they came in a simple plastic bag with some paper tissues stuffed inside to help with the moisture; the entire ensemble was placed in a USPS envelope. They do not taste great and quite a few were already gone bad. I'm sure it's also my fault for wondering chestnuts online but I couldn't find them at my local Whole Foods anymore. Quite disappointing.

most of these are pretty small, like in-the-shell hazelnuts, about a dozen were closer to the size of small in-the-shell pecans. They were loosely packed inside the bubble mailer they were shipped in.ALL of the chestnuts were very evenly covered in what looked like dust or dirt & the package had an earthy smell to it so I'm guessing it wasn't mold. Most of it rinsed off during the float test to check for bad chestnuts, only 7 chestnuts floated during the test. I hand washed all the nuts, and they look pretty good after rinsing.This is my first time with chestnuts, so I'm not sure just how much give a good & fresh chestnut is supposed to have, but to my touch, they were all very firm with just a slightly noticeable give to them.I roasted 6 of these, and they all had semi-translucent grey or brown discoloration throughout the nutmeat. From what I've read, they may not be edible

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