Inyo wrote:
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This year harvesting bigtime. Started with 100 gallons of unhusked and
looks to be 30 gallons of
husked black walnut.

You're sure going to have a "fun" time of it cracking open those many
gallons of wickedly hard black walnuts to engage in ultra-tedious picking
out of the meat.

We used to have a couple of prodigiously productive black walnut trees in
our back lot--every year, I'd gather up a bunch of the fallen nuts, placing
small lots of them in a cardboard box to shake around with vigorous vitality
in order to wear off most of the surface "black soot." And then the fun
began. In my spare time, I'd patiently crack open the nuts with my geology
hammer, then use one of those sharp dental tools (the variety a hygenist
uses to clean one's teeth) to poke around and pluck out the meat. After a
few weeks of occasional dedicated work, I'd have a nice cache of black
walnuts to store away.


Cracking open and picking out is easy. You have half of the equation
of
ease as I also use dental tools. But the other half of the equation of
ease
is to use a vise-grip, I use a medium sized Vise-Grip which takes 1
second
to crack a nut, no mess, no splatter when held inside a container.

I am still experimenting as to where to take a hold of the nut and
crack
it so it maximizes the size of the meat to pull out. The ideal crack
is where
it is in two pieces and the four pieces of meat are lifted out.


In one of our better landscaping decisions, I must say, we finally removed
both the black walnut trees several years ago; but, if I ever wanted to
collect more black walnuts to mess around with, there are certainly numerous
huge, producing wild specimens concentrated down by our local river. Anyway,
good luck with your project--'cause you're gonna need it.


No, you meat eaters are goning to need more luck than I do.

I am not a complete vegetarian for I occasionally eat meat. But I am
looking into the data and research of nuts replacing all meat.

I see that someone computed that black-walnuts per weight are 1.5
times
more of all the protein found in beef. So let us say that a human
requires
at least 1 roast beef sandwich per day to survive with protein. So the
weight
of that roast beef let us say is the weight equivalent of 10 black
walnuts kernels.
And the cracking open of 10 black walnuts takes 10 seconds and
delivers
to me 1.5 more of all the protein I need per day. Not a bad trade off.

But it gets even better, in that, counting the time it takes for me to
process
black walnuts (1) collect (2) dehusk (3) dry or roast for storage; is
far less
of a time of processing than if I took a cattle, slaughtered it and
dressed out
the meat and then cured and storaged. And not counting the time it
took
me during the seasons to care for the cattle whereas the tree is
sitting there
doing what a tree does-- give off more nuts.

So I think scientists should be doing more of these sort of
calculations of
moving society over to better sustaining food. I am not saying we
eliminate
meat from diet, but saying that the bulk of human protein food should
come
from vegetative protein, since it decomposes in far longer time than
does
the decomposition of animal protein. And animal protein cares uric
acid
and other mild poisons.

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