HazlenutsUpdated: September 30th, 2025
Created: July 18th, 20202025
- 29th Sept: Burnt another lot and ended up with 50g. ✘ Will try a few as some don't look too burnt. �
- 21st Sept: Collected 116 and have 60g roasted kernels. Previous two burnt lots composted. Tried making 'cofi' with the first burns, but no not what I want. 50g to jar 10g to shelf. ✅
- 19th Sept: 60g of nuts gathered. Burnt again as chatting on the phone . . . again � ✘
- 18th Sept: I burnt the last lot, � just got distracted by planning issues for Laura. I got a bit excited looking at law = should realise when I think things are going well something is getting burnt. Will try grinding a few by hand to see how edible they are. Roasting to near black takes 235g down to 135g ✘
- 17th Sept: 600g nuts gathered: 235g kernels: Drying in oven . . .
- 16th Sept: 132 nuts produced 145g kernels; However when weighed with the lot below only adds 80g � Scales are clearly not accurate. Further the 300g have lost 60g in drying so the current weight awaiting roasting is 380g: 276g after more drying and roasting.
- 15th Sept: 800g in shells and a bit wet: 375 nuts 90% with kernels. Kernels weight 300g: So 37.5% drying. Roast tomorrow or Wednesday
- 14th Sept: 145g of roasted ✅
- 12th Sept: 142g of roasted ✅
- 11th Sept: 130g of roasted ✅
- 9th Sept: 270g of roasted ✅
- 6th Sept: 300g of roasted nuts✅
Total Roasted: 1321g Four jars of 326g, plus 17g ✅ and 245g burnt ✘
2024
- Collected none
- June 26th 2024
ERROR 1: Left a jar full for so long as they started going off a bit , I mean some little white strings of fungus appeared and clear moisture on the jar internal walls. Nevertheless have made up some spread and will do both the 450 and 230 gramme jars
ERROR 2: Tried 'roasting' in InstanPot but didn't allow to cool or remove husks - January 31st 2024 Roasted and blended up some 300g to nut spread with maybe 50g or raw nuts.
- October 8th Collected some 560g. It seems a bit late in the 'season' �
- September 27th Collected some 1Kg+
- September 18th Collected some 650g and shelled to get 260g of nuts. Some 5% may have been empty ✓
- September 8th Collected some 1Kg+ and shelled 540g to get 100g of nuts. Some 60% may have been empty ??
- September 17th Collected some 1.7Kg to get 170g of nut-butter, which I burnt :(
Hazelnut Spread 2023
Given the weight of the edible product, some 16% once shelled and dried or roasted, then the almost 1.45Kg required some 9Kg of nuts to be collected (some 6% maybe unusable). 25th Sept 2022 another 160g roasted 23rd Sept 2022 + 230g kernels > Roasted 160g 22nd Sept 2022 Now 600g fresh > Roasted > 495g 18th Sept 2022 750g kernels > 650g when dried :
With sadness I remember when I thought i could collect hazelnuts, that was before I embellished the land with a more exotic environment that wild creatures would thrive in their new found succulent food takeaway. And yes the squirrels have their feasts on pears, apple, corn and of course hazelnuts, to name but a few. But this is about a realisation that was brought to my attention by Gavin. I had noticed the shear number of half eaten hazelnuts on the ground, saying half is generous as many only had small parts of the nuts eaten. The following two images show what looks like a half hearted attempt at eating the kernels. I had thought the holes in the middle were part of the growing strategy of the hazelnut as ripe hazelnuts often have small gap in the centre.
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