These are freshly shelled pine nuts from Penny's Pine Nuts. They were shelled with George Frazier's pine nut sheller, which we are giving away to clients ordering 1,000 lbs or more of our Jumbo American Pinyon Pine Nuts

Are these beautiful or what? We shelled this bowl of pine nuts, fairly easily and quickly with George's pine nut sheller. Wnen a pine nut is perfectly fresh its color is bright white. The darker more carmel the the color, the more dehydrated or roasted the kernel is. While our sheller does not remove 100 % of the inner skin (brown membrane) it washes off fairly easily. The sheller can also be used to shell roasted pine nuts and in those cicumstances, more of the inner skin is removed. There is no gumminess to these pine nuts, just the crisp sweet flavor the jumbo soft shell pine nut is known for. I am pretty excited about the sheller, because I have spent years telling people that shelling was the barrier to having the pinyon forest protected. Do you think the Federal Government would turn a tree that produces expensive, gourmet pine nuts into bio char or fuels? Oh that is right, see the Washington Post, wild harvest have no producers - tell that to the fishermen. Truly, I do not want to be in the business of selling shelled pine nuts, which is why we are giving away our shellers - 25 of them to cooperatives, small food processors, small pesto manufacturers, or other business enities. We will not sell the machine to anyone else. We don't intend to be selfish, yet, we have worked hard for 14 years protecting the pinyon forest. There are lots of greedy people in the American Pine Nut internet , who have exploited the forests. That is the problem. Had the generations of pine nut pickers who sell today, been busy or at least vocal in protecting those forest, I would have spent the last 14 years doing something else. The American Pine Nut sheller changes everything about the 50 million dolar market for imported pine nuts in the US. We are going to be very careful with sharing the technology.