Foraging workshop

[Toddy]

I think exploding chestnuts do smell like potato when done in the oven

I've roasted hazelnuts in their shells, in the hot ashes of a fire. They didn't 'pop', they did kind of steam though.
These were pretty fresh ones that I roasted, no idea how the dried shop bought ones might react.
Be careful would probably be the best advice

 

[Robson Valley]

It's nearly the end of September, I have no idea when the fresh 2019 nut crop will be harvested.
What's in the store could be 2018 = a year dried.
Guess I'd better ask from the nutters?