/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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Those gas station hot peanuts are from raw dried peanuts, ehh, not so good. They are soaked for hours upon hours to even get tender.

Boiled peanuts made traditionally are not those, but must be a seasonal fresh product. They are supposed to use tender shelled and immature GREN peanuts which are very perishable, though they can be shipped frozen to extend the season. Green peanuts are immature, not fully grown, and have a combination of smaller peanuts inside the shell as well as a thick peanut-like lining that also sucks up the delicious briney cooking liquid, which is fun to eat. Make the real boiled peanut at home, just be prepared to pay about $5-10 for a couple pounds bag of green peanuts and give it about 2-3hours on your stovetop in sea-salted simmering water. When it easily pops open and they are soft and squishy, and brine ffilled inside, they're done. Eat them hot. Or, chill overnight in jars (in the brine) to let it get really good. They are better cold, I think.

Publix, Winn-Dixie has them in season right now! When you buy a bag to cook, inspect the bag carefully, flipping it over, and make sure it was shipped cold, because improperly stored, or unsold for too long, then it can get moldy. Very perishable!