Godiva dark chocolate is the best

[Cyrus]

Oh, so that's what you call those things. I eat them raw all the time.

 

[physics girl phd]

I really need to find a drooling smiley!

How 'bout this one?

Google is an amazing thing. You can find anything in seconds.

 

[physics girl phd]

or how about this one?

It's jubilant!

 

[joeyar]

Apparently a pool of saliva makes a good trampoline.

 

[Evo]

ah, is that the trick? that should make for an interesting experiment. the shells on the filberts are much thicker than on chestnuts. do you crack them all first? or just let the steam do it?

If you want to toast hazelnuts, you would do it after they are shelled, just like you would toast almonds.

I eat hazelnuts just as they are from the shell.

Also, fliberts are not hazelnuts, but are closely related.

Common hazel is typically a shrub reaching 3-8 m tall, but can reach 15 m. The leaves are deciduous, rounded, 6-12 cm long and across, softly hairy on both surfaces, and with a double-serrate margin. The flowers are produced very early in spring, before the leaves, and are monoecious with single-sex wind-pollinated catkins. Male catkins are pale yellow and 5-12 cm long, while female catkins are very small and largely concealed in the buds with only the bright red 1-3 mm long styles visible. The fruit is a nut, produced in clusters of one to five together, each nut held in a short leafy involucre ('husk') which encloses about three quarters of the nut. The nut is roughly spherical to oval, 15-20 mm long and 12-20 mm broad (larger, up to 25 mm long, in some cultivated selections), yellow-brown with a pale scar at the base. The nut falls out of the involucre when ripe, about 7-8 months after pollination.[1][3][4]

It is readily distinguished from the closely related Filbert (Corylus maxima) by the short involucre; in the Filbert the nut is fully enclosed by a beak-like involucre longer than the nut.[1]

Hazelnut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corylus_avellana

Filbert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corylus_maxima

 

[Moonbear]

ah, is that the trick? that should make for an interesting experiment. the shells on the filberts are much thicker than on chestnuts. do you crack them all first? or just let the steam do it?

Take them out of the shells first!

How 'bout this one?

Google is an amazing thing. You can find anything in seconds.

Looks more like it's wetting itself. I think I have at least a few more years to go before I need that one.