Where to buy in shell salted peanuts?

Glaucus said:
Add some slat. You have slat right. It's not some bizzare ingredient.
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Please stop posting pointlessly as you don't really have the answer:rolleyes:

Have you ever had properly salted peanuts? They are quite different to standard dry roasted and then salted ones.
 
Glaucus said:
Add some slat. You have slat right. It's not some bizzare ingredient.
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Adding salt to monkey nuts gives a result nothing like what you get from proper in-shell salted nuts that you get in the US.
Unless you happen to have a vacuum pump you'll be struggling to do it yourself.

To the OP, looks like this place ships to the UK though and does what you're after. May not be particularly cheap once shipping costs are added though.
https://nuts.com/nuts/peanuts/saltedinshell.html
 
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excuse my ignorance here, but what's the point in salting them in the shells? are they less salty than ones which aren't in their shell?
never (knowingly) had them
 
the_r_sole said:
excuse my ignorance here, but what's the point in salting them in the shells? are they less salty than ones which aren't in their shell?
never (knowingly) had them
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Salting them during the roasting process draws moisture out of the product, in essence, making the salted in shell nuts more flavoursome (The shell acts as a membrane to the salt outside, high to low concentration).

Salting it post process as suggested by Glaucus just makes it salty if you lick your fingers, completely different.

Shame these monkey nuts are somehow considered unhealthy due to the word "Salt", many whole foods are being sold as 'healthy', thus missing in many major retailers.
 
Mr Jones said:
Salting them during the roasting process draws moisture out of the product, in essence, making the salted in shell nuts more flavoursome (The shell acts as a membrane to the salt outside, high to low concentration).

Salting it post process as suggested by Glaucus just makes it salty if you lick your fingers, completely different.

Shame these monkey nuts are somehow considered unhealthy due to the word "Salt", many whole foods are being sold as 'healthy', thus missing in many major retailers.
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Could you not de-shell, salt and then roast?
 
FrenchTart said:
Could you not de-shell, salt and then roast?
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You can but then you get salt grains everywhere and it defeats the purpose of roasting in shell - risk of burning the surface / fat is lower.

Also, I want to 'pop' each monkey nut and eat them ready, rather than deshell them and do more leg work :p
 
Fair enough :)

It would be interesting to compare the two methods and see what the results were. I wonder if something like a wet brine would yield the best results *food geek mode*
 
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