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Post by kevin8715 on Aug 4, 2014 11:17:33 GMT -5
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Post by blueadzuki on Aug 4, 2014 14:32:56 GMT -5
If you do order it I'd be really really careful handling it. The shells of cashew nuts contain an oil called urushiol, which is very, very caustic Imagine a poision ivy rash (casheves are in fact relsted to poision ivy, as are mangoes), but many magnitudes worse, bad enough to leave permanent scars if you aren't careful. So make sure you are wearing heavy gloves when harvesting, and either roast the nuts throughly before cracking them, or (if you want raw nuts) wear the gloves to open them as well, and then give the kernels a good wash with some sort of detergent (you can wash the detergent residue off after you have made sure all of the shell oil is gone.)
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Post by blueadzuki on Aug 4, 2014 14:33:06 GMT -5
If you do order it I'd be really really careful handling it. The shells of cashew nuts contain an oil called urushiol, which is very, very caustic Imagine a poision ivy rash (casheves are in fact relsted to poision ivy, as are mangoes), but many magnitudes worse, bad enough to leave permanent scars if you aren't careful. So make sure you are wearing heavy gloves when harvesting, and either roast the nuts throughly before cracking them, or (if you want raw nuts) wear the gloves to open them as well, and then give the kernels a good wash with some sort of detergent (you can wash the detergent residue off after you have made sure all of the shell oil is gone.)
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Post by kevin8715 on Aug 4, 2014 14:59:50 GMT -5
I actually want it for the fruit, not cashew. Marañon is available frozen here but of course not fresh. Frozen is only good for making drinks.
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Post by steev on Aug 10, 2014 22:57:57 GMT -5
Cashew fruit is tasty in itself, and commonly used in Central America to make wine, which I, personally, have found to be sweetly insipid, but excellent as a sweetener to coffee, as an accompaniment to cocaine.
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