California Walnut Processing

[Music] the nuts are mechanically shaken from the trees from there they're swept into wind rows and then mechanically picked up from the orchard floor after that step they are delivered to a whole er drier the holler drier we're removing the green outer husk or whole after the whole er husk has been removed that walnuts were washed then they're dried to a stable moisture generally around 8% after the solar dryer the nuts are delivered to a processor what's the processor has received them the nuts can be determined to go two different ways it's an inch shell route or as a shelling route in shell walnut processing involves sizing then washing the sizing step walnuts pass through a punched hole drum that has different size holes in it allowing different sized walnuts to fall through in the different areas [Music] the walnuts then go through one last water wash to remove any last debris and that's our then visually hand sorted and packaged into sacks the in shell walnuts are then primarily shipped to export markets [Music] if the walnuts are determined to be shelled the walnuts are sized then cracked they're sized using a set of rollers that are shaped like an upside-down B or the smallest walnuts are falling through at the top and the largest walnuts are hauling through at the bottom walnut cracking traditionally has been done with a mechanically cylinder eyes machine which is basically an outer cylinder that's fixed with an inner cylinder that is rotating and as the nuts fall through we're trying to be as gentle as possible we just want to crack that outer shell off so that we're not damaging the kernels or breaking them into smaller pieces in the afternoon after the walnuts shelled the kernels are sized using a set of shaker decks and sized punch holes after the walnuts are size a shell and any four material is then mechanically blown from the kernels to remove any four material nuts are then categorized into sizes such as halves and pieces large pieces medium pieces all the way down to a small nugget generally used as a topping piece and finally we visually inspect the product by hand sorting the walnuts are now ready to be packaged and shipped from California to consumers worldwide I think it's important for people to know where their food comes from because it comes from people like us that really care about their orchards and their trees and ultimately the product that's delivered to them

Channel: California Walnuts

Views: 33,725

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Keywords: Walnut (Food), California (US State), Walnut Tree (Organism Classification), Walnut Harvest, Harvest, Cracking, english walnuts, recipe, processing, health benefits, Food (TV Genre), Cooking, Valley, Kitchen

Id: al68eQXB4FQ

Length: 3min 26sec (206 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 03 2019