HEARTNUT : The NUT That Is Shaped Like A HEART - Weird Fruit Explorer

Episode 519: Heart Nut
Binomial name: Juglans ailantifolia
Location: Filmed in NYC
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[@WeirdExplorer]

Next Valentine's Day, who would you give a heartnut to? 💕

[@nicopico9225]

I said my left nut would kindly gift it to my right nut

[@l.k.420]

I'd give it to you 😊

[@StuSaville]

I'd give it to my ex-girlfriend with a note reading "You broke my heart, good luck breaking this one!"

[@WeirdExplorer]

@@StuSaville haha!

[@gopherbobz]

Whomever dons the pawpaw costume.

[@lonestar5592]

I have some Heart Nuts I ordered from Ebay. Don't hit it on the flat side, turn it on edge. Most will fall out whole. I love them.

[@WeirdExplorer]

ah ha. thats a good tip!

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

@@WeirdExplorer Would you be willing to sample/report on a variety of Pecans? There are a _LOT_ of different varieties of Pecans and reach one tastes a little different.

[@lonestar5592]

@@JohnLeePettimoreIII Wow that sounds great. My use to call me a squirrel because I collect all kinds of nuts in the Fall. I have black walnuts, 3 types of pecans, 3 types of hickory nuts and heartnuts.

[@cvrator]

I love you

[@lonestar5592]

@@cvrator wow?🤔

[@yre6154]

“It’s called a heart nut because it’s shaped like a heart” Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes

[@nicopico9225]

Every minute on acid an hour passes

[@let_uslunch8884]

you have to love meme culture. Are you not embrazzed? How embarazzing.

[@snailplumbus1080]

Everytime a human makes a joke God laughs even if it isn't funny

[@richardperks7776]

You must constantly inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide if you want to live

[@volvok7749]

I bless the seconds down in Africaaaa

[@let_uslunch8884]

me: omg it's so sweet and adorable, I could make a really cute arrangement with some of those. him: I have a hammer, these pliers, and something I use for combing my cat.

[@nicopico9225]

Bust that Nut and comb ur cat with it

[@let_uslunch8884]

I thought you were the guy that doesn't know how to comment? Look how far you have progressed to comment such fresh things. 😂

[@nicopico9225]

@@let_uslunch8884 I still don’t know how to comment

[@shawnkay5462]

@@nicopico9225 “Bust that Nut..” 🤣

[@Alex-ji9sz]

@@nicopico9225 Cringes.

[@andrewhorwood1058]

Heart nuts are easy to open if you've discovered the best method: Hold it between 2 fingers and gently hammer the seam. They split in 2 perfect halves. Then use a nut pick or jack knife blade to pry out whole or half nut. I learned this by trial and error over a lifetime of cracking tough nuts. My favorite are heart nut and black walnut. Love your show. Always very interesting.

[@mytech6779]

The only black walnut that I have tried from the shell(raw and recently on the tree) tasted like turpentine, but I have had fantastic black walnut ice cream. How are they treated after picking?

[@alistairmcdonald2382]

Well done I’ll be giving it ago with Japanese walnuts 👍 I also have a couple of other tricks to try as well 👍. the trees I’ve got are around 15 years old I would like to see these nuts collected of a 150 year old tree I think they will be a lot bigger in size 👍

[@GiftedFestiveBee]

I too am excited to taste the dry nut dust.

[@nicopico9225]

Try some of your own

[@randomgirl3396]

Sperm doesn’t turn into dust

[@Alex-ji9sz]

@@randomgirl3396 .....let's try >;)

[@FieroFats]

Around here we call it Baby Powder.

[@GeneralArmorus]

amazing how youre still going despite lack of travel options

[@nicopico9225]

No one can stop this man

[@nicopico9225]

@@AdamBror you are weak this man is driven by an unstoppable force

[@nicopico9225]

@@AdamBror it is factual tho. This mans urge to tastes every fruit is so strong his sheer will to do so could explode the sun in a matter of seconds

[@Kris_at_WhiteOaksFarm]

Heart Nut. I'm growing a pair of trees here in West Virginia. They probably won't start bearing in my lifetime. They're only about two feet tall, and have been growing for five years. You need a piece of heavy steel, or a small anvil to open the Heart Nut. Turn it on its side, and tap, tap, tap on the widest part, with your hammer. The nut will crack open, and you can usually remove whole halves of the nut meat. They're delicious, and taste as you described, somewhere between an English Walnut and a Pecan. Yum!

[@AlexGargilisChannel]

I planted mine bare root and it was a huge tree in less than ten years

[@thexbigxgreen]

"Pepper" Michael isn't a bad nickname, tbh

[@nicopico9225]

Call me pepper cuz... we’ll I don’t really know

[@Chroniknight]

As long as he isn't a doctor or things will get confusing

[@dg5450]

thexbigxgreen sounds like a male stripper name

[@Sinyao]

Beats pecker Michael.

[@thestrangegreenman]

As much as "Nut-Dust" isn't a good one

[@getin3949]

Hold the nut in the channel locks and just tap it with the hammer. Most all walnuts are a bear to crack open without destroying the nut. I bought some black walnuts without the shells on line because they remind me of my childhood when my dad used to spend hours cracking them open so mom could put them into fudge. A black walnut tastes like nothing else on the planet.

[@sdfkjgh]

@get in: Ever had black walnut ice cream?

[@suicune690]

Black walnut shells are also incredibly hard and are used for sandblasting and polishing.

[@erikjohnson9223]

And as part of drilling fluids.

[@codename495]

And as the grainy bits in face and body scrubs.

[@erikjohnson9223]

When I was in China, the closest thing to Butter Pecan ice cream I could find was an ice cream made from heartnut. (My least favorite popsicles were green pea or red bean ice creams.)

[@Call-me-Al]

...I need to try making sweet stuff with peas. I love red bean, mung bean, soy bean, and peanut desserts. It would make sense that other legume desserts also would be nice.

[@mytech6779]

Walnut shells have been used as an abrasive for decades, very popular for grit blasting(sand-blasting) because they are harder than the paint and rust being removed but softer than the underlying metal so they don't risk as much damage to the part being cleaned. It is similar for snow tires, harder than the ice but softer than the pavement, and low density for weight savings.

[@repeatdefender6032]

I think I could watch you describe the flavor of things all day.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

Now this is a nut you can get *TIREd* of! Thank you for the laughs in advance ;)

[@jamescanjuggle]

Tried my first papaya, since they're hard to get here in Ireland I was super excited. That was until I started loosing feeling in my mouth and quickly found out that I'm allergic😅

[@nicopico9225]

Those papaya seeds freak me out i don’t really know why tho

[@jamescanjuggle]

@P Toom it was actually in frozen chunks when I bought it along with pineapple and mango. I've had pineapples before but had no reaction, just didn't like them, and I love mangos. Anyways I blended it into a smoothie and then yep whole mouth went weird😅 btw what's the enzyme your talking about?

[@jamescanjuggle]

@P Toom oh that's really interesting, thanks for sharing

[@JonnyJayKhan]

I tried Papaya for the first time and it smelled and tasted like literal death for me .... apparently Papayin causes some people to react in certain ways

[@JonnyJayKhan]

@P Toom I'm not sure...the other person I was with said it tasted like a melon, which is very different to what I was experiencing!

[@shadoo3505]

He describes it soooo well

[@JB-ox7ib]

They look fabulous ❤️

[@KissyKat]

So cool, a little over a week ago I was browsing for different things on fruit and found your channel. Have been binge watching your videos since. 😁

[@Jay-uw1ql]

You needed a device called a “ Crack a Mack” I won’t even bother eating macadamia nuts if I don’t have a crack a Mack cause it’s just too frustrating trying to extract the nut from that plate armour.

[@rogergadley9965]

Coarse ground walnut shells were once sprinkled on wet varnish on boat/ship decks and steps to make them non-slip. Black walnut shells were particularly prized because those shells are particularly hard, brittle and tend to create sharp pointy chips when crushed.

[@glebkudr1]

You should try that one from a cultured variety like "Imshu" or "Shubert". They are very easy to crack from the edge. And their husks are quite thin.

[@verdantpulse5185]

My folks got some retread tires with walnut shells cast in, back in the sixties. Best snow tires they ever had.

[@gopherbobz]

Pecan is better than walnut. Your taste reviews are spot on.

[@SobrietyandSolace]

Exactly, I do nut understand why anyone eats walnuts- they're bitter and astringent AF, pecans for the win.

[@klug_d]

I love walnuts. I have never eaten pecan nuts.

[@plants_before_people5329]

@@SobrietyandSolace well, that's a little extreme. I love walnuts, it's just that pecan is even better

[@SobrietyandSolace]

@@plants_before_people5329 I stand by my judgement that walnuts are vastly inferior and distasteful :p

[@SobrietyandSolace]

@@klug_d You will love pecans, because they are better!

[@alexanderbaumgarten]

Would be interesting to see an episode where you map out all the genera and species of edible friuits, with those you've checked off those that still elude you. A poster like that would be pretty cool too, in a fruitnerd kind of way.

[@ForageGardener]

When you Plant the Trunk so Deep you get a Heart Nut!

[@jessemays9427]

An interesting review of tired old nuts.

[@yfrontsguy]

I'm surprised that with all the various nuts you review that you have not invested in a proper nutcracker. :-)

[@s0mfay]

If you ever get the chance, give the Buartnut a try - it is a hybrid between Heartnut and the North American native Butternut. Though the flavour blend varies from nut to nut, I find that they taste more like Heartnuts but with a little hint of Butternut. Butternuts on their own - in my opinion - have a similar ‘industrial strength’ quality to them akin to Black Walnut, but the Buartnut is far more mellow. A good nutcracker for these and other hard-shell nuts (Black Walnut, Hickory, Butternut, etc) is called the “Master Nut Cracker”. It makes quick work of them.

[@alejandroquesada]

"Okay l want catchy names for this nut! This is a brainstorming session, therefore there are no wrong answers" "Ballsack nut" "...There is one wrong answer"

[@Ithirahad]

Scrotumnut!

[@FunkyFyreMunky]

Since Jared is talking about heart-shaped things and seeds/nuts, here's an interesting fact for you all. The reason a heart-shape is heart-shaped and not shaped like an actual heart is most likely because, in ancient Rome/Greece, a popular and effective contraceptive and aphrodisiac was the extract of a seed that was shaped like... you guessed it, a heart-shape. It was called Silphium. It was so popular that it was at one point imprinted on coins and it was eventually harvested into extinction.

[@Aledharris]

It was a contraceptive and an aphrodisiac?

[@FunkyFyreMunky]

@@Aledharris I don't know about you, but the thought of not having to worry about children gets me going.

[@Aledharris]

@@FunkyFyreMunky haha, it’s too late for me!

[@tanyawales5445]

I know that the origin of throwing rice at weddings comes from ancient Rome where nuts were thrown at the happy couple to ensure their fertility.

[@Aledharris]

@@tanyawales5445 where i live in China there’s a tradition for the groom to lay nuts over his bed the night before his wedding: for the same reason.

[@PowerTom286]

Valentine nuts, Hahaha

[@ericv00]

That commercial is bananas, crazy, moonstruck, batty, screwy... Yeah, I think that's it.

[@Ithirahad]

...Nuts. It's nuts.

[@EvitiniaNetTV]

on a serious note - your videos are super interesting!

[@nicopico9225]

Nut video

[@dwightmansburden7722]

The only thing with growing nut trees is that pests like squirrels will destroy them months before they are ripe.

[@realblakrawb]

Buy a pellet gun.

[@capnstewy55]

This nut dust has a different sort of nuttiness to it.

[@TheGlassAddiction]

idk if it'll help you in the future but there ARE walnut/nut crackers that use a screw like system to crush them open, works way better than the typical nut cracker

[@andie_pants]

Holy SHIT that commercial would never fly down here in the States! xD

[@brt5273]

Try a dremel tool with a saw wheel. Hold the dremel and run the edge of the shell over the wheel as to give you two heart shaped halves.

[@mrminer071166]

Well, there it is. You got your PEPPER Michael, and you got your NUT Michael. Spent many many happy hours filing open nuts from three different kinds of soap-berry, as maybe a rootstock for lychee. My fruit-club smiles on my experimentational nature. ;) So, looking forward to you struggling with the wash-nut-shell.

[@susanmagnolia]

You have to hammer on the edge to crack the heartnut properly. Also I think you got a heartnut hybrid since the shell have carverns.

[@jonathangauthier3549]

Happy Valentine's day, bro! If you snap the pointy end of the heart-shaped shell, you can use wire snips to cut along the seam of the shell (which will be an arduous task). That way you could maybe refinish the shell with a tiny hinge to make a heart locket for a loved one; you can even hide a tiny note inside

[@mattw7372]

Try a C-clamp next time. Works well on the tuff local black walnuts around here.

[@sdfkjgh]

4:25 I'll take "Inherently Funny Phrases" for $400, Ken.

[@sleepyoldtiger372]

I like your shirt!

[@professorm4171]

Have you tried a black walnut? They’re really hard to open as well.

[@tanyawales5445]

If I were going to hull black walnuts I would probably start with a sandwich made of plywood - black walnuts - plywood and run it over with my truck repeatedly.

[@XcaptainXobliviousX]

a walnut with sweeter, nuttier pecan notes.. my two favorite nuts. my favorite things about them. this EXISTS FOR ME. i was BORN to EAT THESE NUTS.

[@XcaptainXobliviousX]

2 of my favorite nuts anyways. its been a many years long 3 way tie between pecan, walnut and pine

[@frogjunk]

Have you tried Buffalo berry? Also known as soopolallie in bc. Or soap berry.

[@thuggie1]

any nut with a seam that are hard to crack you can use a vice you place it in with the seam making contact with the vice then turn handle till it cracks.

[@jrpapi5]

#NutDust 😅🤣😂 dammit fellow Jared u kill me💀 when is ur bday? U remind me of an Aquarius so much!

[@favgro841]

To open heartnuts and other hard shelled nuts, without crushibg the nut, I use a Vicegrip. An adjustable type of pliar that crushes down only to a set gap with force, then stops, preventing the nut from being crushed.

[@monion9898]

Yellowhorn fruit is very reminiscent of ackee fruit in terms of shape and appearance, and both are in the soapberry family. pretty neat that yellowhorn seeds are edible, while the near-identical ackee seeds are not!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Its true! Its interesting to see such a similarity

[@TheChroniclesOfYarnia]

🥲😅😅😅😅😂🤣 I’ve got some nut dust here. 😅 you really don’t get to use that sentence too often 😅🤣

[@dmanzawsome]

I'VE GOT NUTZ!!!!

[@gekolvr0734]

There are tiny vises that are like $15 at the hardware store. Just make sure to put a towel over the nut, sometimes a bit of shell can hit you in tha face

[@mihaiilie8808]

You couldnt tell that the heartnut bigest advantage its that the kernel gets out in one piece. IMO regular walnuts are still better ( and healthyer - the colder weather the walnut tree grows,the tastyer and healthyer it is and the worst tasting walnuts are the tropical ones). They are wasy to split if you crack them on the seam.Splits in 2 and the kernel gets out in one piece.

[@alistairmcdonald2382]

How do you know regular walnuts are better? (Source please ? ) For me Japanese walnuts have 2 big advantage’s 👍

[@mihaiilie8808]

@@alistairmcdonald2382 based on the studies you can search yourself. The more warmer is the walnut specie ,the worse are the fats in them( tropical walnuts are soo bad and not healthy that they are considered barely edible). And Juglans Regia,the regular walnut,is the most cold hardy ,healthyest and tastiest. There is a walnut specie thats even more cold tolerant and thats Juglans Cinerea. To me ,only Juglans Cinerea beats regular walnuts in taste and the oils quality.But the shell is soo hard to crack that natives north americans used to boil them to extract the fat ,to avoid cracking them.

[@alistairmcdonald2382]

Japanese walnut is NOT A tropical walnut ! It grows in sub Zero climes ! Japan is sub zero in the winter time for sure ! !

[@Fredjikrang]

I am planting some heartnuts and a buartnut (butternut x heartnut) in my yard in the spring! I'm pretty excited about it, but I haven't tasted them before, so thanks for the review! Now I'm even more excited!

[@subredditsandorigami7274]

I am a fellow aspiring fruit hunter an I love ur vids!

[@AlexGargilisChannel]

I have a giant heart nut tree i planted 15 years ago in upstate New York. It never made a nut and I found out it needed a mate. I planted a second one nearby a few years ago. Hopefully it will get to maturity soon so they can cross-pollinate

[@tanyawales5445]

You could try grafting some twigs or buds from tree #2 onto tree #1 and vice versa to speed things up.

[@UtahSustainGardening]

Next time try a table vice.

[@8vj5bq6g]

Probably should soak in water to soften the shell. Works on black walnut shell's

[@WeirdExplorer]

I'll try that next time

[@Foodonlyfitness]

"The Supreme Valentine Nut💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝" by Andrew James

[@erikasolnc]

that name sounded like something straight from sims game

[@maddeeps5520]

Raw peanuts are so much better than roasted peanuts imo, I always sneak a raw peanut or two from my parrots food mix when I get the chance lol

[@aleksanderff]

I wonder I you tried Americans native Juglans cinerea. We have a lot of it in Russian streets and parks.

[@klug_d]

Looks similar to the fruit of Pauwlonia tomentosa

[@ryoukosama9888]

T-shirt idea: I love nut dust!

[@williamgair3230]

"Notoriously difficult to open?" I hear and see the exact opposite.

[@cld1665]

you should try a,.......wait for it. Nut cracker??

[@juxtapode2781]

The heartnut being hard to open is that kind of romantic-poetic image but 7:35

[@Indianny]

Somebody get this man a pair of vise grips or a proper nutcracker.

[@stellaluuk2713]

There are cultivars of heartnut that crack easily with the nut in one piece.

[@supercompooper]

Hammer 🔨 it on the edge. Shear on the edge opens them.

[@InternetOblivion]

Could try sawing/abrading it.

[@erikjohnson9223]

Remember that Yellowhorn is in the same family as soapberries and horse chestnuts. It wouldn't be surprising if the seeds had saponins and therefore soapy bitterness. That is why you are supposed to roast them. I have only seen roasted seeds compared to Macadamia nuts.

[@walterbond3185]

Did you try vise grips

[@ballsoup896]

I always watch your videos

[@opaldragon75]

I use to eat those, I just turn them on there side and repeatedly tap them with a hammer at a light medium force and they will just split 95% of the time. Some will take 20 taps but most split around 10-12 taps. There is a natural split in the nut but it takes a bit of work to force it open. I wish my teeth didn't rot, curse my bad genes!

[@ianferguson3998]

Speaking of nuts... Have you tried beech nuts...

[@GiftedFestiveBee]

That tire add is one of the only ads I would willingly watch.

[@nicopico9225]

Got nut?

[@Faustobellissimo]

I don't know this kind of walnuts, but I guess that a macadamia nutcracker would be a good way to open them. Anyway, why didn't you try with a normal nutcracker?

[@mytech6779]

Normal nutcracker? Those are trash compared to decent channel lock pliers, even on common nuts like filberts and almonds. There are special black-walnut crackers, but you need a solid wood bench or counter to bolt them down.

[@vinny8256]

Use a vice! Lol crack it so both grips are on the seam... if you have one. Someone get this mans a nutcracker!!

[@wowzers6178]

❤Weird Fruit Guy❤

[@dadtasticskills3948]

Water is wet, it tastes like water, it can be frozen and boiled to make tea...😇

[@jaydavidrn82]

did you know they make specialized tools for cracking nuts?

[@censusgary]

So the ad for tires says they use “purified” nut shells? Purified how? And why? Why wouldn’t plain (unpurified) nut shells provide grit for traction on the ice?

[@pattheplanter]

Bits of walnut oil and papery bits from inside would compromise the structural integrity, making the bond between the "rubber" and the nutshell unpredictable.

[@BradGryphonn]

08:00 That's interesting. I can eat peanuts raw or roasted. I like the difference of the two. I'm lucky enough to live within 2 hours drive of a major peanut growing area, so I can source the really good raw peanuts.

[@HoosierDaddyOfficial]

We have a Heartnut festival here in Indiana every year. I never realized it was a real nut.

[@GeneralArmorus]

walnuts taste MUCH better after soaking

[@pattheplanter]

Very lightly toasted, then mixed with a quarter of their weight in dates.

[@therakshasan8547]

Nut Shells are cheaper than Rubber . Replacing the rubber with anything cheaper saves them money. Does it make the tire last longer? not really .

[@p.s.anders]

Talk about where heartnutscome from.

[@zenna5925]

More review

[@rebellionpointfarms6140]

at this point you may start judging food shows. Your descriptions are spot on!!

[@aunoru1140]

reminds me of tropical almond( terminalia cattapa) too much effort for cracking the shell

[@thepieguy7277]

Ohh, I thought this was the sequal to that one NSP song... Cool vid tho!

[@DemMedHornene]

If you were to strike the heartnut on the side as opposed to the face, it might break in a less messy way

[@rickyhan7023]

You should try chinese little walnut also called mountain walnut. 小核桃/山核桃

[@samsungtv4u]

It's like a raw peanut and a raw Chestnut.

[@holographicpestosauce]

woo im here early! love the vids man

[@BradGryphonn]

2:20 : "I wish I had a Dremel".