Save Time with a Pea Sheller! | Purple Hull Peas Recipe and a Garden Veggie Plate!

Join me in my parents' garden while I pick purple hull peas and we shell them by using an automatic pea sheller my dad made out of an old washing machine roller! It saves time and it's even a little mesmerizing to watch. Stay tuned, because I'm going to cook purple hull peas, oven roasted corn, slice some fresh tomatoes, and make us a yummy summer veggie plate!
This pea sheller is one of my dad’s handiest tools. He’d heard about people making one for years, and he set out to find the makings of one for himself. He added a gear motor to this one.
The pea sheller does damage some peas, but Dad says that the amount is minimal, and it is so much faster than hand shelling-better than all day to shell a bucket full of peas and having your fingers turn purple. Dad’s strategy is that he plants four rows of peas-more than plenty for two people-to allow for any sacrificed peas. We shelled a bucket of peas in about an hour with the sheller.
Dad says it works better if you feed 4-5 in at a time. You can adjust the rollers to get the best outcome, and Dad blows the pea debris off of the rollers periodically with an air compressor. I found it to be mesmerizing to watch the peas poke out of the hulls and roll down to the container.
Peas that aren’t ripe enough, or too ripe and dry will be smashed by the sheller.
After all the peas are shelled, the empty hulls go back to the garden to be tilled into the soil after the garden is finished producing.
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[@perryshelton5252]

Yummy, perfect tomato slices, and love the cutting board! Healthy.

[@texascottagekitchen4247]

Thank you so much, Perry! I made the cutting board from walnut slab!

[@janejones1797]

Ok, that’s it! After watching this beautiful video, I’m declaring y’all Official Professional KZbinrs! Photography, music, excellent content-perfect!

[@texascottagekitchen4247]

Thank you SO much, Jane!! 🥰 We’re having fun!

[@tiffinicrum589]

Nothing better than delicious food straight from a beautiful garden. Great video!

[@texascottagekitchen4247]

I agree!!! Thank you so much, Tiffini!!

[@stuartmassengale3955]

I've been waiting on this one.

[@texascottagekitchen4247]

It was a lot of fun to do this one!

[@stuartmassengale3955]

Outstanding video! I really enjoyed it. Your parents have a really nice big garden. Now I'm left hungry as usual! Lololol.. Thank you for sharing this!

[@texascottagekitchen4247]

Thank you so much, Stuart!!! I thought it was so interesting and I love spending time in their garden. Haha! you’ll have to go find some fresh garden vegetables to cook!

[@stuartmassengale3955]

@@texascottagekitchen4247 your welcome! I look forward to the next one. Yes, your right, I sure need to get some fresh vegetables. I love fresh garden vegetables. We use to raise a big garden when we lived down there, but haven't in a few years, since we moved to OKC. I sure miss growing one. Have a great day!

[@texascottagekitchen4247]

@@stuartmassengale3955, It still amazes me how food grows from a plant, a beautiful flower, and we need pollinators to make it all happen. It’s the food God designed for us!

[@stuartmassengale3955]

@@texascottagekitchen4247 Yes, it is amazing, and your absolutely right, it is the food God designed just for us. The way he intended it to be.

[@cdburgess75]

You lose too many