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at the supermarket they are quite expensive, about $4.99 a pound. here is usd $1.70 worth of nuts. not very much... but at least i checked for mold, broken nuts in this package.

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a good 10 minutes shelling these and i find out that maybe a quarter of those nuts were moldy inside or dried. and actually those that seemed soso still seemed a bit too dry. here i separated those moist and plump nuts (about 35) from the hard and semi hard ones (about 30)... already i am getting pretty mad about the yield.

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after i fried them up, i was still sad to see a few more turn out to be inedible. the ones in the semi-hard group are below. they turned out to be inedible except for maybe 5...

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the nuts below were good enough to eat. we added a few to our rice and ate the few left over as a snack (just salted plain). out of the 70-80 that we began with, only about 30 were good...

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in the past i have been lucky enough to receive nuts from my mother or i have been lucky enough to live near a tree that nobody liked... so far, i do not know of any local trees near me so i have had to make do with supermarket nuts.

NEVER AGAIN.

i think i would rather do without, after this experience. :angry::sad:

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actually $1.70 for 30 nuts is better than what you would pay in Japan for the same amount.... :blink:

I love these, called ginnan in Japanese, and eating them hot out of the pan with just some salt is just heaven.

My MIL told me that you shouldn't eat too many of them at once or you will become sick, have you ever heard this? know anything about it?

Kristin Wagner, aka "torakris"

 

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melonpan, you should come to Brooklyn College some time. There are a bunch of gingko trees on campus, and man, when those fruits drop - well, you know how they smell! I like gingko nuts, though.

Michael aka "Pan"

 

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I have, I guess fortunately and unfortunately a ~65 year old female ginko in the front yard of my house in Park Slope. Let me tell you this tree produces --- I dreaded waking up in the morning and stepping out my front door. Between the stench and the the sticky residue left from the smashed gymnosperms I was dying.

Given the height of the tree the gymnosperms landed with such velocity they would spray its stink juice all over the place.

I also found the unfortunate side effect after spending a few days cleaning them up, the dermatitis in males apparently. The seed coating contains The seed coat also contains small amounts of urushiol, an allergen that only on contact with the skin is responsible for poison oak and poison ivy contact dermatitis in sensitive people.

Luckily the season is over and the stink bombs stopped dropping from above for another year. The funny thing is I never considered eating the seeds before. Last wednesday in the New York Times food section they had a big article on preparing ginko nuts, which intrigued me.

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Thanks for the article about gingko poisoning. I love them but fortunately for me, I have never tried to eat 30-50.

Here in Manitoba, we can buy them in Asian grocery stores in the shell or shelled and cryovac packed. I think they are about 1.98 for a package of around 30 shelled ones.

I vaguely remember eating them roasted. Haven't tried for years because of the same problem melonpan posted about.

Pan or johnder, could you post a picture of a gingko tree? I have never seen one. :sad:

They smell that bad, huh?

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unfortunately Dejah my tree isn't very attractive right now. All the leaves have left it. It is most beautiful righ as the leaves are turning golden.

You can see some good pictures as well as tons of great information at:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/propagation.htm

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sorry that you probably ended up with a rash!

i was lucky enough to have my mom tell me about the possibility of getting irritated by the fruit. i gathered eunhaeng with my worst clothes with a double layer of plastic heavyweight garbage bags (since they are also quite liquidy) and a pair of heavy duty rubber gloves.

i rinsed off the juicy stinky fruit in the sink. my mom bagged a LOT of these guys and she put her nuts in the washing machine (sans detergent!). :shock: the fruit inside were plump, cooked up into a bright jade green and delicious. that is my memory of them, and not of these pitiful, dried up, moldy, hard three dozen-odd pebbles that i shelled this year. :angry:

even without the nuts, though, the trees are certainly gorgeous in autumn.

they dont seem to be as popular here in socal. i have looked for trees around me. saw some, but they were usually fruitless.

"Bibimbap shappdy wappdy wap." - Jinmyo
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My MIL told me that you shouldn't eat too many of them at once or you will become sick, have you ever heard this? know anything about it?

Oh, I didn't know about the poisioning.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_...109/ai_83139785

Thanks for finding that!

Kristin Wagner, aka "torakris"

 

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My MIL told me that you shouldn't eat too many of them at once or you will become sick, have you ever heard this? know anything about it?

Oh, I didn't know about the poisioning.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_...109/ai_83139785

My Father in law is an Acupuncturist and Herbalist. When my wife was growing up her father would always tell her that 17 was the limit on ginko nut consumption. The Taoists didn't always understand the underlying causes but they sure were observant about the effects.

I can be reached via email chefzadi AT gmail DOT com

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