Timo wrote:
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> Tried a new method (for me) of opening/peeling chestnuts. Just cut them in half with a Chinese cleaver (and by cleaver, I mean an actual cleaver, not a Chinese slicing knife; a kau kong chopper in this case). Then the insides can be eaten with a spoon.
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> (Boiled chestnuts, but should work for steamed as well.)

Just saying (without any meaning), I've never eaten a chestnut
before...and almost 61 now. Am I really missing out?

G.