— Kate Palmiere

So Persimmons probably from France Academy's probably here from Hawaii percentage is a great great question. You have the flu use and the hatchay is that's pretty nice properly. I don't have I don't have a lot of. experience in that unfortunately, but I have a friend here is a chef and he said that the Persimmons are So good that you can eat them with a spoon. So Kate you are you got me you got me excited. I'm going to I'm going I saw them at the market the other day. So I'm gonna dive into them and then see what I can do about it and Macadamia Academy you can use this for any anything you can use it for that. We just made on top of making an almond nut. You make a Macadamia guitar. I like Macadamia the nice and crunchy, you know, so but you can use them you can come alive them. You can can do anything with them. You know, they work really well with for pastry. Yep. One thing with macadamas is that say have such a high-fat content that they tend to go go rancid really quickly. So if you're buying buying in bulk in a store, you might ask for a quick sample before you pay whatever it is 20 bucks a pound for macadamus in bulk. Wow. I prefer to buy mine in smaller quantities and they also sell dehydrated macadamias, which actually have a longer shelf life because they've taken some of the moisture out of it, but that's key. Sometimes I've tasted Academia is in, you know, mass produced white chocolate macadamia nut cookies and the macadamia's rancid and I'm like, well, they bought 20 gallon box in it still in the back room going rancid. So be careful with me this well with with all nuts Scott. Do you have to be careful? Because you have to you have to ask yourself, you know when you buy it and not that not what was not just harvested yesterday. And now it's on the Shelf maybe it was harvested three months ago and then it was Then it was put in some warehouse and then and then the distributor bought it and then put it in his warehouse and blah blah blah. And so this not maybe three months four month five months old. So I always recommend to keep the refrigerator anymore Visa if possible. You know don't get that freezer taste she can call it a taste. And then if you do that, then then they don't get rancid, you know, you can keep them for a very long time. But if you keep them outside, yeah, they get they get rented fairly quickly, you know. Yeah, so all nuts. I hear in Hawaii. It's kind of warm. So I keep all my All my nuts in there and the freezer actually and when I purchase I purchased typically at a Whole Foods or a health food store with bulk. Yeah, so I know that they're actually moving moving through them. Yes. Yes. Thanks for that question Kate. I kind of we veered off of that but as Persimmons I Still in this day using a small fuyu persimmon, if it's not at that point, that's right enough to cut into it's too tic. And if it goes beyond that and you can cut into it, it's sweet. It's ready to go but it goes right pretty quickly. So yes, yes, they're tricky to work with