How To Make Your Own Pea Sheller |
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| Tuesday, 17 June 2008 | ||||
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UPDATE: REDNECK PEA SHELLERWell I have found my pea sheller. I call it a redneck pea sheller. It is a simple little contraption. I think I will market it. It is not found in the stores. It is more of an aid than a real sheller. However, if you have ever had a sore thumb from shelling peas, this will be a must have item in your pea shelling arsenal. Click Read More to see video
It cost nearly nothing to make and it can be made in about 10 minutes with a drill and a razor blade and scrap wood. It works great and will also shell peas that are not filled out. The peas do not have to dried(commercial pea shellers recommend you dry your peas). This little item will help shell them right out of the garden. Fresh as can be. I am making a little video to show you guys how good it works. Even Dad likes the one I made him and he is the most skeptical person I know about gadgets and stuff. I don't have pictures yet, but this is how you make it. Take a scrap piece of wood. Drill a hole the same diameter as your peas. You may need a two holer. Then for each hole hammer in an exacto blade down into the block so that the tip of the blade barely sticks into the hole. The idea is that when you push the pea through it will cut the pea shell and save you the work of snapping the end of the pea pulling down the string part and then running your thumb nail down to spit the pea open. You will save all of those steps. The exacto blade cuts the shell then you just open the pea and rake them out. It works very nicely. You can use it while you watch tv. I promise it will double the amount of peas you can shell and NO MORE SORE THUMB. So my quest is over for a pea sheller. Thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions! I found my pea shelling machine. I have already made two of them. I love em! This article is about how to make your own pea sheller. Unfortunately, I don't have a Clue as to how to make my own. So if anyone out there has any sugguestions as to how to make a Pea sheller please let me know and I will put in in here for all of us that hate shelling but love eating fresh peas Views: 719
1. 27-06-2008 14:41 pea sheller Cause I like Peas Anne! Lots of fresh peas and peas in the winter time. Why Stock our freezer? Hurricanes! And for every 10 cents in seed cost you get about a dollar in return food. Pretty good huh? 2. 26-06-2008 03:30 pea sheller Why are you putting up so many peas terry? My days of filling the freezer are over. We have moved on to Carl running a couple of cat houses, except he is leaving for Ill. tomorrow and leaving me to take care of the cat houses. Back to filling the freezer. I don't recall my children ever shelling peas. I do remember my neighbor and I buying two extremely large red fish for $5.00 each because they were so big the fish market didn't think they could sell them, and Rodney posing with one of them so he could show his yankee cousins how he caught such a whopper. His cousins were most impressed by his big fish tale. I remember the fish was so large we had to take a rope and throw it over a tree limb and hoist it up for the picture. We had to use hack saws and hatchet to cut it up to put it in freezer. That cured me of wanting to fill a freezer. We got so tired of eating fish. Peas I never tire of. Will send recipes later after the master of the cat houses returns I will be pretty busy next week. Does anyone remember the story of Grandpa Bill going to get married and Aunt Lannie stopping it? I really want more stories about that generation Love, cuz anne 3. 24-06-2008 21:45 Peas, NOT Repeat after me ten times. Fran is not picking or shelling peas. Done with that. I sit inside in the AC while Harry picks them. I will cook them and I will eat them. I will take a picture of Tom's machine - I think it has a roller like the old ringer washers. Toma and Mary think it is great fun to sit on their porch and shell peas. I say more power to all you pea shellers but it ain't me. 4. 22-06-2008 15:25 Pea Sheller order Sure I will build you one Sue, and you don't even have to pay me. I owe you too much already. It is a real thumb saver I tell ya. 5. 22-06-2008 14:42 Pea Sheller order Terry, make me one of your homemade pea shellers and I will buy it from you. My right-hand spacebar thumb is about shot. I've been training my left thumb to hit the spacebar. Having the pea split open would help. 6. 22-06-2008 14:33 Pea Pickin. Fran, just think of all of the quality time you are missing with Harry! I think you should try getting up at 5am when it is still cool and go pick a mess of peas with your hubby. I know you must be a farm girl at heart. Ha! Hey, take a couple of pictures of Harry's brothers commercial pea sheller for me. I want to see what it looks like. Especially the inside, if it is the drum type. Terry 7. 22-06-2008 13:30 Harry's Peas Harry is in the garden as we type picking peas. He picked half a row last evening and his back was killing him. He went out this am to do some more damage. He went to Marianna yesterday and picked up his brother Tom's pea sheller. He has one of the really nice commercial ones he bought years ago. I resigned from pea picking years ago. Too hot and too hard on the back. I will eat all the picks and process them for the freezer but that is the end of it for me. 8. 21-06-2008 23:57 Harry's Peas Anne: Send pound cake and barbecue sauce recipes. I had forgotten, seed and feed stores and produce markets usually have pea shellers. In Dothan, the farmer's market had them. 9. 21-06-2008 22:06 how to make your own pea sheller Call your local agriculture agent and ask where to local pea sheller is? I could never get help shelling peas, and don't like to I am busy making homemade barbecue sauce it is so easy and so much better than store bought. If any one is interested i will send Great grandmother Pagett's recipe for pound cake. I know aunt Lannie made it because when would spend night with her she often had one. Will write about her later. Must go finish up barbecue sauce Love, Anne 10. 19-06-2008 11:32 how to make your own pea sheller I like toshell peas. I've got a row of cream peas -- if that's what they call white acre peas here. We call them Ferris Peas because Mr. Ferris was the first to get th seeds in my Mims' grandparents' neighborhood. Probably the best pea shellers I ever had were two of my grandchildren, Merri and Erin. When I lived in Dothan I bought a hamper of peas then put them, plastic bowls for shelling, big paper bags for the shells and shelled peas, and granddaughters in the car to drive to Apalachicola. I told them I wanted them to be personally acquainted with their favorite food. They thought it was so much fun and by the time we got to Apalach, the peas were shelled, but mostlky snappede. I shouldn't have shown them how to snap the ones not big enough for shelling. I bragged on them profusely, cooked a big pot of the shelled peas, finished shelling the too-fat snaps, blanched the rest, bagged them and put them in the freezer. Mama liked zipper peas, because they were easy to shell. I like those, some we called Crowder peas, probably named after the Crowders who lived down the road from us (children Janice and Cecil-- Janice was David'smother,and Reece Padgett's wife). I'm quitting before I get into another story. 11. 18-06-2008 04:39 Peas Fran! What do you do with all of Harry's Peas? He said he planted some this year. I have a bumper crop of cream peas this year. You could come visit and we could sit outside visit and shell, shell, shell. It would be a good social experience for you! Then I would not need a pea sheller! ;P 12. 18-06-2008 02:32 Peas We buy peas by the bushel from a market in Cairo Georgia. They have a pea sheller and we just call and place our order and pick them up shelled. That is my idea of picking peas. 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