Salt versus no Salt

This picture shows our gourmet
slow roasting basket roasting department

Are you one of the many people who is on a low sodium diet? You may have found that no salt nuts are hard to find. No salt nuts are often a unique product: Grocery stores simply don't stock it because of low volume sales and the product gets stale.

Roasted and no salt nuts are hard to find if they have any quality because it is tough to make that product. At The Nut Factory, we make all our products without salt and then salt the product as needed during the day as we fill orders so that the products that people order are common to us, where they would be a specialty product to most other firms.

It takes special tricks to bind the salt. We use a special salt sold to our industry called 50%-50% flour salt to pull off this processing.

We have the methods down perfect after 48 years. The flour is really a corn starch binder that acts as a "food glue". This is a common industry practice.

Unsalted Nuts
20214	Nonpareil Almonds - Roasted & Unsalted
20220	Blanched Almonds - Roasted & Unsalted
20232	Slivered Almonds - Roasted & Unsalted
20262	Brazil Nuts - Roasted & Unsalted
20276	Cashew Pieces - Roasted & Unsalted
20282	Cashew Splits - Roasted & Unsalted
20288	Cashew Chunks - Roasted & Unsalted
20294	320 Whole Cashews - Roasted & Unsalted
20301	160 Whole Cashews - Roasted & Unsalted
20304	240 Whole Cashews - Roasted & Unsalted
20334	Roast/Diced Almonds - No salt
20336	Toasted Diced Peanuts - no salt
20564	Whole Filberts - Roasted & Unsalted
20608	Macadamia Nuts - Roasted & Unsalted
20620	Pumpkin Seeds - Roasted & Unsalted
20644	Regular Mix Nuts - Roasted & Unsalted
20656	Deluxe Mix Nuts - Roasted & Unsalted
20656	Supreme Mix Nuts - Roasted & Unsalted
20694	Blanched Peanuts - Roasted & Unsalted
20701	Dry Roasted Peanuts - Roasted & Unsalted
20707	Redskin Peanuts - Roasted & Unsalted
20713	Spanish Peanuts - Roasted & Unsalted
20747	Pecan Halves - Roasted & Unsalted
20753	Pecan Pieces - Roasted & Unsalted
20822	Sunflower Kernels - Roasted & Unsalted
Mixtures
20868	Swiss Mixture
20858	English Mixture
20874	Barcelona Mixture
20870	Tahitian Mixture
20844	Tropical Mixture
20860	India Mixture

From: don stewart jr To: Nuts@TheNutFactory.com
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: basket roasting

I enjoy your very informative website and am curious of what you mean by "basket roast" and if you basket roast nuts other than cashews.

Thanks for any info you can provide me on basket roasting. best regards, don stewart

Don - Each kind of nut roasts at a different temperature and for a different length of time. And from batch to batch and orchard to orchard there is a wide variation in the way nuts roast. So it is important to have as much control as possible when roasting gourmet nuts. basket roasting allows this perfect roast to happen. In the normal processing of roasted nuts, huge quantities nuts pass on a stainless steel conveyor belt into a hot oil bath and back out on the belt and onto a cooling line. There is no way to alter the speed of production and the heat is also fairly exacting . if you roast one kind of nut for 8 hours a day - this works well. But it is a hard process to change from one nut to another. In basket roasting you place 50 pounds of a nut in a stainless steel basket and immerse the basket into hot oil. As the nuts roast you can take a peek at how they are progressing and at an exact time you can feel the color changing and the nuts roasting to a very perfect crispness. This method is far more exact and a much finer roast than the continuous roasting process because it takes a bit of art form to do it correctly. With basket roasting you can get the exact perfection on each batch of nuts and every kind of nuts. The flavor is sealed in and the nuts taste incredibly fresh! For a person who wants to experience the finest roasted nuts, basket roasting is far superior to any other method. We basket roast many kinds of nuts and seeds. - Gene

message from: Richard Cosky rcosky@columbus.rr.com

----- Original Message ----- From:
To: Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 9:25 AM
Subject: freshly roasted nuts

As a self proclaimed cashew connoisseur I have to say thank you for producing an extraordinary product. When I was in Fortaleza, Brazil this year I fell in love with the fresh giant cashews and I didn't think I was ever going to find that specific taste again in the US, then I found your company. Your 160's Brazilian cashews are equal to and better than the Fortaleza roasted cashews - great job. Anyone that has eaten that "XXXX" the grocery stores sell needs to try your products.

Thanks for a great product. You have captured a grateful long term customer.

Reply to Richard:

Richard

We have been roasting all kinds of nuts since 1952. Herman Schwarz owned the firm from 1952 until 1979. I have owned the firm since 1979 and am the second owner.

Over the many years we have perfected the proper way to basket roast cashews to perfection. It is a special way of roasting and it gives an unusual flavor to the roasted nuts. While I do not expect to convert the world, thousands of people have grown extremely fond of this special way of roasting nuts. If we were in the coffee industry, we would be considered a gourmet roasting firm. Our industry does not have gourmet nut roasting plants. Anyway, thank you for the wonderful comments. Please tell your friends so they can enjoy the same fine products.

By the way, I was in Fortaleza January of 2002 visiting cashew plants and I really loved the city.

Warmest regards, Gene Cohen

All raisins are naturally sweet and we do not salt raisins unless you want that.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Sunnie Gonzalives
To: nuts@TheNutFactory.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:27 PM
Subject: Product

To whom it may concern:

I would like to know if you have packages of lightly salted raisins only. I so enjoy this type of snack but have a nut reaction. So to purchase a trial mix pack is just too costly for me.

Your response is appreciated,

Sincerely,

Sunnie

Sunnie: Just order the raisins on our web site. Ask for a packet of salt as a separate item. We have a comment area on the order form just for special instructions.

Then you can use the salt to salt your raisins exactly how you like them salted.

We have a very special salt that has 50% flour AND 50% salt and is made specially for our industry. That salt adheres to nuts and fruits more readily than regular salt that would drop off. The flour disappears and is a binder/glue.

We would be happy to send the extra salt packet if you simply add this request to the comments area of our web site.

gene cohen

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