"Hello everyone, I'm Lin Xu, and today we're going to make sugar-roasted chestnuts!"
After a simple introduction, Lin Xu brought over the washed chestnuts, the stones that the assistant had previously washed and boiled, and a bag of fine white sugar to the workbench. With that, all the ingredients for sugar-roasted chestnuts were ready.
There were too many chestnuts to cook in one pot, so Lin Xu divided them into portions.
He took a chopping block and started to score the chestnuts.
This 'scoring' involved notching a cross on the flatter side of each chestnut. The shell would crack open when heated, not only making it easier to peel and eat but also allowing the sugar's sweetness to penetrate, making the chestnuts taste even more delicious.
Additionally, making these cuts helped further weed out any bad nuts.
Any chestnut that showed black or red inside the cut shell was likely bad and was thrown away.
