Comments on: How to Roast Chestnuts Over an Open Fire (Plus Chestnut Roaster Giveaway!)

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:02:30 +0000

We just got our fireplace back in working order so it would be fun to add that to a tradition.
Every year we will put on the classic Santa Claus movie, MST3K version. And Christmas day play old Christmas records as well as watch the yule log on tv.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:53:50 +0000

Chestnuts. I remember my first chestnut. It was on the lap of my ole’ grandaddy. I was but a wee lad in his presence while he monitored my technique. I had grown up observing him and my own father make them for the whole family. For years we would gather around the cozy fire. The living room filled with loved ones filled me with an inward warmth so great it could only be complimented with that of an actual toasty nut running rampant through my body. Oh chestnuts, how I long for thee. Be to me the sweet nectar that only Christmas has to offer.

By: Vito Tededchi

Vito Tededchi — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:22:10 +0000

I’ve never roasted chestnuts, but I have a pretty sweet fire pit and I’d love to hear those chestnuts POP, POP, POP!

By: Brandon Cook

Brandon Cook — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:04:47 +0000

This is one of the great traditions I’d like to start with my family. That and the Yule Log. We got the Turkey thing down and I can cut it up pretty well thanks to AoM. This will be our second Christmas together and It’s great being able to start our own traditions.

By: Tarcas

Tarcas — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:32:24 +0000

My mother used to get a basket of mixed nuts (in shells) at Christmastime, but we never roasted the chestnuts. I’d love to give it a try, if only I had a fireplace.

By: David Lenton

David Lenton — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:40:45 +0000

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire has always been a nostalgic lyric for me, though I’ve never had the chance myself. Looks to be something to rekindle.

By: KC Bess

KC Bess — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:20:20 +0000

Thanks for this article. I have been wondering about how this was done.

By: David

David — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:56:42 +0000

I have never had chestnuts, sounds like it would be a great new family tradition.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:20:20 +0000

My favorite Xmas memory: the family party on my dad’s side. His dad had 14 siblings. When that extended family got together on Xmas Eve, it filled a union hall! Back in the ’60s, the cigarette smoke could be cut with a knife, the oyster stew flowed, and the children ran and ran and ran and nobody cared.

By: Dychi

Dychi — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:05:34 +0000

I had never tried chestnuts until I went up to visit family in Michigan a few years back during winter. The relatives up there not only roasted chestnuts, but shot and cooked a deer as well. Best venison I’ve ever had.