"Mr Pea Sheller",Just Wondering If Anyone

[EDDIE BUCK]

Of you folks have ever owned or used a Mr Pea Sheller?If so do you like them, and do they work on butter beans (Lima beans if you are a yankee)?Kidding Yanks........... Thanks eb

http://www.bamabots.com/khxc/ccp0-pr...a-sheller.html

[blufford]

Lima beans are nasty and should be outlawed. You can toss out the grits at the same time.

[Belfrybat]

Originally Posted by blufford

Lima beans are nasty and should be outlawed. You can toss out the grits at the same time.

Whoa! Dems are fighting words!! Take them back!

[Belfrybat]

I haven't tried this particular model but used to have one similar (smaller by the looks of it). It work OK, but not stellar. I ended up with quite a few smushed peas, but this might be improved. Can't speak to its ability to shell butter beans -- although I know it was only fair on black eyes. They had to be really green for it to work on them. If the pod was partially dried (like shelly peas) it would get stuck.

[Texasdirtdigger]

I'm with Belfrybat. TAKE THEM BACK!!

[Texasdirtdigger]

I've only borrowed one of those gadgets.......I'm not sure, I'd spend my $$ on them.....I'm sure there are folks that adore them......not me.

[sammyd]

we use ours on peas and it's fair.
Haven't tried on anything else.

we got ours at Jungs for a bit more than the one you have listed
http://www.jungseed.com/dp.asp?pID=8...26+Pea+Sheller

[MOgal]

I got mine years ago when a local hardware store went out of business. I like it for speed but it does mash a lot of the peas--never used it for butter beans because DH doesn't like them so why grow them. I read that it's helpful to blanch the whole pod then run through the sheller which does work well. However, a good deal of the inner pod does stick to the peas and the sheller itself and it's a pain to try to wash it off the peas.

[Horseyrider]

There's a major problem with using one of these.

There is no substitute for a large bowl and your thumb. Why? Because you can go pick a mess of peas and then go sit down (Sitting! What a novel thing to do in the middle of the day!) in a lawn chair in the shade or a rocker on the porch. It's not quick work so you get quite a bit of sitting (i.e., REST) before you have to start blanching or canning. You get to hear the plink of the peas hitting the bottom of the bowl. You can enlist the help of a child, and have a quiet conversation about butterflies or peas as seeds or why their hand gets stuck in the same knot hole in the barn door that fit fine last year. Feel the breeze, hear the bees, meditate on good meals in winter that have peas in them.

I'll take the bowl, lawn chair, and child method.

[MOgal]

What Horseyrider said! I have some wonderful memories of sitting with my maternal grandparents shelling peas, silking corn, etc. However, now I have major arthritis in my right thumb and no children close by with whom to visit while I prepare vegetables.

[Harry Chickpea]

Just curious - shelling by hand always makes the area around my nail hurt. Anyone ever try using a thumb pick or finger pick to shell? http://www.suncreekmusic.com/propik-...8cb92e1ec6bdde

[Sharon]

I have one--it works great on purple hulls, or any cow pea, but not so well on green peas--it crushes way too many of them and makes a mess. I don't know about Lima beans though--I always shell those by hand.

[Trixie]

Originally Posted by Horseyrider

There's a major problem with using one of these.

There is no substitute for a large bowl and your thumb. Why? Because you can go pick a mess of peas and then go sit down (Sitting! What a novel thing to do in the middle of the day!) in a lawn chair in the shade or a rocker on the porch. It's not quick work so you get quite a bit of sitting (i.e., REST) before you have to start blanching or canning. You get to hear the plink of the peas hitting the bottom of the bowl. You can enlist the help of a child, and have a quiet conversation about butterflies or peas as seeds or why their hand gets stuck in the same knot hole in the barn door that fit fine last year. Feel the breeze, hear the bees, meditate on good meals in winter that have peas in them.

I'll take the bowl, lawn chair, and child method.

It is soul satisfying, isn't it?

The child part reminded me of my grandaughter when she was about 5. She had a little friend visiting and they were staying with us for a few hours. I was shelling some peas. She and the friend came in and stood in front of me and was playing with shelling peas . My granddaughter was talking to her little friend, a mile a minute about everything.

She said, 'When I was a baby, and I would cry, sometimes no one could get me quite but my Grumpy. He would pick me up and I would just hush - I just Love my Grumpy'.

Sorry I'm no help, never used one of the gadgets. WE used to have a feed store here that would shell them for $1/2 a bushel. I've known people to use a wringer off an old washing machine.

[Cheribelle]

Horseyrider, you are my hero.

[Horseyrider]

Originally Posted by Cheribelle

Horseyrider, you are my hero.

LOL! Well gosh, thanks! *blushing*

[Bentley]

I also love shelling by hand, and find sitting on the front porch shelling peas with a cold glass of ice tea while watching the world go by to be very relaxing.
But, since I've started planting almost two thousand row feet of purple hull peas to put up for ourselves and the family, a sheller has come in quite handy.
I have a friend who had purchased one of the little hand crank mr sheller.....what a piece of dog pooh. I do believe I could shell them by hand much faster, and have fewer mashed peas in the process.
"IF" you're truly interested in a pea sheller, check out the Taylor Manufacturing "Little Sheller." This is a sheller. I bought one last year, and I can now process 5 to 8 bushels of peas from garden to freezer in an afternoon. "IF" I want to save a few to hand shell on the front porch, I can still do that, and then just cook'em up with some saute'ed onions and peppers along with a little salt pork. mmmm mmm mmmmmmmm

IF you're interested in the Little Sheller, check it out here;

https://host2.planttel.com/peasheller/index.html

[EDDIE BUCK]

Originally Posted by Horseyrider

There's a major problem with using one of these.

There is no substitute for a large bowl and your thumb. Why? Because you can go pick a mess of peas and then go sit down (Sitting! What a novel thing to do in the middle of the day!) in a lawn chair in the shade or a rocker on the porch. It's not quick work so you get quite a bit of sitting (i.e., REST) before you have to start blanching or canning. You get to hear the plink of the peas hitting the bottom of the bowl. You can enlist the help of a child, and have a quiet conversation about butterflies or peas as seeds or why their hand gets stuck in the same knot hole in the barn door that fit fine last year. Feel the breeze, hear the bees, meditate on good meals in winter that have peas in them.

I'll take the bowl, lawn chair, and child method.

Originally Posted by MOgal

What Horseyrider said! I have some wonderful memories of sitting with my maternal grandparents shelling peas, silking corn, etc. However, now I have major arthritis in my right thumb and no children close by with whom to visit while I prepare vegetables.

Originally Posted by Bentley

I also love shelling by hand, and find sitting on the front porch shelling peas with a cold glass of ice tea while watching the world go by to be very relaxing.
But, since I've started planting almost two thousand row feet of purple hull peas to put up for ourselves and the family, a sheller has come in quite handy.
I have a friend who had purchased one of the little hand crank mr sheller.....what a piece of dog pooh. I do believe I could shell them by hand much faster, and have fewer mashed peas in the process.
"IF" you're truly interested in a pea sheller, check out the Taylor Manufacturing "Little Sheller." This is a sheller. I bought one last year, and I can now process 5 to 8 bushels of peas from garden to freezer in an afternoon. "IF" I want to save a few to hand shell on the front porch, I can still do that, and then just cook'em up with some saute'ed onions and peppers along with a little salt pork. mmmm mmm mmmmmmmm

IF you're interested in the Little Sheller, check it out here;

https://host2.planttel.com/peasheller/index.html

Never in my life have I set there with a pan or bowl of butter beans (limas)to be shelled,and have pleasant thoughts about anything.Peas,fieldpeas yes because they won't take to long.Them butter beans almost make me lose my salvation.I'll be thinking about being down to the creek watching them corks go down and by the time these dang Limas get shelled,them bluegills will be done gone to sleep and it will be dark. Im picking on you folks.I'll be setting there humming a hymn and shellingnum to beat the band.Thanks for all the replies. eb

[EDDIE BUCK]

Originally Posted by blufford

Lima beans are nasty and should be outlawed. You can toss out the grits at the same time.

It ain't the beans fault they are gassy.Just don't have them when its feed the preacher Sunday.As far as them grits,they either won't cooked right, or long enough to keep them from feeling like a mouth full of sand.Got to be cooked long enough to take that rough edge off.If you find some thats cooked right,the next civil war we fight,you will be on our side.