To not toast my pine nuts

[Lemith]

Made a salad yesterday and my friend didn't understand why I didn't toast my pine nuts as they taste so much better.

Granted they may taste better, but I think they taste great without it and I've always thought that toasting nuts destroys much of the goodness, and when pine nuts are so expensive (especially the beautiful large Italian ones) I don't want to bastardise them.

Yes YAB Totally U Toast the nut, release the flavour!

I was really hoping "toast my pine nuts" was slang for something filthy.

YABsoU! Toasted pine nuts are so so so SO much better then untoasted....the flavour is released so well

Untoasted hey taste soapy.
Toasted they taste slightly less soapy.

YWNBU to serve untoasted pine nuts if that is your preference even though conventional wisdom suggests toasting/the usual preference is for toasting.
YABU to ruin a salad with pine nuts at all.

Toast your nuts you philistine!

Toasted pine nuts are the most delicious of all.

YABU.

Haha you could make up something , no one has yet www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pine%20nuts

Oh dear I think I'll be the only one not doing this.

Hasn't anyone else heard of heated fats becoming carcinogenic?

Toast them. Don't burn them. You have to stand over the frying pan and watch over them as they suddenly go from raw to charred.

Seriously, lightly toasted pine nuts are manna from heaven, otherwise it's the same as eating condensed milk before it's been turned into caramel.

heated fats - don't fry them in oil! Dry fry them until they slightly turn colour. It's the burnt bits that are carcinogenic, ie burnt sausages on a barbecue. You want to go for the lightly tanned look.

If you're using this logic, then surely the same can be applied to chips. And then you really are being vvvvvvvvvU.

I rarely toast my pine nuts (did last night mind you) but there is nothing but nothing wrong with eating straight condensed milk.

heated fats becoming carcinogenic

Oh Lordy.

Wow op you havent triedthem until you toast them. Its like having a slice of lemon in coka cola...it brings the favour out

Untoasted ones don't taste of much. Toasted is the way to go!

Heated fats? I take it you never ever fry anything, don't eat meat, and don't bake cakes?

You can get pre-toasted pine nuts in Sainsbury's - all the taste and none of the faff/accidental burning.

I only heat oils with a very high smoke point.

Pretoasted pine nuts people buy these? Surely its far far better to do them fresh? Wouldnt sell them in Italy.

YABU.

I once forgot to toast my pine nuts when making pesto. The difference was very noticeable, in a bad way.

Toasted pine nuts taste about a gazillion times better than untoasted. Just toss around on a dry frying pan over a lowish heat for a bit. Nom nom.

Never heard about cooking them destroying their goodness?

I'm pretty sure it does ruin the fats in them. Like any but they taste better roasted, but this surely makes them a bit junky. I eat cashews raw too

Pine nuts NEED to be toasted, it takes away some of that slightly greasy texture that they tend to have.

Oh yes, toasted pine nuts, that well known junk food staple.

How the heck does toasting a pine nut make it "junky"? You're not adding any fat or taking anything away.

It's like saying a slice of toast is "junky" when compared with a slice of bread

I hear Tesco have stopped having toasted pine nuts next to the tills in an effort to combat obesity.

Pine nuts as junk food?! Whatever next!?

Oh God! I don't toast pine nuts. No wonder they don't taste of much. How could I have been so stupid...

I now have to think of something that has pine nuts in so I can toast them.

I'm a bit baffled too as to how lightly toasting pine nuts in a dry pan turns them into 'junk'.