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> Home roasting is easy.

It is indeed.  We get a peanut crop one year in perhaps three.  This year the 
drought put the kybosh on that in a hurry.

One thing I'd add, if your peanuts are really mature and you have dried them 
well before oven roasting them, have a care!  You can reach the criteria for 
extracting the peanut oil and peanuts have a LOT of it.  It's top notch 
cooking 
oil if you get it, it needs to be frozen or refrigerated because, being 
natural, it will rancify.   But if you have the peanuts on shallow cookie 
sheets or 
such, they can actually fill with oil and overflow.  

Had it happen once.

Not fun.


James   </HTML>