I agree with Donna. Shelling acorns and chestnuts take about equal timeBut Hector, if you can grow and ripen some of the Southern/Western bur oak selections, I'd stack them up against the largest chestnuts I've seen, and the acorns would come out the winner. I've got one selection, made from a tree on the campus of the vet school at Auburn AL that runs in the neighborhood of 6-8 acorns per pound - with the cap removed. I've got some seedlings, grown from acorns sent by friends in TX & OK that have acorns of similar size, if memory serves correctly.
(although you do get more from chestnuts because of greater size).
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