In our daily life, when most people mention chestnuts, they only know that sugar fried chestnuts are delicious, but they don't realize that chestnuts can also be eaten raw. But there is not always an accurate answer about which one is better.
First of all, it has a lot to do with personal preference. Chestnuts are a traditional nut with a wide audience, but not everyone likes chestnuts. So only those who like chestnuts are likely to find them tasty, or more accurately, to feel that both ways of eating them are good or one of them is good.
Secondly, it has to do with tradition. Because in the traditional way of eating chestnuts, the most common is sugar fried chestnuts, especially in the city, every fall after the street can float a chestnut flavor. It is precisely because of this that people in non-chestnut producing areas know the flavor of fried chestnuts. This is for people who are used to eating sugar fried chestnuts, there is no doubt that sugar fried chestnuts are the most delicious.
Once again, local customs are relevant. In the chestnut producing areas, in the fall, the chestnuts just off the tree is the best leisure snacks. Pick up and bite open the skin, fresh chestnut kernel eat more moisture, crisp, sweet, there is a unique chestnut flavor. This is the flavor that cooked chestnuts do not have.
Raw chestnuts in addition to eating fresh chestnuts, you can also eat air-dried chestnuts. Fresh chestnuts will be placed in a backlit and ventilated place, a few days between the skin and kernel of the gap, so that it becomes air-dried chestnuts. Such chestnuts are sweeter and you can't stop eating them.
In the past, when the standard of living was average, the children in the chestnut-producing areas could not afford to buy snacks, so the chestnuts were air-dried to the driest, and they were extremely hard to eat in the mouth and could not be bitten, so they could only be melted a little bit and eaten. Equivalent to the city people eat candy. Cooked chestnut glutinous, soft, fragrant, sweet, raw chestnut crisp, sweet, fragrant, each with its own characteristics.
So on the chestnut raw and cooked to eat which delicious this problem, can only be said to be public reasoning, the mother-in-law said that the woman has a reason. Like to eat chestnuts is a premise, eating used to sugar fried chestnuts will feel cooked delicious, like to eat air-dried chestnuts, will feel air-dried chestnuts than cooked chestnuts more delicious.