What do Chestnuts taste like?

like woody macadamias

If you buy them freshly roasted from a street vendor, they are too hot to handle. If you do manage to entice them out of their shells, they taste lovely.

ever have boiled peanuts? a bit milder yet similar taste

Chestnuts ?
Softer than other nuts.
Slightly chewy.
And much sweeter.

Back before we had central heating and coal fired we used to buy them regularly during the winter and roast them in the hearth under the grate.

I've always wanted to try roasted chestnuts at the holiday season.....I've yet to do it though. I've heard they are very good.

Woody chewiness

Like Brazilian nuts