No amount of roasting will get rid of the oil. However, you can grind nuts. In a food processor, you do it in short bursts and stop before the oil weeps out and glues everything together. The best way, though, is with a nutgrinder. It actually shaves the nuts with tiny blades and makes a very fluffy nut flour. It's also good for cheese, chocolate, etc. I love mine . . . Mia Bato001 at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 1/17/2005 6:56:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, Steve Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> writes: > > > >>On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 08:33, Scott Schultz wrote: >> >> >> >>>>When you grind peanuts too much, you get peanut butter. >>>>"rednuts that have been ground to a powder" Does anyone >>>>know of a way to grind peanuts into a powder or know of >>>>a nut that would grind to a powder? >>>> >>>> >>>It's the oil in the peanuts (and most other nuts) that causes it to become >>>"nut butter". For rednuts to be ground to a powder they would have to >>>essentially be fat-free. >>> >>> >>It is quite common in Hungarian desserts for nuts of various sorts to be >>ground down to a powder and mixed with the flour. I'm not sure of any >>special technique used to do this. >> >> >> >> >> >> > >I'm wondering if roasting them or putting them in a food dehydrater would do the trick??? > >