Here is how we do it in Tunisia, collects the fruits into a bucket (don't fill it to the top just half), shake the bucket in circular movements, the fruits will hit each others and the thorns will get removed, wash the fruits, depending on the variety you can or not remove the skin , crunch the fruits with a blender , filter the juice with a wide mesh to remove the seeds , add bananas or other fruits to the mixture and blend them again. Congratulation you have a super food juice!!
That's so awesome to hear Kevin! Glad they liked it.. unfortunately it's one of my older videos with not as good of audio and video. Hopefully you guys will check out some more... like the shipping container playhouse I'm working on for my daughter :D Joe
In south africa it's common and popular to those who have access to it. Not a commercial product yet. The prickly pear syrup is heavenly poured over white sorbet ice cream. I ate it once long ago.....still stuck in my head.....THAT TASTE!
In Mexico these are widely consumed. I never saw anyone harvesting this way but interesting. In MX we eat the seeds and is best to harvest them early in the morning when cooled by the night, so crisp and juicy and sweet. Delicious! The white ones are my favorites 🤓
Always did stuff like this as a kid, Prickly pear, barrel cactus fruit, and dried mesquite beans are the best. There use to be a massive 6 foot long dback that lived under a prickly pear at my grandparents house and it was the nicest, most gentle rattler i ever encountered as a kid in the Tucson desert.
i also live in Tucson and use those to make juice. i also burn the thorns off then rise each one with a potato scrubber then i blend, strain, and drink it up! free juice love it! great video!
Thanks so much Janet! I just got done with some PP jelly...mmm good! Not really healthy as its mostly sugar but they are such an awesome source of free and available food! I like to nibble slices off them as we take walks during this time... great snack food:) Joe
This is a completely different way of eating these than what I do. I simply take both ends of it off, then pell off the outside skin with my hands, leaving you to a more softer part with seeds and just eat it all, seeds included!
Thanks for sharing the tip on how to eat them in the field and your technique for burning them. We live in NW Peoria Arizona and they are everywhere. They're are so throughout our community, but I'm planning to go off-roading to pick fresh fruit that's growing in the mountains.
+Darbin Orvar haha, yes... the snakes are a bit creepy... but the prickly pears are such a cool fruit considering our arid environment....and they make a great mead too! BTW... your beeswax polish is going to make another appearance soon too... making something for my daughter... should be up in a week or so:) Joe
I just returned from the Prickly Pear Festival in Superior, Az that is going on today. Some folks foraged this morning and I got half a large bucket so wanted to see how you deal with them after the haul. Heat for the spiny parts seems the easiest way to go. I might make some simple prickly pear syrup and add it to my bubbly water. Thanks for the video!
Yum, those prickly pears were delicious! Joe, the prickly pear juice can also be used for dyeing fabrics, paper, etc... I think my fingers were pink for a couple of days. :) Great video as always. The prickly pear cam looks really cool. I'm looking forward to some prickly pear cocktails on my next visit. Thumbs up on the snake footage!
+Blackberry Hideout you know what... that's a great idea.... prickly pear dyed shirt for Marley! and you DO need to come back down soon... "i wanna see aunt jessica" ......."are aunt jessica coming to my house" says the beans!
Just picked one of these lovely fruits up at the store to try... we found a patch in a field nearby. I brought one home to transplant in a container away from puppy noses. Def not as big as yours. Holy cow. These huge patches were still small and only about shin tall so far. Tiny little fruits on them. Adorable. Thanks for the tips.
Well it is a great place with the ripe food on the ground to wait for pray if you are a Rattle Snake. I'm so glad that you just move them, thank you for your kindness.
Lol never knew about these before I moved west and now I eat tons of them when the show up on my prickly pear cactus. Delicious and refreshing in a ways. Almost like a sweeter cucumber but not overly sweet and full of water too!!
Great video brother. I'm new to Tucson and I've recently been to the Cactus Forest on the east side. It was an awesome little solo trip and I grabbed some pricklies along the way. Your video was one of the best on YT about how to process this plant. I'm subbed. Cheers!
Glad you liked it Zacchaeus! Yes, the sagauros are really pretty amazing... I like taking visting friends and family from the base of mount lemmon to the top so they can go from saguaros to aspens and pines in about 15 mins... pretty awesome change that takes place. And actually I'm going to be posting a prickly pear jelly video soon too... so stay tuned. btw... I got your email but just haven't had a chance to respond as I'm kind of back logged and just trying to catch up.... but I will:) Joe
Thank you, I always like to try new edibles in my garden, I think I will try the Eastern Prickly Pear which can survive our winters here in Pennsylvania
We used to torch them to burn off the spines..man are they good..in the morning we would eat them warm off a fire for breakfast when I visited family in Az, made juice out of them..so good Wed drink the juice warm in the morning too..I couldn't get enough. Miss them now its been a very long time since I had prickly pear.
Great video! So jealous of your easy access to so many prickly pears! I go to the store and buy "Red Tunas" and don't have to worry about snakes or the spines... Toss up really (; Cheers!
Yeah, it's a Spanish thing for sure. I go into these stores, and ask for prickly pears and they look at me cross eyed. I ask for red tunas and they take me right to them! (=
I'm amazed you have them for sale! Most wild foods go untouched. The guavas in HI are similiar, full of seeds. Have you ever seen them for sale? "Waste " are my specialty. living at the "bottom" of the food chain! Douglas
@@dgunde13gunderson78 Yup, we do get guavas in the store here as well. But I'm betting the noes we get are not from HI, somewhere south of the US Border most likely.
Hi Joe, I love those prickly pears they are delicious but best enjoyed of course after they are cleaned of there small needles lol , thanks for sharing (in Spanish I've heard them called tunas)... watch out for them snakes
We eat this in Peru just fresh , we peels them and eat the whole thing with the seeds also , if you don’t eat everything you missing out on all the benefits that fruit has to offer . I used to work reading water meters here in Atlanta and I saw them on someone’s front yard , and they had a lot , i quick knock on their door and I asked them if I can take some , I assumed they didn’t know they were eatable lol the man say sure go ahead , I never picked them myself , but I knew not to touch their lil dots lol and place my fingers on skin part only . Quick tip place Them in the refrigerator , it’s yummy when they cold and juice
I just found a huge plant in Maroubra Beach New South Wales Sydney ...really rare here...so I collect some to propagate them ...I am so happy 🌵 love this fruit
Your prickly pears are huge! They are smaller in my part of NM. When we were little kids we'd pick them bare handed and roll them on a rock to get the needles off and cut them open and eat the inside except for the seeds. And yeah we got pricked a lot but it was worth it. I'm waiting to see how you pick pinons!
Yeah, definitely admiring the American Ingenuity of eating a prickly pear with the stick stuck through it, peel the skin with the tiny thorns and you're set, but the seeds, probably because I'm Mexican, eat 'em along with the juicy, sweet pulp. Do you guys also have xoconostles(sour flavor of these)? Thanks for sharing and greetings from Querétaro! :)
In mexico my great great grandma would go uot to her patio and pick them without gloves and skin them, she would also eat the whole thing including the seeds. In my oppinion i think people should grow them to ejoy the fruit, i realy love them.
We definitely don't have those on the East Coast, they look really good though! I'd be afraid of missing one of those spikes and accidentally swallowing it haha talk about a bad day! Great video Joe!
As a child, we had these all over our pecan farm and I had heard you could eat them. After seeing this, I have to wonder how we never had this as it is just a little bit of work, which for farmer folk, is nothing. Thanks for the video.
Oh heck no! That is scary! Good info on the prickly pears. My parents just gave me some work gloves and said pick LOL. Those thin hairs remind you they are there everytime you rub across them. Ouch! 🤣
Nature's bounty right out your back door as it were, able to enjoy with minimal effort at harvesting. Nice. Living in Missouri, I can't recall ever seeing them, at least with their fruit. Any cacti that I have seen came from a nursery. The fruit looked good. Even though rattlesnakes are dangerous, they are beautiful nonetheless. Appreciate the info. Thanks. Be safe.
+radicaljoe Thanks RJ! They really are a cool resource we have down here! You can even tell when the coyotes start eating them as you start seeing 'pink' poops every where..lol!
Same thing happened to me. I didn't Didn't know how hard the seeds were. I figured it would be like passion fruit. The flavor of prickly pear is out of this world though.
Hey thanks guy....thank God your all right....I live in Phoenix right next to pick a part...never seen a rattler but I did have a yellow scorpion in my front yard running straight for me! While wearing my sandals.....😬😬😬😬
The ones that grow here in Brazil are orange, delicious as well. It’s fruto da palma (palm fruit). Rattle snakes are not dangerous if we don’t try to mess with them.
There is a campground I go to in GEORGIA that has a bunch of these! Yes, GEORGIA. I wish I could take the fruit because I know it's absolutely delicious!
You can harvest that snake also. Make a nice hat band or belt and deep fry the meat with a flour or bear batter. I don't much care for it cooked over an open fire or barbecued, but fried is awesome. It tastes very similar to calamari actually. It really depends on how you fry it and what batter you make for it. Thx for the video. Cheers
+Nathan Shepard Thanks Nathan! But to be honest, I can't say that I've never harmed a snake... but I generally try to leave the ones that aren't right next to my home, alone. As long as they aren't coming in then I try to let them be:) Thanks for watching! Joe
Efren Chen Pickly pear seed is extremely high in essential fatty acids, Omega 6 and 9, and the natural antioxidant vitamin e. “It's also rich in amino acids, which stimulate collagen production to promote faster cell turnover. ...All you need to do is brake them.
These grow wild here in coastline of croatia. Exept from me, only tourist eat them. In Sweden they sold them for 99 sek(swedish krona) per kilo, 20 years ago. Couldnt believe it. Invasional plant in croatia. People try to get rid of them. Flower are beautiful.
I’m in far west Texas. I’m fixing to go pick a ton of these. Wearing my sandals 😬 🙏 I’m looking for recipes for them. Please respond if y’all have any good ones.
The prickly pear ("tuna") is so fresh and tasty. I eat all the seeds, which I admit is an acquired skill, since you have to bite the fruit yet stop just right to avoid grinding the seeds. Maybe the tunas I eat are not wild.
+ArizonaHotHomestead yes it is! I even made some mead with them last year... great stuff! btw... good to see your mud problem getting solved with the new gravel! Joe
It so ubsurd that many don't know they are edible. You hear about people passing away in the desert by dehydration next to the fruiting cactus. So tragic. Knowledge is power and delicious!!
Can't wait to see what you have in store for the prickly pear. Do they resemble anything else in taste? Love to see u turn those rattlers into a nice pair of boots...
+Sig220Euro Hey Sig, the taste is a bit like a very mild watermelon in some and others is a little stronger.... hard to describe but still great... especially considering the price paid for em' ;) As for the boots... hahaha.. wife would make me put em in the garage:)
Watch out for them rattlers! I heard rattlesnakes love to roost near the plants bases. I had some friends tell me that when I visited the San Diego area, prickly pears were all over the rural area. It was safer to buy pears from a roadside fruit vendor.
I got one of the little spines stuck up in the roof of my mouth. I could feel it up in there but every time it started to stick out enough that I could feel it with my tongue, it would get pushed back up in so I could not pull it out. It finally came out after about 3 years. Very annoying. I still love prickly-pear fruit, I am just really careful to get rid of all the spines before eating one.
I've eaten the fruit off a plant in SC and its delicious, but the leaves were far too dry and not soft and juicy. Does growing in a went humid clay soil with a lot of moisture retention make the leaves (stem actually) dry and stringy. Cos the ones I buy at the flea market (think they're from mexico - no idea for sure) were softer and more juicy.
by the way, the part you are eating is soused to be thrown away as this is the peal and the part that you are throwing away is the fruit itself which you should eat ...
Nice view of the snake. So the prickly pears just grow wild like that out there? What portion of the plant would you use to soap with??? I love making soap and would love to know how to incorporate it into a batch of soap. Thanks for sharing.
Good info about the prickly pears, Joe. Amazing that you just moved the rattlesnakes... we shoot those around here. Don't want to risk it with our hounds and cats. They don't bother your critters?
+Slowvannah Farms well... lets just say 'moved' is a relative term;) I actually found 4 of them that day...must have been breeding season or something... it was crazy though!
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Eat the whole fruit! They’re delicious all the way down to the seeds. I would eat buckets full of these things in Mexico as a child.
yeah same! when I would visit my grandparents they would have bucket loads of tunas and i'd eat the whole fruit
I disliked this video because he wasted the fruit almost entirely
@@ChilloutLibrary 😂 I was upset too, the seeds are so delicious 🤤 😂😂 but I still liked the video I learned something from it.
In Cyprus I would stop the car and pick til my heart's content from red to yellow to orange varieties. I love these.
the skin is FULL of stickers... how do you get that off?
This is by far my favorite fruit. It tastes so refreshing especially when you keep it in the fridge.
This is a great video; full of information and straight to the point. Thank you for keeping it short and informative!
Here is how we do it in Tunisia, collects the fruits into a bucket (don't fill it to the top just half), shake the bucket in circular movements, the fruits will hit each others and the thorns will get removed, wash the fruits, depending on the variety you can or not remove the skin , crunch the fruits with a blender , filter the juice with a wide mesh to remove the seeds , add bananas or other fruits to the mixture and blend them again. Congratulation you have a super food juice!!
Thank you for this wonderful video. I teach third grade in California. My students absolutely LOVED this video! Thank you!!
That's so awesome to hear Kevin! Glad they liked it.. unfortunately it's one of my older videos with not as good of audio and video. Hopefully you guys will check out some more... like the shipping container playhouse I'm working on for my daughter :D
Joe
In south africa it's common and popular to those who have access to it. Not a commercial product yet. The prickly pear syrup is heavenly poured over white sorbet ice cream. I ate it once long ago.....still stuck in my head.....THAT TASTE!
I love eating as a child in Guanajuato Mexico called tunas
+Lupita Gomez Yep.. in some of the stores around here they are called tunas as well:)
It actually originated in Mexico
Lol stupid güero. It’s a lot healthier than your hotdog and burger diet.
Jokes on him I ate ALL the seeds as a child.... still do :)
I'm also ate this fruit in our childhood
In Mexico these are widely consumed. I never saw anyone harvesting this way but interesting. In MX we eat the seeds and is best to harvest them early in the morning when cooled by the night, so crisp and juicy and sweet. Delicious!
The white ones are my favorites 🤓
I live in the UK and tried my first one yesterday! I can't wait to try it again 😍
That’s how Sicilians eat them: we peel and eat the whole fruit. Seeds included.
Had a patch growing in my yard since I was a child and never knew how versatile the fruit was. Thanks for the video man
I swear by taking one tablespoon a day in my tea. It has helped reduce my psoriasis!
And this is a liquid preparation?
Always did stuff like this as a kid, Prickly pear, barrel cactus fruit, and dried mesquite beans are the best.
There use to be a massive 6 foot long dback that lived under a prickly pear at my grandparents house and it was the nicest, most gentle rattler i ever encountered as a kid in the Tucson desert.
Thats amazing. It never felt threatened by you?
i also live in Tucson and use those to make juice. i also burn the thorns off then rise each one with a potato scrubber then i blend, strain, and drink it up! free juice love it!
great video!
Thanks so much Janet! I just got done with some PP jelly...mmm good! Not really healthy as its mostly sugar but they are such an awesome source of free and available food! I like to nibble slices off them as we take walks during this time... great snack food:)
Joe
This is a completely different way of eating these than what I do. I simply take both ends of it off, then pell off the outside skin with my hands, leaving you to a more softer part with seeds and just eat it all, seeds included!
Best video on this yet! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing the tip on how to eat them in the field and your technique for burning them. We live in NW Peoria Arizona and they are everywhere. They're are so throughout our community, but I'm planning to go off-roading to pick fresh fruit that's growing in the mountains.
Never heard of prickly pears, looks pretty interesting...the snake a little less so :)
+Darbin Orvar haha, yes... the snakes are a bit creepy... but the prickly pears are such a cool fruit considering our arid environment....and they make a great mead too!
BTW... your beeswax polish is going to make another appearance soon too... making something for my daughter... should be up in a week or so:)
Joe
2 prickly pairs and a snake can be bad news
Darbin Orvar
Snakes are very interesting creatures
Darbin Orvar do you live on the moon? Ive never came across anyone who doesnt know what a prickly pear is
Love the rattle snake cameos :) Such beautiful animals.
I just returned from the Prickly Pear Festival in Superior, Az that is going on today. Some folks foraged this morning and I got half a large bucket so wanted to see how you deal with them after the haul. Heat for the spiny parts seems the easiest way to go. I might make some simple prickly pear syrup and add it to my bubbly water. Thanks for the video!
Yum, those prickly pears were delicious! Joe, the prickly pear juice can also be used for dyeing fabrics, paper, etc... I think my fingers were pink for a couple of days. :) Great video as always. The prickly pear cam looks really cool. I'm looking forward to some prickly pear cocktails on my next visit. Thumbs up on the snake footage!
+Blackberry Hideout you know what... that's a great idea.... prickly pear dyed shirt for Marley! and you DO need to come back down soon... "i wanna see aunt jessica" ......."are aunt jessica coming to my house" says the beans!
You can tell her Aunt Jessica ARE coming to visit her soon! So cute!
Great video! We wear Chippewa snake boots, like wearing tennis shoes and they're the coolest wearing I've found.
Just picked one of these lovely fruits up at the store to try... we found a patch in a field nearby. I brought one home to transplant in a container away from puppy noses. Def not as big as yours. Holy cow. These huge patches were still small and only about shin tall so far. Tiny little fruits on them. Adorable. Thanks for the tips.
Cool! I knew I’d find a hood prickly pear vid here! Glad I found this one
Well it is a great place with the ripe food on the ground to wait for pray if you are a Rattle Snake. I'm so glad that you just move them, thank you for your kindness.
Cool vid joe! I'd never seen these before! They're a beautiful fruit what a cool colour
+HerringBone thanks HB! They are a very cool fruit down here… if you ever see them somewhere, give it a taste, I think you'll like em'!
Lol never knew about these before I moved west and now I eat tons of them when the show up on my prickly pear cactus. Delicious and refreshing in a ways. Almost like a sweeter cucumber but not overly sweet and full of water too!!
Great video brother. I'm new to Tucson and I've recently been to the Cactus Forest on the east side. It was an awesome little solo trip and I grabbed some pricklies along the way. Your video was one of the best on YT about how to process this plant. I'm subbed. Cheers!
Glad you liked it Zacchaeus! Yes, the sagauros are really pretty amazing... I like taking visting friends and family from the base of mount lemmon to the top so they can go from saguaros to aspens and pines in about 15 mins... pretty awesome change that takes place. And actually I'm going to be posting a prickly pear jelly video soon too... so stay tuned.
btw... I got your email but just haven't had a chance to respond as I'm kind of back logged and just trying to catch up.... but I will:)
Joe
homesteadonomics sounds good brother. I'll be waiting. Cheers.
Thank you, I always like to try new edibles in my garden, I think I will try the Eastern Prickly Pear which can survive our winters here in Pennsylvania
We used to torch them to burn off the spines..man are they good..in the morning we would eat them warm off a fire for breakfast when I visited family in Az, made juice out of them..so good Wed drink the juice warm in the morning too..I couldn't get enough. Miss them now its been a very long time since I had prickly pear.
That snake was epic!
Great video! So jealous of your easy access to so many prickly pears! I go to the store and buy "Red Tunas" and don't have to worry about snakes or the spines... Toss up really (; Cheers!
+Canadian Sasquatch hahah... yep... I always thought 'tunas' was a funny name for them.... must be from the spanish 'nopales' term for the cactus:)
Yeah, it's a Spanish thing for sure. I go into these stores, and ask for prickly pears and they look at me cross eyed. I ask for red tunas and they take me right to them! (=
I'm amazed you have them for sale! Most wild foods go untouched. The guavas in HI are similiar, full of seeds. Have you ever seen them for sale? "Waste " are my specialty. living at the "bottom" of the food chain! Douglas
@@dgunde13gunderson78 Yup, we do get guavas in the store here as well. But I'm betting the noes we get are not from HI, somewhere south of the US Border most likely.
Love the video but I have to confess that you had me screaming at the monitor when I saw your scraping the seeds
Hi Joe, I love those prickly pears they are delicious but best enjoyed of course after they are cleaned of there small needles lol , thanks for sharing (in Spanish I've heard them called tunas)... watch out for them snakes
+espn mk Thanks EM!
We eat this in Peru just fresh , we peels them and eat the whole thing with the seeds also , if you don’t eat everything you missing out on all the benefits that fruit has to offer . I used to work reading water meters here in Atlanta and I saw them on someone’s front yard , and they had a lot , i quick knock on their door and I asked them if I can take some , I assumed they didn’t know they were eatable lol the man say sure go ahead , I never picked them myself , but I knew not to touch their lil dots lol and place my fingers on skin part only . Quick tip place
Them in the refrigerator , it’s yummy when they cold and juice
I just found a huge plant in Maroubra Beach New South Wales Sydney ...really rare here...so I collect some to propagate them ...I am so happy 🌵 love this fruit
This is great! Thanks. Just moved back go texas and want to learn how to eat whats around me ☺️
Your prickly pears are huge! They are smaller in my part of NM. When we were little kids we'd pick them bare handed and roll them on a rock to get the needles off and cut them open and eat the inside except for the seeds. And yeah we got pricked a lot but it was worth it. I'm waiting to see how you pick pinons!
What part of new Mexico I live up by Taos
These are my absolute favorite!
you could’ve had some grilled snake kabobs with prickly pear on a stick
Yeah, definitely admiring the American Ingenuity of eating a prickly pear with the stick stuck through it, peel the skin with the tiny thorns and you're set, but the seeds, probably because I'm Mexican, eat 'em along with the juicy, sweet pulp. Do you guys also have xoconostles(sour flavor of these)? Thanks for sharing and greetings from Querétaro! :)
The green ones are sweet Nd soo refreshing in the summer 😍
Great video thanks for sharing the knowledge
I would Love to get my hands on some of those seeds / looks delicious.
In mexico my great great grandma would go uot to her patio and pick them without gloves and skin them, she would also eat the whole thing including the seeds. In my oppinion i think people should grow them to ejoy the fruit, i realy love them.
We definitely don't have those on the East Coast, they look really good though! I'd be afraid of missing one of those spikes and accidentally swallowing it haha talk about a bad day! Great video Joe!
+The College Woodworker haha… the spines are pretty easy to get off… it's the rattlesnakes at the end of the video that scare me more…lol:)
We actually do have these on the east coast. They're called eastern prickly pear
As a child, we had these all over our pecan farm and I had heard you could eat them. After seeing this, I have to wonder how we never had this as it is just a little bit of work, which for farmer folk, is nothing. Thanks for the video.
Oh heck no! That is scary! Good info on the prickly pears. My parents just gave me some work gloves and said pick LOL. Those thin hairs remind you they are there everytime you rub across them. Ouch! 🤣
Nice video and methods... We have several varieties in San Diego, CA.
Nature's bounty right out your back door as it were, able to enjoy with minimal effort at harvesting. Nice. Living in Missouri, I can't recall ever seeing them, at least with their fruit. Any cacti that I have seen came from a nursery. The fruit looked good. Even though rattlesnakes are dangerous, they are beautiful nonetheless. Appreciate the info. Thanks. Be safe.
+radicaljoe Thanks RJ! They really are a cool resource we have down here! You can even tell when the coyotes start eating them as you start seeing 'pink' poops every where..lol!
First time I bit into a prickly pear I was NOT aware of the rock hard seeds. I nearly cracked a tooth 😫 very tasty though!
+Laurel Villanueva oh yeah... those things are crazy hard! But the surrounding fruit is great!
Joe
Same thing happened to me. I didn't Didn't know how hard the seeds were. I figured it would be like passion fruit. The flavor of prickly pear is out of this world though.
they're not that hard, you can crash them with teeth actually
homesteadonomics lol I eat the whole fruit seeds and all.
Very nasty fruit then!
Hey thanks guy....thank God your all right....I live in Phoenix right next to pick a part...never seen a rattler but I did have a yellow scorpion in my front yard running straight for me!
While wearing my sandals.....😬😬😬😬
O Gosh, I need to visit you for those Prickly Pears =) Be careful with those snakes :)
haha... yes, they are everywhere here... no shortage for sure... and no shortage on teh snakes either ...lol!
JOe
Or me
Wow, you are so lucky to have access to fresh fruits cactus.. send me a few boxes :)
The ones that grow here in Brazil are orange, delicious as well. It’s fruto da palma (palm fruit). Rattle snakes are not dangerous if we don’t try to mess with them.
That’s was great info... Thank U
There is a campground I go to in GEORGIA that has a bunch of these! Yes, GEORGIA. I wish I could take the fruit because I know it's absolutely delicious!
Great video!! Thanks for sharing the methods ^^
You can harvest that snake also. Make a nice hat band or belt and deep fry the meat with a flour or bear batter. I don't much care for it cooked over an open fire or barbecued, but fried is awesome. It tastes very similar to calamari actually. It really depends on how you fry it and what batter you make for it. Thx for the video. Cheers
this video is so wholesome
I eat the seeds, they're part of the pear!
You should come to British Columbia, Canada. There’s Himalayan blackberries everywhere, I wonder why they would sell them at the grocery market.
was hoping to see the various methods on how to make jellies, jams or soaps...going to taste test tomorrow....
Nice of you to not harm the snake! Wish I had rattlesnakes on my property here.
+Nathan Shepard Thanks Nathan! But to be honest, I can't say that I've never harmed a snake... but I generally try to leave the ones that aren't right next to my home, alone. As long as they aren't coming in then I try to let them be:) Thanks for watching!
Joe
0_0 i should have watched this video before eating one lol i bit in it like an apple with the thorns and everything
lol
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Had me a Sioux city prickly pear soda just a little earlier today. Very tasty.
+KodenameKrusty Oh man! That sounds really good.. I may just have to see if I can order one! Thanks KnK!
Joe
+homesteadonomics I found mine at 'World Market'. It is tasty.
+homesteadonomics I found this link to where you can find the soda
www.whiterockbeverages.com/where-to-buy/#Sioux City
Sweet! Thanks KnK! I'm gonna check out world market too and if I can find some… maybe I'll work it into a video and I give you a shout out:)
Joe
+homesteadonomics Cool I think you'll really enjoy it it's a very refreshing drink
The flesh surrounding the seeds are the best part!
Efren Chen Pickly pear seed is extremely high in essential fatty acids, Omega 6 and 9, and the natural antioxidant vitamin e. “It's also rich in amino acids, which stimulate collagen production to promote faster cell turnover. ...All you need to do is brake them.
These grow wild here in coastline of croatia. Exept from me, only tourist eat them. In Sweden they sold them for 99 sek(swedish krona) per kilo, 20 years ago. Couldnt believe it. Invasional plant in croatia. People try to get rid of them. Flower are beautiful.
the inside of the fruit is the tastiest. you can eat them. just don't bite down hard and kinda gum the fruit and then just swollow it. its delicious.
Thanks for warning i hate snakes 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
One big rattler pears look delish
I’m in far west Texas. I’m fixing to go pick a ton of these. Wearing my sandals 😬 🙏 I’m looking for recipes for them. Please respond if y’all have any good ones.
The prickly pear ("tuna") is so fresh and tasty. I eat all the seeds, which I admit is an acquired skill, since you have to bite the fruit yet stop just right to avoid grinding the seeds. Maybe the tunas I eat are not wild.
Oh hell nah, seeing that rattle snake so close to you gave me goosebumps
Delicious healthy juice blended, strained.
the jam is awesome. we have picked some in the past.
+ArizonaHotHomestead yes it is! I even made some mead with them last year... great stuff!
btw... good to see your mud problem getting solved with the new gravel!
Joe
The red and yellow ones are the best and sweetest
It so ubsurd that many don't know they are edible. You hear about people passing away in the desert by dehydration next to the fruiting cactus. So tragic. Knowledge is power and delicious!!
thank you for your sharing.
wow excellent ty i have had an opuntia in ground for 3 years no fruit any advice? i give it fish umlision
did anyone notice that in the thumbnail it says "Picking Pickly Pears"
Maybe that’s their term for them
The seeds are the best part!
Swallowing the seeds whole is a part of the experience
SMART WORK SIR I WAS EATED SOO MUCH THIS IS
Prickly Pear Cam rocks! Now use them to grab the rattlesnake! You should look into a pair of snake tongs... You can eat the pads also I believe...
+CG Louisiana haha.. you're on to a future project in the planning stages... snake pole is in the design phase right now;)
homesteadonomics Good to go, will be looking for it...
I grow prickly pair cactus i love the fruits it produces but thinking about making prickly pair jelly or juice
Can't wait to see what you have in store for the prickly pear. Do they resemble anything else in taste?
Love to see u turn those rattlers into a nice pair of boots...
+Sig220Euro Hey Sig, the taste is a bit like a very mild watermelon in some and others is a little stronger.... hard to describe but still great... especially considering the price paid for em' ;)
As for the boots... hahaha.. wife would make me put em in the garage:)
Watch out for them rattlers! I heard rattlesnakes love to roost near the plants bases. I had some friends tell me that when I visited the San Diego area, prickly pears were all over the rural area. It was safer to buy pears from a roadside fruit vendor.
I got one of the little spines stuck up in the roof of my mouth. I could feel it up in there but every time it started to stick out enough that I could feel it with my tongue, it would get pushed back up in so I could not pull it out. It finally came out after about 3 years. Very annoying. I still love prickly-pear fruit, I am just really careful to get rid of all the spines before eating one.
Well that explains the adobe walls around the homes down there. 🐍. 😎
+my2cents0 hahaha... so true! maybe that'll be my next project;)
Joe, I watched your video tonight at your mom's house... for some reason, your mom, and Aunt Bonnie, didn't to watch it with me.... :)
+Randy Rought haha… I wonder why :D
Great video. What torch do you use! I need one of these to remove the thorns on the prickly pear tunas I find in my back forty. Thank you!
Should've made a video of rattlesnake stew with prickly pear jam... 😂
I heard that fried is the best though
I've eaten the fruit off a plant in SC and its delicious, but the leaves were far too dry and not soft and juicy. Does growing in a went humid clay soil with a lot of moisture retention make the leaves (stem actually) dry and stringy. Cos the ones I buy at the flea market (think they're from mexico - no idea for sure) were softer and more juicy.
I love those my grandmother in Mexico has them and the year I go that's when there ready mmmmm diloshis
Yes, they are pretty delicious... making some prickly pear jelly right now:)
Thats so beautiful!
by the way, the part you are eating is soused to be thrown away as this is the peal and the part that you are throwing away is the fruit itself which you should eat ...
Awesome thanks for taking us along God bless buddy
+cokeman250 thanks CM!
Looks like taco dinner. Pear fruit with rattler meat. YUM!
Nice view of the snake. So the prickly pears just grow wild like that out there? What portion of the plant would you use to soap with??? I love making soap and would love to know how to incorporate it into a batch of soap. Thanks for sharing.
Ate em growing up in Yemen 🇾🇪....man the thorns are painful specially when you go picking in windy times
Good info about the prickly pears, Joe. Amazing that you just moved the rattlesnakes... we shoot those around here. Don't want to risk it with our hounds and cats. They don't bother your critters?
+Slowvannah Farms well... lets just say 'moved' is a relative term;) I actually found 4 of them that day...must have been breeding season or something... it was crazy though!
Ahh gotcha. That's crazy -- 4 of them!
+homesteadonomics re - moved lol
+TheMaryb1 lol!