For those of you who are curious, instead of pouring out the tannic acid (brown water) onto the ground, you can store that first pour and use it topically to treat poison ivy. In olden times, it was used to counteract ingested poisons because it blocks the digestive track's ability to absorb--including during WWI when it was used topically to counter mustard gas burns. It has a pH of 6.0, so it's not particularly caustic to have on the skin. Acorns are INCREDIBLY toxic to dogs.
@@TheDuncskunk i would like to thank you for the clear explanations !! What about the taste of them? And can we make some flour to make some bread’s?? Are they good for health??
Pro tip. In a true survival situation, when boiling isn’t an option. Fashioning some kind of basket or netting, and putting them in a body of running water will work also. It will take about 2 days, but hey food is food. The native Americans used to use this method.
Which native Americans? Why do you people always lump all Indigenous peoples together. Either that or something is the "native American" word for something.
A lot of trial and error was actually done by animals. Humans watched and learned what other mammals could and couldn't eat and followed along. And of course, then there's always a Bob who just said "F it" and ate some random stuff anyway
To be fair before spices and all the modern food flavors of today, including just the domestication of fruits, acorns might've been tastier back in the day... As we didn't know how "bitter" they were relative to our foods now. I reckon... Everything tastes better when you're hungry, and when you're starving as humans have, bitterness becomes edible.
@Yugemos acorns have different species, the one he talks about is also common in Northern Europe to a point of being poisonous in larger quantities. But the ones near mediterrian are completely safe to eat without any extra steps. A really good winter snack when roasted with a sprinkle of salt also. I 100% recommended to try
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Yep, just to further explain why, they float because of off gassing caused from bacteria when eggs or acorns or anything that's tightly enclosed really, begins to rot.
@@bettywatson7987what do they taste like after all this is done?? I've tried a tiny piece of one, just off the tree and it was not good...lol .. I did not know anything about this process.... and we had about 467 trillion of them fall this year... sounded like hail on the roof... multiple times!!
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Yeah, they are delicious roasted that way, but have you ever ground them into flour and made bread from them, acorn bread is very tasty and good for you too. I am part native American and 63 years old, my grandma was almost full blood Cherokee and she taught me the plants in the wild that I can use for food, medicine, salves and pretty much all the different plants that grow in my area. It really comes in handy sometimes when you are out in the woods camping and hiking or hunting and you want a change from your everyday foods
YES! I have made acorn bread and it is delicious. I had to chop them up in a blender and then put them in cheese cloth--rinsing them until the water ran clear---but the bread was wonderful and my nephew still raves about it...
@@chlomyster8526 yeah, I was very lucky growing up, spending time with my grandparents, I learned a lot from them, things that you can't get today's children away from the video games long enough to learn
@@KindCountsDeb3773 were Anglo Saxon and Scotts Irish in descent so about as much as Elizabeth Warren. All I know is her grandma was making them 120 years ago in the same holler that I sit in now. A lot of the old ways still hang on out here.
Ate them as a poor college student, my campus was full of acorns and they are really delicious. The main annoyance is a lot of acorns in my area had been eaten by bugs, so I had to crack and sort them out before boiling. Tastes really good in oatmeal!
In Europe, specially here in Portugal, many elderly will associate accorns to hunger since it was the only thing left to eat in times of scarcity. The traditional way to remove the tanines is to let the accorns in a basket being washed by a river or stream for a few days, then roast and ground as flour - it is very similar to rye flour!
My grandad (for whatever reason) liked the "acorn coffee" he got used to during the depression and WW2, he used to come over to gather them, and teach me how to build and fix things around the house. It just tasted like burnt peanuts to me, but I can still almost smell the stuff when I'm working on my cars now. Miss ya Pap!
He probably grew to enjoy the drink because you have no choice but to enjoy what little you have during times of desperation (the great depression and ww2 being two of the biggest) and later on it probably served as a reminder of those times whilst also just being a nice drink because he was so used to it RIP to him :)
The Miwok* people in California would grind acorns by streams so the continuously running water could leach the tannins out. When hiking in the Sierras it's pretty common to see old grinding holes worn into the granite. *Edited spelling thanks to a helpful reply
Genuinely useful tip. I didn't know if they were poisonous or just icky, but I definitely didn't put one in my mouth again after the first time as a kid.
I have a 100 yr old oak tree in my front yard. Before my husband and I moved to rural middle Tenn in 1996 from Atlanta. I did not know that humans could eat acorns. We had a bumper crop of acorns this year. We are currently being entertained every early morning and evening by a flock of 25 turkeys that spend about 45 minutes eating them. Now I have learned something new. Thanks so much...
I also have a tree that produces acorns in my backyard. I never knew anything about this either and I just always considered them a nuisance. During peak Fall I'd have to sweep my deck twice a week
I'm Paiute. We make flour for bread with acorns. Learning to prepare acorn flour in the old way is definitely becoming a lost art. I sure as heck don't know how to do it, but my grandma did. She gave me a necklace with turquoise Oak leaves because Oak tress and their fruit (acorns) are sacred.
dang it! I wanted to add the flour comment. i.m in the florida panhandle and my native neighbors are choctaws and seminoles and miccossukis. they all been doin' this for many a moon
You can also use the colored water for natural dye. It’s called acre and it can also be made into an ink. I’ve used acorns to dye wool for spinning and it turned out really pretty. I know it’s off topic but nature is awesome!
Being an Australian, acorns was only something I had seen on TV until I bought a house with a giant red oak tree in the back yard. I had no idea you could eat them, amazing. Now maybe i’ll collect them instead of leaving them for the cockatoos. Thank you.
You can eat so much if you cure it properly. In maine, US. They had a store that sold homemade acorn bars. I bought one. Its like a cashew, with a kinda different aftertaste.
Koreans eat them all the time. We make unsweetened jelly out of it and eat with soy sauce. It's very healthy and tasty. Goes well with Korean rice wine.
I remember making acorn jelly a few times with my parents. We would grind then rinse and soak repeatedly to remove the tannins, leaving just starch after filtering out the pieces. Then we drained the excess liquid after letting the starches settle, and boiled the slurry, plated, then let it cool into a jelly. Acorn jelly (dotori-muk) is a Korean struggle food popularized in the 16th century from when the people moved northwards to avoid Japanese invaders, but it's still made today as tradition. Pretty neat!
16th century? No, you are mistaken. Archeologists found jars and other things to prepare acorns for eating in a Southeastern part of South Korea, dating to 5,000 years ago.
Most people have no idea how huge the acorn harvest was in The USA during the early colonial days when huge groves of red oak trees 20 feet around were all over the forests of South Carolina to Maine along with hickory trees and hickory nuts. The native people would dig holes near the edge of streams and line them with rocks and fill them for 100s of pounds of acorns and put on a "capstone" to mark the locations. As the rivers pushed water through the acorns this would leach out the tanins. These acorn stores would stay edible for over 1 year and if left all winter when the ice melted with the Spring thaw; the tribes knew they could return to their Spring hunting grounds with a large food supply already there to eat.
This is neat. An Aside. Save the tannin water if you can and boil it down. Soak three mason jars of bad acorns in it until soft, mash 'em and then mix again in the boiled down tannin water. add mixture to the three mason jars and place in a warm place for a for a few days( if it's colder, leave it be longer). Strain out the nut mash if you want to do so. The remaining liquid will hot dye(boil dye) cotton fabric (3 parts liquid to one part fabric by weight). This makes a brownpink, like the gills of a meadow mushroom. If you add to this mixture 1 part Iron oxide vinegar mix[ 50/50 rusty iron water/vinegar] It darkens to grey. Sometimes you can skip the rust water(keep the vinegar in) if you're boiling in a rusty kettle/pot. If you let it sit until cool after boiling the cloth in the mixture, you'll get a better color change. let fabric dry, then wash normally. If you have light/white cotton clothing in the woods, this will make them blend in darker spaces better, but remember cotton shrinks with heat. Be well.
I’m Navajo, during the Summers we use to heard our cattle and sheep into the mountains and live “off the grid” for the sunmer and live off the land. We made our own candles, stored smoked meat underground, bathed in ponds using yucca as soap, slept on sheep skin, made necklaces from pine needles and so much more. I miss those days.
Man, that sounds incredible. I’m glad to hear that you got to experience that kind of life, even if it was in summers long past. Maybe you should take up candle making. Might be a nice way to relive those memories a little.
I want to know more. My people herd sheep into the mountains and similarly live there for the season making the milk into cheese that they smoke. I hated sleeping on the sheep skins. Tell us more about the pine needle necklaces. We use pine and fir branches to filter the cheese curds 😅.
@theITGuy-no3nt Right....! Unless these nuts cure some kind of diseases, I would rather buy a bag and pack them in my backpack instead of wasting my time boiling nuts.
You mention the tannins make it taste bitter, but the more important thing to note is that the tannins are toxic and will make you sick if you eat them without the preparation method you showed.
@@sebaschan-uwu The best I could find is that you have to eat them in "large amounts" for them to have an ill effect, but there does not appear to be any studies about this saying what is "a large amount." I suspect you'll get enough of the astringency/bitterness of tannins before you poison yourself.
Well yeah, in the same way caffeine is toxic. You have to eat a stupid amount over a considerable period for anything to happen, and you'd probably puke long before anything actually adverse. Same way your gonna know when you've had too much caffeine BC you'll feel terrible.
Toxicity is currently believed to be from compounds associated with Tannins, not tannins themselves. Tannins are polyphenols and are antioxidants exibiting anticarcinogenic behavior more than anything. Everything has an LD50 where they become toxic, even water -Someone with a Masters in Biology and enjoys their tea slightly bitter for the tannins
If you leach them in cold water (takes much longer, and better to crush them into granules first) you can powder them and use as flour for baking bread, another traditional application is to make a porridge with them
@Lovehandle1339 Back in the day, if you wanted to eat, you sometimes had to work with what you could find in order to make food edible and useful. Nothing came prepackaged and food prep was done in the most practical manner possible. So, if you were too lazy to prep your food, you either starved or poisoned yourself. It's a matter of perspective. Young people today have things much easier. That's probably why you don't get it. 😊
I remember my Korean grandparents first came to America and were amazed that Americans did not eat any of the readily available forage in Central Park like acorns. It was once a delicacy in Korea because it was labor intensive and took so long to leech out the tanins. Now you can just buy acorn jelly powder!
I thought the same thing when i was homeless. People stealing and going to jail when we have a ton of food available for foraging. It wasn't till i started talking to people that i learned they didn't know how or were lazy. Or both lol
@@ghostsheet777 I still eat the mulberries off the overhanging trees as I'm mowing my lawn. I grew up eating them off a huge tree outside my apartment when we lived in NYC. Chestnuts and walnuts are a great find!
@@Almanatrix if your truly homeless its hard to boil water and cook in most places you cant have a fire I was homeless and had a car working litteraly all day for doordash didnt have enough gas to go out of town just to cook on a fire lol
Yep. Can confirm. I grew up eating those too. They don't have much flavor on their own like tofu, but when you add soy sauce, chilly powder, sesame seeds, sesame oil, garlic, and scallions, they make a delicious, refreshing and healthy side dish low in carbs.
Acorns used to be a staple food for early Americans, they had caches and stashes of these thing across the continent. And we can use these to track the movement of the potato from its home in the Andes, because humans always dropped acorns for potatoes when they were an option. Additionally, red and white oak acorns have differing amounts of tannins, lesser in white and greater in red. White oak leaves have rounded lobes, and red have points at the tips of their lobes, so if you’re really lucky, hope to find a bur oak, they’ve got the biggest acorns at 1-2.5 inches across!
@@LameWaysArtistry easier to eat? no need to prep, you just cook em once and not like 5 or more times, so you waste less water. you know in the time the water was harder to find, like in winter where it freezes and smaller springs might freeze higher up so dry out in lower places. also jus a better nutrient ratio
To answer your question, correlation, or similar situation, of acorns to potatoes is that both were used as long-term food insurance. As the people traveled, they could take the potatoes or acorns to eat on the way and to plant them as they stopped in different areas to propagate and spread for later use. Both grow easily by themselves.
A clarification on the oak leaves: in _some_ oaks I've tried to identify, the "point" at the end of the lobe on the leaf looked more like a hair than something thorn-like (and it usually seemed to emerge from an "indentation" along the edge of the leaf), and it actually could wear down from abrassion (I looked at _a lot_ of oak leaves; unfortunately, I don't recall which species had these particular leaves). Thus, don't _immediately_ assume that something is a white oak just because you didn't find the point, as some red oaks can be deceptive until you look closer. Some extras for anyone interested in this stuff: 1) If you want to identify an oak in the general sense, look for acorns, not at leaves- leaves can be used to identify one species from another, but there's so much variety that identifying "oak tree" in the vague sense is faster by looking for acorns- all oak species grow acorns, and only oaks grow acorns (feel free to correct me, I no longer get paid for this so I haven't continued researching). 2) White Oak and Red Oak are species, but when speaking of white and red oak it is normal to speak of the _groups_ of white oak species and red oak species rather than the individual species that "named" the groups; similarly, live oaks are a group of species (3? 5? Something like that) instead of just one species, all of which share the trait of being _evergreens_ in their native ranges. 3) In addition to the leaves "points", red oaks have unsealed tubes running through their wood, while in (most) white oak those same tubes (which get used to move sap in the younger layers of wood) get sealed up in the old wood- you can often use red oak as an inferior straw, but not white oak, which conversely means white oak is usually the better choice for anything holding liquids. This has been suggested as important for the Mary Celeste, as several of the barrels holding alcohol in her hold were discovered to have been made of red oak, and thus were likely to have leaked a hazardous amount of _industrial strength_ alcohol into the hold, producing an explosion hazard.
Holy crap! I tried to eat an acorn once, when I was a kid, cuz someone said you can eat them. I grabbed one off the ground and cracked it open with my teeth and it was disgusting and inedible, so I wrote it off as a lie from that day forth....I canNOT believe it was ACTUALLY TRUE!!! You, sir, just reminded me of a time when I was innocent AND stupid. Thank you for that~
Speaking of. I asked my mom about seahorses and she thought I meant sea monkeys and told me they didn’t exist. I was in my 20’s before I found out they really are real. I felt like I’d found a unicorn.
Yes, my great grandparents knew this and made flour and coffee also. Their knowledge wasn't passed down to my generation, and I'm 60. Excellent video. Thank you!! ❤
@@tracynorris5012 It's similar to grain based coffee substitutes that have chicory added to mimic the bitterness of coffee. Aromatic malty and slightly tangy flavours with a bit of bitterness? It's hard to describe flavours. ^^
I have heard that when pilgrims came to USA they didn't have wheat and so on to make bread, so they made it from acorn flower, and i heard as part of a thanksgiving tradition some people still buy acorn flour and all for thanksgiving, that stores actually sell it. I never tried eating acorn or use acorn flour before or seen anyone mention how to process them to now. Seeing how the processing is preformed to remove the tannin is very interesting!
We used to make acorn flour as kids just for the heck of it. We became obsessed with self-discovery survival techniques. I was very lucky to have a forest to explore every day.
@@kingurameshi2183 I don't know, I had boiled peanuts since moving down to florida where they do this more often in the south and it tastes amazing. There is this place where they boil them in a salty and spicey water and when you eat them they are soft and full of flavor with a kick to them. It's impossible to really explain to someone who never had them, but they taste so good. I can imagine then with the right amount of salt and all that they would taste just fine.
I cold-leached some acorns once, using mason jars in my fridge. The leftover water was pinkish brown and had the most amazing fragrance, like a very expensive shampoo. I want to figure out some way to use that water that will capture the smell. Maybe I could make soap with it? The acorns, by the way, were not worth the trouble. They taste like licking stamps. For people who want to try acorns, but live in a city, Korean or pan-asian markets often sell acorn flour. Like I said, it tastes like stationery supplies, but apparently it helps you lose weigh because it's very filling. I think lambas bread in LOTR was probably made from acorns.
The acorn "flour" one sees sold in Korean markets is not actually flour but acorn starch. Its flavor and consistency will be very different from actual acorn flour. It's similar to the difference between cassava flour and cassava starch, also known as tapioca.
fun fact too, there are white oaks and red/black oaks. The acorns from red or black oaks have much higher levels of tannins in them, so when squirrels go collecting, they'll eat the white acorns first and wait until the spring thaw to eat the red ones. Notice that that means burying them and letting lots of water run past them, which would at least partially get rid of the tannins the same way this guy does.
@@keithmarlowe5569I'm guessing you gotta find a male tree. I'm guessing they are somewhere around the first set of branches. Not to sure of tree anatomy! But you won't find nuts on a female tree!
@@keithmarlowe5569pinion pines are easy to harvest nuts from, you pick mature pine cones from pinion trees in late fall. Most western states have at least some pinion forests (Pygmy forest). Place cones in burlap sacks and set in the sun to dry, when dry the nuts will fall out of the cones and still be in the bag! Very concentrated carbs! Yummmm
Throwback to when I was 7 and had read that in the Middle Ages people would make flour from acorns. It got me curious about the taste, but I had quite a strict upbringing and couldn't make flour discreetly, so one day at recess I just peeled and ate an acorn. It was indeed very bitter, but you can't believe how delighted I am to have seen this video bc I realize I can now taste acorns with more enjoyment.
@@4.0.4 "do your homework instead" (=learning by heart what was written in the school manual+10 more exercises than given by the teachers, so that was long), "that's stupid", "stop making a mess" (peeling an acorn would have been considered a stupid mess) and "you're gonna set the house on fire" (even when no fire was involved, and even when as a 19yo I simply made an omelette in the microwave -I wasn't allowed near an oven and after a few hard slaps I just stopped trying). So, long story short, a literally crazy upbringing. Anyways, got my acorns yesterday, I'll bake them next week!! 😃
@@claida339i mean they're right... Trying to eat acorns is not just weird but it is in fact a mess and stupid. Nothing crazy about it. Also fairly unsafe
I used to love doing this as a kid growing up in the woods in Maryland. Mom thought I was nuts! But I’d read about doing it in one of my Little House On The Prairie books and figured out the process! I’d make breads and snacks and stuff and Pa thought it was pretty cool!
A different twist on the native technique: grind them up into a paste then put the paste into a cloth wrap dm tie it off then leave in a running River for a day. A bit of salt lard or bacon grease and it Makes amazing tortillas. I mix in rehydrated beef jerky or squirrel, snake, etc. To make travel bars during longer expeditions. A friend of mine talked about making it into flour and baking bread with juniper yeast.
@@AnAZPatriot 1 pot is all that's necessary. 2 pots were used to speed up the process. If a person willfully enters deep woods, and gets stranded without the most basic of equipment on them, that's just natural selection unfortunately
I once had to participate in a parade with my HS JROTC class. As we were getting ready to march I watched this fat guy wearing BDUs(wasn't even in the parade) standing around in the parking lot peeling acorns with his knife and eating them. I was like, "hey look at that fat guy eating acorns"
I live in the Northeast, among a family of red oak. I have in the past harvested the red oak acorns for consumption and made acorn meal from them. The processes I used in removing the tannens was long, since red oak has hugher amounts of tannens then other oak species. Its a processes but the results turned out great in the end. Ive made wholesome acorn cookies from them. Depending on the harvest in the fall, I plan on making a loaf of bread next. Acorns I found kinda tast like chestnuts or a hazelnut.
I grew up with two miles of woodland behind my childhood home. Some times my friends & I we're having so much fun, we didn't want to stop our games to go home for lunch. We would eat acorns, hazel nuts, blackberries & hawthorn berries!! Acorns are very bitter, & the hawthorn berries weren't much better! A very dry texture. We used to drink the water from the stream that ran through the woods!!! Yep, 80s kids knew how to have fun!!!!
I remember during our native american history unit in elementary school we learned traditional recipes from the local tribes... I never realized how much work went into acorns before then! It blew my young mind.
I've heard that natives would bit then in some kind of sack with rocks and leave them in a creek for a few days to leach the tannins. Takes longer out way less labor than the boiling method.
Me too!! I grew up in Yosemite and a big part of going to school there was also learning about the culture of the Miwok, and we were told that acorns was actually a big part of their diet, and they basically did the same thing as this guy, but they actually mashed them up first on basically a mortar style rock they made called a chaw'se, until it became like a meal texture. Then they'd start filtering it with both cold and hot water until it was ready to eat, basically as a soup or porridge
Wow thanks for actually teaching me something! I’m so tired of those “bushcraft” people that just put like Tuna oil in a shoe with a wick and then light it on fire.
turns out that tannins can be used for many things including: clarifying wine, tanning leather, as an anticorrosive to deal with oxidation of metals like iron, the dyeing of cottons, resins rendered from it can absorb mercury and strangely enough can seperate uranium from sea water. The more you know!
@@SiMe-ht3pm that's a pretty big leap from tannins have alot of uses, I mean an even better example would be Hydrogen since it's our most basic element, But even then to conclude that because hydrogen bonds to oxygen to make water which is the one of the most important elements of life, that somehow we can conclude a god made it that way is still a leap. It's equally likely that a quantum banana did it. And when you say god, which are you referring to, Nroca the god of acorns?
Natives didn't cook them to leach them, they left them in baskets in streams or rivers for 2 weeks with fresh water flowing over them. Then pounded and shifted them into flour and leached them again if still bitter.
The neighbors already wonder about me due to hanging my clothes out to dry, having backyard chickens, gardening elderberry, herbs & veggies & cooking in my solar oven & out back over the fire in the fire pit nightly…now we will add gathering acorns in the front yard 😂😂😂🙌🏼
Only if you teach them something useful. This is only useful if you're lost in the wood with pots, lids, and access to clean water. And even then, not always
@@nono-ch8oy…obviously it’s gonna be useful with the items demonstrated in the video which is…why they were shown and used kn the first place. Completely useless comment
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My Great Great Uncle was a Southern Calvary officer during the Civil War. Family lore has it he survived after the fall of Atlanta for 2 weeks on boiled acorns in the forests. Now the boiled part makes sense.
This guy is my favorite. I would've loved having all of this information at my fingertips as a kid in the 90s. I used to have to learn this type of stuff from books.
Haha YES!! I used to hoard old Bushcraft books and even, like, "Household Hints" books with advice on home repair, cooking, first aid, etc. using "common household items" (many of which were pretty uncommon by the time I was reading them in the late 80s/early 90s 😅)
25 yr old suburban living girl here, that dreams of the wild west home style ranch life and this is wholesome! Thank you for the step by step guide and sharing your wisdom on acorn indulgence!!!
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@@82726jsjsufhejsjshshdjso As a Leather crafter, I use almost exclusively 'Vegetable Tanned' leather which uses tannins mostly from tree bark, but also several other forms of vegetation. There is also Chrome Tanned leather, which uses much harsher chemicals, is much faster and cheaper and leaves a softer product. Chrome Tanned leather is common in upholstery, and garments, but the chemicals will rust and corrode metals. One survivalist form is 'Brain Tanning' which involves boiling the leather in the brains of the critter that wore it first (no lie). lol
Your style reminds me of two of my childhood heroes, Ray Mears and Les Stroud. No nonsense, straight-to-the-point old-timey bushcraft knowledge, complemented by (what I take to be) a dose of your own ingenuity. Thanks for doing what you do, man!
I'm a fellow fan of these guys, too. I learned so much from them. My favorite quote from Stroud was "The indigenous peoples of North America didn't leave many cave paintings. I guess they were too busy trying to eat."
That process of "washing" the acorns and removing the ones that float also works with other beans or grains. Being Asian, it is almost automatic to "wash" rice, corn, mung beans, or whatever grains before boiling or cooking them.
Don't think that's just an Asian thing. Not saying they don't exist, but don't think I've met anyone who doesn't wash them first. I learned from my mother, but pretty much every cookbook/video tells you to wash first.
@corndo9 in my experience, I never had issues with walnuts 🤷♀️ when I was younger, my family would gather them from the floor when they'd fall and then lay them out to dry in the sun for a few day. They have a thick fleshy outer layer that protects them. Once they'd dry out, we clean the layer off and when we wanted to eat them, we'd crack them open and take the actual edible part and toast it in the oven
Thank You!!! I tried to give you a like on the short videos section but I clicked away too quick. When I tried to find the video...I couldn't. So I looked in my Search History. In order to give you that like. You explained how to remove tannic acid or tannins from acorns really clearly. I Appreciate that.
@@WoodsboundOutdoorslove the videos… I was wondering if you’re going to make a video going over the uses for the birch oil you showed a few videos ago?
@@WoodsboundOutdoors You are most Welcome @woodsboundoutdoors!!! I learned from you today. I became interested in finding acorns or perhaps ordering acorn flour from a gourmet website. Thank You Again. Awesome Video. 🙏✌✊🙂
Glad I found you!!! Apparently tannin can cause headache too, I think there are tannins in red wine too ??? I'd love to learn all this stuff, my Irish mum taught me much, but oh how I wish I wrote down her old wives tales, they were not just spinning yarns.....much knowledge & handed down over generations & most medicine comes originally from plants. Fascinating ❤
I did this several times years ago, and this is really the best way to make them taste good. If you don't have a pot, you can use cloth and fresh cool water. Unfortunately, that takes about 7 days or more and isn't anywhere as good. The acid water, though, can be used to remove hair from hide and capes. When mixed with campfire ash, this solution works amazingly well. ✌️ Better than just ash.
So this gave me an idea. I make wine, so this is rather helpful to know. Plus I garden. I can get whole acorns leech the tannins and process it into a usable substabce for wine making, and add the shells into my compost or soil. Seems like a good way to reuse what would normally be wasted. I just wish there were wild acorns near me.
We had an oak tree outside my bedroom window growing up. Every year there were thousands of huge acorns blanketing the ground. If only I had this knowledge back then.
I'm so glad I live in the Sonoran Desert. The acorns I gather are ready to eat as is, very low tannin content. They go all the way from full on sweet with no tannins to still sweet but with a noticeable amount of tannins and bitterness. I've tried the boiled ones and they lose way too much flavor. The taste of a fresh sweet acorn is just incredible.
@@privatezim3637 Possibly both? For sure the trees are different. As for the soil maybe. I've had bellotas from Sonora, Arizona, and Chihuahua. Sonora/Arizona acorns are better than Chihuahua acorns. Much more sweeter with a more nuttier taste to them. Less tannins and bitterness. Chihuahua acorns on the other hand tend to be much more bitter. There's also the possibility that the growing conditions as they are desert adjacent. The growing areas experience desert level heat along with cold snowy winters. Because they are located on foothill/hill country they get more water than the surrounding desert but water is still on the scarce side.
Fun fact tannins is where the word tan comes from as in laying on the beach to darken your complexion. You could use the brown tannin water you dumped out and soak raw leather in it to give it a deeper brown/tan color. This also toughens and preserves the leather also known as tanning leather. Which later people used to describe the process of getting a sun tan.
I was looking for this comment. Any plant with tannins can be used this way. I've still got a crocodile skin I tanned (very poorly) using acacia bark from a tree that grew in the area
This is good to know. Up until now I thought acorns were high in arsenic. I had been told that native americans used to submerge them in mesh sack in rivers to wash the arsenic out. Whoever told me that had mistaken tannins for arsenic. Tannins are not just bitter, if you consume enough of them they will block your ability to absorb nutrients.
There was a acorn plantation on my farm and during winter I let my sheep graze there. They was fine for next summer and grow better than any other feed. You also get the best mushrooms under the trees. .
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For those of you who are curious, instead of pouring out the tannic acid (brown water) onto the ground, you can store that first pour and use it topically to treat poison ivy. In olden times, it was used to counteract ingested poisons because it blocks the digestive track's ability to absorb--including during WWI when it was used topically to counter mustard gas burns. It has a pH of 6.0, so it's not particularly caustic to have on the skin. Acorns are INCREDIBLY toxic to dogs.
this reply is awesome. learned a lot from this video and this comment, thank you :-)
Hello.
Thank You very much for this information.
And this left over liquid could be useful for tanning animal skins also, yes?
Great tip
Thanks
Nice extra tip here. Also, idk if there any nuts that aren't toxic to dogs. Before someone says peanuts, they aren't actually nuts.
Ever since I was a lil kid I've been yearning for a way to eat acorns, they just seem like a thing to eat.
Thank you.
Yes!
@@TheDuncskunk i would like to thank you for the clear explanations !! What about the taste of them? And can we make some flour to make some bread’s?? Are they good for health??
@angiekrajewski6419 Why Google AI has your answer in a heart beat, why not ask it?
After you get the tenant off, you can ground them up and use it like flour. Just have to adjust the recipe for them.
Been yarning for nuts for a long time have we
Pro tip. In a true survival situation, when boiling isn’t an option. Fashioning some kind of basket or netting, and putting them in a body of running water will work also. It will take about 2 days, but hey food is food. The native Americans used to use this method.
Damn! Thank you.
If you are in a real survival situation and aren’t able to boil water, you gotta shitty situation
@@Cuzzo317 Haha pray most people never learn to understand this joke.
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Which native Americans? Why do you people always lump all Indigenous peoples together. Either that or something is the "native American" word for something.
Imagine how much trial and error ancient people had to go through just trying to figure out how to make these edible.
Maybe they didn't eat them, but if they did boiling seems like a pretty basic cooking technique
A lot of trial and error was actually done by animals. Humans watched and learned what other mammals could and couldn't eat and followed along. And of course, then there's always a Bob who just said "F it" and ate some random stuff anyway
To be fair before spices and all the modern food flavors of today, including just the domestication of fruits, acorns might've been tastier back in the day... As we didn't know how "bitter" they were relative to our foods now.
I reckon... Everything tastes better when you're hungry, and when you're starving as humans have, bitterness becomes edible.
@Yugemos acorns have different species, the one he talks about is also common in Northern Europe to a point of being poisonous in larger quantities. But the ones near mediterrian are completely safe to eat without any extra steps. A really good winter snack when roasted with a sprinkle of salt also. I 100% recommended to try
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I can't believe that squirrel split a whole continent for this thing
Nice reference
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Not just split a continent. The damn thing created the solar system for a freaking acorn
Just think, without that squirrel we might have less division than today with every country being able to be reached without crossing the ocean.
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I never knew that the bad ones would float or that you could just boil them several times and make them edible great video
Yep, just to further explain why, they float because of off gassing caused from bacteria when eggs or acorns or anything that's tightly enclosed really, begins to rot.
Touch some fucking grass Jesus Christ 😂😂
@@bettywatson7987what do they taste like after all this is done?? I've tried a tiny piece of one, just off the tree and it was not good...lol .. I did not know anything about this process.... and we had about 467 trillion of them fall this year... sounded like hail on the roof... multiple times!!
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Floatation are usually due to rotten and hollow inside thus throwing away would be definitely applicable.
I don’t know why but it’s so cool to learn that bad acorns float. I also feel the urge to save this video just in case.
It’s because they have been infested with pests. As pest burrow into the nut they create air pockets that make the nut float
No only acorns, there's also some fruits that they float when they are bad and unsafe to eat
and eggs.
Eggs have this same rule
Same with black walnuts
This is the best, most concise method of explaining this process that I've ever heard or seen.
Yeah, they are delicious roasted that way, but have you ever ground them into flour and made bread from them, acorn bread is very tasty and good for you too. I am part native American and 63 years old, my grandma was almost full blood Cherokee and she taught me the plants in the wild that I can use for food, medicine, salves and pretty much all the different plants that grow in my area. It really comes in handy sometimes when you are out in the woods camping and hiking or hunting and you want a change from your everyday foods
YES! I have made acorn bread and it is delicious. I had to chop them up in a blender and then put them in cheese cloth--rinsing them until the water ran clear---but the bread was wonderful and my nephew still raves about it...
Sad the ways of these elders should be taught in schools. Instead, we got square dancing. Ya, that's something I can use for survival. ugh
@@chlomyster8526 yeah, I was very lucky growing up, spending time with my grandparents, I learned a lot from them, things that you can't get today's children away from the video games long enough to learn
Start a TH-cam channel. put out what you already know to work. You could even research and test other bushcraft remedies.
Create a website and share it with the world.
My eastern Kentucky grandma made cookies out of white oak acorns. Soft and warm with cinnamon, raisins and icing. They were and still are a tradition.
Did Gran have Native American blood? Yes or No she had a cool tradition.
Cool!
@@KindCountsDeb3773 were Anglo Saxon and Scotts Irish in descent so about as much as Elizabeth Warren. All I know is her grandma was making them 120 years ago in the same holler that I sit in now. A lot of the old ways still hang on out here.
This was very cool to read thank you
Does grandma mind sharing her recipe 😭thosecookies sound really really delicious
I never thought I'd actually want to eat acorns but damn those salted acorns looked good!!
Wow!
I got some salted nuts you can eat
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Ate them as a poor college student, my campus was full of acorns and they are really delicious. The main annoyance is a lot of acorns in my area had been eaten by bugs, so I had to crack and sort them out before boiling. Tastes really good in oatmeal!
If you put them in water and the floating ones are the bug ridden ones or rotten, undeveloped ones
eating acorns to survive college is funny for some reason
You are hopely graduated now!
Wow man and I thought college was rough
Where the hell did you go to college
In Europe, specially here in Portugal, many elderly will associate accorns to hunger since it was the only thing left to eat in times of scarcity. The traditional way to remove the tanines is to let the accorns in a basket being washed by a river or stream for a few days, then roast and ground as flour - it is very similar to rye flour!
is that with being shelled? very cool information
That sounds so much better than Finnish famine food - the bark of a pine tree 😂
@@garrett591unshelled.
You want the tannin to diffuse in the water.
Flavour?
Very interesting to know. I love rye flour, too :)
My grandad (for whatever reason) liked the "acorn coffee" he got used to during the depression and WW2, he used to come over to gather them, and teach me how to build and fix things around the house. It just tasted like burnt peanuts to me, but I can still almost smell the stuff when I'm working on my cars now. Miss ya Pap!
He probably grew to enjoy the drink because you have no choice but to enjoy what little you have during times of desperation (the great depression and ww2 being two of the biggest) and later on it probably served as a reminder of those times whilst also just being a nice drink because he was so used to it
RIP to him :)
Beautiful thing to remember ❤
Awesome story to share thanks
Maybe this is why we don’t eat acorns
That’s a great memory to have
The Miwok* people in California would grind acorns by streams so the continuously running water could leach the tannins out. When hiking in the Sierras it's pretty common to see old grinding holes worn into the granite.
*Edited spelling thanks to a helpful reply
Chaw’se.
Good info. Thats my neck of the woods
Yes I e heard they put them in burlap bags and let the river run through them for 3 days
im in the mountains of socal. same thing. lots of granite mortar holes.@@Icu-812-me2
oh that's so awesome
Genuinely useful tip. I didn't know if they were poisonous or just icky, but I definitely didn't put one in my mouth again after the first time as a kid.
I have a 100 yr old oak tree in my front yard. Before my husband and I moved to rural middle Tenn in 1996 from Atlanta. I did not know that humans could eat acorns. We had a bumper crop of acorns this year. We are currently being entertained every early morning and evening by a flock of 25 turkeys that spend about 45 minutes eating them. Now I have learned something new. Thanks so much...
I also have a tree that produces acorns in my backyard. I never knew anything about this either and I just always considered them a nuisance. During peak Fall I'd have to sweep my deck twice a week
Are the turkeys bitter? Or perhaps just cynical.
Having a bumper crop kinda means hard winter. I hope that's not the case for you
I always thought acorns were inedible and made your stomach hurt! Now I know why!
And I thought a bumper crop meant a bigger yield that year! Oh my!
@@pawpawmcraw Bumper crop down here in Texas also.
I'm Paiute. We make flour for bread with acorns. Learning to prepare acorn flour in the old way is definitely becoming a lost art. I sure as heck don't know how to do it, but my grandma did. She gave me a necklace with turquoise Oak leaves because Oak tress and their fruit (acorns) are sacred.
Well that's amazing! I hope you get to learn how to do it and carry on the tradition so it isn't lost. I hope to learn as well.
@@bethanychatman9531 I agree👍
We made Korean acorn cake. Its like corn polenta. Taste is all in the sauce that you pour on top.
dang it! I wanted to add the flour comment. i.m in the florida panhandle and my native neighbors are choctaws and seminoles and miccossukis. they all been doin' this for many a moon
What's paiute
You can also use the colored water for natural dye. It’s called acre and it can also be made into an ink. I’ve used acorns to dye wool for spinning and it turned out really pretty. I know it’s off topic but nature is awesome!
TIL I can eat acons and use the runoff as a natual dye.
Waste not etc....
Wonder if that tannic acid solution can be fermented or used as a tea.
A little off topic but still good to know
I think it's a great addition, thank you for sharing!
Being an Australian, acorns was only something I had seen on TV until I bought a house with a giant red oak tree in the back yard. I had no idea you could eat them, amazing. Now maybe i’ll collect them instead of leaving them for the cockatoos. Thank you.
Cockatoo throwing shade now.
You can eat so much if you cure it properly. In maine, US. They had a store that sold homemade acorn bars. I bought one. Its like a cashew, with a kinda different aftertaste.
Koreans eat them all the time. We make unsweetened jelly out of it and eat with soy sauce.
It's very healthy and tasty.
Goes well with Korean rice wine.
I remember making acorn jelly a few times with my parents. We would grind then rinse and soak repeatedly to remove the tannins, leaving just starch after filtering out the pieces.
Then we drained the excess liquid after letting the starches settle, and boiled the slurry, plated, then let it cool into a jelly.
Acorn jelly (dotori-muk) is a Korean struggle food popularized in the 16th century from when the people moved northwards to avoid Japanese invaders, but it's still made today as tradition. Pretty neat!
Amazing tradition to keep alive.
Isn't that a butter, not a jelly?
@@TotalDec No, dotori-muk is made of cooled and solidified acorn starches, so it behaves a lot like a thicker and more grainy version of jello, lol
16th century? No, you are mistaken. Archeologists found jars and other things to prepare acorns for eating in a Southeastern part of South Korea, dating to 5,000 years ago.
@@samsungelec964 I was more referencing the point at which the dish gained wider popularity. The recipe is definitely much older.
Most people have no idea how huge the acorn harvest was in The USA during the early colonial days when huge groves of red oak trees 20 feet around were all over the forests of South Carolina to Maine along with hickory trees and hickory nuts. The native people would dig holes near the edge of streams and line them with rocks and fill them for 100s of pounds of acorns and put on a "capstone" to mark the locations. As the rivers pushed water through the acorns this would leach out the tanins. These acorn stores would stay edible for over 1 year and if left all winter when the ice melted with the Spring thaw; the tribes knew they could return to their Spring hunting grounds with a large food supply already there to eat.
Wow! I had no idea. I wonder how many of those large acorn producing trees remain now.
thats so cool!
Oh my god...this is GOLD
You forgot the American Chestnut, which was nearly wiped out by an imported virus. They grew as big around as a redwood or live oak.
@@VaderHater1993It doesn't seem like there's many. I sure would like to find some
*some squirrel nearby* "Holy shit, something smells amazing."
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Very good!!
This is neat. An Aside. Save the tannin water if you can and boil it down. Soak three mason jars of bad acorns in it until soft, mash 'em and then mix again in the boiled down tannin water. add mixture to the three mason jars and place in a warm place for a for a few days( if it's colder, leave it be longer). Strain out the nut mash if you want to do so. The remaining liquid will hot dye(boil dye) cotton fabric (3 parts liquid to one part fabric by weight). This makes a brownpink, like the gills of a meadow mushroom. If you add to this mixture 1 part Iron oxide vinegar mix[ 50/50 rusty iron water/vinegar] It darkens to grey. Sometimes you can skip the rust water(keep the vinegar in) if you're boiling in a rusty kettle/pot. If you let it sit until cool after boiling the cloth in the mixture, you'll get a better color change. let fabric dry, then wash normally. If you have light/white cotton clothing in the woods, this will make them blend in darker spaces better, but remember cotton shrinks with heat. Be well.
I’m Navajo, during the Summers we use to heard our cattle and sheep into the mountains and live “off the grid” for the sunmer and live off the land. We made our own candles, stored smoked meat underground, bathed in ponds using yucca as soap, slept on sheep skin, made necklaces from pine needles and so much more. I miss those days.
Man, that sounds incredible. I’m glad to hear that you got to experience that kind of life, even if it was in summers long past.
Maybe you should take up candle making. Might be a nice way to relive those memories a little.
I want to know more. My people herd sheep into the mountains and similarly live there for the season making the milk into cheese that they smoke. I hated sleeping on the sheep skins. Tell us more about the pine needle necklaces. We use pine and fir branches to filter the cheese curds 😅.
Saludos
I’m Brazillian and we plant yucca but never heard to use it as a soap. I’m curious of the process
Beautiful memories
I don't think I'll ever use this knowledge but you sure didn't waste my time. If I ever need it, it is going to be the most valuable thing I know.
Indeed. It increases your chances of survival during the apocalypse ahah
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@theITGuy-no3nt Right....! Unless these nuts cure some kind of diseases, I would rather buy a bag and pack them in my backpack instead of wasting my time boiling nuts.
Elect kambabala, you'll need it.
You can survive more than a week without food.
About 3 days without water.
And about 10 minutes without oxygen...
Oak trees don't grow everywhere...
You mention the tannins make it taste bitter, but the more important thing to note is that the tannins are toxic and will make you sick if you eat them without the preparation method you showed.
Ya I was like, "I'll eat them when they're bitter because I don't want to do all that."
Yeah "bitter" is a big understatement. Like if I said drinking bleach is bad because it's bitter
@@sebaschan-uwu The best I could find is that you have to eat them in "large amounts" for them to have an ill effect, but there does not appear to be any studies about this saying what is "a large amount." I suspect you'll get enough of the astringency/bitterness of tannins before you poison yourself.
Well yeah, in the same way caffeine is toxic. You have to eat a stupid amount over a considerable period for anything to happen, and you'd probably puke long before anything actually adverse. Same way your gonna know when you've had too much caffeine BC you'll feel terrible.
Toxicity is currently believed to be from compounds associated with Tannins, not tannins themselves. Tannins are polyphenols and are antioxidants exibiting anticarcinogenic behavior more than anything. Everything has an LD50 where they become toxic, even water
-Someone with a Masters in Biology and enjoys their tea slightly bitter for the tannins
The bonus against rams and siege can be attributed to probability of hitting small gaps
If you leach them in cold water (takes much longer, and better to crush them into granules first) you can powder them and use as flour for baking bread, another traditional application is to make a porridge with them
Seems like a lot of work for very little rewards. Not lazy just practical.
@Lovehandle1339
Back in the day, if you wanted to eat, you sometimes had to work with what you could find in order to make food edible and useful. Nothing came prepackaged and food prep was done in the most practical manner possible. So, if you were too lazy to prep your food, you either starved or poisoned yourself. It's a matter of perspective. Young people today have things much easier. That's probably why you don't get it. 😊
Interesting!
@@Lovehandle1339I bet you are overweight.
@Lovehandle1339 yea just buy some all purpose flour from the store right 😂
I remember my Korean grandparents first came to America and were amazed that Americans did not eat any of the readily available forage in Central Park like acorns. It was once a delicacy in Korea because it was labor intensive and took so long to leech out the tanins. Now you can just buy acorn jelly powder!
I thought the same thing when i was homeless. People stealing and going to jail when we have a ton of food available for foraging. It wasn't till i started talking to people that i learned they didn't know how or were lazy. Or both lol
@@Almanatrixcongrats on being so resourceful and intelligent 🫡 wishing you the best ❤🎉
omg when i was a kid we would find chestnuts and walnuts i we were out n eat those if we got hungry lol.
@@ghostsheet777 I still eat the mulberries off the overhanging trees as I'm mowing my lawn. I grew up eating them off a huge tree outside my apartment when we lived in NYC. Chestnuts and walnuts are a great find!
@@Almanatrix if your truly homeless its hard to boil water and cook in most places you cant have a fire I was homeless and had a car working litteraly all day for doordash didnt have enough gas to go out of town just to cook on a fire lol
In Korea, we make jelly out of acorn flour. called dotori mook. pretty tasty
It's delicious!!
North Korea?
@@Mileznmiles not sure about the north but it's definitely eaten in the south
Yep. Can confirm. I grew up eating those too. They don't have much flavor on their own like tofu, but when you add soy sauce, chilly powder, sesame seeds, sesame oil, garlic, and scallions, they make a delicious, refreshing and healthy side dish low in carbs.
@@Mileznmiles racist much…
I wanted to say thank you for inspiring me. Your videos are always super useful and cool
As a California Native American.. acorns are a major part of our historical diet. I still make / eat acorn soup all the time.
Do you gather the acorns yourself?
Do you do the boilings like he does here?
What else do you put in the soup?
What does it taste like?
Can you give us the recipe for that please?
Is it nice? What else do you put in it?
Beautiful ❤
It's do your own Thing with 3 day rinsed Acorn then.
Thank you everyone who contributed to this video. This was so helpful and informative. I loved everything including the comments.❤❤❤
Acorns used to be a staple food for early Americans, they had caches and stashes of these thing across the continent. And we can use these to track the movement of the potato from its home in the Andes, because humans always dropped acorns for potatoes when they were an option. Additionally, red and white oak acorns have differing amounts of tannins, lesser in white and greater in red. White oak leaves have rounded lobes, and red have points at the tips of their lobes, so if you’re really lucky, hope to find a bur oak, they’ve got the biggest acorns at 1-2.5 inches across!
Explain the correlation to potatoes?
@@LameWaysArtistry easier to eat? no need to prep, you just cook em once and not like 5 or more times, so you waste less water. you know in the time the water was harder to find, like in winter where it freezes and smaller springs might freeze higher up so dry out in lower places.
also jus a better nutrient ratio
To answer your question, correlation, or similar situation, of acorns to potatoes is that both were used as long-term food insurance. As the people traveled, they could take the potatoes or acorns to eat on the way and to plant them as they stopped in different areas to propagate and spread for later use. Both grow easily by themselves.
Early americans are native americans not white american squatters! 😡
A clarification on the oak leaves: in _some_ oaks I've tried to identify, the "point" at the end of the lobe on the leaf looked more like a hair than something thorn-like (and it usually seemed to emerge from an "indentation" along the edge of the leaf), and it actually could wear down from abrassion (I looked at _a lot_ of oak leaves; unfortunately, I don't recall which species had these particular leaves). Thus, don't _immediately_ assume that something is a white oak just because you didn't find the point, as some red oaks can be deceptive until you look closer.
Some extras for anyone interested in this stuff:
1) If you want to identify an oak in the general sense, look for acorns, not at leaves- leaves can be used to identify one species from another, but there's so much variety that identifying "oak tree" in the vague sense is faster by looking for acorns- all oak species grow acorns, and only oaks grow acorns (feel free to correct me, I no longer get paid for this so I haven't continued researching).
2) White Oak and Red Oak are species, but when speaking of white and red oak it is normal to speak of the _groups_ of white oak species and red oak species rather than the individual species that "named" the groups; similarly, live oaks are a group of species (3? 5? Something like that) instead of just one species, all of which share the trait of being _evergreens_ in their native ranges.
3) In addition to the leaves "points", red oaks have unsealed tubes running through their wood, while in (most) white oak those same tubes (which get used to move sap in the younger layers of wood) get sealed up in the old wood- you can often use red oak as an inferior straw, but not white oak, which conversely means white oak is usually the better choice for anything holding liquids. This has been suggested as important for the Mary Celeste, as several of the barrels holding alcohol in her hold were discovered to have been made of red oak, and thus were likely to have leaked a hazardous amount of _industrial strength_ alcohol into the hold, producing an explosion hazard.
Not a survival thing but my granda roasts acorns and dusts them with cinnamon and brown sugar. Very good fall treat.
Holy crap! I tried to eat an acorn once, when I was a kid, cuz someone said you can eat them. I grabbed one off the ground and cracked it open with my teeth and it was disgusting and inedible, so I wrote it off as a lie from that day forth....I canNOT believe it was ACTUALLY TRUE!!! You, sir, just reminded me of a time when I was innocent AND stupid. Thank you for that~
Speaking of. I asked my mom about seahorses and she thought I meant sea monkeys and told me they didn’t exist. I was in my 20’s before I found out they really are real. I felt like I’d found a unicorn.
@@jeanine6328 I wish I could find a Unicorn...damn...
I did the same.
@@jeanine6328 sea monkeys exist to just not as youd imagine
@@jeanine6328 Seahorses for real look like some made up mythical shit as well
This easily might be the best outdoors channel I've seen in the past XY years. Thx.
i knew they were edible and after 43 years of knowing and not taking the initiative to research this myself, you just did it for me.
Tried it once And now I know what I did wrong “ and now I can get it right . Thanks for the valuable advice and sharing.
Yes, my great grandparents knew this and made flour and coffee also. Their knowledge wasn't passed down to my generation, and I'm 60. Excellent video. Thank you!! ❤
Seems alot of knowledge simply never got passed down to the next generation. Makes it harder to get a leg up.
But you want to keep a good amount of tannines for coffee. I just let them soak in a creek or similar overnight, dry and roast them the next day.
@@willguggn2 Oh, alright. Thank you. How does it taste?
@@tracynorris5012 It's similar to grain based coffee substitutes that have chicory added to mimic the bitterness of coffee. Aromatic malty and slightly tangy flavours with a bit of bitterness? It's hard to describe flavours. ^^
@@willguggn2 Ok, I'm gonna try it then. Blessings to you, Will ❣️
I have heard that when pilgrims came to USA they didn't have wheat and so on to make bread, so they made it from acorn flower, and i heard as part of a thanksgiving tradition some people still buy acorn flour and all for thanksgiving, that stores actually sell it. I never tried eating acorn or use acorn flour before or seen anyone mention how to process them to now. Seeing how the processing is preformed to remove the tannin is very interesting!
We used to make acorn flour as kids just for the heck of it. We became obsessed with self-discovery survival techniques. I was very lucky to have a forest to explore every day.
I imagine it tastes quite bland after all that boiling but I could see it being good as bread
@@kingurameshi2183 I don't know, I had boiled peanuts since moving down to florida where they do this more often in the south and it tastes amazing. There is this place where they boil them in a salty and spicey water and when you eat them they are soft and full of flavor with a kick to them. It's impossible to really explain to someone who never had them, but they taste so good. I can imagine then with the right amount of salt and all that they would taste just fine.
I can't imagine anyone not knowing about hot boiled peanuts. They're too good lol
@@zengrath take it from a born and bred southerner. You do not like boiled peanuts, you like salt. Salt that happens to be infused in boiled peanuts.
I cold-leached some acorns once, using mason jars in my fridge. The leftover water was pinkish brown and had the most amazing fragrance, like a very expensive shampoo. I want to figure out some way to use that water that will capture the smell. Maybe I could make soap with it?
The acorns, by the way, were not worth the trouble. They taste like licking stamps.
For people who want to try acorns, but live in a city, Korean or pan-asian markets often sell acorn flour. Like I said, it tastes like stationery supplies, but apparently it helps you lose weigh because it's very filling. I think lambas bread in LOTR was probably made from acorns.
They might taste that way because you cold leached them tbh. That, and usually they're used as a base for other things, like acorn flour for baking
The acorn "flour" one sees sold in Korean markets is not actually flour but acorn starch. Its flavor and consistency will be very different from actual acorn flour. It's similar to the difference between cassava flour and cassava starch, also known as tapioca.
Well, maybe try hot-leaching like the guy said to do😂
Yeah. Acorn flour made at home takes way too much time and way too much water. Just not cost effective.
You lose weight cos it tastes bad lol😂
Thank you VERY much as I have a huge 🌰🌰🌰🌰walnut harvest this year. I'll try this method with my crop.
And this is one of the best parts of youtube, watching some dude cook acorns and im all for it
This guy is so authentic. Like, he literally hangs out in the woods and does what he’s showing us.
Ironic?
Pretty hard to not do the thing that you are shaking someone?😂
@@Schuyler_Alton'Eh? 🤔
idk y i read the "authentic" as autistic
Went home and edited the next day after getting a good full night of rest and making a entire breakfast before edit time
Squirrel up in the trees behind him: "Come on bro...I got 6 mouths to feed" 😅
i love whistling with the tops of em
I always knew those squirrels were on to something
When you see 3 at a time on one branch they're DEFINITELY up to something that we can't discuss here 😳
That's just nuts.
fun fact too, there are white oaks and red/black oaks. The acorns from red or black oaks have much higher levels of tannins in them, so when squirrels go collecting, they'll eat the white acorns first and wait until the spring thaw to eat the red ones. Notice that that means burying them and letting lots of water run past them, which would at least partially get rid of the tannins the same way this guy does.
my tribe taught us how to harvest and eat acorns and pine nuts for survival. highly recommend looking up recipes for acorn bread
@@keithmarlowe5569I got a giant bag at Costco
@@keithmarlowe5569I'm guessing you gotta find a male tree. I'm guessing they are somewhere around the first set of branches. Not to sure of tree anatomy! But you won't find nuts on a female tree!
@@adamhalcyon3393holy smokes Im an idiot, was thinkin "since when do trees have sexes?" Then it hit me like a brick🤦♂️🤦♂️😂😂
My tribe taught us how to make improvised weapons and fight a successful gorilla war!
@@keithmarlowe5569pinion pines are easy to harvest nuts from, you pick mature pine cones from pinion trees in late fall. Most western states have at least some pinion forests (Pygmy forest). Place cones in burlap sacks and set in the sun to dry, when dry the nuts will fall out of the cones and still be in the bag! Very concentrated carbs! Yummmm
My grandfather did this when I was a child. Seeing this makes me miss him.
I know the feeling, but seeing this also reminded you of the time you had with him and that’s worth more than any money.
Ive never heard this explained and you did it so well and easy to understand, thanks!
Throwback to when I was 7 and had read that in the Middle Ages people would make flour from acorns. It got me curious about the taste, but I had quite a strict upbringing and couldn't make flour discreetly, so one day at recess I just peeled and ate an acorn. It was indeed very bitter, but you can't believe how delighted I am to have seen this video bc I realize I can now taste acorns with more enjoyment.
Wait what kind of strict upbringing would not let you experiment with foods? Like what would they tell you, "a child of mine doesn't cook"?
@@4.0.4 "do your homework instead" (=learning by heart what was written in the school manual+10 more exercises than given by the teachers, so that was long), "that's stupid", "stop making a mess" (peeling an acorn would have been considered a stupid mess) and "you're gonna set the house on fire" (even when no fire was involved, and even when as a 19yo I simply made an omelette in the microwave -I wasn't allowed near an oven and after a few hard slaps I just stopped trying).
So, long story short, a literally crazy upbringing.
Anyways, got my acorns yesterday, I'll bake them next week!! 😃
@@claida339 how'd they taste?
@@a_b_c1234 like joy and hazelnut
@@claida339i mean they're right... Trying to eat acorns is not just weird but it is in fact a mess and stupid. Nothing crazy about it. Also fairly unsafe
Squirrels looking like "bro the ONE thing we have:
😂 Right
Lol poor squirrels cant have nothin
I used to love doing this as a kid growing up in the woods in Maryland. Mom thought I was nuts! But I’d read about doing it in one of my Little House On The Prairie books and figured out the process! I’d make breads and snacks and stuff and Pa thought it was pretty cool!
A different twist on the native technique: grind them up into a paste then put the paste into a cloth wrap dm tie it off then leave in a running River for a day. A bit of salt lard or bacon grease and it Makes amazing tortillas. I mix in rehydrated beef jerky or squirrel, snake, etc. To make travel bars during longer expeditions. A friend of mine talked about making it into flour and baking bread with juniper yeast.
Who knew we could do this to sustain our lives if we were stranded in the wild? You show us so many useful things. Thank you so much!
Do you know how many times people have been stranded in the woods with two cooking pots?
@@AnAZPatriot 1 pot is all that's necessary. 2 pots were used to speed up the process.
If a person willfully enters deep woods, and gets stranded without the most basic of equipment on them, that's just natural selection unfortunately
You realize human beings lived in the woods for 10k years or more before we live in skyscrapers and complexes
@@shanejones578 lol I know right
People today act like
Humans never lived outside before!
😂
I once had to participate in a parade with my HS JROTC class. As we were getting ready to march I watched this fat guy wearing BDUs(wasn't even in the parade) standing around in the parking lot peeling acorns with his knife and eating them. I was like, "hey look at that fat guy eating acorns"
Thanks for sharing! In ancient China, people used acorns to produce fine starch, creating a delightful and nutritious food.
I live in the Northeast, among a family of red oak. I have in the past harvested the red oak acorns for consumption and made acorn meal from them. The processes I used in removing the tannens was long, since red oak has hugher amounts of tannens then other oak species. Its a processes but the results turned out great in the end. Ive made wholesome acorn cookies from them. Depending on the harvest in the fall, I plan on making a loaf of bread next. Acorns I found kinda tast like chestnuts or a hazelnut.
I grew up with two miles of woodland behind my childhood home. Some times my friends & I we're having so much fun, we didn't want to stop our games to go home for lunch. We would eat acorns, hazel nuts, blackberries & hawthorn berries!! Acorns are very bitter, & the hawthorn berries weren't much better! A very dry texture. We used to drink the water from the stream that ran through the woods!!! Yep, 80s kids knew how to have fun!!!!
For those who don't know:
In WW I and II they had to eat acorn, acorn bread, acorn flour etc. due to lack of food especially wheat. 🙂
I remember during our native american history unit in elementary school we learned traditional recipes from the local tribes... I never realized how much work went into acorns before then! It blew my young mind.
I've heard that natives would bit then in some kind of sack with rocks and leave them in a creek for a few days to leach the tannins. Takes longer out way less labor than the boiling method.
So they do the same thing?
Me too!! I grew up in Yosemite and a big part of going to school there was also learning about the culture of the Miwok, and we were told that acorns was actually a big part of their diet, and they basically did the same thing as this guy, but they actually mashed them up first on basically a mortar style rock they made called a chaw'se, until it became like a meal texture. Then they'd start filtering it with both cold and hot water until it was ready to eat, basically as a soup or porridge
I’ve always wanted to try this since I learned about the miwok in elementary school
SAME AS EGGS, if they float, they're bad. Thank you sir for helping to prep others for survival.
Floating eggs aren't bad, there's just extra air 😊
@@HerbalAmandaL They're old.
@@MsMuffetsTuffet exactly. But not necessarily bad 😀
If they float they probably have insect larva.
Just like humans.
Wow thanks for actually teaching me something! I’m so tired of those “bushcraft” people that just put like Tuna oil in a shoe with a wick and then light it on fire.
Make sure they are not near any police cars!😂
💯
I get that reference
Ha
AWWWWWWWWWWWWW SHIEEEEEEEEEEETTT!!!! 🤣
Shots fired! Shots fired! I'M HIT!!!
Acorns: Getting police fired since 2023.
That is funny.
damn. I just looked up that incident
Gold
This literally had me laugh
What happened
turns out that tannins can be used for many things including: clarifying wine, tanning leather, as an anticorrosive to deal with oxidation of metals like iron, the dyeing of cottons, resins rendered from it can absorb mercury and strangely enough can seperate uranium from sea water. The more you know!
Redstone automated acorn uranium farm on the beach
The whole system in its entirety works flawlessly with each other, do we still question the existence of God?
@@SiMe-ht3pm yes
Tannins are also good for your aquarium!
@@SiMe-ht3pm that's a pretty big leap from tannins have alot of uses, I mean an even better example would be Hydrogen since it's our most basic element, But even then to conclude that because hydrogen bonds to oxygen to make water which is the one of the most important elements of life, that somehow we can conclude a god made it that way is still a leap. It's equally likely that a quantum banana did it. And when you say god, which are you referring to, Nroca the god of acorns?
I always wished I could eat them as there were so many on the ground. I’m glad I saw this.
Natives didn't cook them to leach them, they left them in baskets in streams or rivers for 2 weeks with fresh water flowing over them. Then pounded and shifted them into flour and leached them again if still bitter.
Now I want to try acorn bread
They did similar with buckeyes as well.
@@ShadowGKCP LOL ahhh good older internet vibes
same thing you do with wood or botanicals for aquariums :)
🙄
The neighbors already wonder about me due to hanging my clothes out to dry, having backyard chickens, gardening elderberry, herbs & veggies & cooking in my solar oven & out back over the fire in the fire pit nightly…now we will add gathering acorns in the front yard 😂😂😂🙌🏼
I love your way of living ❤
That's normal in latin américa 🙃 don't worry
Respect
Yes!Haha my neighbors love though, always vegetables growing in the summer and I have tons of fruit trees not just a generous garden.
NUTS!
There are so many Acorns recipes in Korea. Especially, Acorn Jelly noodle is my favorite.
Visit and try. You will love it.
Thanks for showing us how to prep acorns for ingestion.
Much respect! Teach people something other than to fear or hate and they will respect you! from N.J.💪🏿💪🏿
Only if you teach them something useful. This is only useful if you're lost in the wood with pots, lids, and access to clean water. And even then, not always
Yes!!❤️✊🏾
@@nono-ch8oy…obviously it’s gonna be useful with the items demonstrated in the video which is…why they were shown and used kn the first place. Completely useless comment
@@GRIMM2197😊😅
What a stupid, liberal comment
I only knew about the cold leaching process, which takes a long time. Glad to know of a faster method. Thanx! 👍
This explains why the squirrels in my back yard keep boiling water. Seriously fun fact and I loved reading all the interesting comments.
this is AI,
most ai comments are a fake name with 4 numbers after and they have other AI who see it and like it pushing it to the top of the comment section very funny when you realise haha
@@JamesSmith-xk1fb
Does this mean I'm an A.I too?
@@JamesSmith-xk1fb Where did you pull that fact from? Your ass?
@@fajaradi1223
Yes, you're an AI too.
Just like Skynets AI machines can interact with humans and even pretend to be human themselves.
My Great Great Uncle was a Southern Calvary officer during the Civil War. Family lore has it he survived after the fall of Atlanta for 2 weeks on boiled acorns in the forests. Now the boiled part makes sense.
This guy is my favorite. I would've loved having all of this information at my fingertips as a kid in the 90s. I used to have to learn this type of stuff from books.
Me too. 'Stalking the Wild Asparagus', lol!
Haha YES!! I used to hoard old Bushcraft books and even, like, "Household Hints" books with advice on home repair, cooking, first aid, etc. using "common household items" (many of which were pretty uncommon by the time I was reading them in the late 80s/early 90s 😅)
My parents had a row of encyclopedia's that you would pick from to learn how to fix what you were doing
25 yr old suburban living girl here, that dreams of the wild west home style ranch life and this is wholesome! Thank you for the step by step guide and sharing your wisdom on acorn indulgence!!!
Yeah!
Then when you get that farm house with acreage….you discover you’re 70-ish and your energy ran away a long time ago. 😂😂😂😂😂😢
Are you single? Are you trad pilled? Are you ready to be a trad waifu that I can brag about to all my followers on my Instagram meme page? (I'm a niche micro celebrity, kinda a big deal) if you answered yes I can send you a friend request on steam to play hearts of iron 4 together.
Acorn has been Korean traditional side dishes for hundreds of years. Made it into jelly and served with seasoned vegetables with rice.
Ewww 🤮
Why is there always someone mentioning something about Korea in food videos ? Lmao !
@@rvnhty what’s wrong with mentioning that the food featured in the video is eaten in a certain culture?
@@batacumba Nothing it’s just weird that there’s always someone mentioning Korea in every food video.
You mean Japanese Empire Korea ?
This Man probably saved some one's life with this tip! 👍
And the water used to boil them can be used to tan skins into leather.
“Tanning leather”… Tanins. I’m 40, never put that together on my own.
That’s where you get tanning from.
@@russcooke5671 and "tan"
@@82726jsjsufhejsjshshdjsoI’m not 40 but that was also an OH moment for me. It seems obvious now but I also never realized this.
@@82726jsjsufhejsjshshdjso As a Leather crafter, I use almost exclusively 'Vegetable Tanned' leather which uses tannins mostly from tree bark, but also several other forms of vegetation.
There is also Chrome Tanned leather, which uses much harsher chemicals, is much faster and cheaper and leaves a softer product. Chrome Tanned leather is common in upholstery, and garments, but the chemicals will rust and corrode metals.
One survivalist form is 'Brain Tanning' which involves boiling the leather in the brains of the critter that wore it first (no lie). lol
“Wow, that’s bad” that cut had me in stitches 😂😂😂😂😂😂
In stitches? You are some HARD-CORE youtube shorts watcher expert kid
Was it really that funny?
@@Gerald0613 bro thinks his comments gonna go viral
@@rohanschmitz5550 like mine that went viral, on pew de pie
Why? Its bitter. How is that funny?
Fascinating. Really interesting. I’m 48 and love learning new things. Thank you for sharing this.
The human who figured it out was pretty awesome
Your style reminds me of two of my childhood heroes, Ray Mears and Les Stroud. No nonsense, straight-to-the-point old-timey bushcraft knowledge, complemented by (what I take to be) a dose of your own ingenuity. Thanks for doing what you do, man!
I'm a fellow fan of these guys, too. I learned so much from them. My favorite quote from Stroud was "The indigenous peoples of North America didn't leave many cave paintings. I guess they were too busy trying to eat."
Three cheers for Ray Mears
there are so many bad survivalists on youtube its nice to see a good one for a change
Les Stroud was caught staying in hotels and eating at restaurants while he was supposedly surviving off the land in his tv show
@@sheilal.7284 I thought that was Bear Grylls who did that?
That process of "washing" the acorns and removing the ones that float also works with other beans or grains. Being Asian, it is almost automatic to "wash" rice, corn, mung beans, or whatever grains before boiling or cooking them.
Don't think that's just an Asian thing. Not saying they don't exist, but don't think I've met anyone who doesn't wash them first. I learned from my mother, but pretty much every cookbook/video tells you to wash first.
does the float thing also work with nuts like walnuts?
@corndo9 in my experience, I never had issues with walnuts 🤷♀️ when I was younger, my family would gather them from the floor when they'd fall and then lay them out to dry in the sun for a few day. They have a thick fleshy outer layer that protects them. Once they'd dry out, we clean the layer off and when we wanted to eat them, we'd crack them open and take the actual edible part and toast it in the oven
@@anng7960 ah, I see. It might be a problem with the nuts in my area. And also I only buy ones that are already removed from their shells
I never test my walnuts with floating I just eat them off the ground
Thank You!!! I tried to give you a like on the short videos section but I clicked away too quick. When I tried to find the video...I couldn't. So I looked in my Search History. In order to give you that like. You explained how to remove tannic acid or tannins from acorns really clearly. I Appreciate that.
Thank you and glad you enjoyed 👍
@@WoodsboundOutdoorslove the videos… I was wondering if you’re going to make a video going over the uses for the birch oil you showed a few videos ago?
@@WoodsboundOutdoors You are most Welcome @woodsboundoutdoors!!! I learned from you today. I became interested in finding acorns or perhaps ordering acorn flour from a gourmet website. Thank You Again. Awesome Video. 🙏✌✊🙂
@@nathancox907 please fix your comment that is not what you meant
@@nathancox907 Birth oil? What?
Finally after 2hrs a actually educational video
Thank you!!! I did not how long the leaching process was or that the bad ones float. So excited for next fall!
Glad I found you!!! Apparently tannin can cause headache too, I think there are tannins in red wine too ???
I'd love to learn all this stuff, my Irish mum taught me much, but oh how I wish I wrote down her old wives tales, they were not just spinning yarns.....much knowledge & handed down over generations & most medicine comes originally from plants.
Fascinating ❤
I did this several times years ago, and this is really the best way to make them taste good. If you don't have a pot, you can use cloth and fresh cool water. Unfortunately, that takes about 7 days or more and isn't anywhere as good. The acid water, though, can be used to remove hair from hide and capes. When mixed with campfire ash, this solution works amazingly well. ✌️ Better than just ash.
So this gave me an idea. I make wine, so this is rather helpful to know. Plus I garden. I can get whole acorns leech the tannins and process it into a usable substabce for wine making, and add the shells into my compost or soil. Seems like a good way to reuse what would normally be wasted. I just wish there were wild acorns near me.
We had an oak tree outside my bedroom window growing up. Every year there were thousands of huge acorns blanketing the ground. If only I had this knowledge back then.
Why? most acorns are full of worms and bug eggs. Don't waste your time , buy some cashews and save hours of your life. These taste like shit.
Excellent! all the info we needed in a short video with no ads,instead of useless blabbing for an hour! Wish all videos were like this. ❤
I'm so glad I live in the Sonoran Desert. The acorns I gather are ready to eat as is, very low tannin content. They go all the way from full on sweet with no tannins to still sweet but with a noticeable amount of tannins and bitterness. I've tried the boiled ones and they lose way too much flavor. The taste of a fresh sweet acorn is just incredible.
What type of oak tree makes them?
@@FatalDreidel White, Emory, and scrub oak, plus I think there might be two more. The Emory acorn is the one that is the sweetest.
@@m.b.8446 Is it the tree that's different or the soil? I'm really curious.
Yup it's good as it is.
@@privatezim3637 Possibly both? For sure the trees are different. As for the soil maybe. I've had bellotas from Sonora, Arizona, and Chihuahua. Sonora/Arizona acorns are better than Chihuahua acorns. Much more sweeter with a more nuttier taste to them. Less tannins and bitterness. Chihuahua acorns on the other hand tend to be much more bitter. There's also the possibility that the growing conditions as they are desert adjacent. The growing areas experience desert level heat along with cold snowy winters. Because they are located on foothill/hill country they get more water than the surrounding desert but water is still on the scarce side.
Thank u for the most important tip “ Its highly for dogs”🌷
Fun fact tannins is where the word tan comes from as in laying on the beach to darken your complexion. You could use the brown tannin water you dumped out and soak raw leather in it to give it a deeper brown/tan color. This also toughens and preserves the leather also known as tanning leather. Which later people used to describe the process of getting a sun tan.
I was looking for this comment. Any plant with tannins can be used this way. I've still got a crocodile skin I tanned (very poorly) using acacia bark from a tree that grew in the area
This is good to know. Up until now I thought acorns were high in arsenic. I had been told that native americans used to submerge them in mesh sack in rivers to wash the arsenic out. Whoever told me that had mistaken tannins for arsenic. Tannins are not just bitter, if you consume enough of them they will block your ability to absorb nutrients.
I had no idea! Thank you for sharing.
There was a acorn plantation on my farm and during winter I let my sheep graze there. They was fine for next summer and grow better than any other feed. You also get the best mushrooms under the trees.
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Don't eat mushrooms around oak trees
@@SladeLawrence very good advice but if you know what you looking for no problem.
Wow, I didn't know that Acorns are edible!! You learn something new everyday.
They're not
@@ArixSageuh, yes they are? what are you yapping about
@@user-vz5lw2pu8t there's so much processing that has to be done so you don't die from eating it