I remember reading somewhere that Native Americans would sit a basket of acorns in a clean flowing stream. I assume this was to remove the tannic acid.
I live in West central Wisconsin and the acorns were HUGE, but I've never seen acorns as big as the ones in your video! Where on earth do you live??!!!!!
True story: My recommended list has this video right next to a snobby British guy talking about how millionaires customize their Rolls Royces. At least CZcams got this one right for me.
As per an anthropology course I took at CCNY, there were Sacramento Indians (CA). They were told to move one day. The army/Calvary came back to move them. Every trace of this tribe was gone...they supposedly were never seen again. This tribe worshiped the acorn, ate it, etc. The acorn to them supposedly represented life. Their houses had a 15' -20' diameter roof supported by vertical poles around the circumference & in the center, no walls. The roof was peaked at the center. I've tried to research the Sacramento Tribe but cannot find anything about them.
I never knew there were bigger acorns, out there!! I thought they were all "squirrel size"! And did not know, you could make flour, out of acorns...I would actually pay, to try this, as I alas, don't have the patience to do something like this, lol!
I have been considering extracting oil from acorns with my oil press. In theory, this should help dry out the acorn and leave a very finely broken meat for flour right? or is it more ideal to leave the oil in for the flour?
Two things stand out for me: 1- those are some huge nuts. 2- I did a double-take on those plates... I have the same set -- Corelle -- and it's a discontinued pattern. And FWIW, I actually collected some acorns this fine October afternoon.
I live in Arkansas and we have red and white oak trees on our property and the deer and squirrels love them and I only tried eating them once and the bitter taste stopped me from eating any more. We also have hickory and black walnut trees and when growing up ate plenty of them and since retiring have thought of eating them again since we have so many trees and plenty of nuts on them. I will try eating the acorns again and this time make sure only the good part is kept and thanks for sharing this information on how to save them.
I am a senior gent that grew up in Arkansas. I was never able to get past the first bite of an acorn due to the awful bitter taste. I often wondered how animals could eat them. Interesting video.
If I remember correctly, from my Boy Scout's of America handbook, the acorns must be placed in a basket and running water washed through the baskets in a series of washings. Or the acorns must be boiled until the tannin in the acorns are removed. All of this is necessary to get rid of the tannin inorder to make a acorn breadstuff. Tannin can be used to make a remedy for a headache.
You have some HUGE acorns there! What sort of oak tree produces them? Out here in Calif, we use mostly black oak and white oak acorns. We sometimes use the golden oak acorn too, but they are much harder to pound. Water oak acorn are big, like yours, but they don't thicken up into mush on cooking.
There was one tree down the road hat produced these huge white acorns. Then a developer came and clear cut the land to put up a housing development. Now all we have left in the area is small red and white acorns.
Several years ago I was visiting in Hoopa, CA...home of the Hupa Native American tribe...they had a big meal spread out at the Firehall and they invited me to attend. One of the ladies bragged about her acorn soup and I would have to have a big bowl of it because it was so good. So, I took a couple large ladles full and proceeded to eat it....I have NEVER tasted anything so AWFUL in my life that was supposed to be so wonderful...I was watching some of the other folks there...they were steering clear of this acorn soup....I could see why....No more of that crap for me! When I felt no one was looking, I scraped the vast majority of the soup into a garbage barrel.
Last year I had a bumper crop of white acorns and so I collected a whole bunch. They ended up getting mold so I threw them back out into the yard. Next time I will shell them first. Thanks for the tip!
Wow, they are so huuge!! Do You know from what specific kind of oak trees they grow? Here in central europe, the biggest acorns are about as big as the fingertip of a thumb - very much smaller than this ones. (I think (no, I know) that I need to grow at least one of those Oak trees in my forest.)
When I was a kid I once tasted an acorn. Never again... In school we were told you can't eat them, only wild boars eat them. Instead of acorns we looked for edible chestnuts and walnuts.
What sort of acorns are the ones pictured? The White Oaks in our area of Northern Indiana produce acorns about the size of a quarter at the largest. Most no bigger than a nickel.
I tried eating an acorn as a kid and it was vile. However, we only have English Oak, which produces far smaller acorns. So once processed and baked, what does it taste like?
Each of those acorns is like 10 of the ones here! Not everything is bigger in Texas I guess? I’ve heard these trees call scrub oak, some post oak, they are not the big oaks on tv. These grow sideways sometimes and are curved. Anyway, they produce a lot of acorns, tiny ones.
Acorns have so much bitterness that you have to wash out. I had to leave crushed acorns in water for days before they were even remotely palatable. Even if they taste horrible, they can be used for chicken/rabbit feed, and they make excellent fuel because of the oil content.
Wow, those acorn are either gigantic or these people are like 4 feet tall ?! :-) Our acorn are about 1/4 of that size and they are great for feeding it to the pigs and then have sausage, bacon&beans :-) The deer like the acorns as well and we like the deer :-)
During WWII the Germans (who were essentially blockaded by the Royal Navy from importing anything by sea) used a mixture of acorns and chicory to make artificial coffee.
What about other species of acorn (oak) like a englemann oak acorns? I read something that suggested indgenious people camped near these yet hiked a long ways off to harvest some other acorns (forgot which) which maybe explains the all the non engelmann and engelmann hybrids we have In our area that is supposed to be all engelmann oak ....DANG do we get a ton of accorns though! SO many! (we have like 50-100 trees some huge some babies)
What kind of 'acorns' are these? The acorns I know are basically just slightly bigger hazelnuts in size. These are three to four times longer than any I've ever seen.
Acorn flour may be far more nutritious than most store bought flour, but it's not as versatile. There are a surprising number of modern foods that call for flour, which actually require gluten in order for the food to come out right, and acorn flour contains 0% gluten. So, to make any of those foods (pasta and yeast-leavened bread, just to name a couple examples) with acorn flour, you'd need to add either gluten, or some sort of gluten replacer.
After removing the shells are you saying you have to wait. Of time to let them dry before you consume them. Can you consume them in a survival situation is soon as they are deshelled
Wondered why so bitter as a kid. Would take a bite without removing the brownish covering and just throw away. Ours were so small. Hated landing on them jumping off swing as a kid. Ouch!
lived in the upper midwest and never saw anywhere near that size. Squirrels must be the size of raccoons.
Wow! Those are the biggest acorns I have ever seen...
Nothing can beat the older documentaries. Enjoyed it while gaining knowledge, thank you !!!
Im not even sure why im watching this, we don't even have acorns where I live lol
Those look more like potatoes than any acorn I've ever seen!
Took me a few days. Changed the water every day.
They tasted like raw peanuts. Didn't do any harm. Also tried nettles. They tasted like spinach.
"If you find a live weevil, fry it up." -- hard core!!
I remember reading somewhere that Native Americans would sit a basket of acorns in a clean flowing stream. I assume this was to remove the tannic acid.
I live in West central Wisconsin and the acorns were HUGE, but I've never seen acorns as big as the ones in your video! Where on earth do you live??!!!!!
Fascinating! I grew up thinking they were inedible. Man these are HUGE!!!!
True story: My recommended list has this video right next to a snobby British guy talking about how millionaires customize their Rolls Royces.
At least CZcams got this one right for me.
A very good video. Lots of information. As far back as I can remember, I have never tasted acrons, but I would like to some day.
As per an anthropology course I took at CCNY, there were Sacramento Indians (CA). They were told to move one day. The army/Calvary came back to move them. Every trace of this tribe was gone...they supposedly were never seen again. This tribe worshiped the acorn, ate it, etc. The acorn to them supposedly represented life. Their houses had a 15' -20' diameter roof supported by vertical poles around the circumference & in the center, no walls. The roof was peaked at the center.
I've tried to research the Sacramento Tribe but cannot find anything about them.
Holy CRAP!!! Those are the biggest acorns I've ever seen! (Southern California Native).
I never knew there were bigger acorns, out there!! I thought they were all "squirrel size"! And did not know, you could make flour, out of acorns...I would actually pay, to try this, as I alas, don't have the patience to do something like this, lol!
I have been considering extracting oil from acorns with my oil press. In theory, this should help dry out the acorn and leave a very finely broken meat for flour right? or is it more ideal to leave the oil in for the flour?
Two things stand out for me: 1- those are some huge nuts. 2- I did a double-take on those plates... I have the same set -- Corelle -- and it's a discontinued pattern. And FWIW, I actually collected some acorns this fine October afternoon.
Really Nice description. I never knew about the outer bitter covering. Some nice tips! Now you've got me thinking about ordering the DVD.
Thanks !
I live in Arkansas and we have red and white oak trees on our property and the deer and squirrels love them and I only tried eating them once and the bitter taste stopped me from eating any more. We also have hickory and black walnut trees and when growing up ate plenty of them and since retiring have thought of eating them again since we have so many trees and plenty of nuts on them. I will try eating the acorns again and this time make sure only the good part is kept and thanks for sharing this information on how to save them.
I am a senior gent that grew up in Arkansas. I was never able to get past the first bite of an acorn due to the awful bitter taste. I often wondered how animals could eat them.
Interesting video.
nice video. My problem living in Denmark is that it is allmost impossible to find a clean stream, so i dont know hov to do the detanning.
If I remember correctly, from my Boy Scout's of America handbook, the acorns must be placed in a basket and running water washed through the baskets in a series of washings. Or the acorns must be boiled until the tannin in the acorns are removed. All of this is necessary to get rid of the tannin inorder to make a acorn breadstuff. Tannin can be used to make a remedy for a headache.
Those are some HUGE acorns. The ones I've seen are about the size of a nickel.
I remember trying an acorn as a kid, maybe 4 years old. Spat it out immediately.
I've never seen acorns that big!
Good narration and production quality!
Thanks !
Got my order in..thank you!
Thank you sir !
Thanks mine were bitter and I didnt know why until you told me you have to remove the skin under the shell next years bread will be much better
Different oaks produce different flavors of acorn. Some white oak acorns have very little tannin and can be eaten raw.
I've never seen acorns that size. And "no thanks" to eating fried weevils. I'm not THAT hungry!
Those are some good size acorns!
You have some HUGE acorns there! What sort of oak tree produces them? Out here in Calif, we use mostly black oak and white oak acorns. We sometimes use the golden oak acorn too, but they are much harder to pound. Water oak acorn are big, like yours, but they don't thicken up into mush on cooking.
There was one tree down the road hat produced these huge white acorns. Then a developer came and clear cut the land to put up a housing development. Now all we have left in the area is small red and white acorns.
I have a basket of these but they kept sprouting. I'm going to have to try this! 💐Jen
What about using a manual coffee grinder to grind acorns? Would that work?
Eloquently delivered. Brava!
LOL just add the weevils to your stirfry, hahaha.
This is well made. Thank you.
Very cool thank you. Those are the biggest acorns I've ever seen
I have those exact same plates. Bought new in the late 70s or early 80s. 😊
ten times the size of our acorns!
We have acornseverywhere, I never new you could ear them!
Several years ago I was visiting in Hoopa, CA...home of the Hupa Native American tribe...they had a big meal spread out at the Firehall and they invited me to attend. One of the ladies bragged about her acorn soup and I would have to have a big bowl of it because it was so good. So, I took a couple large ladles full and proceeded to eat it....I have NEVER tasted anything so AWFUL in my life that was supposed to be so wonderful...I was watching some of the other folks there...they were steering clear of this acorn soup....I could see why....No more of that crap for me! When I felt no one was looking, I scraped the vast majority of the soup into a garbage barrel.
Last year I had a bumper crop of white acorns and so I collected a whole bunch. They ended up getting mold so I threw them back out into the yard. Next time I will shell them first. Thanks for the tip!
And then how do you eat them?)
Wow, they are so huuge!! Do You know from what specific kind of oak trees they grow?
Here in central europe, the biggest acorns are about as big as the fingertip of a thumb
- very much smaller than this ones.
(I think (no, I know) that I need to grow at least one of those Oak trees in my forest.)
I should have watched this two weeks ago... all acorns are under the snow where I live😖
I wanted test the acorns, but didn’t know to prepare them. Thax film.
I wonder how acorn powder tastes like. I want to try it one of these days but it's not very easy to find.
When I was a kid I once tasted an acorn. Never again... In school we were told you can't eat them, only wild boars eat them. Instead of acorns we looked for edible chestnuts and walnuts.
Can you use live oak acorns. Could pick up lots when we winter in Texas. We pick pecans now, but could pick acorns as well
I've never seen acorns that huge before.
They are Huge nuts!! The squirrels Must get those!!
I remember ice age hahahah nah!!!!🤣🤣🤣
WOW. what kind of oak tree are they from? they are huge
Where are these acorns harvested? I'm in Canada. Ive never seen acorns that big.
They Are Very Delicious Where Can You Buy Them In California? There Was A Lot Of Trees In Mexico. We Called Them bellotas.
Holy shit those acorns are enormous.........
Extremely interesting!
Question: on what Planet did you collect these acorns and is it possible to ride the Squirrels. that is, if you can capture one with out being killed.
Well done!
what species of oak tree them acorns come from ?
thank you
I used to eat raw acorns all the time when I was living in Massachusetts
What sort of acorns are the ones pictured? The White Oaks in our area of Northern Indiana produce acorns about the size of a quarter at the largest. Most no bigger than a nickel.
I tried eating an acorn as a kid and it was vile.
However, we only have English Oak, which produces far smaller acorns.
So once processed and baked, what does it taste like?
the acorns I am use to seeing are about the size of a marble WOW
Each of those acorns is like 10 of the ones here! Not everything is bigger in Texas I guess? I’ve heard these trees call scrub oak, some post oak, they are not the big oaks on tv. These grow sideways sometimes and are curved. Anyway, they produce a lot of acorns, tiny ones.
Awesome video.Shalom Bubba
Thanks !!
I knew they were edible!
How about Black Oaks? They have a lot of Tannen.
Acorns have so much bitterness that you have to wash out. I had to leave crushed acorns in water for days before they were even remotely palatable. Even if they taste horrible, they can be used for chicken/rabbit feed, and they make excellent fuel because of the oil content.
I am from Florida we have one of the largest oak trees there is a live oak never seen acorns that big
So you just dry them and then eat them? How long does it take to dry?
I have smaller rounder acorns which acorn type is yours? mine are a Canadian variety
I am just going to say it, You Guys Are Nuts.
Very helpful video!
Does it work with all species of oak? The acorns here are tiny.
Wow, those acorn are either gigantic or these people are like 4 feet tall ?! :-) Our acorn are about 1/4 of that size and they are great for feeding it to the pigs and then have sausage, bacon&beans :-) The deer like the acorns as well and we like the deer :-)
i read somewhere that deer will travel for miles to acorn tree its like candy to them dont which acorn it is red ore white oak
Excellent video. But what do you do next. Boil them?
I've never seen acorns anywhere near that large.
During WWII the Germans (who were essentially blockaded by the Royal Navy from importing anything by sea) used a mixture of acorns and chicory to make artificial coffee.
How do you get the tannins out of them
What about other species of acorn (oak) like a englemann oak acorns? I read something that suggested indgenious people camped near these yet hiked a long ways off to harvest some other acorns (forgot which) which maybe explains the all the non engelmann and engelmann hybrids we have In our area that is supposed to be all engelmann oak ....DANG do we get a ton of accorns though! SO many! (we have like 50-100 trees some huge some babies)
Can the acorns be roasted in the shell, then stored?
I've never have seen acorns this size. What kind are they?
What kind of 'acorns' are these? The acorns I know are basically just slightly bigger hazelnuts in size. These are three to four times longer than any I've ever seen.
Where did they get them big acorns?
Are acorns not edible as-is, or when they're dried?
any tree that produce acorn are edible?
In my experience, yes. all oaks I have tried anyway.
Our UK acorns are very small things only fit for squirrels.
Acorn flour may be far more nutritious than most store bought flour, but it's not as versatile. There are a surprising number of modern foods that call for flour, which actually require gluten in order for the food to come out right, and acorn flour contains 0% gluten. So, to make any of those foods (pasta and yeast-leavened bread, just to name a couple examples) with acorn flour, you'd need to add either gluten, or some sort of gluten replacer.
I'm in the UK I've never seen anything so big always thought you couldn't eat them
Very good video I cannot help it because I am cracking up and I'm not even being hit on the head with a big stone
Know which UK species of Oak Acorns we can eat?? Your US acorns are huge.
Many years ago I read they were toxic so I never understood how the native American Indians ate them, now I know. Thanks for sharing.
After removing the shells are you saying you have to wait. Of time to let them dry before you consume them. Can you consume them in a survival situation is soon as they are deshelled
Only after they are leached of tannins can they be consumed
Wondered why so bitter as a kid. Would take a bite without removing the brownish covering and just throw away. Ours were so small. Hated landing on them jumping off swing as a kid. Ouch!
What kind of mutant acorns are those?
What is the variety of oak?