A couple of years ago I was at a friends house BBQ'ing and I brought some black walnuts and hickory nuts I had harvested and there were a few that were infested with grubs like these. We put them in a little shallow makeshift tin foil pan, covered them in beer we were drinking, and cooked them up for a minute. They were tasty.
Is there a reason why you can't eat the moth caterpillars? I actually just harvested a bunch of acorn weevil grubs, but I did find one relatively large moth caterpillar. Do we just avoid eating them because they're more difficult to identify?
@PirateOfTheInternet I haven't identified the local species and so I really don't know if they are edible. They probably are but I just don't know so.
@Evanformer Most of the plants I cover are in Canada. I do know one instructor there. If you go to my website and you type in "resources" with quotes it will take you to a list of instructors. Canada is near the bottom
Are the tannins actually harmful or are they just bitter? if im not mistaken thats why you let certain wines breathe is to let the tannins diffuse slightly-and most dark teas/coffees have tannins so are they bitter or mildly toxic?
@nalday07 Apparently large amounts of tannins are bad for your filter organs(mostly your kidneys, I don't know about the liver). For the acorns, the best way to tell if there are too many tannins after processing is taste. If it's palatable enough to eat, that means enough tannins have been removed. As far as the grubs are concerned, I don't recall ever finding them bitter like the acorns.
Parasites?Anything like that to worry about when eating insects?.........and GREAT channel.Some of the best survival info on youtube!! I will be following, thanks!!!!
Hahaha, "for entertainment purposes only, do not try this at home"! :D Cute little buggers! I would play w/ them, now that i see how cute 'n harmless they are.. But i'll pass on eating them. Oliver Whitecat can have mine. :) (p.s. ~ Around 5:20, i think he says "corn flour" unintentionally; should be "acorn flour".)
My Moms house has a huge acron tree in the front yard. When I was a kid, I gathered a bunch of acrons and put them in a bag, and brought them in the house. The next morning, the kitchen was full of white large bugs similiar in shape to the grubs in this video. Were those insects maggots or grub?. They were every where in the kitchen, on the ceiling, on the walls, in the flour left open on the counter.
once upon a drunken sailor moment we made a port call in southern florida and met up with a girly who was partying hardy on daddys credit card. long story short she would order anything on the menu that looked or sounded expensive. I tried escargo (sp?) that night and can say that I didnt hate it. After eating cooked snails, small cooked grubs dont scare me near as much anymore.
I had no idea I could look for fish bait inside of an acorn. Your knowledge never ceases to amaze me. Thanks again. I absolutely love your videos. And if you get a TV show going. I will have my TV and Cable turned back on (after not watching one single thing in almost a year. Nothing much worth watching) (in my opinion). Good luck to you.
@mrpaintballhead It depends where you live and what you prefer. I grew up seeing 35 to 50 below zero. I move away from that stuff nearly 40 years ago.
A Panda walks into a bar & orders a plate of bamboo leaves & stalks. He eats, leaves a big tip, pays his bill, shoots the counter & walks out again. He gets arrested but his lawyer gets him off because it was "just in his nature." Dictionary definition proves it. " Large bear-like Animal, native to China. Eats shoots and leaves." Better keep an eye on Deane! He may be a Were-Panda. Can anybody confirm seeing him in Human form during a full Moon? :0).
Thank you so much for this vid. If you are trying to decide whether or not to do more insect / animal / fish etc etc. vids, you have my vote / permission / encouragement. Again Thanks.
I like watching you teach about all of the things we can eat in the wilderness, despite the fact that most of which I will probably never come to eat in my whole life.
I'm currently working my way through your videos, from the beginning. There are some wild Bluets that grow in my yard every spring and summer, the Tiny Bluet (Houstonia pusilla) in specific. There are tons of them every year, are they edible?
@johnu78 It's on my website. Type grub into the archive wndow or click on archive and scroll down the index to the bottom and the "other edibles" index.
Can you make a video about eating Snails my area is infested with Grovesnails (Cepaea nemoralis) and I have seen one person collecting them to eat, I asked him about it he said he keeps them with bread or bread crumbs to get them fat , I do not know for how long, and then he cooks them, he said its like pasta.
@ManTheBush I haven't done one on snails but if you go to my website and put snail into the search window that should take you to a large article I wrote on them.
@EatTheWeeds Oh, no, no, no we need more, more, MORE! Can't you tell there is a LARGE demand for this kind of info??? And your just the one to provide it!
What about hickory nut grubs? I collect tons of what I think are mockernuts and I am always dealing with their grubs. Are they also edible? Do the same rules apply (no legs and fat in the middle are good for eating?)
@UuBoyDaMan The honest answer is I don't know. I've been trying to find out for a few days from other experts but I have not gotten any for-certain answer. If I came across one I, personally, would try one as it is an edible nut and a commonly edible family of insects. I'll tell ya what. Send me a small box of pecans infected with said grubs and I will personally eat them. If there's no follow up, you'll have your answer....
Wow, the depth of your knowledge is amazing. Do you know if there are any instructors in Utah? I looked on your site, but I didn't see any. *crosses fingers* Been looking for a while with no results.
Deanne, thanks for the acorn info vids, I am going to collect acorns next season!
On another note, do you have any info on "maple keys", those "helicopters" that come down from sugar and other maples? I get tons of those in the fall but have no idea if the have an edible use....
@Chetallica They are bitter but edible. You can take the wings off, crush, soak in water to lessen the bitterness. Or, sprout them. They are bitter but were considered a prime food by some American indians.
THIS IS SO AWESOME YOUR SHOWING PEOPLE HOW TO DO THIS! I LOVE YOU GREEN DEAN! I just finished watching EVERY SINGLE ONE of your episodes (this being the last one) thanks so much and keep up the good work! WE WANT MORE VIDEOS MORE OFTEN!!!
I have been enjoying two kinds of acorns this year, both cold leached. It makes a good bread with half flour and black walnuts and a fruit leather or dried mulberries. Its nice to get a real staple. Too bad about the American Chestnut.
Not to mention the ones on the West Coast that were planted by pioneers over a century ago. I saw a massive healthy American Chestnut with three feet DBH in Sherwood, Oregon, and there must have been a few others nearby because it was producing a HUGE crop of nuts (though they may have been hybrid nuts for all I know). I have a friend who has seen many American Chestnuts in the Seattle area as well.
I have been following that too. I have tried to think of a more useful plant that can grow faster than oak, last like redwood, and build a barn from a single tree, all while raining a staple crop, but I can't.
Im glad you did this video, I was just starting to experiment with acorns. Should the acorn nut meat be totally white? Some I collected have nuts that turned a nasty brown color.
@metalhead0jtk No, it does not have to be totally white (you've have to bleach it to get it white.) In fact, some acorns when leached for a couple of years are totally black. What I would avoid are moldy ones, or one with debris in side, or powder or bug dung or the like.
@EatTheWeeds So the nut is edible, no matter what the color, as long as its not full of bug stuff, mold, debris, or powder? Is it more nutritious when the nut is white and the shell is green? Thank you and keep up the hard work.
great start to this vid..hey I've been looking for the Ivy Gourd here in Miami for my backyard...I can't find it...have any ideas ? Thanks for ur great videos...love em ! =)
I have lots of these little guys and I thought they were ruining my acorns! I've eaten pine beetle grubs before they are fat and cheesy. How about a show on them? In Oregon, where I am, there is a lot of the same but some totally different weeds and bugs to eat.
I have lots of these little guys and I thought they were ruining my acorns! I've eaten pine beetle grubs before they are fat and cheesy. How about a show on them?
Don't try this at home? What is the risk? You mentioned not knowing what the insects were eating but don't we know these grubs have been eating Acorn?
@jimjamerman I don't think there is much risk. We just live in a litigious society and people will sue you for anything, regardless if you did anything wrong.
I made acorn flour two years ago and still have most of it in containers in the refrigerator. I leeched my acorns by boiling them four times after shelling them (That means the starch is cooked and I need to mix it with other flour for it to stick together.).
@EatTheWeeds His twinkle-eyed, gabby wisdom is a "natural " for public TV! Will fly high there! But of course Net is where all good TV shows go when they die so what is produced will end up right back here again. :)) Nice to know even TV has an afterlife! Only matter of time before the Body of the Carpenter (us) uses Science to hammer together what Revelation describes for ourselves & all the rest of precious Life just as we've built subs, spaceships & space stations & since time circles...
I've eaten Witchetty Grubs before when stationed in Australia. To me, they had a rich, egg taste while some said they also had a citrus taste (which is possible as they are wood eaters) but I didn't taste that. What is your thought on Wood Mites (Rolly-Polly bugs)? I understand they taste much like prawns.
@BackFortyBushcraft Nice analogy.... when I looked through the camera and couldn't see the grubs on the floor I realized I hadn't considered the floor composition and color. And I used too much butter, but you get the idea. While the grubs are good grubs, I like lamb more.
Those grubs look a lot like golden rod gall grubs from up north. They were a fantastic ice fishing bait! Great timing with this video. The cold front that roared through here two days ago knocked the acorns from my trees.
So, Dinos, does acorn flour mixed with water form a similar non-Newtonian fluid-solid to cornstarch solution? Interesting thought.
And if you slivered your dotorimuk, you could have had your grub saute over that.
Oliver Whitecat probably took offense to the allium family in your saute. Cats and dogs are very sensitive to plants in that family, perhaps due to increased potassium? Seems to be cardiac related distaste for them.
wow I love your vids packed with such great information here in Mo they are quickly destroying the forest old oak trees that take what years to start producing I ask everyone to start petitions on care2 to stop the wasteful destruction of healthy trees because you need a few dollars! MO is beautiful but the people for the most part spoiled and lazy! should be a law against wanton destruction of oaks, and all nut producing trees it takes years for them to start producing nuts! great vids thks!
yikes. no grubs. dealing with them in the pecans right now. i might hunt up a cat see if it would enjoy them. spit stomp yuck not this chick. the idea curled my toes. waves~~~
This vid brings back a funny memory. As a kid, I used to crack these open to feed squirrels. (I noticed the little holes but didn't know why they were there and didn't think much of it) One day I had a nice fat acorn and cracked it open. These little fat grubs fell out of it and we started screaming and running all over the house and my mom came running to kill them. LOL I would never have dreamed you could eat them. Maybe not back then but now maybe. Locusts I wouldn't mind trying too.
As a kid I was taught that in order to know if a insect was safe to eat you needed to know what it had been eating however thats not something the survival TV shows ever talk about. Another great video thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge Deane.
Eat the weeds...and grubs...and fish that you get with grubs. Sounds like a balanced meal, lol. Looked like you did not get all that many this time. Guess you will have to have a second dinner of acorn noodle (I did not know you could do that).
Thank you for posting this video at this time. Here in Oklahoma the acorns are just right, and for years, I have thrown out the wormy ones. Now, I have the information I need to make better use of them. Keep up the good work, we love your videos and website. Thanks again form all of us at "Indian Country Farms".
@docsimonson Ha ha... I know... grubs... but, once you eat a few a ... as they say... a pardigm shift occurs. Suddenly they are not vile little creatures but tid bits. They lead a pretty good life but grasshoppers and the like must be cooked.
It's funny, because a few days ago I was shelling some acorns that I'd collected and I found some with those larvae inside. I thought "I wonder if I could eat these too?" Now you just made a video about it! Ha!
By the way, if anyone here hasn't made acorn pancakes, you should definitely try it. Makes a great breakfast. Could probably top it off with some fried acorn grubs too!
@PirateOfTheInternet I used too much butter, or I should have had more grubs. But you get the idea. They are quite nice once you get past the idea. It's odd but once you eat one grub you begin to look at insects and grubs a different way.
A couple of years ago I was at a friends house BBQ'ing and I brought some black walnuts and hickory nuts I had harvested and there were a few that were infested with grubs like these. We put them in a little shallow makeshift tin foil pan, covered them in beer we were drinking, and cooked them up for a minute. They were tasty.
friskyrabbit 1 month ago
Wow dude you used way too much butter. You shoulda threw in some cooked rice and mushrooms. Maybe next time.
JMoney101011 1 month ago
@JMoney101011 One answer is one can never use enough butter... but you are right... It was however a one take situation so I had to live with it.
EatTheWeeds 1 month ago
Would be very interested in how to harvest significant quantities of grubs, hoppers and frogs (legs).
Any vids ?
Thanks, once again, Dean.
phrankus2009 2 months ago
Is there a reason why you can't eat the moth caterpillars? I actually just harvested a bunch of acorn weevil grubs, but I did find one relatively large moth caterpillar. Do we just avoid eating them because they're more difficult to identify?
PirateOfTheInternet 2 months ago
@PirateOfTheInternet I haven't identified the local species and so I really don't know if they are edible. They probably are but I just don't know so.
EatTheWeeds 2 months ago
is there a Canadian version of you?
Evanformer 2 months ago
@Evanformer Most of the plants I cover are in Canada. I do know one instructor there. If you go to my website and you type in "resources" with quotes it will take you to a list of instructors. Canada is near the bottom
EatTheWeeds 2 months ago
Are the tannins actually harmful or are they just bitter? if im not mistaken thats why you let certain wines breathe is to let the tannins diffuse slightly-and most dark teas/coffees have tannins so are they bitter or mildly toxic?
nalday07 2 months ago
@nalday07 Bitter and harmful.
EatTheWeeds 2 months ago
@nalday07 Apparently large amounts of tannins are bad for your filter organs(mostly your kidneys, I don't know about the liver). For the acorns, the best way to tell if there are too many tannins after processing is taste. If it's palatable enough to eat, that means enough tannins have been removed. As far as the grubs are concerned, I don't recall ever finding them bitter like the acorns.
PirateOfTheInternet 2 months ago
Parasites?Anything like that to worry about when eating insects?.........and GREAT channel.Some of the best survival info on youtube!! I will be following, thanks!!!!
dogpunch223 2 months ago
@dogpunch223 No, not with acon grubs. They are remarkably unparasitic. The acorn is a antiseptic environment the grub can thrive in.
EatTheWeeds 2 months ago
Awsome!! Great tip for a survivalist/fisherman>>
markallen200 2 months ago
Hahaha, "for entertainment purposes only, do not try this at home"! :D Cute little buggers! I would play w/ them, now that i see how cute 'n harmless they are.. But i'll pass on eating them. Oliver Whitecat can have mine. :) (p.s. ~ Around 5:20, i think he says "corn flour" unintentionally; should be "acorn flour".)
soulflower1970 3 months ago
its tastes like coconut grubs? I love coconut grubs. I love your videos.
Samjapa 4 months ago
@Samjapa Good, then you'lll like my new website as well. Not totally tricked out yet but working on it.
EatTheWeeds 4 months ago
My Moms house has a huge acron tree in the front yard. When I was a kid, I gathered a bunch of acrons and put them in a bag, and brought them in the house. The next morning, the kitchen was full of white large bugs similiar in shape to the grubs in this video. Were those insects maggots or grub?. They were every where in the kitchen, on the ceiling, on the walls, in the flour left open on the counter.
opal1920able 4 months ago
@opal1920able Maggots/grubs same thing, just different insects and places. Yep, if they were legless they were acorn grugs.
EatTheWeeds 4 months ago
once upon a drunken sailor moment we made a port call in southern florida and met up with a girly who was partying hardy on daddys credit card. long story short she would order anything on the menu that looked or sounded expensive. I tried escargo (sp?) that night and can say that I didnt hate it. After eating cooked snails, small cooked grubs dont scare me near as much anymore.
BornRandy62 5 months ago
Are the acorn caterpillars poisonous?
rvlqcitizen 5 months ago
@rvlqcitizen Probably not, but grubs as a rule usually taste better than caterpillars.
EatTheWeeds 5 months ago
you can also find fish bait in dead logs, or bagworms that live on cedar trees.
sethzky77 6 months ago
So what is the difference between a grub and a maggot?
undeadpresident 6 months ago
@undeadpresident In layman's terms a grub is a beetle larva that eats vegetation. A maggot is a fly larva that eats dead flesh.
EatTheWeeds 6 months ago
I had no idea I could look for fish bait inside of an acorn. Your knowledge never ceases to amaze me. Thanks again. I absolutely love your videos. And if you get a TV show going. I will have my TV and Cable turned back on (after not watching one single thing in almost a year. Nothing much worth watching) (in my opinion). Good luck to you.
FacetsOfTruth 7 months ago
Ahhh Eco-Friendly protein.... it take roughly 3000 gallons of water to raise a head of cattle, but only a liter or less for a pound of insects.
Ladyofdeath777 7 months ago
37 is not that cold
mrpaintballhead 7 months ago
@mrpaintballhead It depends where you live and what you prefer. I grew up seeing 35 to 50 below zero. I move away from that stuff nearly 40 years ago.
EatTheWeeds 7 months ago
@EatTheWeeds im am in canada and ya i converted it (not to sound mean)
mrpaintballhead 7 months ago
Green Dean, yuck! Didn't your mother teach you not to eat food that had fallen on the FLOOR! :0)
OmegaSeekerr 7 months ago
A Panda walks into a bar & orders a plate of bamboo leaves & stalks. He eats, leaves a big tip, pays his bill, shoots the counter & walks out again. He gets arrested but his lawyer gets him off because it was "just in his nature." Dictionary definition proves it. " Large bear-like Animal, native to China. Eats shoots and leaves." Better keep an eye on Deane! He may be a Were-Panda. Can anybody confirm seeing him in Human form during a full Moon? :0).
OmegaSeekerr 7 months ago
Thank you so much for this vid. If you are trying to decide whether or not to do more insect / animal / fish etc etc. vids, you have my vote / permission / encouragement. Again Thanks.
SustenanceNCovering 10 months ago
I like watching you teach about all of the things we can eat in the wilderness, despite the fact that most of which I will probably never come to eat in my whole life.
iPurgolder 10 months ago
@9:00 what do you got brewing in your carboys back there?
thebibleisfiction 11 months ago
@thebibleisfiction The large one was loquat wine, five gallons, now bottled. The smaller one is muscadine grape wine.
EatTheWeeds 11 months ago
acorn tortillas ... mmm
VonLeachim 1 year ago
I'm currently working my way through your videos, from the beginning. There are some wild Bluets that grow in my yard every spring and summer, the Tiny Bluet (Houstonia pusilla) in specific. There are tons of them every year, are they edible?
Cruiser052 1 year ago
@Cruiser052 As far as I can tell H. pusilla are NOT edible. We have them here, too.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds I thought you might have them there as well. Thanks for the response. :)
Cruiser052 1 year ago
are you running out of plants? lol. Ewww...bugs
laraskye 1 year ago
@laraskye with some five or six thousand edible species in North America I have a long ways to go before I run out of plants.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
Brilliant. I never would have known this information.
enjoythewildUSA 1 year ago
I don't mind eating insects. I will probably start a meal worm farm one day. Its called "meal" worm for a reason.
XCritonX 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing such great information.
photohelix 1 year ago
Great video! Would you know the latin name for the grub that inhabits acorns? Please let me know. Thank you, John
johnu78 1 year ago
@johnu78 It's on my website. Type grub into the archive wndow or click on archive and scroll down the index to the bottom and the "other edibles" index.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds
I found it thank you very much.
johnu78 1 year ago
Can you make a video about eating Snails my area is infested with Grovesnails (Cepaea nemoralis) and I have seen one person collecting them to eat, I asked him about it he said he keeps them with bread or bread crumbs to get them fat , I do not know for how long, and then he cooks them, he said its like pasta.
ManTheBush 1 year ago
@ManTheBush I haven't done one on snails but if you go to my website and put snail into the search window that should take you to a large article I wrote on them.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
I wonder if the curculio weevil grub that bores into both apples and acorns would taste like apple taken from the fruit . Fun video -thanks
9thincarnation 1 year ago
WE NEED MORE VIDEOS GREEN DEANE!!!
Farfromhere001 1 year ago
@Farfromhere001 124 isn't enough?
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds Oh, no, no, no we need more, more, MORE! Can't you tell there is a LARGE demand for this kind of info??? And your just the one to provide it!
Farfromhere001 1 year ago
Thank you Green Deane for another great video. Grubs.. you are getting me hungry haha
Odinsvoyage 1 year ago
Cool! good info. I am hoping to see an armadillo in a half shell video one day..
noweirdbeard 1 year ago
so this is Bear Gryll's father nice :D
GlobalAndy 1 year ago
lol your acorns are small xD
jamesmcwatson 1 year ago
What about hickory nut grubs? I collect tons of what I think are mockernuts and I am always dealing with their grubs. Are they also edible? Do the same rules apply (no legs and fat in the middle are good for eating?)
UuBoyDaMan 1 year ago
@UuBoyDaMan The honest answer is I don't know. I've been trying to find out for a few days from other experts but I have not gotten any for-certain answer. If I came across one I, personally, would try one as it is an edible nut and a commonly edible family of insects. I'll tell ya what. Send me a small box of pecans infected with said grubs and I will personally eat them. If there's no follow up, you'll have your answer....
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
Wow, the depth of your knowledge is amazing. Do you know if there are any instructors in Utah? I looked on your site, but I didn't see any. *crosses fingers* Been looking for a while with no results.
1serbus1 1 year ago
now I am hungry :P
cool to find your channel
DavidGH75 1 year ago
Deanne, thanks for the acorn info vids, I am going to collect acorns next season!
On another note, do you have any info on "maple keys", those "helicopters" that come down from sugar and other maples? I get tons of those in the fall but have no idea if the have an edible use....
Chetallica 1 year ago
@Chetallica They are bitter but edible. You can take the wings off, crush, soak in water to lessen the bitterness. Or, sprout them. They are bitter but were considered a prime food by some American indians.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@Chetallica XD I used to eat those all the time as a kid. They were nasty, but it was fun for dares and stuff.
1serbus1 1 year ago
THIS IS SO AWESOME YOUR SHOWING PEOPLE HOW TO DO THIS! I LOVE YOU GREEN DEAN! I just finished watching EVERY SINGLE ONE of your episodes (this being the last one) thanks so much and keep up the good work! WE WANT MORE VIDEOS MORE OFTEN!!!
Farfromhere001 1 year ago
@Farfromhere001 As soon as the weather cooperates.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
I have been enjoying two kinds of acorns this year, both cold leached. It makes a good bread with half flour and black walnuts and a fruit leather or dried mulberries. Its nice to get a real staple. Too bad about the American Chestnut.
gwynedd1 1 year ago
@gwynedd1 They've hybridized them and now have 96% american chestnuts that are resistant to the disease.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds
and out in wisconsin and michigan there are hypovirulent trees...
juglanscinerea 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds
Not to mention the ones on the West Coast that were planted by pioneers over a century ago. I saw a massive healthy American Chestnut with three feet DBH in Sherwood, Oregon, and there must have been a few others nearby because it was producing a HUGE crop of nuts (though they may have been hybrid nuts for all I know). I have a friend who has seen many American Chestnuts in the Seattle area as well.
juglanscinerea 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds
I have been following that too. I have tried to think of a more useful plant that can grow faster than oak, last like redwood, and build a barn from a single tree, all while raining a staple crop, but I can't.
gwynedd1 1 year ago
have you done a vid on making wine yet? i notice the jugs in the background
highron2 1 year ago
@highron2 I've done one on making home cider, my most popular video.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
AHH! Deane! You forgot to itemize! Nooooo!
Im glad you did this video, I was just starting to experiment with acorns. Should the acorn nut meat be totally white? Some I collected have nuts that turned a nasty brown color.
metalhead0jtk 1 year ago
@metalhead0jtk No, it does not have to be totally white (you've have to bleach it to get it white.) In fact, some acorns when leached for a couple of years are totally black. What I would avoid are moldy ones, or one with debris in side, or powder or bug dung or the like.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds So the nut is edible, no matter what the color, as long as its not full of bug stuff, mold, debris, or powder? Is it more nutritious when the nut is white and the shell is green? Thank you and keep up the hard work.
metalhead0jtk 1 year ago
@metalhead0jtk A few green acorns are okay but you should try to collect brown ones.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
great start to this vid..hey I've been looking for the Ivy Gourd here in Miami for my backyard...I can't find it...have any ideas ? Thanks for ur great videos...love em ! =)
alonealotta 1 year ago
@alonealotta Hmmmm... ask someone who hates it, like people who belong to the local native plant society chapter. They have probably seen some.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
I have lots of these little guys and I thought they were ruining my acorns! I've eaten pine beetle grubs before they are fat and cheesy. How about a show on them? In Oregon, where I am, there is a lot of the same but some totally different weeds and bugs to eat.
SnaxUkraft 1 year ago
I have lots of these little guys and I thought they were ruining my acorns! I've eaten pine beetle grubs before they are fat and cheesy. How about a show on them?
SnaxUkraft 1 year ago
Don't try this at home? What is the risk? You mentioned not knowing what the insects were eating but don't we know these grubs have been eating Acorn?
jimjamerman 1 year ago
@jimjamerman I don't think there is much risk. We just live in a litigious society and people will sue you for anything, regardless if you did anything wrong.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
thank you!
mallardhead 1 year ago
LOL - God, you cover the most interesting stuff. I agree with Snowwarrior, Eat the Weeds T.V. Show!!! Thanks for what you do.
myrawadventure 1 year ago
How long does acorn flour last?
I made acorn flour two years ago and still have most of it in containers in the refrigerator. I leeched my acorns by boiling them four times after shelling them (That means the starch is cooked and I need to mix it with other flour for it to stick together.).
BoingotheClown 1 year ago
i watch most of your videos but dude thats gross
grymmtymm 1 year ago
You look like a giant next to that tiny little plate and wine glass. 10:35
uglyguitarman 1 year ago
nm... Interesting indeed! ...first time that I've seen this kind of acorn
I found reading the comments equally interesting
thanks for sharing re: these tidy wee food packets
gaiagale 1 year ago
You need your own tv show, i have friends and family that would tune in everyday.
Snowwarrior 1 year ago 17
@Snowwarrior Thanks. Actually we're trying to put together a network pilot now.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago 17
@EatTheWeeds
please do it!!
likelivingstones 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds His twinkle-eyed, gabby wisdom is a "natural " for public TV! Will fly high there! But of course Net is where all good TV shows go when they die so what is produced will end up right back here again. :)) Nice to know even TV has an afterlife! Only matter of time before the Body of the Carpenter (us) uses Science to hammer together what Revelation describes for ourselves & all the rest of precious Life just as we've built subs, spaceships & space stations & since time circles...
OmegaSeekerr 7 months ago
A place I look for grubs is the horse's hoof ( false tinder variety ) mushroom.
They are commonly found on rotten fallen oaks.
survivethewild 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds 'Fomes fomentarius' I meant to say
survivethewild 1 year ago
@survivethewild For fishing or eating?
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
thx for the vid. What kind of acorn is that? Didn't hear if you said it. They appear like ones I eat right off the forest floor.
survivethewild 1 year ago
@survivethewild Those are live oak acorns.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
damn... saw some of these when opening acorns and ignorantly threw them to the dirt. coulda had a meal
unmutualaspie 1 year ago
hey dean u like playing with your food lol
gypsietraveller 1 year ago
I've eaten Witchetty Grubs before when stationed in Australia. To me, they had a rich, egg taste while some said they also had a citrus taste (which is possible as they are wood eaters) but I didn't taste that. What is your thought on Wood Mites (Rolly-Polly bugs)? I understand they taste much like prawns.
otakop67 1 year ago
@otakop67 I've never tried them. Don't see them too often here.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
If you Squeeze out the brown part,the larva meat is actually sweet,with a heavy nutty taste,I love your videos
mdlman583 1 year ago
@mdlman583 I think the brown part is called frass or... extra flavoring...
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
Acorns are the reason why I started watching your videos. Glad to see they made a comeback.
liphttam 1 year ago
Haha, it's like watching a flock of suffolk lambs from way up in the air. That is, until you drop them in their entirety into a pan full of butter.
BackFortyBushcraft 1 year ago
@BackFortyBushcraft Nice analogy.... when I looked through the camera and couldn't see the grubs on the floor I realized I hadn't considered the floor composition and color. And I used too much butter, but you get the idea. While the grubs are good grubs, I like lamb more.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
haha @ you in the bushes
wideawake73 1 year ago
very good job, just keep getting better.
looking forward to seeing a video on jellyfish one day
mrhulot101 1 year ago
Those grubs look a lot like golden rod gall grubs from up north. They were a fantastic ice fishing bait! Great timing with this video. The cold front that roared through here two days ago knocked the acorns from my trees.
CrypticCRICKET 1 year ago
So, Dinos, does acorn flour mixed with water form a similar non-Newtonian fluid-solid to cornstarch solution? Interesting thought.
And if you slivered your dotorimuk, you could have had your grub saute over that.
Oliver Whitecat probably took offense to the allium family in your saute. Cats and dogs are very sensitive to plants in that family, perhaps due to increased potassium? Seems to be cardiac related distaste for them.
Great video, as ever.
thanrose 1 year ago
thumbs up:)
Theapeinacrate76 1 year ago
Thank you! I just harvested some acorns and you have given me some great ideas! Though I won't be eating grubs! :)
Are the acorns you are using from Florida live oaks?
SimplyIncredulous 1 year ago
@SimplyIncredulous Yes, those are live oak acorns, but they can vary in size.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
Thanks as always. Do you think you could catch anything bigger than panfish with these (sunnies, perch, etc.)?
Chatter107 1 year ago
@Chatter107 You catch what ever is hungry.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
Great work, Green Deane! You are one of my favorite channels on YouTube.
SurvivalMedicine 1 year ago
wow I love your vids packed with such great information here in Mo they are quickly destroying the forest old oak trees that take what years to start producing I ask everyone to start petitions on care2 to stop the wasteful destruction of healthy trees because you need a few dollars! MO is beautiful but the people for the most part spoiled and lazy! should be a law against wanton destruction of oaks, and all nut producing trees it takes years for them to start producing nuts! great vids thks!
karenl1234 1 year ago
Great video, Deane. Thanks for all your work. ;o)
TheSurviver72 1 year ago
Always interesting watching your vids. You always pack a ton of useful information in them. Thanks
ChrmdLabradorite 1 year ago
yikes. no grubs. dealing with them in the pecans right now. i might hunt up a cat see if it would enjoy them. spit stomp yuck not this chick. the idea curled my toes. waves~~~
crosspecans 1 year ago
This vid brings back a funny memory. As a kid, I used to crack these open to feed squirrels. (I noticed the little holes but didn't know why they were there and didn't think much of it) One day I had a nice fat acorn and cracked it open. These little fat grubs fell out of it and we started screaming and running all over the house and my mom came running to kill them. LOL I would never have dreamed you could eat them. Maybe not back then but now maybe. Locusts I wouldn't mind trying too.
PsalmsNmyrrh 1 year ago
As a kid I was taught that in order to know if a insect was safe to eat you needed to know what it had been eating however thats not something the survival TV shows ever talk about. Another great video thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge Deane.
DrunknShooter 1 year ago
Eat the weeds...and grubs...and fish that you get with grubs. Sounds like a balanced meal, lol. Looked like you did not get all that many this time. Guess you will have to have a second dinner of acorn noodle (I did not know you could do that).
Jesses001 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this video at this time. Here in Oklahoma the acorns are just right, and for years, I have thrown out the wormy ones. Now, I have the information I need to make better use of them. Keep up the good work, we love your videos and website. Thanks again form all of us at "Indian Country Farms".
MatthewCravatt 1 year ago
@MatthewCravatt If ony for fishing, they are a resource. AND, since squirrels like them as well, they might bait a trap as well.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
There's another thing for my bucket list. Not sure yet if it's on the near or far end of the list, but it's there! Thanks for another great video!
★★★★★
docsimonson 1 year ago
@docsimonson Ha ha... I know... grubs... but, once you eat a few a ... as they say... a pardigm shift occurs. Suddenly they are not vile little creatures but tid bits. They lead a pretty good life but grasshoppers and the like must be cooked.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
you are great!!! thank you for all that you do : )
wideawake73 1 year ago
It's funny, because a few days ago I was shelling some acorns that I'd collected and I found some with those larvae inside. I thought "I wonder if I could eat these too?" Now you just made a video about it! Ha!
By the way, if anyone here hasn't made acorn pancakes, you should definitely try it. Makes a great breakfast. Could probably top it off with some fried acorn grubs too!
PirateOfTheInternet 1 year ago
@PirateOfTheInternet I used too much butter, or I should have had more grubs. But you get the idea. They are quite nice once you get past the idea. It's odd but once you eat one grub you begin to look at insects and grubs a different way.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
Buuuuut, grubs are not weeds. Nice video none the less!
JustFresh099 1 year ago
@JustFresh099 Thanks... my website says "eat the weeds and other things, too.) About 50 videos ago I did one on mole crabs.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds
Ah, I'll go looking for that video :P
JustFresh099 1 year ago
This is extreamly helpfull for me! Thanx!
Lee68Perry 1 year ago
Thanks! I wish I woulda known this when I found most of my acorns with these things in them! Oh sweet revenge =oP
rshighfill 1 year ago
I love grasshoppers roasted and meal worms. The hoppers, they HAVE to be cooked! Moving the grubs, looked like, GRUBBY work...(sorry) lol
Great video, can't wait for the new Newsletter!
Thanks for your time and work,
RichTheRidgeHunter 1 year ago
@RichTheRidgeHunter Yeah, you can put them on a wire and roast them over a fire.
EatTheWeeds 1 year ago
@EatTheWeeds very clever and poetic too : )
gaiagale 1 year ago
great video, keep them coming
cre8amiracle2 1 year ago