Cooking Tips : How to Clean Yucca Root

[ToniAndAdsCrazyTimes]

This is a method of peeling the Yucca root but you didn't remove the fibers. You have only demonstrated part of the process. Nice try though...maybe a part 2 is needed.

[mcgyvr2009i]

If I soak the top of a yucca root in water, will it grow a leaf?

[BUCKSHOTBLACK00]

id feel more comfortable if she was spanish

[Lucero2405]

WRONGGGGGGGG WAY

[hivefleetbob]

this is so wrong

[Z71Ranger]

I like to eat it raw.

[Rubystars1000]

@Z71Ranger

Don't give people ideas I don't want people getting cyanide poisoning from eating this raw. I ate some raw and ended up calling the poison control center once.

[wendyab0115]

its you-ka not yuck-a. you can cut it into fourths and if you look around the edges you can see a couple of layers. you slice the corner a little bit between the layers then peel the skin off. its kinda hard at first but you soon learn your own technique and you don't waste a lot of the meat.

[wendyab0115]

its you-ka not yuck-a

[jeamieann]

@wendyab0115

it's YUCK-a not YU-CA

[ColdPoutine]

Between the wasted flesh in the peeling and her pronuciation of Yucca as YUCK-Ah, I can't take it seriously.

[eduardoadonis]

This is NOT how one properly peels yucca root. You wasted so much meat.

[Blueagle8u]

OCS-- You should just peel it first,then cut in half ,than lenghtwise,I then use the tip of a paring knife to get as much of the cordon out prior to cooking.Remember,NEVER eat raw! The raw root contains a form of cyanide.The majority of the vitamins are IN the flesh on this root.

[chemtraildanger]

Well< I have done it for twenty years and this way you show removes too much of the meat one eats, and that is really not the way to cut yucca root.....cut in half first, then run knife across the skin after that PEEL IT With the knife so that it is in one piece or two....OR peel it with a peeler.

[OrangeCountySun]

thanks-since most nutrients are usually found in the skin, I usually let the yucca root boil in my soup , then take it out and take the skin off-  is this ok- or is the skin simply toxic? I don't think so but I mean in the long run? Anybody?

[ratiocinativeness]

good tip : }

[arutenvk]

thanks for the tip. you're very attractive.