Eat The Weeds: Episode 124: Acorn Grubs

http://www.eattheweeds.com/acorn-grubs-baittrailside-nibble/

Do you fish? Does the thought of eating grubs bother you? In this video you learn about acorns (oaknuts) and how to find, use and eat the grubs found in them. You'll also so see how to process acorns and some acorn flour.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Acorns
• Curculio
• Conotrachelus
• foods
• foraging
• herbs
• medicine
• oaknuts
• permaculture
• plants
• survival
• survivalist
• weevil
• wild
• camping
• hunting
• fishing
• tutorial
• entomophagy

[JMoney101011]

Wow dude you used way too much butter. You shoulda threw in some cooked rice and mushrooms. Maybe next time.

[EatTheWeeds]

@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. 

[PirateOfTheInternet]

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?

[EatTheWeeds]

@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]

is there a Canadian version of you?

[EatTheWeeds]

@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

[friskyrabbit]

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.

[phrankus2009]

Would be very interested in how to harvest significant quantities of grubs, hoppers and frogs (legs).

Any vids ? Thanks, once again, Dean.

[PirateOfTheInternet]

@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.

[EatTheWeeds]

@nalday07 Bitter and harmful.