Cooking With Tam - Dehydration Basics

Dehydration is a critical skill to any long term food storage system. Tam takes us through the process of dehydrating Acorn meal. She is using the Excalibur Dehydrator which can be found at:

http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com

Bushcraft On Fire - http://www.yhwhswordoffaith.com/WAS/Survival.htm

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Education

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• BushcraftOnFire
• Dehydration
• Dehydrating
• Acorn
• Cooking
• Food
• Storage
• Bushcraft
• Survival

[trinityisawesome]

I was wondering if you had a preference/knew what the best edible and medical wild plants book was for Tennessee? I know there are a lot out there with only black and white sketches that help very little. Thanks in advance!

[BushcraftOnFire]

@trinityisawesome

The best book in my opinion.. and the one I carry/use is the "Peterson's Guide to Wild Edibles" Hope that Helps

[BillyGoat4x4]

Do you still have to soak the acorns in water to remove the tannins when you make flour this way?

[BushcraftOnFire]

@BillyGoat4x4

Yes.. the same process is used.. just the remaining "flour" is dehydrated instead of using "wet"

[Hoffa3381]

Very informative & helpful. Noticed the containers for storage look like my proten containers which my Misses give me a hard time for saving. Let her watch this video. Thanks Tam : )

[BushcraftOnFire]

@Hoffa3381

LOL!! That's EXACTLY what they are Bro.. I use protein every day

[dutchweeks1]

Instead of shelling the nuts all at the same time, put em in a pillow case or similar bag and crush with a hammer or stone. dump the entire contents into a bowl and fill with water, the nuts'll sink, husks'll float, makes the process ALOT easier. By the way, you remind me of my mommy, and that makes me smile :D

Keep on keepin on ya'all!

[katzcradul]

My husband suggests that if you're doing a video, dehydrating acorn flour, that you be sure to put the term 'acorn flour' in the title if only in parentheses, so if later we try to find it, we an use the Youtube search engine. Thank you. By the way, great video. I told my husband, you 'walk the walk'.

[AxiomaticLucidity]

This is really interesting Tam. Thank you!

[soarntam]

@OKBushcraft Wow! A few years back we had picked a few 5 gallon pails full of super long acorns from white oaks. This year they were shorter and rounder. Not sure if the size comes from the weather but I didn't find any long ones this year. We still have heaps of acorns falling but they are the smaller ones. Still taste great after processing them in the mixer with water.

[OKBushcraft]

@soarntam Thanks and you too. I picked a large coffee can of acorns-the cup acorns-they are about as big around as ping pong balls, need to try this with them.

[soarntam]

@patje0109 I found this:

Main Address:

National Botanic Garden of Belgium

Domein van Bouchout

Meise

B-1860 Belgium

Telephone Number: 32 (0)2 260 09 20

Fax Number: 32 (0)2 260 09 45 botanicgarden (dot) be

[soarntam]

@patje0109 Here we have conservation websites that list each species. I'll see (((Patje)))if I can find anything similar for you. When it comes to eating from the wild it's always best to be 100% positive that food is edible. Would love to see pics of your acorns!

sending love and blessings,

Tam

[patje0109]

@soarntam Thanks Tam!!!

In the mean time, i found out we have quercus Rubra ( we call it american oak and is your red oak, nowadays we are trying to get rid of the American Oak) ,Quercus robur (summeroak) and quercus petrarea (winteroak) growing in Belgium. Do you know anything about these european sorts???

I guess you can use all of them but i am not sure????? I have seen a lot of acorn in the woods!!!

Love u all