Can i burn acorns

I like the idea of using them as they were intended. Diggerdee - I loved that story! Does your son remember doing this? What a great tale to tell his children someday. A search for "acorn flour" should help those interested in how to remove tannin from acorns and make them edible. Everyone should have the experience of roasting chestnuts on an open fire. Cut an X in the bottom of each chestnut and set to roast on white coals or in a special perforated pan designed for roasting chestnuts in the fireplace.

Pour a glass of white wine and enjoy. Once upon a time I used to be able to harvest bushels of American chestnuts. Some of the new introductions on the market have come from those trees.

I had to share the chestnuts with the local deer herd which paid no attention to me collecting as they pawed the bristled shells to remove the nuts. I sold most of the crop, keeping a few pounds for cooking. These I boiled gently for about 30 minutes then cooled and dried them for freezing in plastic bags in the shells.

The act of freezing makes the meats easier to remove. If you have the space, treat yourself to several of the new chestnut introductions. They are not lawn trees as the husks are a nightmare to clean up similar to horse chestnut trees.

But, anyone with back forty land should plant and enjoy the nuts. They begin bearing chestnuts about six years after planting. Zahzeen, yes, my son does remember - as a matter of fact, it was him that just brought it up the other day, or I probably would have forgotten, lol. My husband was sweeping some of the zillions of acorns off the patio they truly are a real walking hazard and was putting them in a bucket to throw in the woods, when my son, now 16, started laughing and said, "Remember when?

You know, I have to say, I really don't have a problem with someone wanting to do something like eat acorns. After all, nature didn't originally intend all these foods just for animals.

The fact that native Americans used them as a food source shows that humans needed them too. Granted, today, most humans don't NEED to eat acorns, and the local wildlife does probably NEED them more than we do, but I still have no problem with the concept of humans living off the land and the bounty that nature provides.

I also have an acre of new oak forest every spring, especially in years with a massive crop of acorns like this year. When I was cleaning up one of my beds the other day I was scooping up as many as I could, because all I could think of was all the tiny little oak trees I'd have to be ripping out next spring!

There will be literally millions! But as annoying as it is, for the most part I find it easier to pull up little oaks than try to pick up all the acorns - as long as you get them early. For now, as long as the acorns are off the walking areas, it's a good thing!

Thanks for the tip on freezing, Nandina; I like to include them in stuffing and they are a BEAR to skin and that's after they're shelled and this might make it less of a production. It sounds like a lot of work, so I think I'll stick with chestnuts for now. Just this afternoon my three small grand children and I gathered hundreds of acorns.

It was a nice cool fall day, I started a fire, and we roasted hundreds of them. The fire was nice, and noisy, do be careful though, I recommend some sort of screen to prevent the acorns from shooting out of the pit. I used my outdoor Chimney, and acorns were shooting out, the acorns got so hot, they literally glowed red hot. It was nice. We plan to do this again once the weather gets cooler, we can build a nice fire and enjoy some hot cocoa outside.

I couldn't find anything on the web either, so I say, have the fire, enjoy and just be aware the acorns do jump out when they get hot. I used some dry fire wood to start the fire and just poured the acorns into the chimney from our baskets. Kept the kids entertained, and they say it's a "tradition starter" for our family. Couldn't figure out the "zone" but we're in San Antonio, Texas. God Bless! You can roast acorns, but you can't do it with them in the shells.

Acorns contain tannins which can cause intestinal distress. The acorns must be processed before roasting. White oak acorns, in the right year and growing conditions might have a low enough tannin content to roast with out processing. Acorns as food. Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw. Mehr erfahren.

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So it might be possible with hexane extraction or a high oil acorn variety. This is far too low to press out mechanically. It seems they used solvent extraction, not something I'm able to do I'm afraid. Choose another nut!! Re: Acorns as fuel Post: Post grahoom » Mon Nov 16, am Dave wrote: Got a rely very quickly from the oil pressing guy see below , not sure I like what he's referring to with the 'choose another nut' but I think I can take that on the chin. You can't feel lonely with nature as your companion millican dalton.

Re: Acorns as fuel Post: Post Splottlings » Mon Nov 16, pm With regards to using acorns or other nuts as woodburner fuel, do you need to dry them out first or can one use them fresh and does anyone know which are the best to use?

You need to dry them first. However, as the wife says, a shovel of dry acorns on the embers last thing before bed, and they fire will still be burning in the morning. New woodburner in last weekend so we're discovering the delights of cooking stews and what woods burn best, had never heard of the acorn trick before so look forward to trying it out and the joy of it still happily embering away the next morning.

Re: Acorns as fuel Post: Post Millymollymandy » Tue Nov 17, am They'd just fall through the grill of mine so no good, shame cos I've got millions of acorns. Not that I want to go out collecting them because that would take a month of Sundays!