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Preparing Acorns

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This Eattheweeds video gives a lot of important information about oaks, acorns and preparing acorns for eating:

Topics Green Dean covers:

– Choosing a tree (different oaks have different tannin levels)

– Selecting for tannin levels using the look of the acorns

– How often oaks fruit and how to identify their fruiting cycles

– When to harvest acorns and what acorns ready to harvest look like

– The different methods of leaching tannins (bitter compounds that can otherwise make an acorn inedible) and how each method affects what you can do with the resulting acorn mush/flour

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