Stinging Nettle Soup Revisited (& Info About Nettle Stings)

Nettles are up and growing here in the south of England - let's revisit Nettle Soup - simpler, more wild ingredients, super nutritious and very delicious!
This is the previous video, for reference; • Stinging Nettle Soup -...

[@nickrider815]

Just to be clear because it's important to warn people. You can get blisters and a rash from stinging nettles and it can get itchy for a couple of days. Also the Australian version of nettles: Dendrocnide moroides can be deadly. People can also react differently to neurotoxin so it is wise to perhaps check first you don't have a bad reaction to the neurotoxin. Also note the whilst nettles contain formic acid it is in too small a dose to induce the tissue damage you see from a sting in humans. The chemicals most likely to cause the sting are histamine, acetylcholine, and serotonin. There are also a few other acids in there. It's worth noting that we don't fully understand how the toxin works or why it lasts for as long as it does from a scientific perspective. Hence why you should test to unsure you don't have an adverse reaction to them.

[@nickrider815]

Oh and the audio issues you had were likely due to a transfer error either from the camera to the SD card or when transferring to the PC. If it's corrupted on the SD card there isn't much you can do. You could mute the audio track for that section and record a voice over in something like OBS or VSDC. You can also get a cheap LED lamp off amazon for your camera that would help with your lightning and white balance. There are some great ones with flexible stands. Just my feedback. Keep up the great work, these are some interesting videos.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Thanks - pinning your comment because there is some useful info in there on the nettles On the audio thing - I think it's corruption in the Davinci Resolve render cache - the raw footage doesn't exhibit the problem. Yeah - I've got some fairly good LED lighting in the studio, but I need something portable for the kitchen and elsewhere

[@aniaz8648]

I'm from Poland I remember that my mother was chopping nettle with boild eggs for new hatch chickens. Sorry for my english I never had at school.

[@AtomicShrimp]

No need to apologise - your English is better than some English people!

[@geyotepilkington2892]

@@person6215 sure bud

[@sheepewe4505]

8:02 "Tender-handed touch the nettle, It stings you for your pains, But grasp it like a man of mettle, And soft as silk remains." - old English proverb

[@josephynecuda1619]

It's great when there's some poetry to the tips of survival/cooking everything seems more meaningful.

[@F4ngel]

\m/

[@TheEarthdeity]

I've actually found its best to be very gentle until you can just barely feel the hairs then very firmly pinch down. You are trying to bend them down rather than poke into the skin. Your mileage may vary.

[@slimyfister]

See I have done this twice in my life. Once successfully, once in front of my mortified nan as I grasped all the hairs into my palm Yeah proverb may be true but best not to be the idiot grabbing nettles for no reason

[@kevgermany]

@Controversial Chris nothing faked, try it

[@samboujaiteh3331]

How to subvert expectations: Shrimp, Act I: “Last video, you guys all said that I forgot to add salt, but I didn’t because I used this stock cube. This has all the salt you really need.” Shrimp, Act II: “This definitely has enough salt, and even if it doesn’t, you can always add some later.” Shrimp, Act III: “Yeah, needs salt.”

[@AtomicShrimp]

Last time I think I might have fried the onions in salted butter

Also, there was probably a bit more soup than the last time (more potatoes, plus the added water, it was not all stock).

[@MsAnpassad]

​@@AtomicShrimp It probably had to do with the amount of potatoes, they "steal" salt. It's an old trick to put a potato into a soup, sauce or stew with to much salt in it.

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

I'm confused. Where is the Windows technical department?

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@mikeymcmikeface5599 I'm not sure they will be able to help with your nettle soup glitches.

[@ArmageddonAfterparty]

If you pick nettles,, mind where you pick them, if the ground is nice and uncontaminated and you an pick higher than your knee to be safe from fox pee, you're golden. Don't mix up the bear's garlic with lilly of the valley, which happens. You can eat lilly of the valley, but probably only once.

[@FelisTerras]

Tell me about it; when he mentioned the bear's garlic, a couple dozen alarm bells went off in my head. In my general area, there are about eight to ten cases of poisoning due to mistaking bear's garlic with lilly of the valley.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Good points. Lily of the valley is only superficially similar (much tougher, coarser leaves), but accidental cases of poisoning do happen, so I guess maybe people picking the first time might make the mistake

[@ArmageddonAfterparty]

@@AtomicShrimp and the ones that used the method of bruising the leaves to smell the garlicky waft, then go on to the next plant and use the same method, not realizing that the typical smell of allium is still on their fingers.

[@ArmageddonAfterparty]

@@Soph-pb8ou ...washing is always a good idea. Maybe cooking will do away with viruses and parasites, then you must cook them for long enough. Idk, personally I am picky. www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/questions/answer/what-diseases-and-parasites-do-red-foxes-carry

[@JarodMoonchild1975]

The fox pee just means you don't have to salt the soup as much... 😛

[@daydreamnation3536]

This is just what I need with all the current madness going on

[@FraternityOfShadows]

because there's nothing edible to get in the store?

[@gingercheesecake7357]

I bet after this video all the stinging nettles will be gone

[@jamesdefferson]

can't forage for snicker bars though :(

[@sarahstrong7174]

Good bowl of nettle soup will do you world of good. Full of nutrition, probably buck up your immune system no end.

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@jamesdefferson Snickers bars are full of sugar which has an extremely damaging effect on the immune system, look it up, it reduces immune action immensely. I must try to get over my chocolate addiction right now.

[@ivonedev9449]

I grew up in Bulgaria, and we used to make this soup from sun dried stinging nettle. Once the plant has dried it’s super easy to grind it into a powder... Delish!

[@returnofbeaux]

Thanks for the tip. I just watched a movie made in Bulgaria.

[@kurtiliusroyce]

Обичаме коприва ние българите

[@lemonywater2979]

Maybe this is a Balkan thing. Ive had nettle soup a few times in my life too

[@mangethegamer]

@@lemonywater2979 We do dried nettles and nettle soup Sweden too, people also use them in smoothies and similar nowadays.

[@theblazingtorchic9521]

I find it funny how you use stock cubes for convenience even though you believe it's easy to do on your own, but you painstakingly forage the most wonderful wild garlic and nettles for so many recipes. I love the cooking videos on this channel.

[@theblazingtorchic9521]

@@Dunno.. Stock is pretty hard to make, but I feel foraging herbs of that quality is harder than just making a bone broth or something of the sort.

[@BenRangel]

There's something special about free, wild grown food. I've always thought it was a bit of a fun event when you have a dish that consists mostly of foraged food, it's like cooking the fish you caught - satisfying. Plus I've never seen nettles in a super market. Cooking stock can feel like a bit of a chore. And it's a bit of a personal taste matter if you think it makes a huge difference - personally I think my home made chicken stock is a bit bland and prefer the taste of stock cubes.

[@RhodokTribesman]

It's easy, just not convenient

[@starshot5172]

Making stock is easy but you need to pay attention and be at home. Takes quite long as well

[@sket4ket47]

You should try wrapping garlic leaves around chicken breast and cooking the chicken. It keeps in the moisture and gives the chicken a delicious garlic flavour .

[@sarahstrong7174]

Good idea!

[@KatKevaKelise]

Mr Marxmin Mmmm! That sounds AWESOME!!!!

[@sket4ket47]

@James Parker what?

[@digs1223]

@James Parker You mean garlic abuse surely?

[@TheLuftpolsterfolie]

@James Parker yeah. At could at least killed it before

[@MP-je5de]

Ah, I thought I developed an immunity to them when I was a child because I got stung so much. I used to grab them quickly between thumb and forefinger to prove it. I must have been crushing the hairs on the back before they stung me 😂😅

[@rosiefrancis-rogerson4508]

I've just stumbled across your channel and am so happy I did! I live in the UK and suffer quite badly with anxiety and am trying to not let the whole corona virus madness get to me and I find your voice and manner very calming so thank you to you Mr Shrimp!

[@majarimennamazerinth5753]

His voice is so reassuring and warm I love it :D

[@forkyicicle8904]

@Nobal Zealot01 Is that tic-tac head?

[@petergriffin1591]

@@forkyicicle8904 yes

[@thebadcriticiser1455]

this kind of content is so relaxing in the horror and stress of life at the moment. thank you :)

[@PerspectivEs]

the corona is coming for you

[@acorneroftheinternet4179]

@@PerspectivEs thanks. thanks for that.

[@thebadcriticiser1455]

@@Aggrobiscuit if fear is a choice then it is a wise choice.

[@KatKevaKelise]

The Bad Criticiser WHAT horror are you talking about, if you don’t mind me asking????

[@billhicks8]

@@thebadcriticiser1455 You might as well stay soberly cautious and enjoy the moment as best you can now, whatever the future holds. At least then if absolute disaster should strike, you would have lived your best, most appreciative moments up until then.

[@ikennaenwelum7798]

Plant: Evolves defence mechanism from predators.. British Human: "I think that will taste wonderful as a soup". XD

[@karenramnath9993]

Ikenna Enwelum Gotta love the Brits!

[@babarella1374]

Brits for president!

[@theuncalledfor]

Predators eat animals, not plants...

[@ikennaenwelum7798]

@@theuncalledfor you get what I mean at least, any other thing you'd like to nitpick?

[@tinycrimester]

same thing with chilis. plant: this will stop anyone trying to eat me humans: LET'S CULTIVATE IT EVEN HOTTER

[@turkeymayne]

Little tip when using Oxo cubes. You're meant to crush the cube in the packet, rip the top off and pour out the stock powder. Mixes easier and saves you from getting your hands messy

[@bitnewt]

Now you've said it it seems obvious! I'll have to remember this tip!

[@kavalogue]

When absolutely nobody does that it really begs the question are you actually even supposed to?

[@hansloyalitat9774]

No you take it out and the take off a little piece of it you arent supposed to put it all in

[@zoogoo404]

If you add salt at the start of a soup you can't tell how salty it'll be when it reduces. Ya always add salt right at the end just before serving people. God, get off his poor shrimpy back.

[@broadsword6650]

Salt isn’t just for flavour though, it also chemically affects the way (some) food cooks by changing the way water interacts with the cell structure. Test the dish at the end for salt and add more for taste if needs be.

[@madalinagrigore9931]

"Shrimpy back" 🤣🤣🤣 love it!

[@PlayaSinNombre]

Ride, Shrimpey, ride aboard my mystery ship...

[@AlissaSss23]

I add a bit at the beginning and fix it to my taste at the end. Also when sauces and soups stop cooking and cool down some water evaporates and the food becomes slightly saltier.

[@AlissaSss23]

@@broadsword6650 I totally agree, salt helps ingredients soften/ cook quicker as it "pulls" the moisture out

[@h52WHA]

thisll be handy with everyone panic shopping

[@sci_pain3409]

one year from now: shops still empty, england forests destroyed due to everyone eating all the plants. stinging nettle plant now extinct

[@SobrietyandSolace]

@@sci_pain3409 They'll never be extinct with their root systems believe me I've spent enough years being forced to pull them up by the roots by hand for hours on end and people take a lot of convincing even ust to eat bloody blackberries that haven't come out of plastic packaging, sadly.

[@ConfettiCasket]

@@SobrietyandSolace its called a joke

[@daverson3834]

As long as it isnt substituted for loo roll

[@cedrickropp]

I really love stinging nettles, as a young boy I always ate Grünsgemüs (Grünes Gemüse, green vegetables) at my grandmothers place when we visited her. In there was basically every leafy green vegetable she had in her garden, zucchini and most importantly the stinging nettle. Stinging Nettle were really popular in Germany in the Nachkriegszeit (after war period), as Germany had major food shortages since they had broken the Molotow Ribbentrop pact. This meant that edible plants that were found in the wild were often all the city populations had to eat and became thus quite popular as one might imagine. My grandmother grew up in that period and even though she lived most of her life in the countryside she still has the same mentality towards food that is characteristic for people who had lived through these troubling times and was really keen on using all of what you had, that meant fruits from the former orchard that was now my family’s garden were made into compote and applesauce, berries we picked were made into jam. She grew her own potatos and kept chickens which did usually meet the grizzly, but quite delicious, end of becoming the Sunday roast after a few years. But nowadays you will hardly find anyone under 70 who still eats stinging nettles, since they are often associated with the Nachkriegszeit.

[@Sithhy]

I love watching your foraging & food videos, very intere- *sting*

[@sonofagun4125]

None of the things you warn for bother me personally, but I do appreciate that you put up a wide variety of warnings for sensitive viewers, it's very kind and considerate of you.

[@stefanennest7982]

We just made and ate this soup. Literally, 5 minutes ago. Probably the most delicious soup I've eaten - without question. I really hope that all viewers and commenters have access to some environmentally clean stinging nettle and go to town. Your first comment as to it being "expensive" is probably the best single word to describe the soup!! You may be tempted to think it came from an expensive restaurant. Thank you so much for the soup and the topping - the topping made the soup an even better experience. 5 stars. 🙏🙏👍👍😎

[@Capt_Bee]

Found your channel by mistake whilst I was trying to not have an anxiety attack last night about the Coronavirus / rent / my job and my goodness man, you are so soothing! Thank you!

[@what2636]

I hope everything is going well for you :)

[@Capt_Bee]

@@what2636 How sweet!! ✨ It is, thankfully 💜

[@I-am-the-one-and-only]

I was out on a nature walk today and saw a lady carelessly picking what I thought were herbs from the ground and putting them in a bag. She was Romanian and didn't know what the plant was called in English. I was about to join her in this discovery until she said "Be careful, they've got things on them that might prick you". Then it dawned on me- STINGING NETTLES!! I asked her why it doesn't hurt. She said it does at first and then she gets used to it. Decided I'd leave her to it.

[@SobrietyandSolace]

I have worked on city farms in deprived areas on and off for 15 years and was always disappointed that the British public hadn't a clue where their food came from and grow adults couldn't even recognise blackberries asking me if they were poisonous. Meanwhile I noticed all the Romanian immigrants picking the old rosehips and making use of things many of those lower income British families could do with to make their money spread further. Currently I'm on 3.90 an hour so eating everything that I can find for free around my current workplace where I also live.

[@glamdolly30]

@@SobrietyandSolace Good for you - and you'll be getting some great nutrition that's conspicuously missing from processed foods.

[@NatureShy]

@@SobrietyandSolace Here in the US where I'm from (Oregon), I think practically everyone knows what blackberries grow on. They grow everywhere. Huckleberries and blueberries are also fairly well known and picked wild often. Wild Thimbleberries, Salmonberries, and Serviceberries not so much here though.

[@noiku]

i usually pick them bare-handed, but just because i never think ahead.. nettles have a hard time piercing your fingertips anyway.

[@timpauwels3734]

Little Wolf Taima We (Belgians) lived in England for a few years when I was little. We lived not far from an unused meadow that was lined with blackberry bushes, and we would pick entire tupperware bowlfuls of them every time they came out. We wondered why no-one else picked them, but the neighbours just said “something might have peed on them” and wouldn’t have them. When on a walk, it’s common in my family that if we see blackberries, we pick a few and offer them to who we’re walking with. Again, I had another English friend refuse them because it was “dangerous”. I’d understand if these ppl all grew up in cities-but they didn’t! Maybe Brits are more weary of this due to the large fox population. They are present, but it’s extremely rare to see a fox on the mainland. Picking and preparing nettles on the other hand is a lost practice all over Western Europe. I think post-war generations viewed this, together with nest-raiding and waterfowl poaching (and other things my grandad did as a child), to be associated with rural poverty and ration supplementation during the war.

[@Lojemiru]

This feels like the British version of Good Eats; informative and entertaining, yet in a more relaxed and calm fashion.

[@danpettersson4671]

and now I will hear the Good Eats intro every time I watch a video on this channel.

[@thany3]

The nettles will probably taste very well when chopped up finely, on a cheese pizza. And add some garlic oil on the crust.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Oh yes

[@kelvaxmiller8963]

They go great in a salad. Burning the hairs off lets you do just about anything you want with them. Go crazy and put them in everything!

[@KatKevaKelise]

Kelvax Miller How do you burn the hairs off?! I wanna make this and eat it right now!

[@kelvaxmiller8963]

@@KatKevaKelise Get a fire from someplace (usually a campfire or hearth) and just hover the plant in the flames until you see the hairs are gone. Just grab some tongs and "cook" it like a hotdog. I can't give a time estimate because it does vary from place to place, but it's not long. Just go a bit longer to make sure, getting a nettle in the mouth sucks. Also, if you are going to boil or blanch it, that will almost always destroy the hairs. Please be careful with salads, and have a great day!

[@FelisTerras]

I just had lunch. Thanks forre- jump-starting my appetite...^^'

[@Natasha26]

I recently made potato and spinach Indian samosas. Now am thinking that a potato, wild garlic & stinging nettle mash sounds like a good filler too. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@LusciousTwinkle]

Go for it! I have made nettle roulade (instead of spinach roulade) and nettle aloo instead of sag aloo. I believe that in the Punjab they use mustard leaves for sag aloo instead of spinach.

[@digs1223]

That sounds nice and simple.

[@Jablicek]

My mother taught me to chop herbs my putting them in a cup and cutting them with scissors. May work for the nettles, only with a measuring jug, perhaps. That soup looked an amazing colour!

[@mustwereallydothis]

No matter how often I cook nettles or make tea with them, I'm always amazed how savory they taste. The tea almost tastes like a good bone broth. Come to think of it, I have nettles in my freezer. Time to turn them into soup. Thanks for reminding me.

[@KatKevaKelise]

Tara Wright Lucky!!!!

[@mustwereallydothis]

@@KatKevaKelise I also found four little bags of fiddleheads next to the nettles. I'm thinking "lucky" might not quite cover this veggie windfall I find myself experiencing. Especially when you consider the fact I live in the far north of Alberta, Canada and can't expect to see fresh growth for well over two more months. This feels a lot like Christmas did back when I was in primary school.

[@Call-me-Al]

If you like peppermint, try a half peppermint half nettle tea batch. It's a really nice combo

[@andrewwilson8317]

A favourite soup. Watercress and nettle another great soup. Watercress beds near me so loads of wild watercress growing along river banks. Nothing tastes nicer than virtually free forage soup!

[@soapsnk]

Andrew Wilson be careful with wild watercress though, as theres often parasites and lil bugs hanging out!

[@auntydave339]

Smart, logical without all the ridiculous ravings and arm flapping. Thank you for your refreshing, interesting and useful content. 🍵

[@anneblommaert]

This brings back so many memories, we used to eat this.

[@thewilddinkus8026]

I remember last year falling into a pile of those, fun time

[@bobbob4173]

The Wild Dinkus! F

[@sokosemske8396]

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[@milandavid7223]

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[@adamcummings20]

Happened to me when I was 10, fell off my bike into a whole bush. Still gives me nightmares.

[@DanNGC2770]

I commented last time saying you had the same bowls as my mam from years ago, now that spoon has just triggered a flash back, we had those as well! I must have been 6 when we had them. Great video again

[@svartsjokolade]

Love these videos! My grandmother, God rest her soul, used to make a fantastic nettle stew with garlic. One of those childhood flavours I miss.

[@sarahstrong7174]

Your body is probably craving the nutrition as much as your mind the memories.

[@hoohargh9945]

Wish I had a grandmother to grow up with

[@SlouchingBadger]

I'm a park ranger in south-east England. I found that rubbing chewed gum (preferably your own) onto nettle stings helps the discomfort to subside almost instantly.

[@mimble52]

Wow that's funny, how did you learn that?

[@leea8706]

I wonder if it pulls out any hairs that have got stuck in your skin. Good idea though. We were always told to rub dock leaves on it, because any kid growing up in the U.K. has been stung multiple times, but dock leaves never work, ever.

[@SlouchingBadger]

Yeah - that was my thought when I first tried it. Imagined it pulled the barbs out; but the barbs don't disconnect from the leaf. With regards to dock leaves, I was always told that you have to spit on it for that method to work, and that the dock leaf was just the vehicle for the spit... I assume to make the thought of spitting on yourself more palatable. Perhaps it's the same reason my gum method works... worth a thought.

[@leea8706]

Laconic Lament I googled it because I was interested and here is what Wikipedia says ‘In the United Kingdom the plant is often found growing near stinging nettles and the underside of the dock leaf, squeezed to extract a little juice, can be rubbed on the skin to counteract the itching caused by brushing against a nettle plant.’ We always spit on the dock leaves too, but we were told it was to help smush it and get the juices out. I still can’t decide if it is an old wives tale or not.

[@SlouchingBadger]

@@leea8706 Very interesting! Come to think of it, I wonder what the effects of rubbing the rash does? The substance that's injected into our skin doesn't go very deep. I wonder if rubbing the rash is what helps disperse the toxins, lessening the intensity of the sting?

[@wanderingchook1193]

youtube recommended one of your videos to me yesterday and i must say, i loved your content and sense of humour. i also enjoy the tidbits of knowledge you share. the way you explained why nettle is safe to eat was great. i also really appreciated your rant about people getting precious about others touching fresh produce in the supermarket in another video.

[@DisneyDancer1990]

I adore when your videos show up on my feed. Your absolute random, spontaneous content keeps me going. ❤❤

[@Zawazuki]

Your thumb vid introduced me to your stellar channel. Thanks for owning up to it and putting the video. You gave me a new favorite channel!

[@sebishichen8968]

Nettle is an ingredient in many healthy drinks and smoothies, ive never tried it like this but the soup looks great

[@higherquality]

These vids are so soothing to watch

[@gozewijngoossens4877]

I don't like cooking video's but I love this one.

[@delicate_lace]

Can't wait to try this out on my brother. Serves him right for pushing me into these guys for years. Might shove some fresh ones as a surprise garnish.

[@sokosemske8396]

Destroy him.

[@Split10uk]

I'm southern England, and after watching this I shall spend some time hunting out nettles too give this a go. I remember as a young boy being up the woods with mates, and one of them fell from a branch into a bunch of stingers, and all he had was shorts on. Tell him they dont hurt. I'm not sure about the wild garlic tho...always makes places smell so much.

[@gorgongreeben2675]

I really appreciate how he added that timestamp.

[@UrbanistBlooms]

Came for the scam videos, stayed for cooking and shopping. It is so very relaxing to watch

[@Bisqwit]

For the choppy audio, have you tried Audacity’s "truncate silence" filter?

[@SDLordHUN]

Adding comment here for keeping things organized: if you a e using OpenShot to edit the video, on the channel you have the audio problem, you need to change it to "averaged"

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

I've never seen such a green soup! Pretty strange but I'd love to have a bowl with you!

[@DeathbyProxy]

I don’t usually like soup myself, but this looks delicious! I’ll have to try eating a raw nettle to see how it tastes, as I like the flavour of watermelon, cucumber, and even grass!

[@miumiutheemu]

I'm english but born and raised abroad, and watching your videos gives me a weird sense of homesickness for a country I've never lived in. Nettle soup is something my gran used to make whenever we'd come and visit, so its lovely seeing an actual recipe for it!

[@AlfieEdwards]

Saw the last video and was actively wondering when we'd start seeing nettles so I could try it. Glad to see an update.

[@nimexwolf]

in a desperate hunt, as all of the supermarkets were bare, we have tried all sorts of wild plants to feed our family. After eating an entire bowl of a soup we made with some stinging nettles from our backyard, I'm relieved to see that it's actually safe.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Not only safe, but tremendously good for you

[@karenramnath9993]

Nimex Draconia watch for seeds, replant when possible.

[@tylersimpson8552]

Saw the first nettle soup video on saturday night, replicated it sunday and it was absolutely fantastic! Now you've revisited it! Love the channel, keep it up :)

[@kjelltolsma5065]

So i was planning on trying this out this week, so i looked up the previous video so i would remember the recipe, but this works even better. Thanks man, i enjoy your content.

[@seanm7002]

The original stinging nettle soup video is what first brought me to this channel - I’m still here!

[@jwsuicides8095]

Thanks. I had just seen your original video during the last fortnight. I am gung ho to try this. I live in the most northern part of England and busting to try this. Hoping our nettles will soon be ready for use!

[@AtomicShrimp]

It's worth looking around to see if there are any microclimates where they are springing up early for you - I find that the shelter inside of bramble stands is often a good place to pick them early.

[@jwsuicides8095]

@@AtomicShrimp Thank you for that extra info! It's weird where I am as brambles are rare. I was brought up further south and it was totally different. I'm going to pursue this though...we shall see. ;)

[@tiredgardener]

Great video, I'd recommend adding a video on what not to pick. Dog's Mercury, Lord and Ladies, etc. Can be easy for people new to foraging either getting mixed up when picking. However, great video! Glad I subscribed.

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

If you mistake anything else for nettles then you are an idiot.

[@AtomicShrimp]

I suppose someone could mistake celandine flowers for dandelions, or hemlock water drop wort for Alexanders or cow parsley

[@tiredgardener]

@@mrslinkydragon9910 mistakes can be made if people aren't used to foraging. They may think it is edible, a lot of people are unaware and surprised that there are poisonous plants in the UK. It is best to err on the side of caution.

[@shalala4571]

Mr Slinky dragon or perhaps they have lived in a city all their life? Or even more likely, they have not gone picking nettles. No need to be a dick, makes you the idiot.

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

@@AtomicShrimp again its hard to mistake alexanders for other member of apiaceae as the leaves are distinct. Hemlock, dropworts and cowbane are much harder to id when other species are present. Hemlock is probably the easiest of the 3 to id as it has purple splotches on the stems and stinks of mice! Dandelions cant really be misidentified, i suppose you can mistake sonchus, hawkbits and hawkweeds for them but when you compare them side by side you can easily tell them apart. Especially sonchus, they look noting like dandelions! Completely different growth patterns! I tend to treat the carrot family like mushrooms. Unless you know 100% leave it be also if in doubt, leave it be.

[@Prsvr-oo1hg]

You should have your own cooking slot on the radio! You've got the right voice and the right relaxed approach :)

[@lenalarina59]

I sooo like your videos and voice, helps me with anxiety. keep them going

[@LinoWalker]

8:09 - I wish I knew that when I was a kid! I've got stung so many times by nettles... But I hear it's good against rheumatism, so at least I've got that going for me...

[@ferdisb4070]

This is the one and only channel I clicked the Bell

[@ribunny123]

You truly do learn something new every day. No idea these were edible, let alone good for you.

[@rena2836]

Omg! I LOVE your channel. Great content, and a likeable presenter. Please keep 'em coming.

[@karlbristow1223]

This is so weird, I only watched your stinging nettle soup video yesterday, and now you've gone and released another one! I must have known!

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

It's all a part of a great cosmic plan.

[@karlbristow1223]

@@mikeymcmikeface5599 well it's certainly a coincidence, I had a scroll through the videos yesterday and picked that one out of all them! I get strange things like that happen to me all the time. A couple of years back I had a passing thought of a friend from my childhood I hadn't seen for nearly 15 years, completely randomly. The next day I was in the barbers waiting to get my hair cut, and he walked through the door! Honestly it really freaked me out. It's like I knew I'd see him. Very cosmic.

[@alexdawkins5368]

same here, it's so weird!

[@skullseybones]

Just got into your channel, and I'm so happy to see an update on this recipe! your original video made me want to go foraging, which is one of my favorite things! Thank you so much, and I hope you have a good day!!

[@OROO111]

Look delicious, now I'm hungry

[@deanusrjm]

I only discovered your channel about a month ago. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I started foraging last year but with limited success. These videos are inspirational and I have been encouraging my young daughter to help me forage and make some of the recipes. Living in the south of England it is great to see how much is actually edible and tasty.

[@Jwlar]

I've found you can get a certain level of immunity over time to nettles. Use to get stung by them all the time in school rolling down the banking in the schoolyard (Years 1-3). Use to get a huge rash down my arms all the time, but now I barely get any redness at all. (20 years later)

[@angryd0nnat]

The nettle plants are a normal dish in romania especially in spring when they are fresh

[@AvocadoEaters]

Thank yor for promoting wild plants and offering healthy plant-based recipes 👍🙏 That's cool!

[@jboy402]

Good evening Sir Shrimp, following your first Nettle upload I was intrigued and I have been having Nettle soup almost every day. Thank you

[@greenguy358]

I do golf ball hunting and get stung loads of times by stinging nettles when looking in bushes. I don’t think nothing of it at first. but later on when sit down to relax it then starts irritating me. Have you ever tried golf ball hunting, you may have no interest in golf or golf ball hunting but oddly I find it quite similar to your foraging videos and would love to see you try it.

[@SecretFoxfire]

This looks delicious and I want some! Sadly my country is now on lockdown, and in any case I don't know where I could successfully forage in this region. Definitely some good inspiration for the future though!

[@Charharr]

Thanks, Atomic Shrimp. I don't know what it is, but your channel has been the absolute best thing to counter the rising feeling of panic the world is currently giving me!

[@milesmeowrales8195]

i love your channel and all the videos on it. It’s so rare to find a channel that makes such a variety of content, but no matter what you post or create it’s always interesting and i’m always excited to watch it!

[@lewysf8705]

Ive never wanted nettle in my neighborhood until now

[@glamdolly30]

Great video, I love the straightforward, professional-but-friendly, no nonsense presentation. It's very relaxing to watch! My dear old mum once cooked her kids nettle soup (she had definite hippy tendencies in the seventies - she may also have tried to smoke it), plundering a patch at the bottom of the garden using an enormous pair of 'fuck off' suede gardening gloves. As I recall we loved it, and thought it was just like spinach. No doubt we scarfed it with copious amounts of white sliced, which negated its health benefits. Hey ho! I've always wanted to try cooking wild garlic, it has such an amazing savoury smell when you encounter it in the countryside. Could you taste it in the finished soup, or was it a very mild flavour after cooking?

[@Sharpienero]

Thanks for another soothing video

[@asthmaticinhalerninja347]

I love how you pronounce potatoes! Such a weird thing to compliment on haha!

[@CallMeTactu]

My mom occasionally makes nettle soup for us, it's pretty tasty!

[@ryanm.191]

Unfortunately all the shops are almost completely empty. I guess there’s going to be a lot of foraging videos in the near future

[@erikgranqvist3680]

We allways do a bechamell based soup when doing stinging nettle soup. With just a tad nutmeg, salt, pepper ans a bit of onion. Served with boiled eggs, and it is fantastic. Where I live in Sweden, its about 4 -6 weeks away.

[@leod-sigefast]

Sounds good. Do you make the béchamel seperately and mix it into the soup at end or is it made at the start in the same pan to be the 'base' of the soup?

[@erikgranqvist3680]

@@leod-sigefast I do it as the base.

[@anamariapatrulescu3137]

I really like your videos with affordable recipes and budgeting tips

[@unusualscyra]

nettle pancakes are pretty good

[@thebelfastvikingmartinbrow3603]

Nettle bread is very nice also or add them to a simple flat bread

[@alexh6767]

Nettle smoothies too

[@karenramnath9993]

undreamedscyra avion recipe please...

[@FelisTerras]

Lesse, I got a forest no ten minutes away, egs, flour, milk..yeah, thanks for inspiring my dinner^^

[@joohop]

I'm A Vegetarian And I Think Nettle Soup Has Got A Meaty Flavour

[@karenramnath9993]

Thank you for showing us that nettle stings are not really anything to be afraid of🙂👍🏻

[@Techno_Nomadic]

I know this is late to the party, but nettles will be coming up again soon. Here in the US, stinging nettle, urtica dioica, isn't native. It was brought over because our ancestors valued it. They hadn't discovered the native wood nettle, laportea canadensis yet. If you're in the US and want to go looking for nettles, take the time to look at pictures of both of these plants. They do prefer different habitats, stinging nettle likes sun, and wood nettle prefers shade. Nutritionally they are identical, you cook and handle them the same, you harvest the same parts, although the young shoots of wood nettle can be used like asparagus. Note about the nettle sting: the chemicals that cause the itch/sting/burning sensation are quickly denatured with heat. As soon as you scald nettles, those chemicals are gone. A washcloth dipped in the hottest water you can stand (just below scalding) and applied as a compress to nettle stings may be enough to instantly stop the sting. If in the field, Jewelweed/touch-me-not grows in the same places as nettles, keep an eye out for the hydrophobic leaves. Just crush the juicy stem and rub it on the sting. Note about a useless lookalike: Clearweed is relatively harmless but nutritionally devoid of benefit; check the stems and the veins of the leaves.

[@kquote03]

they made the stardew valley plant into real life

[@astr0labe566]

wait nettle is in stardew????

[@snowparody]

@@astr0labe566 I'm also curious. I've never seen nettles ingame wtf

[@constellation11]

Snowparody they’re talking about the garlic lmao

[@glamdolly30]

Update - I found a small clump of cat-pee-free nettles in my back garden and made this for lunch. It was excellent - I used lots of store bought onion and garlic and a chicken stock cube for flavour. I couldn't get as many nettles as were used on the video, but even my small-ish handful gave the soup a lovely herby flavour. It is hard to describe the taste, but yes, sort of like subtle spices, to my mind it tastes a bit 'minerally' if that makes any sense at all. Probably doesn't! Anyway, a fab, tasty, nutritious and cheap lunch for three, using garden weeds and a few store cupboard ingredients - great result! I will definitely make this again if I can get hold of more nettles. Maybe this video created the shortage!

[@donnabrasher3303]

Such a verdant natural green. Looks delicious.

[@jessieferguson4653]

Work on a farm, saw lots of these little devils in a paddock so thought id give your recipe a try with a couple of modifications. Hoping it comes out nice. Smells great currently as its bubbling away in the pot.

[@rachelheath1208]

😂 wish i could send u picture of my garden its a "nettle plantation" as far as the eye can see lol ( well exaggerating really just covers entire suburban small back garden 😂) ... now i am keen to pick it and make good use of it ... 👍 your description of rich taste has encouraged me... relaxing viewing your short cooking film hope u get a TV gig be great to see u on uk Tv ... until then i will recommend ur channel to all i know .. cheers 🙌😁

[@MannyJazzcats]

Make nettle wine too!

[@OldQueer]

7:30 "Yeah, that got me." - goes back for more - "Yeah..."

[@MuscarV2]

It's not like it will actually hurt him, it's a tiny bit stingy for a bit. And as he said he did enough so it might show up on camera later on, just a tiny bit wouldn't have done that.

[@pagatryx5451]

@@MuscarV2 It's basically the nicest sting you can get. It's not exactly a pleasant feeling, personally I hate it, but it's just an annoyance.

[@islac8525]

Just tried your nettle soup today, it was very tasty, thanks for posting this!

[@harleyokeefe5193]

I love your voice so soothing and adds a nice calming atmosphere to the video

[@Carterboii666]

3:27 “Apologies for the choppy audio” I see what you did there 😂

[@theiabon]

were u wearing headphones tho. Cuz I actually hear a problem with the audio.

[@PerspectivEs]

@@theiabon woosh

[@etooamill9528]

@@theiabon The audio problem is from the video not the device, hence the warning from atomicshrimp

[@miko8732]

@@PerspectivEs r/itswooooshwith4os

[@Loki-and-Thor]

This sounds delicious! KZbin recommended your previous nettle soup yesterday on my home page. I think they are spying on you, Mr. Shrimp.

[@kaz9430]

I also had the recommendation from KZbin lol

[@tangytim6699]

That's how recommendations work, guys.

[@MuscarV2]

What...? You're obviously very fucking stupid. It's a website where people upload videos and they want views, and your reaction to a video (based on your watch history) hm getting recommended is thinking they're spying on the uploader. This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while, and that say a LOT because of the incredibly stupidity usually found in comment threads.

[@OpticalOpal]

I don't know why but you videos are extremely enjoyable to watch!

[@jacobuponthestone9093]

Growing up in the southern united states, I can tell you okra picked off the plant does the same thing. That's why when I picked it I wore gloves. And usually cut it off the plant.

[@catslove3884]

Think I would have nettles over okra. To me okra is slimy. Blech.

[@Mrmongoose64]

I've been thinking about doing this. It does look nice, even apart from the colour.

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

My third eldest Larissa was talking about this just last week.

[@MuscarV2]

"even apart from the colour" what's wrong with that? It's green... Like a ton of other food, it looks great and very tasty.

[@Mrmongoose64]

@@MuscarV2 I know, but the plain dark green looks somewhat like a witches' brew.

[@Morris_Minor]

There it is, our nettle soup, and doesn't it look SOUP-er green...

[@cemreeraslan1930]

These recipes mean alot to me. I feel lucky, i love the personal approach. You are just overall great. Thank you so so much sir!

[@bigjamal5229]

If you do get strung by a nettle, bee, wasp ect, you can heat up a metal spoon and hold it on the sting, after a while the irritation completely disappears.

[@zoewells3160]

Is this legit or will it kill you? Because the way you phrased that sound like you’re euphemisming.

[@bigjamal5229]

@@zoewells3160 The science behind it is that when stung, the animal/plant injects a toxin which is made up of proteins. The heat of the spoon will break down these proteins, therefore getting rid of the sensation of the sting. Its perfectly safe, but just be careful not to burn yourself.