Big Primitive Acorn & Prickly Pear Cookies (episode 3.4)

[@illegallyblonde232]

You're not living until you use a cows rib to bake your cookies. No additives, no bs, just clean ingredients. 😊 great video Chad

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Hahahah! Hey, whatever you can get, just make it work.

[@RATOCOMBATENTE]

That shape has to be steroids😁🤤

[@Bodysnatchers-fiends]

Maybe let’s learn how to cook or bake first… it didn’t look cooked.

[@unbeatable_all]

​@@Bodysnatchers-fiendsAs if you do anything

[@barukahayakky3597]

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[@ladyofthemasque]

Chad, have you considered growing amaranth? It's usually quite drought tolerant, and was a major staple crop of the Aztecs, who reputedly farmed even more of it than maize. The seeds are edible as a pseudograin similar to quinoa, but even more nutritious as they contain all nine essential amino acids, and the leaves are similar to spinach. Young and tender leaves are best for eating raw, with the older ones cooked through sauteeing, boiling, steaming, and so forth.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yes, there is a wild variety that grows during the summer rains. Someone also sent me a cultivated variety to try growing.

[@barukahayakky3597]

like

[@alialmahanawi8409]

Attractive nature, calm and tranquility away from disturbance and psychological anxiety. Thanks a lot Chad for your time and efforts 🙏

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks for watching!

[@alialmahanawi8409]

@@ChadZuberAdventures You’re most welcome 🙏

[@A3A3]

Keep it up Chad, you are an amazing person. I have been able to adapt to this harsh and primitive life. Your food and drinks are made from nature without the need for modern things like canned goods and other things. You are truly an amazing person, thanks 🙏

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I'm always on the quest to figure out how to live totally disconnected from the outside modern world.

[@bethsuter4637]

West of Albany New York, we at the Iroquois Museum found a butternut processing site, including an in situ backpack basket filled with them. Four of the most exquisite stone tools I’ve ever seen were at the top of the basket. Radiocarbon date was 2000 BCE. We also found a lap anvil and five nutting stones. No one has ever found a basket in New York (and probably not even anywhere in New England), and the only reason it was preserved, was because, over four millennia, the Schoharie Creek flooded into the basket and their tannic acid is preserved the basket.

[@DoTheHuman]

amazing! thanks.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Wow! That is so amazing and interesting. Thanks for sharing this. Tannic acid is used for tanning hides. I've used it to dye yucca fibers too.

[@DevotedDisciple-x]

@bethsuter4637 BCE? You mean, BC (before Christ)?

[@HandsomePutin]

​​@@DevotedDisciple-xBCE stands for “Before Common Era.” Just like how we use CE as a more science based way of saying AD, we also use BCE as a more technical way of saying BC. The year 500 BCE. is the same year as 500 BC

[@krono5el]

@@DevotedDisciple-x i dont think the Americans at that time knew anything about the middles east.

[@Rabemill]

One of the few things that I enjoy watching

[@truenaturestormers2525]

Me too, good day.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thank you so much!

[@truenaturestormers2525]

@@ChadZuberAdventures Much love, with you are amazing.

[@JL-yt5hy]

Looks a lot of fun. 😂

[@huntrezz01]

Best bakery of all time

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Hahahaha! It will only get better.

[@barukahayakky3597]

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[@noway934]

Is there no end to this man talents?! And where does he find the time?! Another great storyteller video Chad

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Time is all used up. I'm so busy 7 days a week. I don't have time to stop.

[@Evil_God]

this man is not just Chad, he is a real GigaChad.

[@barukahayakky3597]

like

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Hahaha

[@barukahayakky3597]

@@ChadZuberAdventures xd

[@TSOAW2024]

Твоє життя дуже цікаве.Обожнюю коли ви щось готуєте або рибалете.Привіт з Котельви 🇺🇦

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Велике спасибі. Скоро розпочнеться рибальський сезон.

[@maxon9100]

Просматривая такие видео, мне всегда хочется есть 😅 Что может быть лучше, чем пища в дикой природе ? 🙏🏻

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Надеюсь, у тебя есть что-нибудь вкусное.

[@maxon9100]

@@ChadZuberAdventures На природе любая еда вкуснее 😉

[@_MrAnderson]

@@maxon9100 Особенно в сибире,в зимний период)

[@lindaseel9986]

Those cookies look really good. The Orange fruit seems very moist. I like the Manzanita. Not only does it provide food, but the flowers are beautiful!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yes, manzanita flowers are really beautiful. The berries are great for making pemmican.

[@bradlafferty]

Now that’s what I call Slow Food cooking! My mouth was actually watering. Thanks for another great video, Chad.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Really? Hahah, yeah they really are tasty.

[@kaitlynlsari681]

Now that was a cool episode, what an incredible amount work went into this. Great work thank you Chad, this was really interesting

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

The reality is that primitive people labored a lot to collect and prepare foods. That was their job. Get food! It really is a full-time job. In today's modern world we are so disconnected from that process because we have supermarkets and modern kitchens and even fast-food restaurants. Now we just grab and eat.

[@artifactsantlersoh]

This might be the single best channel on all of KZbin. Dedication at its finest. thank you so much for taking us along and showing us your craft.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thank you so much

[@veteransowhat5669]

You are in great condition, man .....and very knowledgeable.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I'm working on it

[@dosenpfaendle]

Must be a great feeling, enjoying your food after days of preparing.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yeah, it gives a great sense of appreciation when you have to work this hard to eat.

[@lyonmandan]

Ground up acorn shells could make an excellent soil conditioner. Especially in heavy clay soil this allows oxygen to get to the roots of plants.

[@ydne]

The ash of the shells, along with other wood, will add micro-nutrients to the soil of the garden without having to grind the shells.

[@eastbayflora]

i hate this heavy clay soil slander. California is literally one of the most biodiverse places on earth, research about the california floristic province. Yet we have heavy clay soil.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

They are quite hard and would require a lot of effort to grind. There are plenty of other options that are just as good.

[@Jaymunnie]

You're onto something now Chad. If you can procure a source of fat and salt, you will be able to make basic unleavened bread from the acorn flour you process. Flour is a vital component in baking and cooking in general. Cookies are the first step towards creating and maintaining a portable food source that you can take with you on long trips. Another food source which utilizes flour and water at a ratio of 2:1 A.K.A. hard tack can also be taken and stored for long periods of time; up to a year in fact, if stored properly.

[@MrBottlecapBill]

Native peoples would have been hunting animals and had animal fats. He can't legally do that for his videos.

[@kimsandstrom2887]

acorn oil?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

The acorn flour naturally contains fat so that is good. There are places to acquire salt but I haven't found any exactly right here.

[@felipevergarac369]

Dear Chad, I like to watch your videos because they are relaxing, it relaxes me to see what the landscape is like, your routine, nature, etc. Excellent channel, excellent content, success! 💪💪

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thank you so very much. I really appreciate it. Blessings to you.

[@kianseyfi8993]

بسیار خوشحالم که دوباره شما را میبینم....

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

متشکرم. من هم خوشحالم که شما را اینجا می بینم.

[@bhie3bhie3you61]

Watching from Philippines 🇵🇭

[@BushcraftTexas]

Those look AMAZING! With prickly pear and fruits coming in now I’ll have to dry some fruit and this fall collect acorns and mimic what you’ve done in this video. Awesome job my friend!!!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

You'll love them! It really is an easy recipe and very good tasting. Of course, I used black oak acorns which are one of the better tasting acorns.

[@BushcraftTexas]

Today on my get stuff done list - I bought 8 to 10 foot tall pecan trees, been wanting to for a few years and as the saying goes - the best time to plant fruit / nut trees was last year… the next best time is today. I have a few around and I have acorn trees, so I definitely see this experiment in my future this fall!

[@junajolopezgonzalez391]

Long live cookies and love❤️👽🇮🇨🇪🇸

[@clueless6670]

Does the sweater mostly feel like cloth or does it have more of a dry grass feel to it, do you sometimes feel the hair in the fiber?

[@Fyr365]

I'm interested in the answer too.

[@Ang85323]

Me too

[@Engulfing_Darkness]

Likewise

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I can feel the fibers a little but it's totally tolerable. It provides a little warmth and actually looks kinda nice too.

[@DevotedDisciple-x]

@ChadZuberAdventures I agree that it looks really great actually!

[@XaLoiVlog]

Chad, I'm watching. A basket of delicious seeds for the coming season.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

What kind of seeds?

[@XaLoiVlog]

@@ChadZuberAdventures That's right, Chad. Seeds were planted and planted around the hut. Chad tried nursery and propagation.

[@c0nstantin86]

19:05 that expression... after all that hard labor... my mouth became moist 😂

[@ydne]

Not only a look of surprise that they are good, but of the unusual variety of nutrients hitting his system and making him smirk a bit because he knows how impossible it is to find anything like that in the modern food markets.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

They really taste good. The black oak acorns are one of the best tasting acorns and dried prickly pear is just absolutely delicious. Great combination!

[@Edutainment-d3e]

never stop making these videos please I love them

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thank you!

[@VoxelJackal]

Great example of how our ancestors likely made their own sweet foods. If you're looking for a better use for acorn shells, they can be used to make tannins for tanning leather or creating dye.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yes, I have used them for tanning leather and even yucca fibers.

[@JL-yt5hy]

Great! I love cooking food that takes a lot of energy -3 days, I think to prepare and has a lot less calories when eaten.. It’s a great way to exercise. It also looks delicious.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yeah, primitive food preparation is good exercise.

[@PickleRick-B132]

Honestly ur rawness amazes me.. keep up good work pal i am 28 and u motivated me that there's more to life ❤

[@natalieangelheart2483]

I'm loving your videos. Seeing the acorns brings back childhood memories for me. As a child it was our job to gather them to feed the pigs. Mum would tell us not to eat them, she'd say they were poisonous to humans, now I know why. 😁

[@Makanoyasha]

That look on your face when you took the first bite lol. "Yeah, that's pretty good"

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yeah I find them to be quite good

[@dwaynewladyka577]

This was really awesome. Cheers, Chad! 👍🏻👍🏻✌️

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@fidelisdwi]

Perlu banyak hari untuk membuat 1 episode, sangat respek 👏

[@GowthamGowtham-cl4nq]

உங்களது காணொலிகள் அனைத்து அருமை கற்கால மனிதர்கள் எப்படி வாழ்ந்தார்களோ அதே வாழ்க்கை முறையை காண்கிறேன்.❤

[@SKODWARDE253]

19:06 The little huff of satisfaction tells the entire story.

[@RebellionWarrior]

Oh my you are my hero. I am going to “always follow you.”

[@troobix_s]

I really enjoy when you cook, Chad 😁Looks delicious, would love to try acorn dough some day.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

You gotta try it!

[@TabonaASMR]

Estoy gozando con tus videos, se que los vives en tu realidad personal, a mi me teletraslada a un sentimiento muy interno muy ancestral que existe dentro de mi. Gracias por llevarme a este estado de memoria y de conciencia Chad.🤠

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Viviste en un pueblito antes? Me encanta estar en los pueblitos. La vida es tan diferente y tan sencilla.

[@TabonaASMR]

En los pueblos hay mas armonía, mas simpleza y mas tribu con los vecinos. Todos sabemos que entre mas grande la ciudad menos tribu, mas infelices y mas compleja. Particularme ahora tiendo aislarme, de la gente algo en mi me impulsa a la autonomía y es por ello que tus videos me impactan fuertemente nuevamente gracias por tus videos y por tu atención Chad.😉

[@revived3849]

Ver tutoriales aburridos de cocina : 🥱 Ver a Chad hacer unas buenas galletas de bellota primitivas: 😎👍

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Jajajajjaaj!

[@ram1brn]

you should make a domed lid for the cooking plate it would act as a oven (if u make one remember to put a handle on it

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yeah, that's a great idea for sure.

[@KidKontra-w1m]

Great Video it Takes Not much to make those Cookies, i learned something new thank you Chad!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Preparing the ingredients is what takes a long time.

[@MajDARKRAGE01]

Amazing Good To Know. Videos Are Very Helpful on Survival keep them Coming.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks

[@beltlevel]

If you still have shells, they make an excellent mulch! They don't break down quickly, and they're on par with wood chips nutritionally. Hopefully you can use some in your garden!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I will always get more as I continue preparing acorns.

[@teptime]

Those look really good...reminds me of fennel cakes I made years ago.

[@yasmngeorge3802]

making these the minute i buy my first house, thank you God bless

[@ChewyPinata]

You are shredded my man, how about a fitness video out in nature ❤

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I will. That is in the plans.

[@ChewyPinata]

@@ChadZuberAdventures sweet

[@zachb8012]

I've seen Mayan ladies make corn flour and they use a different tool than a mortar and pestle but it's a similar idea. It's like a big flat stone set at an angle over a bowl they use an oblong rock and larger motions to grind more material at a time, then they'll shake the bowl so the larger granules come to the top and put it back on the surface for more grinding.

[@Daniel_Plastiak_Crazy_Adventur]

Great and informative video. I admire your work and perseverance. 😀🖖👍

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thank you!

[@matthewelliott2213]

I would love to try these cookies. Can't believe I wrote that... But those look really delicious!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

And they really are delicious!

[@matthewelliott2213]

@@ChadZuberAdventures Hey! Feedback! I just wanted you to know the algorithm works! Your channel was suggested to me yesterday--I don't know the how's or why's but I'd never heard of your channel until yesterday and I'm a new subscriber today. Magic!

[@nils-peterwihlney8732]

One way to quickly determine if a nut is good or bad is to put it inside a container filled with water. The bad nuts will float while the good nuts will sink. I have no idea what you can use nutshells for outside of decorative crafting, but I think you should be more than able to take the ash of the shells you burnt and use them as part of your compost compound. Not sure if it is useful for you but I hope it is.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yeah, that's a good idea to test. Although these nuts are already quite dry so they all float anyway. I actually tested this out. But fresh ones will sink.

[@Wadah_yemen]

You are really the king of the jungle, I wish you success and one day Chad, tell me about your experience in a herb in the desert and it got a remarkable effectiveness in your body for the best thing

[@smokyriverbushcraft]

So envious of what you get to do! I'm hoping if I keep working for it I'll have the time and resources to be able to just cave man it out for weeks at a time somewhere! Love what you do playboy!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

You will get there. Are you up in the Edmonton area?

[@eileensorensen2414]

Very entertaining & informative video.

[@LeaPuu-bz9gl]

Kust ,sellist meest leida.Kas keegi võiks öelda .Hämmastav.Eestist ma leidnud küll pole.Aamen!❤😊

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

ma olen siin

[@sallawaronen3277]

They look delicious! More receipes please.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

More coming!

[@LanzerotWhite]

Вау, великолепное интересное и познавательное видео, таких мало! Спасибо! ❤

[@ImBot745]

Chad, deberías utilizar el efecto Venturi cuando soplas la fogata así es más fácil encender la llama.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Como es el efecto Venturi?

[@ImBot745]

@@ChadZuberAdventures Por lo que entiendo es soplar sin meter la boca dentro del tubo, sino soplar desde afuera directo al agujero del tubo. Esto lo que hace es empujar el aire alrededor del tubo junto con tu soplido directo al fuego. No sé si funcione también como pienso pero sería bueno probar.

[@ImBot745]

@@ChadZuberAdventures También se puede llamar "Efecto Bernoulli".

[@1m1yke]

bro u been doing this for hella long, respect i wanna try what u do one day and live off the land

[@user-kl5zd2oe3e]

We have a lot of acorns around here. Gonna have to try this out in fall.

[@user7tWyu3q4p]

Мужик, мастер на все руки.

[@kitt7477]

Good job. Maybe you can make a larger mortar & much heavier pestle to smash a large quantity of grains instead of one by one.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Have to be careful not to get sloppy with the grinding or there will likely be bits of stone mixed in with the flour. A very well designed mortar can accomplish this task but it needs to be of a very hard stone like granite. This type of mortar requires an awful lot of work and long time to make. However, I will love to make one if I can get the time to do it. It would probably take a little grinding over an entire year to make a good and big one.

[@madmo1922]

Great stuff man, would be curious to see what could be sourced as oil/fat in the wild other than animals?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

There is oil in acorns and other seeds but it is quite a process to isolate. Definitely a ton of work and effort. Animal fat is so much more easy to acquire.

[@GEORGEMARTINOJR]

Nice food bro cool 😊❤

[@gridinnozmu4358]

Realmente deliciosas y nutritivas ,ya sabemos como procesar las bellotas,creó que deberias construir una.mesa primitiva para realizar tus quehaceres.Felicitaciones🙌💪🔥

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

La verdad que sí. Una mesa me serviría mucho.

[@primitivevillage168]

good new test ❤

[@ramboturkey1926]

you should try winnowing your toasted acorns by passing them from basket to basket letting the breeze blow away the light outer shells

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

That works fine if there is much of a breeze. I also need to make another basket like the one I was using.

[@Makanoyasha]

You can use the flour to season the plate so it doesn't stick. Take some extra, and roll it back and forth over the cooking spot.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Wood ash works better

[@Omoroseangel]

That was bad a**... I really enjoyed watching you, how cool.

[@Кирилл-г6ь2щ]

Think there was something like this in the comments, but you are truly a chad human, living through primal experience and tasting the life as it is! Thank you for your videos! Stay healthy! By the way, were there any plans of yours to make a place to grow vegetables? Is that soil too bad to give them a nice push so they can grow, or it's much easier to find the food around you?

[@silvafox8371]

Really enjoyable thank you

[@AlexBushcraftmyWorld]

I thought I was the only one who filmed Bushcraft 🧡🤝

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

There are about two other people that do it too. Haaha!

[@JosueSilva-c6e]

Tus video son muy interesantes me alegro mucho por ti veoo cada día va más revoluciónando tu contenido desde ecuador hermano❤

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Muchas gracias amigo! Saludos para ti en Ecuador.

[@JosueSilva-c6e]

@@ChadZuberAdventures gracia bendiciones

[@AK-ms5cm]

Great video. Also, not sure if you're aware but SNL used a photo of you in last nights Weekend Update.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Oh yeah? Which photo was that? They have used photos of me before. Can you send a screenshot to my email? [e-mail]

[@AK-ms5cm]

@@ChadZuberAdventures Emailed you a screenshot and link to the video. Keep up the good work!

[@masrohim8104]

Saya suka melihat video anda ketika membangun sebuah tempat tinggal dari batu bata. Terlihat sangat menyenangkan melihat anda membuatnya langkah demi langkah. Petualangan yang mengagumkan

[@GreenBro11]

I always find the concept of going out and living primitively but still having to return to some form of modernity to edit and post the video for us to watch very humorous. It must be fun and surreal while editing to see yourself actually doing this stuff.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Actually I’ve done it so much it’s just a job to me. I don’t really enjoy editing. I love being out in the wilderness but not in front of a computer.

[@GreenBro11]

@@ChadZuberAdventuresWow! Cool! I didn’t expect a reply. Thanks for uploading these videos even if the technical aspect of it isn’t as enjoyable as being outside and creating the content.

[@Markus0w]

love your videos man, keep it up!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks!

[@Heracleetus]

Chef tip: instead of cracking a nut then sorting it, then repeating, you should crack all the nuts first, then pick through them. This will cut the processing time in half. Same goes for flouring them, you should flour as many as the mortar can possibly hold instead of only doing 3 at a time. If you have 50lbs of mushrooms to prep, is faster to wash them all then chop them all, rather than wash one and chop it then wash another and chop it, etc. Group similar tasks and movements together before transitioning to different tasks/steps.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Certainly, this is all easier in a big kitchen with plenty of space to work in. The mortar is kind of small and the issue I have when grinding too much flour in it is that the flour gets pushed out. I prefer to grind less and keep it in the mortar.

[@fortemteam971]

Love your videos as allways :3 🎉😊

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks!

[@DNLwasTaken]

Incredible knowledge this guy has, how do you learn this?

[@JosuDiaz-u7o]

The type of oak acorn that is in Spain may be somewhat different from the one you are using in that area. There are many types of acorns, the ones I use to repopulate oak and oak are the ones I use. And I have already done interesting culinary experiments with the oak ones. To have that flour available for longer, apart from doing these steps, you have to reheat it to eliminate as much moisture as possible because it fills with mold over time.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I have often dried the acorn flour in the sun until it is completely dry and then I can store it for a very long time. This technique works very well.

[@SGKshub55]

Such peaceful life

[@vishveshtadsare3160]

No tech no over knowledge no over thinking just pure work and rest

[@MAASAIWITHPASSPORT]

Keep grinding bro

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Grind is on! Congratulations on your channel. It's really growing now! You're so awesome!

[@lorddiablo8575]

Chad, I think you might use the acorn shells ( grind them into very small pieces or powder ) as a kind of fertilizer for your plants in the garden .... What do you think ?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Too much work. I think that the next time I will partially burn them and then add them to the compost.

[@Chuck_Huckler]

Those cookies look pretty tasty! If you're feeling up to a bit of stonecraft, a small millstone might speed the whole process up and result in a finer flour. It seems like you don't really have a dedicated cooking stove, which could make heat control easier (by controlling the airflow) and potentially allow for baking. Think of a pizza oven. Something like that would be fairly easy to make, just needs a firebox and cooking chamber, and the exhaust vent could be used as the eye of a stove. A lack of oil is certainly an issue when it comes to cooking. I think your best bet for that would be animal fat, which can be rendered and kept indefinitely. Animal meat that's been dried and ground into flour can also be mixed with fat and fruit to make pemmican, which was and still is used by native indians as a meal on the go, or as soup stock. Pemmican also lasts for a very long time if it's stored well. If you don't feel like hunting animals in the desert, though, i don't think anyone would mind too much if you just brought in a bit of beef from home. You could also probably season a cooking plate or bowl like a cast iron pan if you had enough lard, which would be a big step up.

[@anonymousthesneaky220]

If he has oily nuts around, like beechnuts, hickory’s or walnuts, he could try pressing those into oil

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

A millstone would be incredible. It would also be quite a project to make. Many native tribes used the mortar and pestle for thousands of years without ever using a millstone. A pizza oven is actually in the plans. I just need the time to build it. Hunting is very challenging here. There aren't many large wild animals. The chances of success are so slim, that's why I haven't done it. Fish and insects are the most reliable sources of protein here but they are only available during the warm months about 6 months of the year. I make pemmican all the time. I often bring some with me on my outings. I'm planning to make a video about that very soon.

[@user-ed9re5yd7c]

acorn cookie If you roast it on a ceramic plate and it will stick, it will take a while, but you may be able to try drying out the moisture and solidifying it, similar to when you first roasted an acorn with its thin skin.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yeah, drying it out more helps prevent sticking. Also, putting a thin layer of ash over the cooking plate helps a lot too.

[@derwynmdockenjr]

Thank you, sir! 🙏 Mad Love! ❤

[@Engulfing_Darkness]

Chad, this is an amazing skill! Thank you!! How much time do you live out in the desert???

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

It varies a lot. Currently bout 25% of the time I am either in the desert or somewhere else.

[@Engulfing_Darkness]

@@ChadZuberAdventures Would you say you spend more time in the nature than in the city?

[@onlyyoucanstopevil9024]

ice age squirrel like this

[@rodrigoarcangelo9671]

Have you ever tried Flint knapping? I would love to see it

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yeah I’ve shown a little in several videos but I’ve only used rhyolite which is really abundant here.

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

I expect the next video will be making a clay cookie jar. Gotta keep the cookie monsters out. Also, if I'm not mistaken, tanin is used in the tanning of animal hides.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Hahahah, very good idea.

[@Floranova13]

You could make your shirt go on and off more easily with the "bunny ear" technique of lacing used in corsetry. (Explanations widely available online) Then you can adjust the tightness of the laces without removing them from the holes.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Just that those bunny ears get snagged on branches all the time.

[@monicach_]

@ChadZuber I have a question for you: 1) When you gather a basket full of acorns, how many acorns are actually good to use? About half are rotten? Great video as always!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

When I first gather them about 90% are good and 10% bad. If I don't have time to process them and I store them whole then over time more and more turn bad. It also depends on the kind of acorns. Some don't rot as easy as others. But after a year, if I leave them in the shell, even if they are kept dry, about 20% will be good and 80% bad.

[@monicach_]

@@ChadZuberAdventures Great info to know! thank you for sharing that knowledge.

[@bertnerny]

These look good.

[@elcnemllmn7476]

Te sigo desde años basicamente una parte de mi infancia

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Gracias por acompañarme en mis aventuras.

[@louiseswart1315]

Those shells(of those you kept the nut to eat, not the mouldy ones) can be part of your thick mulch to keep your soil cool in summer heat, though. The same with all the wood chips in your firewood processing area. Is that still the first soaking basket that you made at your first hut by the sea?

[@LizandroMiramontes]

Hey been watching , i know a bit about the desert. And i am enjoying your videos. Every one should be watching and learning. Thabk you for sharing. I have subscribed and will like all your videos. I like what i see, and wish i there. Creator bless.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thank you so much! What deserts have you explored?

[@SchwardsChannel]

Is chufa growing in your area? It also great for baking and contains a lot of oil

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I never even heard of chufa.