How we use wild walnuts as food!

[@ponderitafarm8226]

As one of the people who complained that you hadn't showed that part. I thank you!

[@cesmith48]

My Grandma had a Black Walnut Tree in her front yard. Yummy!

[@TinTin-ir8wx]

Nut trees, coconut trees, jackfruit tress, banana trees, mango trees.. r so nicest..

[@Manifesting_Secret_Sketchbook]

Wow which country?

[@hitchandrelease]

I think I remember someone boiling the shells and using the colored water as a natural wood stain!! Just an idea!

[@MissBetsyLu]

Wow!! Cool idea. Blessings everyone everywhere

[@Elirum]

Walnut is often used as a natural dye-just make sure to have a fixative and do some research!

[@MagnoliaHoosier]

My great grandfather and his son in law had a furniture shop. That is exactly how they stained their chairs, tables and beautifully crafted grandfather clocks.

[@ragnkja]

@@Elirum Being a tannin-based dye it doesn’t really need a mordant or fixative.

[@MissBetsyLu]

@@MagnoliaHoosier way cool. Blessings everyone.

[@CompletelySaneUnlikeThem]

I had the most simple method of getting black walnuts from the tree. I just walked to my grandparents house and my Grandma would hand me a bag of them that my Grandpa shelled for me.

[@baileyjork]

When I was a kid we had a black walnut tree in front of our house and we used to just spend days outside with hammers and snacking! :)

[@UndergroundGod13]

Oh man, cracking walnuts open with a vice, now that brings back memories. Used to do that all the time as a kid at my grandparent's house.

[@jackstrubbe7608]

My great grandmother had a vice in her kitchen. The right tool!

[@myrabaker5650]

Far from my Kentucky home where we have a beautiful mature black walnut tree, and I miss them so much. Absolutely yummy in brownies! Hard to explain why, but it is the flavor. Hard to explain a flavor.

[@di4085]

It has a more distinct potent Walnut flavor.

[@aussierose6349]

Fun fact the shells are great for dying clothes and fibre .

[@MissBetsyLu]

I think you mean the outer hull, not the shell????? Blessings everyone everywhere

[@JurassicJolts]

27 squirrels *did not* approve this message

[@DLlama]

Seriously, I thought this was environmentally friendly at first, but no. You clearly have enough money to just buy some. Stop stealing the forest critter's food source

[@Grouse2275]

@@DLlamaGet over your silliness 🙄

[@JurassicJolts]

I was not serious

[@heatherlowry754]

We've harvested black walnuts from the graveyard for decades. It's a staple in our holiday meals

[@SprocketsDaddy]

You guys are the most skilled multitaskers

[@brandireichert6941]

Thank You So Much For Your Teaching. We Are 70 & 77 And You Have Taught And Reminded Us So Much. Blessings To You Both. 🙏♥️🙏

[@jeremiahburnsed8584]

Thank you I’ve been a tree guy cutting down trees for years wondering if these were edible thank you for telling me and showing me how to do. I’m gonna have walnuts forever.

[@HalleluYahuah]

So many uses for the hulls too. Antibacterial, rebuilding tooth enamel, taking away toothaches, killing parasites, curing impetigo, and it is a rich source of iodine.

[@MissBetsyLu]

What's impetigo??? Blessings everyone everywhere

[@HalleluYahuah]

@@MissBetsyLu it's a bacterial skin infection. It's most common in kids, and is very contagious.

[@MissBetsyLu]

@@HalleluYahuah does it cause scabs along nostrils?? Blessings everyone everywhere

[@HalleluYahuah]

@@MissBetsyLu Yes, blisters can be anywhere, but it seems face is common from what I've read.

[@ninettehalpin2779]

Cool! Thank you!

[@shawnwhite69]

Black walnut pie is so good. Its a Thanksgiving staple with my family❤

[@samanthamorgan8117]

I use a similar method for cracking open Dungeness crab legs. A rubber mallet is THE tool for crab. I live on the Oregon Coast and my husband is a commercial fisherman so we easily get 30 lbs of crab every winter. Maybe more. Just saying if you ever do process crab….rubber mallet. 💪

[@MissBetsyLu]

Send us frozen meat!!!!! Lol Blessings everyone everywhere.

[@samanthamorgan8117]

@@MissBetsyLu lol everyone asks me to do that haha. I regularly send my little brother crab and chanterelle mushrooms to Iowa lol

[@MissBetsyLu]

@@samanthamorgan8117 don't tell those people in Maine that I asked for seafood from the West Coast 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤔🤭🤔🤭🤔🦋🥰😢🥰😢🥰🥰

[@wilma3542]

If you have alot of walnuts I advice you to make a cake called "Bienenstich" (it a traditional german cake where I live). It is really delicious and traditionally made with a yeast dough base which is topped with a nut-sugar mixture (I think originally honey was used instead which is why it is called Bienenstich (eng: Bee Sting) to begin with). You can find a lot of recipes online, some use other nuts or add a filling.

[@govols1995]

Almonds are the most common nut to use for Bienenstich. Source: My German mom haha

[@deanacrane5947]

My husband laughed so hard at me when iI found a walnut tree at our daughters house and I started stomping them, showing everyone what I had learned from this video! We are now talking about harvesting them next year, thank you!❤

[@Revkelligirl]

Black walnuts are my favorite nut. They are so sweet and yummy. Definitely worth the work.

[@draketwolf9008]

I remember cracking walnuts for my grandmother for her fall cooking and canning. I would also help my grandpa with the outer shell, the green gooie shell, in making dyes for wood and cloth. Some will be mixed with pine needles to make a natural fragrance for the house.

[@stellmitchell2593]

Thank you! Love them so much more than the others, and now thanks to you I can crack them 🕊

[@Zero-The-Hunter]

Be careful about walnuts with the flesh on the shell, they will stain anything yellow (clothes, hands, nails, ext)

[@gabrieladonley7277]

There are several black walnut trees in our property that we’re going to waste every year. Thank you for explaining the process so we can take advantage of the abundance. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@kto_66]

I used the skins to stain my floors. Just about 30 in a bucket with water just enough to cover the top. Let sit for a week or two longer if you want darker stain. Drain and put it on clean sanded wood with soft brush or sponge. Repeat when dry or till you have the colour you desire. Then finish it with a clear coat if you wish absolutely beautiful. 👌

[@mikekearsley2407]

Nice, You are cracking me up. Nutty vid. Thanks from Seattle.

[@kyuutatsu]

I am amazed at the amount of people who haven’t been doing this since childhood. Like i thought it was something everyone did…

[@music1958ful]

Excellent info and advice. Thank you! I love Black Walnut cake with cream cheese frosting 👍👍Sooo good!!

[@user-cz1gu8nl9o]

Sounds delicious!!!

[@ash.lynn17]

I want to thank you for all the videos you guys have posted. Not only have I learned so much, but you are huge inspirations for living a sustainable lifestyle. Next year I begin my goal of seeing how far into winter I can feed my family!

[@NerdCosaNostra]

Stumbled upon this channel, great stuff. Love it.

[@alieneleni]

when i was a child, the first time i ever had the ambulance called for me was when my grandmother was breaking walnuts with a hammer in the yard and a little piece broke and flew into my eye haha

[@MrQuestful]

I’m wondering if you do anything with the shells, I bet they’d be good in a garden bed

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

We use them as kindling for fires, but there are probably a lot of great uses!

[@user-dm1tv6nl2e]

Have seen them used in compost or even sprinkled as is on fields

[@GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn]

Black walnut trees contain juglone toxin in their roots, buds, and nut hulls (leaves and stems have smaller amounts of juglone). The toxin seeps into the soil and susceptible companion plants will turn yellow, wilt, and sometimes die.

[@MissBetsyLu]

Husks (not the shell).. used by PA Dutch Amish in corn fields to suppress weeds. Just another suggestion. Blessings everyone everywhere.

[@MissBetsyLu]

​@@HomegrownHandgathered if I remember right. Shell burns like coal, blessings everyone everywhere.

[@forest1560]

Black walnuts! Brings back good memories, I had a huge black walnut tree actually about for black walnut trees in my front yard when I was a kid. But since then we've moved and I haven't seen black walnuts in years😢 still really like them though!🎉

[@grovermartin6874]

I used to lay them on the driveway and top them with a thick plank. Slowlly drive over the plank, and Voila! Years ago my father said they were his most-loved nut, so I cracked and labouriously picked the bits out for his birthday. He ate some, and observed they were awfully oily.🥴

[@src3360]

My grandparents had paper shell pecan trees on their property. We could just squeeze them and the shell came off pretty easy!! Such good food and pies ❤❤

[@Mattlott222]

We had these when I was growing up, learning to use a hammer is the best way. A few large trees gave us a bunch and it was only a few bits of waste before you learn to do it right. We used to use rocks to eat them while adventuring too

[@sallyrutledge4726]

In autumn we, my family, would drive around and just pick up walnuts from the roadside. My mom processed the husks to make stain for our wood floors and I spent hundreds of my introverted childhood hours happily opening the tough little critters using a cement block and one of dad's old hammers. And we lived in the CITY of Ann Arbor Michigan !

[@PintuMahakul]

👍 Usage of wild walnuts. Thank you very much for sharing your wonderful video.

[@jacobzooman4405]

My grandpa had a concrete floor carport,several grandkids, and a few hammers 😂 worked well for many years

[@jaredbigham9085]

Way to own it :) Thanks for sharing the process

[@lindaopperthauser2284]

Thanks for the knowledge! I love all nuts..

[@blackmooncultx9552]

I always learn something new from you guys. Do you guys forage acorns much at all?

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

Yup! I think we have a video from last year about making acorn flour pancakes

[@MissBetsyLu]

​@@HomegrownHandgathered sighs sighs sighs. Link please??? Many grand blessings everyone everywhere.

[@qualqui]

Growin' up in se Utah, the Jones' had a black walnut tree, and their shells are definitely hard.😅👍

[@noneyabusiness1565]

Thank God. I thought it was just me and my carpi tunnel. Lol. I was totally thinking, "For pete's sake, I am not this weak, am I?" ❤

[@dianenociolo5198]

I was one of those people asking! Thank you There are hundreds of them in my back yard!

[@autumn7436]

When I bought land in Ohio that had a huge black walnut tree on it, the neighbors told me they crack the nuts open by driving the car over them 😂 Thank you for sharing better ways🙏

[@prussian5770]

We had a black walnut tree growing up. Certainly knew how to crack them! Quality time with my big brother..

[@septicalfrogs]

Black walnut hull is such a good anti parasitic!

[@thenavybluewolf5648]

I did research a few years ago about walnuts as a food source, but they are also a good natural dye! Nowadays theres no reason to use it as dye, but its cool to know.

[@DAC936]

Reminds me of my grandmother ❤

[@ttjohns4821]

My grandmother used a couple of rocks. The big flat one came from the creek below the house. It was slightly concave. Lay the nut on the rock and whack it with another one. We used to pick hickory nuts too.

[@SilverHand-fu1jn]

it was my first time watching your prev video. AND YES i also had a question about how you crack it open but didnt comment on it lol

[@SilverHand-fu1jn]

we only had black walnut in my country and they are really hard. You need to crack them with a hammer on concrete

[@mandywinter8871]

It's faster if you crack a bunch and then pick them all at once

[@MissBetsyLu]

True. Blessings everyone everywhere.

[@thegriffinnews]

Woah! That nutcracker unlocked a core memory! First time I ever smashed my own finger at 5.

[@abbaasgertrude4915]

Congratulations 🎉👏👏👏 your patience amazing

[@thatcrazychicken]

Thank you for these!

[@toddstropicals]

We used to make black walnut ice cream when I was a kid. They're way better than regular walnuts.

[@faceless1950]

Sometimes I eat oranges with the peel for the added fragrance and fiber. I don’t have access to fresh walnuts but would still recommend a similar approach as it is probably less tedious.

[@SilverLining650]

Thank you. Didn’t mean to shout but was curious how you did it.

[@sophietrujillo5848]

As a preschooler I used to fill all my pockets up with black walnuts I’d collect at the towns park, then my moms pockets too🤣 grandpa had taught me to use a hammer to crack them open and it was my favorite hobby

[@BitterBetty76]

I love pecans. IMO they are the best! I've tried to like walnuts but they're just so bitter tasting to me.

[@hjv7121]

I’m imagining my theoretical girlfriend trying to watch a show while I’m sitting there cracking dozens of walnuts and I can’t help but to think she wouldn’t be too hyped on the sound from that 😂

[@mandywinter8871]

You can crack them and put the pieces in a bowl, then pick the nuts out during TV time

[@lisahoshowsky4251]

We have had so many black walnuts all my life but I only learned you can eat them 2 years ago and started using them for dye as well

[@controlyourtemperjeez8220]

That look after the bite of food was the look of “Mmm, edible”

[@rainnmoon114]

How do you guys use the shells? I remember reading somewhere that shells can be used for an exfoliant but can they also be used as fire starters?

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

Yea we just use them as kindling

[@nikkiboulter593]

Reminds me of cracking macadamia nuts from my tree in the backyard. If I was bored as a kid I'd just grab some nuts and a rock and very carefully crack them on the cement. The macadamia nut cracker was still way more useful for if you needed them open quickly or with zero risk of whacking your fingers though 😂

[@Disaster724]

Black walnuts in fudge is absolutely god tier 😩

[@triciabarr4620]

I just saw the other video about 10 minutes ago watching shorts lol I actually dehulled dehusked whichever it's called 10 black walnuts almost a week ago. My fingers are still stained though not nearly as much as they originally were.. lol I learned the hard way to wear gloves next time. I've never had a black walnut and wanted to try them.. my nuts are still aging or drying or whatever they're supposed to be doing. I knew that they're harder to open and at minimum a hammer is necessary. Thanks for sharing your knowledge & experiences with us, it's greatly appreciated and extremely helpful. I'm now thinking that I'm definitely going to need more than just the 10 I've got at the moment.. I need to get going while they're still falling and before the squirrels start taking them.. do squirrels eat them? I'm sure they would if they are able to get into them...and they'd love them

[@echohunter4199]

For folks out there that have a single stage reloading press, it should be easy to make something to use in the place of a die to crack walnuts open with relative ease.

[@mad_exx]

My dad's driveway has black walnut trees growing overhead so, when they'd all fall, my dad would just drive over them before sending us as kids to pick them up 😂

[@SpecialK711]

I salute your patience!! 🖖

[@Aceshot86]

Missed opportunity... "While watching your favorite YT channel."

[@davidterry6155]

We had a board with screws screwed in a pattern and at a typical height to crack most shells. I could put 5 shells and crack them with a hammer. Dump them out and put more in, then remove the shells. It was a great family bonding evening

[@cathys949]

I like to wrap a piece of denim around the nut before striking it, to keep the meats clean and any shell chips contained.

[@ninettehalpin2779]

The Armenians make a delicacy thats young black walnuts (still in their soft shell) cooked & bottled in a wonderful dark & sweet syrup. They're not like anything else ive ever eaten & they're unforgettably delicious!

[@lorip6790]

I'd love your recipes 😊

[@barbwellman6686]

Fresh black walnuts are delicious, very earthy.

[@peterv7258]

My grandma and grandpa had black walnut trees in their yard. What they did was take the nuts and throw them on the gravel driveway, and the cars would crack open the nuts. Though I don't think that was 100% percent effective, because when grandma was working up the nuts the whole kitchen table was dominated by them, and she had a hammer and a brick. She made cookies with them. Black walnuts have an odd astringent type of flavor.

[@chases7896]

My elementary school playgrand had walnuts, we just used giant rocks... lol

[@paulcoover9197]

I happened on a trick to make it easy to get the meats out. Use coals from a fire or perhaps a charcoal BBQ settup. You just toss them on the coals and turn them after 10 to fifteen seconds. Pull them out after a few seconds and crack them...they are now sweated; they are slightly smaller and moist. It makes it lots easier to remove the meats. I never could get any black walnuts to eat.. Master this and get big pieces out whole..

[@gobbletegook]

And yet, Mr. Squirrel has no problem.

[@ShortFilmVD]

Wow, it's like a miniature fly press but just for nuts 😂 I likey

[@lindsayholmes9640]

You should candy some! Perfect salad addition!

[@dk2614]

Awesome!

[@277mitchell]

I grew up with a black walnut tree in the backyard. I used to hit them with a hammer they are very good. I loved them thanks

[@xavierbalderas5276]

And he’s gorgeous 😍

[@GENERALWACKASS]

I bought hazelnuts for the first time and agree how fun it is to crack them open

[@sarahdisorbo9279]

Can you do a video about how you make sure you don't consume too many environmental contaminants. I just finished school for environmental assessment and I had no idea there are recommendations for how much of animals you should consume in the local area. I assume foraged things are the same

[@bluesky4568]

Love love love black walnuts

[@richardbusta8899]

Had a tree out side my house growing up. Put two in 1 hand and squeeze the softer one breaks. After 2 or 3 times the solid one breaks.

[@sharonsease4573]

My grandfather put part of a railroad rail piece on a stump and used a hammer. I used to use a brick on my lap with the hammer.

[@GamerChick5567]

This reminds me I need to crack the ones that I have sitting there I picked them about a month ago on a hike we have a subspecies that is kind of rare here in SoCal

[@churromushroom8101]

I just throw the walnut at the tree trunk. Usually the shell breaks off fairly nicely, but that's just from years of trial and error with how much force to use

[@cyann410]

I have made some gorgeous dye using the husks and shells.

[@julieaskingforafriend]

My grandfather cracked bushels of these things in the basement every fall. He also used a vice.

[@RDZSKY551]

Can I totally come stay with you guys for a week or 2 to learn all what you guys do?? I'm so intrigued and wanna do thia

[@snellsnell7490]

I remember from my youth some 60 plus years ago. Black walnuts had the best flavor I’ve ever tasted. My parents used to take me to a bar and restaurant in Illinois and we would order ribeye steaks and they were cooked to perfection I don’t know if the Cattle were fed on a diet of black walnuts but the taste of the steak was unequaled with black walnuts flavors. It’s possible they were using black walnut oil I’m not sure but that taste brings back very happy memories and so do black walnuts. I think you for this video.

[@MyAlbertC]

Gracias 😊

[@JimKJeffries]

Also an excellent lumber crop once old.

[@richdad360]

Great information. Thank you.

[@masonhughes6631]

I used to have a black walnut tree in my yard growing up in kansas and used to eat theses all the time man this brings back memories of smashing them with a rock to open them