MilkWeed: It's an Edible

[@FaZeZombieslayer]

“Next were going to put a little bit of oil in a pan” Proceeds to use half the bottle

[@kleineroteHex]

😁

[@barbarabell1171]

Ya, that cracked me up too!!!😂

[@zombiesgotmytongue]

I watched multiple videos on how to prepare them and just harvested and cooked some up tonight. About 30 minutes after eating I got extremely nauseated with cold flashes for hours. I looked it up and you’re supposed to boil the pods and change the water in the pot 3-4 times before sautéing or frying them, to insure the poisonous milk sap is able to be consumed safely. I’m not allergic to them, that’s just how it’s supposed to be done. Wanted to say something to possibly prevent someone else from getting mildly poisoned.

[@cmccabe07921]

Glucosides in the sap can affect heart

[@cpm7015]

you may have Dogbane, looks like milkweed but makes you sick. Common milkweed is edible raw.

[@tess-a.9875]

Thank You! For being very thoughtful.

[@rongarritson7627]

@@cpm7015 No. Common Milkweed is NOT edible raw.

[@markatkinson9963]

Thanks for the lesson!!! Suggetion,....dry your pods before you bread. Double dip in the egg and flour. The breading will stick more and you will get a crisper crust. Great video.

[@jeancampbell2297]

Milkweed pods are mentioned many times in The Clan of the Cave Bear series of books. Now I know what they really look like. Thanks for the video.

[@edieboudreau9637]

Jean Campbell that was an interesting series.

[@cindythompson7467]

I loved that series...If you haven't read it you should read Follow the River by James Alexander Thom

[@ScottWConvid19]

I'm glad to see you're doing something with wild edibles, even though you usually refrain.

[@MissisChannel]

please dont eat milkweed thte monarchs are on endangered list and that is their host source. they need to b e planted more not eaten!!!

[@forrestsmouse1475]

I’ve always boiled them changing the boiling water every two minutes through four times. Tastes like a cross between cabbage and asparagus. Love it.

[@Maxim.Teleguz]

Why change the boiling water?

[@musicaltarrasque]

@@Maxim.Teleguz the "milk" is mildly toxic

[@g-palloyd3600]

Been around milkweed all my life, had no idea you could eat them! Knew the Monarch butterflies loved em. Thanks Dan.

[@flamespear86]

You still have to be careful. Not all species are edible and the ones that are still need to be processed like this.

[@IARRCSim]

@@flamespear86 what is the worst that could happen? Could you die by getting the wrong species of milkweed or processing their pods differently? I thought the milk was poisonous enough to make people feel nauseous if they swallowed it.

[@flamespear86]

@@IARRCSim I'm not a botanist but the worst I suppose would be an allergic reaction to the toxins, acute liver/kidney damage and death. That's what you should always assume when eating unknown plants and fungi. I suppose the least would be stomach aches, vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea.

[@fengxiong520]

When I was a kid my parents use to pick these off fences and bring them home to eat. They would throw them in a soup with some pork and when cooked they became very yummy greens to eat. Like you said you want to get them young when they're smooth on the outside!

[@dr.froghopper6711]

I get Lambs-quarter and purslane growing in my yard! It’s good to see this stuff on your channel. Vegetation often produces more food than a person can effectively hunt animals and get. At least that’s the case in this New Mexico desert! Love your videos!

[@nancybarnett2832]

You can do the same thing with yellow dandelion blooms. They taste a lot like fried morrel mushrooms. They are yummy, my mother in law used to make them a lot.

[@RyanMclain]

Nancy Barnett but those you can eat all the parts uncooked. the greens are better in my book especially when bacon grease is poured over them, some crushed red pepper/cayenne, splash of vinegar

[@MissisChannel]

MONARCH MURDERERES EAT MILKWEED INSTEAD OF PLANTING THEM!! MONARCHS ARE ON ENDANGERED LIST AND THEY NEED TO BE PLANTED MORE NOT EATEN!!

[@guzelmarmara]

Deep fry everything. American motto for making random stuff edible.

[@IARRCSim]

Not just American. Tempura and deep fried rice are popular in most of East Asia. A recent fad in Chinese street food vendors is to sell oiled and seasoned rocks for people to basically suck on and usually give back to the vendors for reuse. America is more unique in getting fat from unhealthy portions and lack of exercise, though.

[@williammills936]

What they kinda look like and the way you cooked them. Is Okra. We eat a lot of it down here in the south in the summer time.

[@MissisChannel]

MONARCH MURDERERES EAT MILKWEED INSTEAD OF PLANTING THEM!! MONARCHS ARE ON ENDANGERED LIST AND THEY NEED TO BE PLANTED MORE NOT EATEN!!

[@edwardannable5468]

I thought I was watching Martha Stewart cooking wow cooking outdoors looks good and yummy Dan

[@aux1z11]

I got hundreds of these out back

[@SaItyStudios]

thats good milkweed is the only thing monarch butterflies eat

[@Quarton]

I love this - it's great to see this get some attention - Free Food! My kids, every Spring would go out and gather the new blooms from the dandelions outside. I'd wash 'em up, use the egg and flour for batter, and fried up, they're GREAT! The first time I ever had some, I asked my mom, "Where did you get the mushrooms from?!" They taste a lot like morel mushrooms do, with an egg batter, fried. Maybe you could do a video on those - along with jewel weed, stinging nettles, and wild violets. Good food!

[@edieboudreau9637]

Roger Quarton sounds like a true foraging feast. All it needs is some good fried bass or brim.

[@Quarton]

Edie Boudreau ~ That's all it lacks! Great food, and it's all there for those who care to catch it, pick it, and cook it!

[@MissisChannel]

MONARCH MURDERERES EAT MILKWEED INSTEAD OF PLANTING THEM!! MONARCHS ARE ON ENDANGERED LIST AND THEY NEED TO BE PLANTED MORE NOT EATEN!!

[@billarseneau3354]

I tried it last year, but the pods were beyond prime. Just tried another batch of young pods flour->egg->shore lunch and bamm they were delicious! Thanks for the video.

[@MissisChannel]

MONARCH MURDERERES EAT MILKWEED INSTEAD OF PLANTING THEM!! MONARCHS ARE ON ENDANGERED LIST AND THEY NEED TO BE PLANTED MORE NOT EATEN!!

[@kleineroteHex]

Just what I was looking for! I cut them off anyway so the seeds don't go all over, they do plenty of root spreading! I started with 2 3 years ago, now there are at least 70 I mow around.

[@colisa0007]

I love your videos! My wife and I tried this for the first time last night. We went to Fort Popham for a beach day and my wife noticed them when we were leaving. I said oh I have to try those. Brought them home did exactly what you did on the video and we were blown away on how good they were. Thanks for the video. I'm going out to pick a bunch more. Also was just wondering could I freeze these and keep them to eat for a later time?

[@ScottWConvid19]

Dip them in a good marinara sauce and you've got an addictive and nutritious meal

[@MissisChannel]

MONARCH MURDERERES EAT MILKWEED INSTEAD OF PLANTING THEM!! MONARCHS ARE ON ENDANGERED LIST AND THEY NEED TO BE PLANTED MORE NOT EATEN!!

[@JeffinBville]

You can do the same, make fritters, with day lily flower pods up until they open.

[@MissisChannel]

MONARCH MURDERERES EAT MILKWEED INSTEAD OF PLANTING THEM!! MONARCHS ARE ON ENDANGERED LIST AND THEY NEED TO BE PLANTED MORE NOT EATEN!!

[@madisonpoole7507]

Cooking with coalcracker is back!!! Kick it up a notch,BAM!!!

[@kentmooney54]

Thanks for the information buddy

[@OakKnobFarm]

Thanks for sharing this. Awesome video. I get milkweed as an invasive in my blueberry and raspberry patches and pull it out often. Maybe I'll let an out-of-the-way patch grow to maturity and try cooking up a batch. "Bring water to the boil". I love regional dialect. Sounds British to me ;) We'd say "to a boil" in New England.

[@Prepare2Survive]

If I remember correctly the roots are a laxative too.

[@Renewed85]

We wete driving and noticed these. We HAD TO stop. We looked them up. And the found this video. Thank you

[@jdevilist]

Cool. Gotta try it sometime. Thumbs up bro.

[@VJLasorsa]

harvested some this morning and planning to fix them for lunch today

[@MissisChannel]

MONARCH MURDERERES EAT MILKWEED INSTEAD OF PLANTING THEM!! MONARCHS ARE ON ENDANGERED LIST AND THEY NEED TO BE PLANTED MORE NOT EATEN!!

[@quinntheeskimooutdoors6234]

Looks good Dan. Cool. Thanks and take care.

[@zulu5oscar765]

Good video Dan, I'll be trying those with some red pepper!

[@JamBerrySauce710]

Thank you this could save lives for real.

[@JMGeranimo]

Looks a lot like fried okra in a way. Thanks for the video. Love the pan too.

[@thedavephan]

Good ol papa ricka

[@rubberchickenwings769]

2:06 a little oil

[@Steve_G88]

If ive git eggs. Im not eating milk weed!

[@WayPointSurvival]

Very cool. Wild edibles made edible are always acceptable.

[@TheScrawnyLumberjack]

I recall reading in a wild edibles book that there are 3 species of milk weed and only one is edible the others are poisonous.

[@pauljones9746]

Ah dang... I was gonna try them tomorrow.

[@RyanMclain]

I believe there's closer to 30 than 3. all suck raw(read it isn't impossible to wake up dead afterwards) the method here more or less handles that and you'll likely awaken only mostly dead at worst. peoples have eaten them for centuries, a custom not seen with foods where meal=a grave to dig

[@TheScrawnyLumberjack]

Ryan McLain thanks for the info.

[@jodyklocko6696]

What’s up, garlic, salt, & pepper.. ? Makes everything taste better!

[@fleendarthemagnificent7372]

I need to try this, but I'll boil them at least twice to remove the latex and then fry them in salted butter and perhaps a bit of lemon pepper.

[@johnboleyjr.1698]

If you don't have eggs with you, you can dip the seed pods in a mixture of water and flour. It's kind of like tempura batter, but not as light.

[@IARRCSim]

The oil would still be important, right? I imagine the oil and deep frying would make it taste far more interesting than if it was simply boiled flour on those pods. I imagine the eggs would add a little protein but the oil would be the most critical for taste.

[@MadRandomCollectable]

Flour-Egg-Flour-Fry... ( "FEFF" That's ALL I'm Gonna' Say.)

[@ericorsinger1518]

You should do an entire series on this kind of stuff or your next book

[@GetUrPhil]

Yeah, Yuck, Vegetables. I'm a meataterian! lol.

[@marywilson3157]

Dandelions are quite edible, both the flower and the leaves. And everyone knows what dandelions look like

[@Donnybrook10]

with respect, if you have flour and eggs, why would you eat milkweed?

[@IARRCSim]

Maybe it adds more variety of flavor than flour and eggs on their own. There is likely different vitamins and minerals in the milkweed pods too. It could stretch the eggs and flour you have out over more meals too while still getting you full. If you're carrying the ingredients for a long hike, you probably want to live off the land more so you don't need to carry such a heavy load of ingredients.

[@Theearthtraveler]

Good video!

[@myway3343]

Yum, can’t wait for milkweed season. Thanks 🤤🤤🤤

[@MissisChannel]

MONARCH MURDERERES EAT MILKWEED INSTEAD OF PLANTING THEM!! MONARCHS ARE ON ENDANGERED LIST AND THEY NEED TO BE PLANTED MORE NOT EATEN!!

[@thaddeusmikolajczyk9055]

They look good I never tried however I knew that you could eat.

[@davidleasure9138]

Did you ever try the plant when it is about 6 inches tall? Greens in the early spring.

[@pappapinskie5883]

david leasure Them are the best imo

[@divadelatorre]

You cook them or use them as salad?

[@anniereddj]

Love it! Would enjoy more easily identifiable wild edibles. Much more of a meat eater BUT it's a valuable skill for the toolbox! Thank you!!

[@jojodiver8706]

Love that folding skillet. Source?

[@gator83261]

Good video

[@barbarabell1171]

Awesome!!! What other stuff is edible? August is still 4 months away!😊

[@LGSkywalker82]

Brilliant info Dan! With how diverse your outdoor content is, you should start giving difficult clues at the end of some videos about what’s coming up next. Give a bandana or shirt away to the first to guess right? Just an idea

[@MissisChannel]

MONARCH MURDERERES EAT MILKWEED INSTEAD OF PLANTING THEM!! MONARCHS ARE ON ENDANGERED LIST AND THEY NEED TO BE PLANTED MORE NOT EATEN!!

[@justanoobie8688]

I have those same aluminum plates! I think they are from a 1960'sh camping mess set. :-)

[@bushcraftchip]

Gotta try me some pods for sho...great video guys...

[@kidbach]

i'll hazard a guess and say there's no chocolate milkweed? :-D thanks for sharing.

[@edieboudreau9637]

kidbach put cocoa powder in the flour and a little sugar about a tsp.

[@kristinamullen4066]

Cool!! i just picked a leaf off a milkweed plant to use in an art project and I wondered if the white liquid had any medicinal uses or if the pods or leaves were edible.I think it might be too late to eat the pods in early Nov.Thanks forthe info.I will try them next season.

[@kleineroteHex]

The sap has been used on warts, just don't get it in your eyes!!!

[@xyz-pg3zd]

So butterflies only eat the leaves?

[@dewaynecummings5210]

What kind of oil? Does it matter?

[@J_C_Firelocks]

Interesting I'll have to look for some milkweed down on our land. Not sure if we have Milkweed in KY.

[@edieboudreau9637]

Bluegrass Bushcraft and Survival you do. Not as much as you used to but it should still be there. Look where recent roadwork has been started.

[@stevedarnall8556]

Bluegrass Bushcraft and Survival , it grows here in western Kentucky, it comes up in my yard every year and out in the fields.

[@davidsnow9453]

Look's delicious, maybe a little salt and pepper...I'm wondering what could substitute for the egg and flour in a sheer dire straight up bonified bug out shtf survival situation if you couldn't locate any wild bird eggs. You could stone grind seeds, acorns and other wild nuts aswell as some other types of plant lifes into a flour but what could you use to substitute for egg that would bind the flour to the pod's, maybe some rawhide glue would work. You got any ideas ?

[@maxkingery3755]

Boil in Knorr chicken boluon and great your looks great my buddy nik-named me milkweed cause I like them KingFish out

[@TheScoundrel70]

A dipping sauce would work with these I bet. I should see if I can find some milkweed near by, I never knew it was edible!

[@IsaacNewton1966]

If you could get a little cheese in them..................

[@willie_mccoy]

Edibility depends on the species of milkweed. Not advisable out west.

[@threatmitigationresearchgr7755]

Are all species of milkweed edible?

[@jefftc14]

very cool didn't know you could eat those honestly

[@owlenfamily]

holy crap! those pods are like 4 to 5 times bigger than what we have here in florida! 🤤

[@owlenfamily]

hold on...how big do the monarch caterpillars get up there in pennsylvania? they're like 4 to 5 inches down here. they must be a foot long up there, right?

[@davidsnow9453]

I'm guessing his have had a bit of cultivating and tending to out in his mega acres back yard school ground he uses for survival and bushcraft training. Not that there is anything wrong with that, and it takes nothing away from the tutorial of foraging wild edibles if that's the case.

[@TonyTooTuff]

I would but I’m lactose intolerant.

[@a_unknown_ghoul]

How sick did you guys get?

[@Chungustav]

Can you be specific about the milk weeks genus and species. These look nothing like the ones we have in the southwest

[@jkid9942]

Silkworm The one he shows in the video is Asclepias syriaca. But there are more than a dozen different species. I can’t tell you if they can all be prepared this way, but I do know all of them can be used by the Monarch butterflies 😉

[@Chungustav]

J Kid thanks my wife has about a dozen milkweed plants in our garden to attract monarchs and all the pods look completely dried and have cotton like material coming out of them unlike what I'm seeing here

[@jkid9942]

Silkworm Oh, that’s just because these pods are younger. They would turn brown and dry out if they stayed on the plant. Monarch Watch will give her great info if she needs any help. They list what conditions each species likes to live in.

[@the_orange_shepherd6938]

That skillet deserves a 3 minutes to better gear and a link... ;)

[@pauljones9746]

I was thinking the same thing hahaha

[@edieboudreau9637]

Yum.

[@markboheman5691]

Where I live we call that Chicken of the Forest. Okay, I made that up, just wanted to post a comment.

[@outdoordauber]

Jim Schu - Chicken of the woods is a mushroom.

[@geelee1977]

I discovered a plant, Milkweed Vine. The fruit from the vine looks the same as milkweed fruit. I do not think it is edible though, as every source I found thus far, says it is poison.

[@lindaclark5911]

Finally Camp Milk Weed Take only what you need you dropped one wasty, these are neccessary for butterflies please disperse brown seed pods. Do not waste. Btw ignore me ah csquared.

[@lynnsey9343]

I though milkweed was poisonous, but is that only sertain parts?

[@edieboudreau9637]

Lynnsey he explained that.

[@pappapinskie5883]

Common & showy milkweeds are not nearly as toxic raw as people think. I haven’t eaten bowls full of common milkweed buds raw & dozens of young leaves without as much as a stomach ache, but everyone’s different. Boil shoots, buds to render completely safe. Pods don’t need boiling.

[@lindaclark5911]

Dewd Where's My Milk Weed T? Keeping it wet & wild In the Midwestern Heartlandia You could do a 21st century Lewis and clark. That'd be ken burns!

[@theapocilip]

Hear a lot about them being mildly toxic just throws me off a bit.

[@terriwilson4984]

Mix dry seasoning in your flour....

[@grantchang81976]

milk weed is good stuff

[@The_Bearded_Lady]

Just be aware, people with latex allergies might have a reaction to these

[@marinadoerksen8107]

I thought milkweed was toxic!

[@cynthiaruehle262]

Monarch butterfly needs to eat it. They are endangered.

[@arcticlion8116]

If that’s a little bit of oil than what is a lot???

[@Youtuber-jz3kk]

Watch people eat .....................

[@scarletletter4900]

This is very reminiscent of fried okra; save the pre-fry boiling and shocking. Is the boil to break down the toxins inherent to the milkweed?

[@edieboudreau9637]

Scarlet Letter yes.

[@pappapinskie5883]

Not at all necessary to boil the pods.

[@andrewtalamas]

I thought they were poisonous

[@ghostface7193]

I saw the word edible and I had a one brain cell moment cause I thought you ment a *different* type of edible 😅

[@cherylbelvin4775]

Dot turn till browned

[@cobrasvt347]

They taste similar to green beans

[@subdawg1331]

boil and pour repeat and these then taste like asparagus

[@jackielau7078]

What do they taste like or remind you of?

[@RyanMclain]

Jackie Lau ummm lesser palatable okra with the upside of wont starve when left with nothing else better

[@edieboudreau9637]

Jackie Lau he said model mushrooms battered & fried.

[@grayish6963]

And so what do they taste like 😂

[@shrek1646]

MELK

[@WillVafuth]

looks similar to okra

[@garyaubin8016]

Want some milkweed with your oil? Just drink a cup of oil, eat an egg and make some damper! Ffs!

[@lindaclark5911]

I wanna milk weed tshirt some parts are Edible Eul gibbons ewe

[@SteveHyde1959]

That isnt milk weed

[@MissisChannel]

of all the things in the world you could eat an d you choose to eat what an endangered species food and reprouductive source is..goooodness. If you grow on your own land guess thatis your deal but if people take this from the wild it needs to be a law tp be A CRIME since it is an endangered list species host food plant

[@ScottWConvid19]

🤦‍♂️

[@ScottWConvid19]

You got the jab, didn't you?