Ramps EXPLAINED! (Wild Onions)

[@jlstas1973]

What a great video!! Thank you for being clear and consise, as well as entertaining. (Catchy tune too! 👍🏼) I'm in Ohio, and now I'm excited for spring to roll back around so a can go and hunt up some ramps. I had no idea they were having a culinary "moment". I remember being a kid and after the first couple of spring yard "haircuts" it ALWAYS smelled sooo good because of mowing over the wild onions. I'm bookmarking this video so I can revisit and try your canning and butter recipes. I would absolutely LOVE to see what else you (and I, after I get motivated watching you learning what is out there, and how to harvest & preserve it...) can hunt up, clean up, cook up, or put up from our beautiful and bountiful midwest. Thanks again!! 🩷j.

[@AdamWitt]

Hey guys. There's a mistake in the video that I want to address - during the pickle part of the video the Soy pickles and Classic pickle ingredients are flip flopped. It won't effect the recipe, but the visuals during the pouring sequence is incorrect! Just a heads up.

[@edible_illinois]

Love it!! Awesome hanging with you, Adam- let's do it again sometime.

[@AdamWitt]

Yo! Thanks Michael. I had a blast and learned so much. You're a legend. I'm game whenever.

[@IrrelevantGeOff]

Such a cool video! I’ve never seen a ramp flower for all the ramps I’ve eaten in my life lol. Good to spread the word on how to sustainably harvest em, so often people dig up an entire patch 😖 We always go for a ramp hunt in the spring. So far this week I’ve made ramen with ramp greens (fried the whites with gyoza), a shrimp scampi using the whites in place of garlic and fresh greens tossed in. Favorite was a Chinese velveted beef and ramp green salad with a little fried rice (because I failed at toasting it lol). Love those lil fuckers.

[@AdamWitt]

Ramps are life.

[@mevsm1]

Yes, interested in foraging videos. Especially in Virginia. Plus your cooking expertise with the finds!

[@jenovapooh]

Since you live in the Midwest, maybe you can do some mushroom and wild berry foraging as well. I'm from the UP and ate my body weight in wild blueberries as a child.

[@jacobmullins3838]

Yay

[@tamarahemingway4992]

I was eating Wild Ramp Kimchi, wanted to learn more about ramps and found this video. Great information. Thank you!

[@DaBlitz]

Ramps!

[@AdamWitt]

Dannys!

[@jess4337]

That was AWESOME! i learned suhhhh much :D

[@jennifermiller5362]

I just had my first pickled ramp at Miskatonic Brewpub in Naperville. Which is why I am checking out this video. Amazing appetizer served w whipped ricotta, pesto and crustini. I'm interested in trying out your recipe. Are ramps sold in stores?

[@CccCcc-kq7mm]

I have heard that ramps have alot of health benefits but they are hard to find in TX and also very expensive 👋👋 still Looking 👋👋 Hopefully find them 😮 Thanks for the video 👍👍👍

[@willsurely]

Much thanks!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@onepunchtocelebrate670]

I've never even heard of a ramp, and I would say culinary arts are kinda my thing

[@theBigOG420]

I kind of want to try this in Chicago but I'm pretty sure there will be Cicadas everywhere right now lol

[@gobigrey9352]

Found some today and my first time actually bringing some home but didn't end up using them, the flavor wasn't good to me and they smell like crusty underwear. Is it an acquired taste?

[@Mel_sunflower]

Is it legal to forage in our forest preserves,(Illinois)?

[@cyberpunkspike]

Yes, it's called poaching. That's when you take something from public or private land without permission. ... now if it's only for personal use, like a handful of leaves just for you, you're not selling them? It's likely fine, just cut one leaf off each ramp, leave the rest of plant in ground. They take 7 - 10 years to grow from seed. What you're not told is that ramps stink, and you will reek for DAYS. Imagine garlic breath, but worse, it comes from every pore. ... and it stays for half a week. I won't eat ramps.

[@MrBigangry]

Garlic chives are a great alternative....... I see both as well as a lot of purple dead nettle..... raspberries.... wild garlic...... all kinds of stuff.... I know some bee keepers north of Chicago. Keep in mind it is kind of illegal to harvest stuff.....also really really clean that shit......😊

[@inhughtero]

make a vid about turning the leaves into butter and soy-pickling, never heard of that but that sounds phenomenal.

[@cdncptanarchy420]

Cut the root off and a little of the bulb. Replant and it will regrow. No waste.

[@BillWachacha]

Another thing to do is, to cut above the root so it can regrow back instead of digging it up Simi-organic I guess a person can say as a person plants the seeds back too thank you for your time

[@BillWachacha]

I love eating ramps and other foods from nature

[@BillWachacha]

Cool it in hamburgers and meatloaf tastes great

[@BillWachacha]

Try hamburger and meatloaf

[@ralphmarcusdeguzman7655]

make some chicken adobo

[@AdamWitt]

I can do dis

[@ralphmarcusdeguzman7655]

@@AdamWitt thanks man

[@HinduBoy]

This guy got aluminum wrapped stove... 🤡✔