Primitive Safety Tongs & Prickly Pear Juice Extraction

Some tools can be made from basic natural materials and have a big positive impact to change a situation from surviving to thriving. Water is of huge importance but isn't always readily available. Some plants, like cactus, store large quantities of water inside them. The prickly pear cactus produces delicious juicy fruits loaded with water. Getting the water can be hazardous because of the thorns and glochids, but with some basic tools the process can be completed safely and swiftly.
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[@MithalanMithrarin]

"Drink cactus juice. It'll quench ya! Nothing's quenchier. It's the quenchiest!"

[@Pikachu.....]

Quenchiest ultra pro Max

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Cactus Juice Quencher XXX Pro!

[@arthropods-are-cool]

Can't read this without picturing Sokka being a heatstroked noodle. 😁

[@allanguipo123]

Giant mushroom friend!

[@Ehlayx]

Drinking cactus juice just makes u more thirsty

[@Jaymunnie]

It may be worth keeping the fruit to use as a cooking ingredient with which to make a syrup, or fruit reduction, in which you can use as a flavoring agent to add to water. In this way, you will be able to reap the benefits of the vitamins and minerals contained in the fibrous skin of the fruit, as well as separate out the seeds in the cooking process. With little other ingredients, this could serve as a viable, primitive gatorade/electrolyte beverage of sorts.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Oh yeah, I haven't made syrup yet but I've dried the skins and seeds many times.

[@Chr.U.Cas2216]

👍👌👏 Syrup sounds like a really great idea. Best regards, luck and health in particular.

[@MyselfStoychev]

I can not immagine the appretiation he has with all that moments investing to work on every detail. I deeply admire this lifestyle!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thank you

[@PRINCESSDREAMYLYN]

You are correct it tastes as good as it looks. Made my mouth water an I could almost taste it. I never tire of watching you invent things to make your jobs easier, love your juicing container that's really clever. Another idea would be a tall wide mouth pitcher like pot with a pour spout, you could use a chunky size branch to crush the fruit so your hands don't turn all purple in the process. With the pottery you make, I'm sure it be an easy creation for you. Thank you for sharing.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Basically a big pitcher. As long as it is strong enough to handle the pounding of a blunt stick then it would work.

[@PRINCESSDREAMYLYN]

@@ChadZuberAdventures yes would need to be strong for sure. like a churn for butter. was just an idea as i saw your hands staining purple ♥

[@JohnSmith-ej4by]

Ваше усердие вызывает уважение. Вам бывает одиноко в ваших путешествиях?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Нет, мне не одиноко, потому что я всегда очень занят.

[@julielagan336]

Nice Tongs. The juice from the prickly pear looks heavenly.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

It tastes so good. Especially when you are thirsty.

[@Timmyjg2004]

Thank you mr Chad for this video, it’s amazing the things god has given us to be able to survive! Especially pottery, it’s so useful and a great asset to have! Thank you Chad for sharing your wealth of knowledge and expertise 😊❤

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

What's great about pottery is that you can literally make any design you can think of.

[@TheW1ZARD2242]

Ah yes I remember picking prickly pears for my dad as a child. All he gave me was his pocket knife and a plastic water bottle that he cut the end off of. Took ages to get all those tiny thorns out.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Those tiny thorns are hellish!

[@kc195556]

Hey Chad! It is great to see you finally had time to make the tongs! You did a fine job! I am especially impressed by the thought you put into the design ...then to see how well they functioned! A joy. Love your content!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Yeah, they work a lot better than I expected.

[@amaliaperetti1838]

Here in some places of argentina we have this e fruits too, i remember when i was like nine years old and tríed to eat that fruit… i recolected them using MY HANDS a took one our to my pearents to extract them, but apart from that, the fruit was delicious. 😅😅

[@Priboy313]

Привет, Чад! Я думаю, вы могли бы улучшить эти щипцы, добавив на некотором расстоянии (1/2 или 2/3 от средней длины плодов) от рабочего конца перпендикулярные вырезы по форме плодов кактуса, чтобы сбоку их было так же удобно брать.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Это очень хорошая идея. Однако это может не сильно помочь, потому что лучший способ подобрать их - сверху, чтобы можно было их открутить. Повернув их, это самый простой способ извлечь плоды.

[@Priboy313]

@@ChadZuberAdventures да, это так, просто я заметил как один плод на видео был потерян при попытке взять его сбоку.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

@@Priboy313 И это нормально, ведь фруктов здесь буквально тысячи. Часто, когда кто-то падает на землю, я могу его подобрать.

[@kyleglasco6695]

I was literally just talking about harvesting some yesterday. Great timing.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Happy harvesting

[@BiornBear]

I have to pause for the subtitles but I love reading them, I learn a lot from them. And I would love to try prickly pear fruit, it look very tasty.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Does prickly pear grow where you live?

[@BiornBear]

@@ChadZuberAdventures no. I’m in North Georgia.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Too cold there, huh?@@BiornBear

[@BiornBear]

@@ChadZuberAdventures I guess. I could probably try growing one and see what happens. Their definitely not native here but I can give it a shot.

[@moonfoxarise]

Here I was, expecting a really complex method for turning tunas into juice, and there you are, just smushing them xd

[@AmauriPoyntz]

Amazing vid Tarzan that juice looks like something I want to try out plus it looks tasty as well

[@lindaseel9986]

Yummy! That juice looks so refreshing! A great reward for all your hard work. I wonder how many people would just say it's too much work? But when the 💩 hits the fan,; nitice I said 'when', nit if; when it does, these skills and knowledge of edible wikd plants will save your life. 🙏🙏

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I think about how much work it is. With the cost of food continuously rising I like calculating the value of the wild food I gather. It's still a lot cheaper to buy food at a grocery store, if you calculate the time invested at just the minimum wage. But I also like to consider the quality and the fact that these wild foods truly are 100% naturally grown.

[@lindaseel9986]

@@ChadZuberAdventures Exactly right!

[@rickkaylor8554]

This was the first wild edible I ever tried. Living in southern California they are easy to come by. They are delicious. I eat yucca flowers all the time when in season while hiking. They taste like cucumber to me.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I don't remember what my first wild edible was but prickly pears are probably the second most important food that I collect now. First is acorns. I also eat the yucca flowers but I prefer to cook them in water a few times. They are really delicious!

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Well done. It looks very refreshing and very healthy. Cheers, Chad!

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

It's really refreshing.

[@Chr.U.Cas2216]

Dear Chad Zuber. 👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic! Very well done again (video and work). It's quite amazing what can be done with a splitted stick, some sisal cordage, some sharp stones, some grinding and some time. Very useful tongs that will last a long time. And if not used they're obviously good for imitating the clatter that storks do! 😁 ;-) 2) Are the cracks in your ingenious juice divider repaired with something like birch tar? As always: Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health in particular.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks a lot. These tongs will be used extensively. When I made this clay bowl two years ago it cracked during the drying process so I used pine pitch glue to seal the cracks.

[@benthere8051]

There are many recipes for cactus jelly that I want to try. I have eaten the prickly pear apples when I was much younger. My grandmother told me about how they burned the leaves of the prickly pear to feed their cattle. This was 70 years ago. When I was 5 years old I went out and picked a bunch of the prickly pear apples. I got my hands full of prickly pair spines. We had a devil of a Time getting those out of my hands. I didn't know until many years later that one of the best ways was to use Elmer's Glue. You put the glue on the affected area, let it dry, and then peel the glue and the stickers off all at the same time. Many years later a friend of mine and I went on a poorly planned fishing trip and resolved our hunger by eating the prickly pear apples. We were able to avoid the spines but there's so many seeds they were almost not worth eating.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

You have some great experiences with prickly pears. I had wondered if using that Elmers glue method would work and you just answered that question for me. That's great.

[@Robtop-gaming8]

I am always very inspired by your work. Keep going (:

[@MoralNovality]

Lol he is doing so much hard works to just pluck that fruit. 👍

[@waynethomas3638]

These prickly pear cacti grow as a noxious weed around the eastern goldfields of western australia and the fruit are quite noice

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

They are invasive in Australia. I could never see them as a noxious weed. They are so useful.

[@DDeden]

Excellent tool, useful also for grasping embers and minnows.

[@jonasskanning3203]

would love to see a primitive fruit press of sorts. with more efficient juice pressing.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Me too

[@amaliaperetti1838]

Hey Chad! I’ven seen some of your videos And in some days , im gonna camp like you, im very happy. I always Wanted to make an adventure like this, but i never had time.😅 Sorry about my english, saludos desde argentina 😊

[@jakubstasiak7358]

13:35 😅😅 Yeah, experience is the best teacher.

[@PrisonPlanett]

One of the best juices in nature that, so much neg ion gell for insta healing. If only common folk understood

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

It truly is a special fruit.

[@danpost4755]

Great video, Chad! I enjoyed it a lot.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Thanks!

[@Melkizidor]

The true test to see if the tongs were truly tongs, was the clacking them together after it was made.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

The true test is using them successfully to collect the fruits.

[@gridinnozmu4358]

Excelente quedaron esas pinzas,y ese jugo debe estar exquisito,también se podría tenir ropa ó cordaje con él.💪🔥

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Exquisito sí.... Intenté tenir cordaje con el jugo pero el resultado no fue muy bueno. Lo has hecho tú?

[@ElizabethGreene]

We expect paleolithic people would be ecstatic about steel knives and spear points. Watching your woodworking, I imagine they'd be equally impressed by hand saws too.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Steel is a game changer. Using primitive tools makes one appreciate steel so much more.

[@user-cl9dn8db9c]

ดูเพลินมากครับ

[@alexxenon8721]

Thanks for the video, it's amazing as always. May I raise the question of why you never use a handcrafted splint axe ? Also, I don't see you often to use handcrafted tools, but simple usage of sharp stones, can you tell us why, cheers :)

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Time.... To craft a functional axe requires very good materials or it will just break after little use. I know that it will probably take me a few days to make a good axe and I just don't have the time. I'm more concerned with collecting acorns and processing other wild foods right now.

[@abdoujidab996]

فكرة لامعة يا صديقي ، أتمنى لك التوفيق و النجاح ❤🌷👍

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

متشکرم.

[@abdoujidab996]

@@ChadZuberAdventures from Morocco I wish you good luck 👍

[@flirexgaming5549]

please continue to make these

[@JonasKnyzelis]

Love your work keep it up❤

[@ThienthangTV-countrysidelife]

Woa 🎉🎉🎉❤❤

[@nosferatoo8284]

As always interesting and informative! Thank you! Як завжди цікаво та пізнавально! Дякую!

[@chaiilu]

I would have liked to see some fruit juice press or grinder with a simple cloth filtration or tiny holes in the claypot to filter the seeds and flesh out.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Product development is a process.

[@chaiilu]

Looking forward to see more products from you including an improvised fruit juicer@@ChadZuberAdventures

[@user-fi1ue7su6o]

It looks very delicious, my saliva is flowing out🤤

[@Timmyjg2004]

That juice extractor is so cool! The prickly pears have sooo much juice! What did you put on the pot, I'm guessing something to seal it?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

They are incredibly juicy. I made this clay pot two years ago but never used it. During drying it cracked really bad so I sealed it with pine pitch.

[@caroaraguti]

Gracias Chad!!!💙

[@meiru2453]

Im sure you are propably aware but you could make a clay tube and some sort of matching stick/mortar of the size of the tube, and on the bottom side of the tube create holes that would drain the juice and the pulp and leave only seeds in the tool. That would make another project for you to work on and you wouldnt have to dirty your hands like that

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

A juice extractor. That would be a challenging design to make because of the nature of clay during the drying process. Clay tends to shrink and warp slightly while drying and the design you described is really good but not likely to work with clay, at least not in a primitive setting. I realize that in modern society people avoid touching food with their hands. The hands are actually wonderful tools for mashing food and the hands don't get dirty, they get juice on them.

[@meiru2453]

@@ChadZuberAdventures Fair point. Thanks for reply ^^

[@Ashes-Crime]

Хммм, интересно... насколько сладкие плоды опунции? Можно наверное и бражку поставить, и самогон потом выгнать...🤔

[@zhaofan1603]

I am very sure all the prickly pears are frightened when you bring such a tool approaching to them 😱

[@Matt-bh6yp]

thats awesome, i bet it is as good as it looks!

[@Tipi_Dan]

Masterful. As usual.

[@bettytroyer9436]

Good way to grow more cacti! Spread the seeds. The birds and mice can't eat all of them

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I should cultivate them.

[@m1tosenpai41]

Nice Work Bro!

[@almedamarujepaloysali2143]

Brings Peace to my soul.

[@stonyjupiter1481]

I wonder if prickly pear is sweet or sour, or maybe both? Would love to try it one day, but it is quite exotic stuff for me.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

It depends on the species. This species is sweet and tart.

[@stonyjupiter1481]

@@ChadZuberAdventures oh, good to know. Also thank you for the answer.

[@alialmahanawi8409]

Hi Chad , Is there a way to keep and preserve this fruit as the Afghans do by keeping and preserving grapes fresh for six months in sealed, vacuum clay containers? Thanks

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

That is a good question and I've wanted to experiment with this. Thanks for reminding me. I'm going to try this.

[@alialmahanawi8409]

@@ChadZuberAdventures thanks Chad for your time and effort 🙏

[@rijuraj5037]

Uncle after watching you i am going to take exercise everyday.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Just do it!

[@mitchellharty3311]

What is the dark black glue like substance that was used to fix/mend the juicing bowl? Really cool tongs

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

When I made this clay bowl two years ago it cracked during the drying process so I used pine pitch glue to seal the cracks.

[@Ktum123]

Bạn rất tuyệt vời, bạn sử dụng đá để cắt cành cây , và chế biến thức uống rất thành thạo

[@neffjokes]

Chad will you ever do any more World Travel KZbin Videos? From KZbinr World 🌎

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

I'm hoping to travel early next year.

[@-amosc.presley-7192]

Happy Holidays and Many More

[@bushcraft_bushcraft]

🔥🔥🔥Greetings, Colleague, This fruit is called: The Dragon's Heart, right?

[@DemonZest]

Idk how this guy gets all the protein his big muscles needs in the wild, cheating seems neccesary ^^

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Prickly pear protein.

[@DemonZest]

​@@ChadZuberAdventures Only a real chad like you can eat 15 kilos of prickly pears daily xD

[@DUONGBESTDIYANDTECH]

That is awesome ❤

[@radfaryousefi9491]

Thanks. Very nice 👍

[@magdabagda501]

It would be a good idea of boiling their juice so there are higher concentrates of sugars and less water. This can be great for long-term storage in jars or sealed pots.

[@kobe3576]

I wonder what kind of flavour does that fruit have. It looks like the skin is similar to that one in caqui fruit.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

It's similar to a pomegranate I think.

[@MAASAIWITHPASSPORT]

Big up Chad

[@Wildpeoplecooking]

deliciously❤❤

[@user-wd6up5tw2r]

진짜 맛있어보이는데?? 한국에는 선인장없어 ㅠㅠ

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

한국에서는 선인장이 자라기에는 기후가 너무 추운 것 같아요.

[@jenreal360]

I hate when I am a day late watching lol

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Haha, it's okay.

[@santiagoobregon5926]

Hello chad, I have a question, When you make something out of clay, what do you do so that the water does not penetrate the pot and come out?

[@Timmyjg2004]

He seals pottery by using the rice water and boiling it. He also uses different sorts of oils. The pottery he used in this episode. He did two years ago and it had cracks in, so he used Pinesap to cover the cracks.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

You have to cure it. Just using a pot for cooking food will seal it over time. But you can intentionally seal it by covering it with fat and oil and filling it with a hot starchy liquid like rice water or by using a food that is high in mucilage, like chia seeds, flax seeds, or my favorite, palo verde beans. You let it soak in that hot liquid for a day then pour it out and let it dry. It should be pretty well sealed then. If not, you can repeat the process until it is sealed. The idea is to plug up all the pores of the clay.

[@kamdonworld2020]

Wow wow wonderful ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@gdiaz8827]

I would have used the bowl as a mocajete along with a rock or a thick tree limb to get the most juice out. Also u can use a towel like it was cheesecloth to tighten the juice out. In your case itvwould be animal skin with some small holes poked in. It would also e interesting to see if u can make agae cloth like my people in Mexico do. Peace

[@alicez6452]

What does it taste like? 😮

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Kind of like pomegranate juice. Very rich.

[@keithparker7031]

Thanks for the great vid, Chad. I have to say that when I went to the local grocery store, they did have prickly pear fruits for sale...at $3.99 each. I bought three of them to see what they were like. While I like the sweetness and the flavor of the fruits, the fruits (as you mentioned) are mostly seeds with not much pulp. I would try to buy enough to make a glass of juice, but the store does not carry enough of them. Plus, at $3.99 a pop, that's a lot of money just to make a glass of fresh squeezed prickly pear juice. Chad, you are so lucky to stay in an area where your surroundings are practically a grocery store in itself.

[@lahure]

Il me semble qu'une pince en bois peut être réalisée en fendant un bâton sans aller jusqu'au bout...

[@mitudey1373]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ love

[@sontran4666]

❤

[@MonKhon-ss2wo]

God with you 👍

[@goiterlanternbase]

Someone showed me, how to control the splitting of a long staff, by squeezing them between to orthogonal stalks and bending the staff either up or down.

[@kommandokodiak6025]

have you made soup from the greens of the plant yet? Its a thing

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Not soup but I have roasted the stems (nopales).

[@BubbyMcCoy]

How do you not get splinters

[@That1CrazyFrog]

Can i ask how do you charge your camera

[@lonniehartley3619]

That guy is real Tarzan

[@skepticfucker280]

How many lbs of fruit would it take to get about 5 gallons of juice?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

About 120 pounds of fruit which is about 900 fruits.

[@skepticfucker280]

@@ChadZuberAdventures oh dang, sounds like I'm a have my work cut out for me just to get a gallon. Lol

[@andrikurniawan6459]

Cactus Allahumma sholli wa sallim wa baarikh ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa'ala ali Sayyidina Muhammadin fil awwalin wal aakhirin wa fil mala'il a'laa ilaa Yaumiddin

[@ZobrAz]

🏜🍸 Cool!

[@sunilkallianpura9280]

👌🏼

[@kthekid488]

Me: Chub Zuder? God: Maybe, maybe not...

[@Polkillo]

Интересно с них можно сделать джем?

[@kekipark77]

nice

[@adminadmin-dk6gz]

молодєц..штани на йкому базари брав?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Я сшила эти штаны.

[@wilmeranthony2209]

Pitalla 💜

[@henryemang8718]

Ahhaaaa....freshh!...😁😁😁🤤🤤🤤

[@legowo5577]

💪😁👍 healthy 🌵

[@thich_minerrr3037]

Yoooo chad sinh tồn đã trả lại ❤❤❤

[@DeadPool-ne7ob]

Oh yeah

[@EzhnoBeats]

I squeezed the first one a found a little too hard and got drenched. they are way juicier than i expected.

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

Hahahah, yeah, these pop when they get squeezed.

[@Daniel_Plastiak_Crazy_Adventur]

Great 😀🖖👍

[@Timmyjg2004]

You've got to sell your pottery! I'll be your first customer. You also have to put a members thing on your channel! There's more ways to make money

[@9silentufo9]

Essa fruta é saborosa?

[@ChadZuberAdventures]

A verdade que sim

[@user-pc7gn9bp8l]

Что за искусственный камень в начале видео?

[@DanielD-gb1bu]

Chad how its taste like