Maybe some sort of sauce that makes your mouth just a tad bit numb, for the "experience." You could grind up the flower and put it on people's food (preferably enemies) and make them think they have been poisoned. I may or may not have some people in mind that I would do that too...
Brazilian here! The right pronunciation of 7:09 (for those who are curious) would be "ca-sha-saw de jam-boo". We say the J as in "jam", H sounded J's are for spanish speaking countries. The A's in "cachaça" sound like the A's in "car", "shag" and "saw", respectively.
Similar compounds to what's in Sichuan Peppercorns. We grow these in my university teaching greenhouse for demonstration, and often offer them as a test of bravery for students. Usually people just end up drooling. They reseed themselves easily and you can take cuttings to propagate, so they're very easy to keep around all the time.
Szechuan peppers are my not so secret seasoning for stewed elk neck with taters, onions, maters, shrooms, sweet corn, and whatever else looks good. Remember that the neck will be twenty to thirty pounds and will feed a Lotta hungry folks. Best with dark beer to build up the stock. Beef bullion cubes are nice too. Knoor is my favorite brand. They usually have a lower sodium in All the flavors, even the tomato bullion and the vegetarian stock. 🦌♪┌|∵|┘♪Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ└|∵|┐♪
I appreciate you keeping out of the medicinal realm of edible plants. There are so many wild claims about plants, basically every one is used to cure just about everything depending on the culture or region it comes From. And it’s cheaper to produce and sell than actual medicine, making it easy for people to prey on others desperation. Glad you stay out of that mess. Flavor is hard to describe as it is!
I second this. There's so much 'alternative' medicine out about plants to scam people out of their money. It's simply a billion dollar industry, and the amount of medicinal plants that 'big pharma' buys simply doesn't compare to the amounts sold on Amazon and stuff.
There seems to be a lot of things like that. I have read posts by Geology people who are selling stones on reddit on how annoyed they are because there are people who actually believe a stone will make it so you act a certain way or certain things will happen. There was a gold coin that was owned by Napoleon that was also owned by other famous people called something Angel which people believe carries luck. Basically a lot of industries focus on the stuff that does not matter. What I care about will food is how much sugar does it have, how many calories does it have, how many vitamins does it have and what is the overall taste.
@@eastindiaV you could, but that has nothing to do with what I’m saying. Never said that plants don’t produce anything useful. What I am saying is that the amount of medical claims about plants and fruit are vastly higher than those with actual proven usefulness. And that a fruit reviewer with no medical or scientific background should stick to reviewing fruit as opposed to getting into the weeds on the most likely dubious medical claims of obscure and rare fruits.
@@eastindiaV using willow bark instead of a pill is crap, because the pill is highly regulated amount of active substance, while the amount you find in the bark is highly variable. This is why people keep dying from poppyseed tea, despite using the same grams of poppyseed for each batch: the amount of active substance is super unreliable.
@@pkre707 Plants do contain active compounds that are used for medicinal purposes, the tricky part is the dose. A chemist can either synthesize and purify the exact same molecule found in nature or simply extract it from nature. A chemist with pharmaceutical knowledge can tell you the dosage you need to have the intended purposes. A doctor will let you know if you even need that medicine in the first place. Shoving magical plants up one's ass thinking that just because they are natural they can't harm people and will cure anything has the potential of incurring a trip to the ER in an ambulance
We have Zanthoxylum clava-herculis here in Florida which is called Toothache tree. Ive heard you can also use that in chinese cooking, similar to szechuan peppercorn, as well. I will send you some if I can find it.
Same genus as Sichuan peppercorn. I’ve never heard of anyone using the fruit the same way (I’m guessing it’s the fruit rather than the seed itself, just as with Sichuan peppercorn), but maybe it would be very similar.
@@markiangooley interesting, did not know they're in the same genus. The article I found online said that the fruit can be used in Sichuan seasoning, but also that it's slightly toxic so who knows. I know where a tree is near me so I will try it.
ive had of some friends vomit after trying some i grew but i think that might just be a response to the sensation. the same ppl who threw up couldn’t handle spicy food, haha, so thats my pseudoscientific evidence for the idea
salivating is spot on. I grew this last year and ate the whole flower. Had bit hard time talking for maybe 10-15 mins. I tested putting in salsa. Pretty fun!
@@teonyi In Brazilian Portuguese the written R sounds like the H you're describing, this is what the OP meant. The J is more or less pronounced as in "Joe" "Ar" (air) is pronounced like "aHH" "Ç" is pronounced like "S", so it sounds like "Cachasa*"
@@teonyi I speak portuguese as well, learned it while living in Brasil for 2 years and it helped being native speaker of catalan and spanish. Anyway, you can look it up in Wikipedia. Sorry about so many edits, UA-cam is removing my posts!
@@teonyi yeah, it's just it's kinda weird for me the way the R in english works. I'm french-portuguese (or rather french brazilian), so I usually associate the R with the sound you make in english with the H. And the H sound in my mind is silent. For example, saying "huh" it has the H "sound" and the silent "H". Anyways, thank you for correcting me
I toured a hydroponic farm where the tour group tasted their way through the farm. At the end, everybody ate a buzz button. Surprising but not bad. One woman exclaimed "Ooo! I want that feeling all over my body!".
i had done this several times because i bought some seeds online and was growing them in a planter on my porch. Well one day i did this while i was home alone and it was a particularly potent one apparently, and i felt like i was going to suffocate to death for like 10 minutes. Never again.
The flavor of molasses that you described for the ""Cachaca"" could be that rum is distilled from sugarcane mash. You say you don't drink, but I think that's the second time I've seen it on the channel (after the Coco de Mer episode) :)
This has probably been done before, but you should make a book or website explaining and describing all the plants you have tried (kind of like documenting all the things you have tried).
Lol cool and not cool at the same time. Did the person know they were making opium or were they oblivious? I’ve also seen “opium lettuce” tinctures from a bunch of medicinal plant nuts
I used to make a nice sleep aid form a poppy plant in my garden. Quite the ancient recipe even. I did cut the capsules a couple times and when the sap stopped coming out I did cut the whole capsule off. Because why not. Then I simmered them in red wine with lots of honey and filled it in bottles. A tiny shot glass gave a nice cozy sleepiness. The plant died off though.
Great video. I have grown this plant for the last couple of years in my garden, and plan to grow it again this year. I use it as a spice in cooking, very similar to how I would use Sichuan peppercorns, but not in Chinese cooking. Thank you for sharing this plant with the rest of the World!
I know I'm a bit late, but I'm from Madagascar and we use those in a dish called romazava, which is a meat stew to which you add this plant as well as spinach, it's very nice and if you substitute the meat for fried tofu it makes for a very interesting vegan dish. when cooked the bred mafane keep the same effect but lose some of its strength.
I got seeds for this awesome plant a few months ago and have been so impatient for spring to get some growing! I didn’t know the leaves were edible so thanks for the info. Great video as always. Glad you didn’t go blind. 😄
The reluctance to taste the strange spiciness made this kinda hilarious to watch haha. I've also heard of it called buzz button. Thanks for the review.
i've eaten jambu flowers straight from the plant a couple of times and i find it quite pleasant and havent thrown up yet, so yeah i dont think you need to worry too much about being sick, but who knows honestly
I grew this last year as a novelty and the plant grew well. I basically let it die in the garden and pulled up the roots when I amended the soil this spring. Fast forward to now and I have a whole bunch of toothache plants sprouting and flowering. Amazing. The reaction isn't bad but now I'm interested in buzz rum lol
Great video. That was a big bite of the flower. When I tried them, I maybe had 1/10 of what you ate and it was more than enough to realize it wasn’t pleasant. The sensation almost seemed electrical. Such a crazy plant.
these are called schezuan buttons too, unless those are different. but a man always comes into the cafe i work at and gives me a handful of these in the summer, he also makes tincture out of them. i love these things i just think theyre so fun. the ones he gives me arent red though, just yellow, and a tiny bit smaller
I was super surprised to see you try the rum and popsicles knowing that you dont drink. Really nice to see you documenting even if a little outside your norm or comfort.
numby rummies !! my mum used to make a drink with black spiced rum and these plants, forget what was all in it but it was definitely good frozen into an ice cream texture! i wish i could try it again lol
These are fun to keep in the garden and have people try them🤣 I grew some last summer to make tinctures they also are supposed to help calm your stomach as well.
Be safe, thank you for the honesty of spitting it out. I wonder if it'd help on itching or burnt skin. Although I'm scared of the numbing effect of it also and i already know that plant antioxidants have helped me heal differently and faster. (I'd gotten a burned spot on my arm from a 400° frying pan when baking fish, I'd been eating much more spinach than i normal at that time and instead of one painful blister it had about a hundred small ones and i couldn't really feel the pain an hour later when I was scrubbing over it by mistake in the shower. It seemed that the skin hadn't fully separated from the next layer of the dermis.
I think there is a bar in Las Vegas that uses this in one of their cocktails due to the way it interacts with sour flavor. No idea about cooking with it though.
Looks a bit related to achillea millefolium (röllika in Swedish) which roots and flowers has been used for soothing/numbing toothache way back when... classic home remedy.
Oh man! Something about hearing you describe that hypersalivation and the feeling they gave you.... I'm actively getting nauseous. Think I'll be avoiding those powerful little flowers! Thanks for the videos, I'm binge watching them currently and list of garden additions for this summer is growing haha
@@jeil5676 i thought so, but you should still try some. But only a tiny little flower butt, or a small nibble of a full sized flower. It's kinda like the old 9v battery on your tongue.
I worked at a place where we would give these to unsuspecting coworkers. I was a little...annoyed because I had to talk to guests while drooling uncontrollably. But that made giving it to others that much more fun!
You really need to chew up an entire flower or two to get the numbing effects. The tingling comes first, then the numbness... and then some curious flavor changes as your sensations come back from the numbness. The lips are especially effected if you blow /breathe past them. The flowers mostly taste grassy initially, so most people don't care for them, but it's unique. The electric daisy aka buzz buttons are members of the daisy and sunflower family and are edible. They aren't toxic, but the buzz can be an acquired enjoyment - not that dissimilar to people who enjoy hot peppers or mints or other strange flavor / sensation -causing herbs 'n spices.
We have a brand of vodka liquor here in St. Louis called Zambu. It uses the “Brazilian buzz button” flower as a flavoring agent, which is Acmella oleracea. I personally like it, but could only do 3-4 of them before enough is enough.
Bro, you need to visit me in Humboldt because you can buy this plant at the Arcata farmer's market in June and July. I buy one almost every year, honestly 2020 when everyone was commanded to stay at home was the only year I didn't, but for some reason my cats love it more than catnip and not only eat it but knock the pot over and roll in the roots and dirt pulverizing them leaving nothing left alive to grow a new plant. Here, they call it Spilanthes. I've never tried to make it into a tea or cook it but I've eaten the leaves and flowers and every houseguest who visited me during the few weeks of every year that I grew this plant was forced to try a leaf or flower and a solanum americanum berry...
These flowers are used at the disney parks in the star wars cantina. If you order a Fuzzy Tauntaun the drink comes with a foam that is infused with this.
I used to work at a cocktail bar called the Alchemist in the UK where we used this to make numbing shots people would take before a certain cocktail! It worked quite well! We called them Sichuan Daisy's
I work in a children's tasting garden and love to visit this plant on my tours. I always ask the children who is the bravest. Hands up all sind me. I follow it with a trip to the stevia.
I am from India and as kids we used to chew the flower and it tastes good (we don't use the leaves also we spit the flower after chewing and swallow the sap) people also use it for tooth ache and the one found here have a smaller flowers than showed in the video and the one used in the video is little bit dry that why it looks odd the one we see here looks more like on 6:41. And I don't know people who uses it on tobacco may some parts of the country doing it. Now not many of these plants are found these days
In Iowa, our native toothache tree is Zanthoxylum americanum. Prickly Ash. It's historically used the same way. I've used it as a pepper substitute from time to time, but it's super strong. I've got one growing in the way back, and it's pretty hardy. Dried seeds are like Szechuan peppercorns, as well, but maybe even nastier.
The Bakers Creek Heirloom Seed Company has packets of seeds for these. They are supposed to be relatively hearty but we will see :) I only have one seedling so far
This grows a lot in my hometown and I love the taste of it tho you are supposed to eat it a lil by lil .........like one flower goes a long way like days
I like see you try Syzygium gratum I know they used the leaves as a vegetable and fruit edible as well but I heard that sometimes they're not very good ?
had Sichuan buttons before. it is similar, i think, it is like eating a 9v battery. the company that made them suggests mixing them with orange sherbet.
As someone who has eaten an entire one, I didn’t get sick but my entire lower face did go completely numb for a couple hours. My mother decided to grow a plant a few years ago. I’ve heard of a liqueur that’s made with these but it’s only made and sold in the US as far as I could tell and I’d never been able to get any. I’m going to have to look up the Brazilian version!
I know this flower. When I was small and had sores in my mouth my mum used to ask us to chew the flower. Now I am 59 living in the urban area , haven't seen it in a long time. It does work. Also clove. Kwa Zulu Natal South Africa
Interestingly, I put a whole one of those buds in my mouth at a local garden when someone offered me without knowing what it was... And all I felt was a little buzzing, no numbing and little salivating. Wonder if it was just a meek plant or if I have a tolerance.
Ive chewed on these before. Not too bad and the numbness and tingling doesnt last that long. I was given one originally as a joke by a friend that grows them. Though he did tell me what it does before I chewed on it, lol, he wasnt that nasty. Never thought of infusing rum with them, must try that.
Had a whole one at a market in France, it made me feel so sick, salivating non stop, and feeling my tongue getting swollen... Be careful when you have it!
Yes and no, I actually chewed up a leaf yesterday than ate a Thai dragon chili and it was still pretty hot but there was a reduction. Was going to try throwing some in a hot sauce recipe to see what it did
Have any ideas on ways to use this in cooking?
This is such a weird one, I may make another episode on this in the future.
Same as cloves/sezchuan pepper i guess.
Stir fry, hotpot, salad, just like you'd use Garland Chrysanthemum leaves.
Maybe some sort of sauce that makes your mouth just a tad bit numb, for the "experience." You could grind up the flower and put it on people's food (preferably enemies) and make them think they have been poisoned. I may or may not have some people in mind that I would do that too...
fried rice, a curry and hotpots go well whit it.
@@benjaminbroudy2982 yeah! toothache sauce would be interesting. I wonder if cooking it would strongly change the numbing effect
Electric Daisies sounds like a psychedelic rock band from the 1960s
And way better than “buzz button” it sounds so lame and like Facebook
😅😂😂
Been waiting for this one. They went through a brief gourmet fling few years back in mixed drinks. Called them buzz buttons.
And now I want to try a "buzz button"
@@joec8750 I tried one from a local herb garden. I was VERY sorry for a good 30 minutes. And I can eat scotch bonnet peppers without much problem.
Yeah, I remember seeing them in some of those newspaper stories on the hippest new cocktails. Never tried one.
Yes I've had one of those drinks a few years ago
Sorted foods on UA-cam featured these recently I believe
Brazilian here! The right pronunciation of 7:09 (for those who are curious) would be "ca-sha-saw de jam-boo". We say the J as in "jam", H sounded J's are for spanish speaking countries. The A's in "cachaça" sound like the A's in "car", "shag" and "saw", respectively.
4:23 "That didn't do anything for me"
[Immediately goes invisible!]
The camera: it did something for me
the camera adds 5 pounds and removes 5 feet
Similar compounds to what's in Sichuan Peppercorns. We grow these in my university teaching greenhouse for demonstration, and often offer them as a test of bravery for students. Usually people just end up drooling. They reseed themselves easily and you can take cuttings to propagate, so they're very easy to keep around all the time.
What is the scientific name?
@@PRDreams peppercornius schezuania
@@Dman6779 not the Sichuan pepper, the other one 🤣 don't worry, it was in the description.
@@PRDreams is it sussus amogus
Szechuan peppers are my not so secret seasoning for stewed elk neck with taters, onions, maters, shrooms, sweet corn, and whatever else looks good. Remember that the neck will be twenty to thirty pounds and will feed a Lotta hungry folks. Best with dark beer to build up the stock. Beef bullion cubes are nice too. Knoor is my favorite brand. They usually have a lower sodium in All the flavors, even the tomato bullion and the vegetarian stock. 🦌♪┌|∵|┘♪Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ└|∵|┐♪
"A flower that numbs your mouth" Seems healthy. Ill have it on my cheerios in the morning.
the way you drew an angry face on that oxygen bond gives me life
I appreciate you keeping out of the medicinal realm of edible plants.
There are so many wild claims about plants, basically every one is used to cure just about everything depending on the culture or region it comes From. And it’s cheaper to produce and sell than actual medicine, making it easy for people to prey on others desperation. Glad you stay out of that mess. Flavor is hard to describe as it is!
I second this. There's so much 'alternative' medicine out about plants to scam people out of their money.
It's simply a billion dollar industry, and the amount of medicinal plants that 'big pharma' buys simply doesn't compare to the amounts sold on Amazon and stuff.
There seems to be a lot of things like that. I have read posts by Geology people who are selling stones on reddit on how annoyed they are because there are people who actually believe a stone will make it so you act a certain way or certain things will happen. There was a gold coin that was owned by Napoleon that was also owned by other famous people called something Angel which people believe carries luck. Basically a lot of industries focus on the stuff that does not matter. What I care about will food is how much sugar does it have, how many calories does it have, how many vitamins does it have and what is the overall taste.
@@eastindiaV you could, but that has nothing to do with what I’m saying. Never said that plants don’t produce anything useful. What I am saying is that the amount of medical claims about plants and fruit are vastly higher than those with actual proven usefulness. And that a fruit reviewer with no medical or scientific background should stick to reviewing fruit as opposed to getting into the weeds on the most likely dubious medical claims of obscure and rare fruits.
@@eastindiaV using willow bark instead of a pill is crap, because the pill is highly regulated amount of active substance, while the amount you find in the bark is highly variable. This is why people keep dying from poppyseed tea, despite using the same grams of poppyseed for each batch: the amount of active substance is super unreliable.
@@pkre707 Plants do contain active compounds that are used for medicinal purposes, the tricky part is the dose. A chemist can either synthesize and purify the exact same molecule found in nature or simply extract it from nature. A chemist with pharmaceutical knowledge can tell you the dosage you need to have the intended purposes. A doctor will let you know if you even need that medicine in the first place. Shoving magical plants up one's ass thinking that just because they are natural they can't harm people and will cure anything has the potential of incurring a trip to the ER in an ambulance
4:28 - it might not have numbed your tongue, but it did seem to temporarily break reality, so that’s something
We have Zanthoxylum clava-herculis here in Florida which is called Toothache tree. Ive heard you can also use that in chinese cooking, similar to szechuan peppercorn, as well. I will send you some if I can find it.
Oh cool. what part is used?
@@WeirdExplorer the seeds
Same genus as Sichuan peppercorn. I’ve never heard of anyone using the fruit the same way (I’m guessing it’s the fruit rather than the seed itself, just as with Sichuan peppercorn), but maybe it would be very similar.
@@markiangooley interesting, did not know they're in the same genus. The article I found online said that the fruit can be used in Sichuan seasoning, but also that it's slightly toxic so who knows. I know where a tree is near me so I will try it.
@@markiangooley upon further research it says to actually use the dried husk around the seed, which might be also what you use in Sichuan pepper.
I started growing these after I had one in a bar in the Netherlands. You chew up the flower and do a shot and it feels like your mouth is fizzing.
I've eaten plenty. You get that fizzy sensation but no other effects. So no vomiting etc.
ive had of some friends vomit after trying some i grew but i think that might just be a response to the sensation. the same ppl who threw up couldn’t handle spicy food, haha, so thats my pseudoscientific evidence for the idea
salivating is spot on. I grew this last year and ate the whole flower. Had bit hard time talking for maybe 10-15 mins. I tested putting in salsa. Pretty fun!
In Brazil we pronounce the J. Making it sound like an R is a spanish thing, in Brazil we talk portuguese
You mean like an H
@@teonyi In Brazilian Portuguese the written R sounds like the H you're describing, this is what the OP meant.
The J is more or less pronounced as in "Joe"
"Ar" (air) is pronounced like "aHH"
"Ç" is pronounced like "S", so it sounds like "Cachasa*"
@@georgH I speak some Portuguese
@@teonyi I speak portuguese as well, learned it while living in Brasil for 2 years and it helped being native speaker of catalan and spanish.
Anyway, you can look it up in Wikipedia.
Sorry about so many edits, UA-cam is removing my posts!
@@teonyi yeah, it's just it's kinda weird for me the way the R in english works. I'm french-portuguese (or rather french brazilian), so I usually associate the R with the sound you make in english with the H. And the H sound in my mind is silent. For example, saying "huh" it has the H "sound" and the silent "H". Anyways, thank you for correcting me
I toured a hydroponic farm where the tour group tasted their way through the farm. At the end, everybody ate a buzz button. Surprising but not bad. One woman exclaimed "Ooo! I want that feeling all over my body!".
@Don Krapf: She sounds like my kinda gal.
If only I could shove it into my uterus
@@TomoyoTatar the what did o just read
@@edwinng4610 Do not worrEE you'll learn once pOO berty hits.
I'm from Brazil, and ate a whole flower once. Let me tell you, it was... interesting lol
Agreed😂
i had done this several times because i bought some seeds online and was growing them in a planter on my porch. Well one day i did this while i was home alone and it was a particularly potent one apparently, and i felt like i was going to suffocate to death for like 10 minutes. Never again.
The flavor of molasses that you described for the ""Cachaca"" could be that rum is distilled from sugarcane mash. You say you don't drink, but I think that's the second time I've seen it on the channel (after the Coco de Mer episode) :)
This has probably been done before, but you should make a book or website explaining and describing all the plants you have tried (kind of like documenting all the things you have tried).
Better yet, he should make detailed videos and post them somewhere 🙃🙃🙃
I remember seeing this video called "Poppies for pain" and it was just a video on how to make opium.
How much did you make?
Lol cool and not cool at the same time. Did the person know they were making opium or were they oblivious? I’ve also seen “opium lettuce” tinctures from a bunch of medicinal plant nuts
I used to make a nice sleep aid form a poppy plant in my garden. Quite the ancient recipe even. I did cut the capsules a couple times and when the sap stopped coming out I did cut the whole capsule off. Because why not. Then I simmered them in red wine with lots of honey and filled it in bottles. A tiny shot glass gave a nice cozy sleepiness. The plant died off though.
@@cade2561 They knew what they were doing
@@yes0r787 If I were to describe the flavor of opium I would say it tastes like purple.
I really love that you make these videos i always watch them because i know:"i am gonna learn new facts and i am gonna like it"
Great video. I have grown this plant for the last couple of years in my garden, and plan to grow it again this year. I use it as a spice in cooking, very similar to how I would use Sichuan peppercorns, but not in Chinese cooking. Thank you for sharing this plant with the rest of the World!
I know I'm a bit late, but I'm from Madagascar and we use those in a dish called romazava, which is a meat stew to which you add this plant as well as spinach, it's very nice and if you substitute the meat for fried tofu it makes for a very interesting vegan dish. when cooked the bred mafane keep the same effect but lose some of its strength.
I got seeds for this awesome plant a few months ago and have been so impatient for spring to get some growing! I didn’t know the leaves were edible so thanks for the info. Great video as always. Glad you didn’t go blind. 😄
The reluctance to taste the strange spiciness made this kinda hilarious to watch haha. I've also heard of it called buzz button. Thanks for the review.
9:08 I was waiting for "and now I'm blind"
Wow i was not expecting to see you here...
@@iaw7406 i was fully expecting to see your reply
@@cIeetz sorry but a pokémon youtuber on a plant video ???
Damn! Back to back to back! Keep the videos comin!!
and a stream 2 days ago!
I have been growing these in my garden for nearly ten years. They are a great plant. Thanks for the video.
i've eaten jambu flowers straight from the plant a couple of times and i find it quite pleasant and havent thrown up yet, so yeah i dont think you need to worry too much about being sick, but who knows honestly
buzz buttons are awesome they are great in soups and stirfry.
I laughed so hard when you showed the chemical compounds and gave the oxygen expressions
I grew this last year as a novelty and the plant grew well. I basically let it die in the garden and pulled up the roots when I amended the soil this spring. Fast forward to now and I have a whole bunch of toothache plants sprouting and flowering. Amazing. The reaction isn't bad but now I'm interested in buzz rum lol
That flower is like "stinky peanut / Petai Flower" in Indonesia, but they use it for anti mosquito, just burn it when dried.
That extract could be interesting in drinks or coctails. Or shots, kinda exotic ting
I love seeing people's faces the first time they try this plant 🤣
I love the rum with it in! Its great fun!
Great video. That was a big bite of the flower. When I tried them, I maybe had 1/10 of what you ate and it was more than enough to realize it wasn’t pleasant. The sensation almost seemed electrical. Such a crazy plant.
Very interesting to learn about these. I’ve no interest in trying them, but fun to watch.
Same here.
Hugs from Portugal :)
these are called schezuan buttons too, unless those are different. but a man always comes into the cafe i work at and gives me a handful of these in the summer, he also makes tincture out of them. i love these things i just think theyre so fun. the ones he gives me arent red though, just yellow, and a tiny bit smaller
I was super surprised to see you try the rum and popsicles knowing that you dont drink. Really nice to see you documenting even if a little outside your norm or comfort.
numby rummies !! my mum used to make a drink with black spiced rum and these plants, forget what was all in it but it was definitely good frozen into an ice cream texture! i wish i could try it again lol
I think I have tried chewing on several different plants. No idea what 😄 never enough gloves and goggles to go around. Thanks again!
These are fun to keep in the garden and have people try them🤣 I grew some last summer to make tinctures they also are supposed to help calm your stomach as well.
Be safe, thank you for the honesty of spitting it out. I wonder if it'd help on itching or burnt skin. Although I'm scared of the numbing effect of it also and i already know that plant antioxidants have helped me heal differently and faster. (I'd gotten a burned spot on my arm from a 400° frying pan when baking fish, I'd been eating much more spinach than i normal at that time and instead of one painful blister it had about a hundred small ones and i couldn't really feel the pain an hour later when I was scrubbing over it by mistake in the shower. It seemed that the skin hadn't fully separated from the next layer of the dermis.
That face at 9:08 right before “There it is” cracked me up.
I used the flowers when I bartended a few years back. Pretty cool effect.
I think there is a bar in Las Vegas that uses this in one of their cocktails due to the way it interacts with sour flavor. No idea about cooking with it though.
I've had these a few times very interesting feeling.
Looks a bit related to achillea millefolium (röllika in Swedish) which roots and flowers has been used for soothing/numbing toothache way back when... classic home remedy.
Making ice cream out of enough of that stuff to cause a 'peppery' reaction sounds really fun and potentially quite good actually...
I dunno how I missed this one! I have seen the buzz buttons trending recently, so I am glad you changed the name. ☆
In Brazil, around the Amazon region (where the flower is from), we also use in other recipes, like in Tacacá, a indigenous recipe of shrimp soup/stew.
Pairs well with nettle soup
Oh man! Something about hearing you describe that hypersalivation and the feeling they gave you.... I'm actively getting nauseous. Think I'll be avoiding those powerful little flowers!
Thanks for the videos, I'm binge watching them currently and list of garden additions for this summer is growing haha
"You do not want to eat a whole one of these flowers raw.".....Is he challenging me?
I have grown and ate these. I would say go for it, but don't try a whole one.
@@3literv6 Ty but I was only kidding.
Ive had it too, it makes you slobber like crazy
@@jeil5676 i thought so, but you should still try some. But only a tiny little flower butt, or a small nibble of a full sized flower. It's kinda like the old 9v battery on your tongue.
Lol DO IT
Have you ever eaten fresh Wasabi leaves? I’m wondering if the leaves would be similar to that. Delicious with like summer soba.
Omg what about a chimichurri with the leaves? I actually got seeds of this plant earlier this year, looking forward to growing them this summer
I worked at a place where we would give these to unsuspecting coworkers. I was a little...annoyed because I had to talk to guests while drooling uncontrollably. But that made giving it to others that much more fun!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks for the laugh and the very interesting info.
The subject was os course awesome as always, but I also really loved the editing. Amazing job!
Interesting! Thanks for the video :)
Emmy ate the whole thing!!
And one after the other!
WOw! this have become a cooking channel too! haha! I like it
I grew them last summer and I grew to love the taste. Very very very green taste. I ate them like candy lol.
This is super cool dude. What an interesting ingredient
You really need to chew up an entire flower or two to get the numbing effects. The tingling comes first, then the numbness... and then some curious flavor changes as your sensations come back from the numbness. The lips are especially effected if you blow /breathe past them. The flowers mostly taste grassy initially, so most people don't care for them, but it's unique. The electric daisy aka buzz buttons are members of the daisy and sunflower family and are edible. They aren't toxic, but the buzz can be an acquired enjoyment - not that dissimilar to people who enjoy hot peppers or mints or other strange flavor / sensation -causing herbs 'n spices.
I did a study on this plant for university, amongst many others used by natives
Good, i'm gonna grow this now.
We have a brand of vodka liquor here in St. Louis called Zambu. It uses the “Brazilian buzz button” flower as a flavoring agent, which is Acmella oleracea. I personally like it, but could only do 3-4 of them before enough is enough.
I was going to say try it in vodka or a bloody Mary but I checked the other comments first.
Bro, you need to visit me in Humboldt because you can buy this plant at the Arcata farmer's market in June and July. I buy one almost every year, honestly 2020 when everyone was commanded to stay at home was the only year I didn't, but for some reason my cats love it more than catnip and not only eat it but knock the pot over and roll in the roots and dirt pulverizing them leaving nothing left alive to grow a new plant. Here, they call it Spilanthes. I've never tried to make it into a tea or cook it but I've eaten the leaves and flowers and every houseguest who visited me during the few weeks of every year that I grew this plant was forced to try a leaf or flower and a solanum americanum berry...
Nice!
love your work bro!
I like the medicine plant stuff
Clove oil works like that too.
These flowers are used at the disney parks in the star wars cantina. If you order a Fuzzy Tauntaun the drink comes with a foam that is infused with this.
I used to work at a cocktail bar called the Alchemist in the UK where we used this to make numbing shots people would take before a certain cocktail! It worked quite well! We called them Sichuan Daisy's
I work in a children's tasting garden and love to visit this plant on my tours. I always ask the children who is the bravest. Hands up all sind me. I follow it with a trip to the stevia.
I am from India and as kids we used to chew the flower and it tastes good (we don't use the leaves also we spit the flower after chewing and swallow the sap) people also use it for tooth ache and the one found here have a smaller flowers than showed in the video and the one used in the video is little bit dry that why it looks odd the one we see here looks more like on 6:41. And I don't know people who uses it on tobacco may some parts of the country doing it. Now not many of these plants are found these days
11:50 I love how he made the chemical compound look angry😂
In Iowa, our native toothache tree is Zanthoxylum americanum. Prickly Ash. It's historically used the same way. I've used it as a pepper substitute from time to time, but it's super strong. I've got one growing in the way back, and it's pretty hardy. Dried seeds are like Szechuan peppercorns, as well, but maybe even nastier.
If you cook the mixture first it will cook the alcohol off and leave the tingly ingredient behind and it will freeze.it won't be boozy though
these are really easy to grow in a warm climate, like zone 9
The Bakers Creek Heirloom Seed Company has packets of seeds for these. They are supposed to be relatively hearty but we will see :) I only have one seedling so far
The faces on the molecules. 😂👏👏👏
This grows a lot in my hometown and I love the taste of it tho you are supposed to eat it a lil by lil .........like one flower goes a long way like days
I like see you try Syzygium gratum I know they used the leaves as a vegetable and fruit edible as well but I heard that sometimes they're not very good ?
had Sichuan buttons before. it is similar, i think, it is like eating a 9v battery. the company that made them suggests mixing them with orange sherbet.
Interesting
As someone who has eaten an entire one, I didn’t get sick but my entire lower face did go completely numb for a couple hours. My mother decided to grow a plant a few years ago.
I’ve heard of a liqueur that’s made with these but it’s only made and sold in the US as far as I could tell and I’d never been able to get any. I’m going to have to look up the Brazilian version!
I know this flower. When I was small and had sores in my mouth my mum used to ask us to chew the flower. Now I am 59 living in the urban area , haven't seen it in a long time.
It does work.
Also clove.
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I can only watch your Chanel on my IPhone - your Chanel is the only one that freezes my TV UA-cam. I freezes it bad too, like crashes it.
I really like how his reactions are exact. He isn’t blowing up the reaction for likes.
Interestingly, I put a whole one of those buds in my mouth at a local garden when someone offered me without knowing what it was... And all I felt was a little buzzing, no numbing and little salivating. Wonder if it was just a meek plant or if I have a tolerance.
You're a content machine lately!
I'm trying to get back to three a week :)
Where can you find these?
They are like splantes
Ive chewed on these before. Not too bad and the numbness and tingling doesnt last that long. I was given one originally as a joke by a friend that grows them. Though he did tell me what it does before I chewed on it, lol, he wasnt that nasty. Never thought of infusing rum with them, must try that.
Had a whole one at a market in France, it made me feel so sick, salivating non stop, and feeling my tongue getting swollen... Be careful when you have it!
i wanna try it so bad
Where can I buy that maple syrup in a house shaped bottle? I want that!
I recommended you try this as a chili antidote. It is definitely antagonistic to capsaicin.
sounds pretty miserable, but better than using soap
Yes and no, I actually chewed up a leaf yesterday than ate a Thai dragon chili and it was still pretty hot but there was a reduction. Was going to try throwing some in a hot sauce recipe to see what it did