As I was watching I kept thinking, 'this is a great informative video' then your son busted out his sign language to say 'more please' and I realized that this is actually an Awesome video. Well done.
Thanks for this very visual video showing the different stages of cattails. This is by far the best video I've seen on this subject, and I've watched 10+ of them. Yours actually shows the different stages and uses when harvesting and in the kitchen. I appreciate it!
In 1970, I was 11 years old, and I used to play around these. Who would have thought that I'd b learning this at 58 years old. I would have never wanted to leave? Great info.
Hey, google Trankors Survival Secret for an interesting revelation about making it through in the modern world. It's never enough to become unbreakable when things start falling apart!
Excellent video! My children were already grown before I learned about eating cattails. Adding the kids to the video was very nice. Beautiful happy babies. You're a great Dad! Thank you so much!
Awesome Shawn! Thanks for breaking down the process and for showing the different stages of the cat tail flower. This was exactly what I was looking for.
I really liked how you had the comparisons ready. You efficiently and clearly showed harvest to table. Adorable children. Good thing passing on knowledge. Ty.
Thanks very much for this I've struggled to harvest this well for years, last year I got close and wound up with half a shot glass of pollen and very wet legs. After listening to you no wet legs lots of flowers. Tyvm!!
I didn't know there were so many easy practical uses for cattail - before this I only knew about the shoots and roots! I love Mousetrap Monday, but your outdoors/survival content is top class as well, and has been for all these years 👍🏻
Euell Gibbons lives! This is a far more comprehensive view than he gave of using the cattail as a food source. My younger brother was a fan of his and we tried the tender insides of the bottoms of cattail and we knew about the pollen. Later, we very much enjoyed cooking immature milkweed pods: after a parboil, they were recooked and tasted a good bit like asparagus!
Another note on this. When harvesting the young pollen and flowering heads, like corn, keep them in the husk so that they do not dry out. I cut them off low on the stalk and leave them husked. Lastly, and in my experience, the young flower heads that are below the male pollen spike have very little to eat on them unlike the top pollen spike. So I just harvest the top pollen spike and leave behind what becomes the brown cattail we see in the summer and fall.
I had no idea and to think I thought they were only good for decorating! We have them all around the area now I'm going to have the try them for consumption. Nice clear and detailed video...much appreciated 😀
All my life, and I am old, I knew cattail flowers were edible but never knew how or when to eat them or gather pollen. Thanks for actually teaching us! Be sure cattails are from CLEAN water since they absorb lots of water-borne pollution and heavy metals. Your babies are SO DELIGHTFUL and happy!! Makes this old grandma smile :))
More efficient and less soggy would be to steam the cattails. Cooks quicker too. Also the water after boiling would make a great base for vegetable or beef soup. When I steam my corn on the cob, I keep the stock for vegetable beef soup. It really gives it a robust corn flavor.
This is very interesting. I don't believe I've seen them here around TX...maybe in some places? At least not here in central TX. The cattail is has so many uses! Interesting how the pollen can be used as like a thickener, never would have thought about that! How cool! Thank you for all the info!
Another awesome plant that every inch of it is edible is Dandelion. From the flowers and stems to the leaves and roots. The roots can be cooked and eaten like any tuber or dried and ground for coffee, the leaves can be eaten raw in a salad when young and older leaves cooked like you would collard or mustard greens, the flowers can be used for a tea or syrup or eaten raw if you like. Two of the most versatile wild plants that grow everywhere - Cattail and Dandelion. Talk about a dynamic duo!
Often over-looked, 'blunt' arrows were used to harvest birds by Native Americans. As farm boys., we weighted cattail shafts and used them in our home-made childhood bows. Unfortunately, fletching the stems was beyond our ken.
Fantastic video, thanks! I have one question though, that I would appreciate your thoughts on. I just cooked cattail on the cob (both the upper and lower part) when still wrapped in its green sheath and nice and firm. The upper part (the one that holds the undeveloped pollen) was good, but the lower part only had a very thin, light green layer of soft edible stuff around its woody core. It was a lot of work scraping it off with my teeth. Is that the way its supposed to be?
@@leepoling4897 This is a very late response,, but I have a deaf friend and yes, it does tend to annoy her as she sometimes Is able to catch on when they make no sense. She prefers UA-camrs who speak at a neutral pace and speak clearly as well.
Have found the dry cattail fluff to be a fun fire starter with a ferro or flame when well mixed at 2/3 loose fluff with the rest being a good tinder. (Grass, pine needles, dry inner bark, etc.) The intact (still compressed) dry heads make a nice improvised punk. They will smolder for a long time. With F&S the charred fluff, or a char mix of at least 1/3 charred material with the rest being any good coal extender, works very well. (Good coal extenders include cattail, thistle and milkweed fluffs, most fungi, punkwoods (there are many types, mainly red or white rot), etc.)
got about 10 cobs Im gonna cook and try tonight. I also cut up some young shoots that I finally figured out on pulling out. I'll fry them with some butter and salt. I've also got about the same amount of pollen as you did in that video as well as a ton of tubers, I'm going to prepare into a bannack flour. Hope it all works out good :P
This is an old video but glad I watched it as all I have eaten is the pollen and boiled out root starch. I knew you could eat shoots etc but necer tried it. I always thought this was young stalks but I now see it is not
He used his hand signals for "more" and "please". Smart kid.
yoshi konno I noticed that also and it gave me a big smile... Impressive
yep it made me smile as well
As I was watching I kept thinking, 'this is a great informative video' then your son busted out his sign language to say 'more please' and I realized that this is actually an Awesome video. Well done.
Thanks for this very visual video showing the different stages of cattails. This is by far the best video I've seen on this subject, and I've watched 10+ of them. Yours actually shows the different stages and uses when harvesting and in the kitchen. I appreciate it!
Cattail pollen & the flower is great mixed with scrambled eggs!
In 1970, I was 11 years old, and I used to play around these. Who would have thought that I'd b learning this at 58 years old. I would have never wanted to leave? Great info.
Enjoyed! Thanks for going through the effort. I recognized the sign language. Also - great move as a parent.
Hey, google Trankors Survival Secret for an interesting revelation about making it through in the modern world. It's never enough to become unbreakable when things start falling apart!
VikingPreparedness my mom taught me basic sign language before I could even talk. I really wish I still knew it.
Excellent video! My children were already grown before I learned about eating cattails. Adding the kids to the video was very nice.
Beautiful happy babies. You're a great Dad! Thank you so much!
Awesome Shawn! Thanks for breaking down the process and for showing the different stages of the cat tail flower. This was exactly what I was looking for.
Well done Shawn! That is the best cattail harvest and prep & cook video I have seen.
Interesting cattail info, with a surprise visit from a neet little buddy.
Never knew that cattails were edible got try that now thanks for showing how to cook it
1 OF THE BETTER VIDEOS I'VE SEEN IN REGARDS TO CATTAILS. + KIDS AT END PROVING THEY LIKE IT & IT TASTES LIKE CORN + THEY R SO CUTE.
Best video on the subject
I really liked how you had the comparisons ready. You efficiently and clearly showed harvest to table. Adorable children. Good thing passing on knowledge. Ty.
Thanks very much for this I've struggled to harvest this well for years, last year I got close and wound up with half a shot glass of pollen and very wet legs.
After listening to you no wet legs lots of flowers. Tyvm!!
I like using the pollen to make pancakes :) Great vid btw.
That was very interesting I always knew about the root but this was all new to me.
Jason
So cool! Thank you for walking us through it. Much appreciated!
what a cute baby
Thanks for all of your work Shawn !
I didn't know there were so many easy practical uses for cattail - before this I only knew about the shoots and roots! I love Mousetrap Monday, but your outdoors/survival content is top class as well, and has been for all these years 👍🏻
Thank you ! Beautiful video!
That baby is adorable
Euell Gibbons lives! This is a far more comprehensive view than he gave of using the cattail as a food source. My younger brother was a fan of his and we tried the tender insides of the bottoms of cattail and we knew about the pollen. Later, we very much enjoyed cooking immature milkweed pods: after a parboil, they were recooked and tasted a good bit like asparagus!
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Super cool info! Ty!
My favorite Shawn Woods video!
Thanks so much for sharing this!!!
Amazing great video 👍
Cattails. Excellent source for alcohol. As a fuel or drink. I heard the early Romans would make a type of whiskey out of cattails. Thanks for the vid.
Another note on this. When harvesting the young pollen and flowering heads, like corn, keep them in the husk so that they do not dry out. I cut them off low on the stalk and leave them husked.
Lastly, and in my experience, the young flower heads that are below the male pollen spike have very little to eat on them unlike the top pollen spike. So I just harvest the top pollen spike and leave behind what becomes the brown cattail we see in the summer and fall.
Very informative and useful video.
You should warn people before you put something like that in at the end.
I almost died of cuteness overload!
Your videos are great...really glad I found your channel. Thank you for the great content and knowledge sharing Shawn.
I never knew cattails could be so useful! I'm really excited to find some cattails and try them!
Cool vid! I love observing earth, explore and meditate...
Excellent video. Very informative. Awesome kids too.
I had no idea and to think I thought they were only good for decorating! We have them all around the area now I'm going to have the try them for consumption. Nice clear and detailed video...much appreciated 😀
Great video!
Great video! Love the details. Thank you
omg when your baby did the sign language it was so cute!
Great, informative video, THANKYOU!!
All my life, and I am old, I knew cattail flowers were edible but never knew how or when to eat them or gather pollen. Thanks for actually teaching us! Be sure cattails are from CLEAN water since they absorb lots of water-borne pollution and heavy metals. Your babies are SO DELIGHTFUL and happy!! Makes this old grandma smile :))
Sam Thayer's books go into similar detail.
More efficient and less soggy would be to steam the cattails. Cooks quicker too. Also the water after boiling would make a great base for vegetable or beef soup. When I steam my corn on the cob, I keep the stock for vegetable beef soup. It really gives it a robust corn flavor.
Thank you very much very helpful video I was definitely convinced by the end of the video. So cute😊💕
enjoyed this video too. very clear and well explained.
Great stuff mate.
This is very interesting. I don't believe I've seen them here around TX...maybe in some places? At least not here in central TX. The cattail is has so many uses! Interesting how the pollen can be used as like a thickener, never would have thought about that! How cool! Thank you for all the info!
Baby is adorable
Best I have seen yet about cattails.
I knew about the roots, base of the stems and the pollen but eating the COB had never considered. Thx for the informative video
I don't just want to be cheesy, I mean it, your videos, this one especially have changed my life
Thank you for such as good educational film, and your son is lucky to have such as good Father.
Thank you great video
I'm new to this and you rock!
Aww the baby knows sign language!
Thanks for sharing, I didn't know you could eat cat tails! I have try it sometime.
thanks looks very good
awesome video too bad i did not see this a few years ago... well done
Very cool, thank you
wanderful plz more about cattail
excellent, thanks
+Shawn Woods nice video, im from spain and here nobody was eating this, i might start a trend hahaha, subscribing right now.
Lol, cute little guys my daughter is five.
excellent information. thank you
Good stuff.
Also when it's dried it makes a great hand drill spindle!
The little smiles say it all.....😉
Very cool vid man
finally. a good video on cattails
Great vid. Have a back pond loaded with cat tails. Gonna try the cob. I just thought the root was edible.
great video thanks for sharing
so cute!
cattail, such a wondrous plant. from it comes food, cordage and arrow shafts. if there is a better plant for primitive ways, I know it not.
tyler roberts Don't forget yellow dye.
tyler roberts arrow shafts? I think it's far too weak and light for that.
when dried, the stems are hard and plenty heavy for arrows
Another awesome plant that every inch of it is edible is Dandelion. From the flowers and stems to the leaves and roots. The roots can be cooked and eaten like any tuber or dried and ground for coffee, the leaves can be eaten raw in a salad when young and older leaves cooked like you would collard or mustard greens, the flowers can be used for a tea or syrup or eaten raw if you like. Two of the most versatile wild plants that grow everywhere - Cattail and Dandelion. Talk about a dynamic duo!
Often over-looked, 'blunt' arrows were used to harvest birds by Native Americans. As farm boys., we weighted cattail shafts and used them in our home-made childhood bows. Unfortunately, fletching the stems was beyond our ken.
Your a very lucky man, looks like your raising those boys right.
A truly useful plant: I've used it to make arrows and a basket quiver. I just wish I could find a pristine water source to harvest it for food.
Cute kids : )
Fantastic video, thanks! I have one question though, that I would appreciate your thoughts on. I just cooked cattail on the cob (both the upper and lower part) when still wrapped in its green sheath and nice and firm. The upper part (the one that holds the undeveloped pollen) was good, but the lower part only had a very thin, light green layer of soft edible stuff around its woody core. It was a lot of work scraping it off with my teeth. Is that the way its supposed to be?
Lol, this is awesome!
nice Vegetables‼️
hello I saw your son know sign language it said "some please"!!! so, I'm deaf!...... thank for ur video about cattail
copsymphop do you have a hard time with youtubes automated captioning? I've noticed it's not the most accurate and it's pretty slow
@@leepoling4897 This is a very late response,, but I have a deaf friend and yes, it does tend to annoy her as she sometimes Is able to catch on when they make no sense. She prefers UA-camrs who speak at a neutral pace and speak clearly as well.
Mature cattail has a very nice scent, I like smelling it.
U r excellent UA-cam, above all u r a great father. Good job.
Thank you!
What does the pollen taste like ? Do you think anyone has ever been allergic to cattails/ the pollen ? Very interesting video!!
Your boy is so cute hahahaah
Very well done! Thanks.
Don't forget the inner core of the stalks and the lateral shoots. Have not found the roots to be worthwhile.
Have found the dry cattail fluff to be a fun fire starter with a ferro or flame when well mixed at 2/3 loose fluff with the rest being a good tinder. (Grass, pine needles, dry inner bark, etc.)
The intact (still compressed) dry heads make a nice improvised punk. They will smolder for a long time.
With F&S the charred fluff, or a char mix of at least 1/3 charred material with the rest being any good coal extender, works very well. (Good coal extenders include cattail, thistle and milkweed fluffs, most fungi, punkwoods (there are many types, mainly red or white rot), etc.)
oh my God you know what the most coolest crap how do you learn this stuff are those your kids they are adorable great video
Nothing like hanging out with the best brand
@3:47...
Pretty sure I heard a “CobCat” in the background 😏
Eh oh 🥴👍
Thanks Shawn! I got quite a bit out of this
got about 10 cobs Im gonna cook and try tonight. I also cut up some young shoots that I finally figured out on pulling out. I'll fry them with some butter and salt. I've also got about the same amount of pollen as you did in that video as well as a ton of tubers, I'm going to prepare into a bannack flour. Hope it all works out good :P
I watched several videos on harvesting and eating cattails and yours by far was the best and most informative with visuals. Thank you
The raw immature heads remind me of a green cauliflower. Tastes pretty nice.
cute kids
Take a shot every time he says cattail on the cob
This is an old video but glad I watched it as all I have eaten is the pollen and boiled out root starch. I knew you could eat shoots etc but necer tried it. I always thought this was young stalks but I now see it is not
Wow,I didn't know you could eat cattail.:)
Nice video. Thanks for sharing. Do you know where can I find seeds to plant them ???
Hi! :) Awesome videos! I'm a huge fan! :) By any chance, can you eat them raw? :)