Roasted Cattail Heads w/ FRICTION FIRE!
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- Опубліковано 31 бер 2019
- Join us today as we gather edible cattail heads from the CA central valley wetlands, wrap them in wild milk thistle leaves, and slow roast them in the coals we prepared from a friction fire! These cattail heads taste absolutely incredible!
The OG vid that inspired ours! • COOKING CAT-TAILS- SEC...
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Wow, I've never seen anything like that. It was really interesting.
SurvivalAustria
Lol, I was so amazed when they were unwrapped, and thought wow they look just like corn dogs 🤣😂🤣
You can also take the central stalk of a thistle plant, when it's growing up before it goes to flower, and peel off the outside and eat it, it's like juicy celery. Some homeless people in Santa Cruz showed me this.
Neat way to start a fire! Pretty convenient if you forgot a lighter, but have some flat wood and a medkit!
Lol, yup! Of course it can be done with a split log and natural plant fiber as well... but hey, April Fools!
Dude that’s really epic! I gotta try that..
Great video!
hey those look like corn d......heeyyyyyy😂😂. for reals, that cotton roll method is awesome! never seen that before, thanks for educating me (unless that was a joke too and just a joint you wasted lols).
Lol, the fire roll does actually work.
Lol you had me going
Though you are correct….You can eat lots of the many parts of the cattail. You just have to know what you’re doing.
For instance:
The spikes
-the spikes you can eat in the early part of summer. It’s located on top of the stalk and while they’re immature wrapped in a leafy sheath they make a decent vegetable. If you boil them briefly and then nibble the flower buds off of the stock like eating miniature corn on the cob they should have a hint of sweet corn and a hint of mushroom flavor. You can also eat it raw.
The pollen
-The immature spikes will begin to release pollen soon afterwards in a matter of a few days. When the head is yellow - if you tap the stalk it should release a cloud of yellow pollen. You can lean the heads over and shake them over a container, or into a clean empty plastic milk jug by inserting the cattail into the jug and shaking it.
You want to do this when it’s not windy or rainy and you’ve had fair weather for a few days. You can collect about a quart of pollen in an hour. Shake your pollen through a cheesecloth or screen to sift out insects and woolly fibers that always seem to get mixed in and you ought to dry it before storing it. You can use this pollen in making muffins breads and other baked goods and it is recommended to combine it with flour because it is not sticky by itself. You can combine it into hot cereal or mix it with other foods because of its mild and pleasant flavor.
The Laterals
-The lateral shoot of the rhizome are white or cream colored and smooth on the outside. Because they have not developed any roots they break very easily and have not differentiated into distinct layers of rind and core like the mature rhizomes. The tips always points sideways and do not curve upwards or terminate in a leafy bud. You can collect these laterals from late summer into early fall after the plants have flowered and before they begin to die and turn brown.
Just reach into the muck at the base of a stalk and feel for the rhizomes. Once you find one that heads toward an area where there are no stalks, reach for it with your hands, if it ends abruptly in a pointed tip that does not turn upwards then you found what you’re looking for. Retrace your steps and at about the point where you feel the first roots emerge, pull upwards until the lateral breaks off. They are delicate so be careful when trying to pull them out of the mud without breaking them. Rinse them off well and then remove the few sheathes that are usually attached to the surface.
They can be stored in the refrigerator for several days if you keep them wrapped up. They can be eaten raw, sliced into salads, or cooked in many vegetable dishes - they’re sweet and mild and soft with no objectionable flavor. They go great in soups or boiled or steamed and served with butter like asparagus. They are definitely worth the effort of harvesting them.
The buds
-At the tip of the mature cattail rhizomes large buds that point skyward will form in the fall. They consist of a bundle of several layers of tightly packed young leaves about 2 to 8 inches long. This is also called the shoot and sometimes erroneously referred to as the corm. Its bud lays dormant from autumn to the middle of spring and can be collected during that whole season by simply breaking or cutting them from the rhizome. With the larger buds cut off the ends and peel away the outer layer or two, of leaves because they’ll be too tough whereas the interior of the body is soft and white or yellow. The bud has a mild and pleasant flavor and is an excellent cooked vegetable.
The Leaf hearts or shoot cores
-these are the interior cluster of growing leaves in spring early summer and sometimes referred to as Cossack asparagus. This is probably the best known vegetable to come from the cattail plant. The hearts can be collected from the time the cattails bud begin to grow in spring until the middle of summer. The best time to get them is it in late spring or early summer when the flower stocks are not yet formed. Just grab the center leaves of a cluster, all but the outer two leaves that form a sheath around the other leaves. Then pull firmly and steadily upward slowly with increasing force until they detach from the rhizome and come free from the sheath.
These come out very clean. Sometimes the cores tend to break off above the base which leaves the thickest and most tender portion behind. You can avoid this by using a knife to cut the whole leaf cluster at the base and then peel off the outer layer. You have to remove the outer layer of leaves from the rest of the core and again cut off the tender part that’s exposed because the interior leaves are tender much higher up than the outer layers are. There will be a lot of wasted leaf material. You can cook these hearts in a wide variety of dishes. These are recommended to eat cooked because if eaten raw they tend to give you an itchy irritated feeling in the back of your throat.
The Rhizomes
-cattail rhizomes are best gathered from fall to late spring. Look for places where the cattails are growing sparsely and the mud is soft near the deep water edge. Dig them out with your hands to prevent breakage and feel along them, then cut the rhizomes from the stocks rather than trying to rip them out so as not to let them split and then let in mud which will ruin the starch it contains inside. Rhizomes often connect two plants together, and therefore it must be cut at each end.
Sometimes you might happen upon a floating cattail mat or island, which often will be a very manageable and a fortunate solid mass of rinsed root stocks that can then be collected with a little effort. These rhizomes contain course tough fibers and is most useful in the making of cattail rhizome flour. You have to peel the rhizomes down to the inner core. Then you can use the “wet method” or the “dry method” in order to extract the flour.
If you’d like more information on this, I recommend Samuel Thayer’s “ The Forager’s harvest “a guide to identifying, harvesting, and preparing edible wild plants.
All that is to say, you arrogantly disregarded a plant thats mostly edible, which exposes your laziness on the subject matter. Whereas becoming more knowledgeable about some thing can help you to instruct others. Conversely, making a UA-cam video to demonstrate such ignorance for the purpose of pulling one over on everybody it’s just a waste of time.
Hopefully you’ll pick up one or both of Samuel Thayer’s incredibly helpful foraging books and not be so ignorantly touting the poisonous plant fables of our modern society. Then you can act like real men and make a real video without looking like a total crackpot. You’re welcome.
HAHAHAHA nice one guys!!! and dang another way to start a fire..i wonder how many there are total! i think you guys should do a video X number of way to start a fire! i think that video will catch on fire!! !!!!!flame on boys!!!!
Thanks buddy! Did we trick you lol?
Got me! Corn Dogs.....
you got me.
Thanks to you guys, I have already learned 3 to 4 different ways to start a fire. Keep doing what you are doing!
Keep the old ways alive.
Glad you showed Outdoor Chef Life a thing about free diving for food. Maybe you two can collab on a Free Dive For Food channel and show people how to eat sea roasted barnacles.
Keep up the good work. You have a new sub.
We were just talking about barnacles. Unfortunately goosenecks are not authorized by the dept of fish and wildlife, so we are petitioning that!
@@catchncookcalifornia1574 Thanks for the heart. Its my first from a channel owner. You have great content. I've now watched a bunch. Keep up the great work. Sacramento born... California proud.
Right on Wesley! Thanks for the support! Glad you dig our style!
That was good, watched the whole thing, have tons of those around the lake, I was excited! 😂
I got super excited and then that ending! You guys are great - got me good!
Hahaha, got me! Oh, love that thistle flower.
Great video guys.... I thought that looked pretty plump when you first opened it. Cool how you guys still showed some interesting survival tricks. Thanks for the video keep it up!!!
You're the first one to say it like that. Appreciated!
Catch N Cook California just calling it as I see it!!! Just started following you guys a few weeks ago. You guys are awesome!!!
have you watched boggy creekbeast he makes them fire rolls with all sorts of stuff and he helpful if you ask him questions. nice video
OMG, got me really good. I was thinking of trying it. LoL good one guys.
Wow, you bastards!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
that corn dog looks good
When I saw you pick up that second 2x4 for that cotton roll you made I was like "wtf thats going to work?" and when you were done tightening the roll and said "back and forth" i was like "oh my god that's actually going to work".
It's a pretty cool little post-apocalyptic friction fire method right? Super user friendly too!
Got me 😂 I want a corn dog plant
Me too!
Wow got em!! Good one
I got punked!
Love it!
Finish the video 😂😂
I was a fool to believe that cattail is edible lol. Though have noticed the date. Big success
Actually, much of the cattail is edible. Including the flowering head when it is green.
@@catchncookcalifornia1574 Thx, I never thought it is edible lol. BTW, the cattail has a nickname called water candle in China.
Wow, you got me. Good one........
Hello always 2abted to try cattails but not sire on how to cook them & interesting way of making fire .
This is so fun. I got fooled by you two
You earned a sub for this
“Carefully....OUCH!” 😂
LOL! You got me!
The only part of the cattail head I have eaten was the pollen, which I would say wasbprobable like eating sawdust, which I have never eaten.
But as you were doing this I kept thinking, what the....... Then thinking it may be the time of year so I glanced down at the date and though o sh....... THANKS it was a fun video.
So was the fire thing fake too?
Nope! That totally works. We used it again in our pine needle tea video.
Dang only one I fell for today
so how about a real video on how to eat cattails and what they taste like.
Sure thing! Can't wait to film and share that!
🤦♀️ I was so gullible! I thought the younger part of the cattails that’s still green is good to eat but then I believed you guys that the brown part or the old cattails can be eaten and looks like a corndog! Lol I don’t know anymore lol
Lol i knew it! Does the fire roll really work though?
Yes it does. Wasn't part of the joke haha.
@@caseyledford3662 that's a pretty awesome method
@@juseschrustfush Yeah, it works great and is very user-friendly. I got it on the first try when my brother showed me this.
It does work and it can be super fast too.
Godamnit... I was wondering why you were eating cattails that were already past their edible stage.
Funny enough, you supposedly can fluff up the old flowering heads of female cattail and light them on fire. This burns off the fuzz and leaves behind only the edible (now lightly parched) very small seeds. Maybe we will do a vid trying that out sometime soon!
Catch N Cook California little cattail on the cob! Sounds good. Subscribing 👍
Why did you say it’s a cattail
The plant is called cattail.
@@catchncookcalifornia1574 I thought they were corn dogs XD to me they looked a bit like it when roasted
GOT ME LOL FKRS
You're welcome ;)
Just watched it and I was fooled. Haha....not!
I thought you can only eat the bottom part that’s white. Forgot what it’s called
Edit: I just finished the video..😂😂😂
🤣😂🤣👍👍
Thanks for wasting my time.
Any time!