acorns

[William]

Yes, acorns!  I knew they were edible but came across this link when I went looking to ID some acorns I collected recently.  Please read about tasting but not swallowing acorns to see if you are allergic.
http://www.grandpappy.info/racorns.htm

[DandJofAZ]

Years ago my brothers and I used to eat acorns up on top of nm grand dads chiken coop...huge tree dropped acorns to chickens and to us..never have any problems, but didn't eat many acct just a little to bitter to enjoy more than 2 or 3 at a time...must have been the good kind.....
Doug

[Bulldog lady]

I've seen acorn that looked decent, but these here little midgets we got all over the place , they is darn little, if a big oak were's to grow from one of them it take nigh on a centrury, now then darn blasted black jack they can sprouts outa no where,  ifn any one got a use for these little critters abouts the size of a dime, i got's a plenty

[old salt]

Di
The next time you are up here take a look at the tree on the So. side of the house, it is 15 yr old and is just a pin oak

[William]

I've seen acorn that looked decent, but these here little midgets we got all over the place , they is darn little, if a big oak were's to grow from one of them it take nigh on a centrury, now then darn blasted black jack they can sprouts outa no where,  ifn any one got a use for these little critters abouts the size of a dime, i got's a plenty

The Black-Jack  kinda grows where no other oak tree will and never gets very tall.  Being of the red oak variety it's acorns have a lot of tannic acid, while an important food source for deer it can cause tannic acid poisoning in cattle.  It will dull chainsaws quickly but it's wood burns long and hot and is preferred by some BBQ officianados.

What I found the other day behind the school I was teaching at was very interesting, a couple of Bur oaks that someone had to have deliberately planted there as they aren't native to the area, but have the largest acorns of all oaks, almost as big as golf balls.  I'm trying to get some of them to sprout.  It is a white oak and it wouldn't take many acorns to make a meal from.

[Red Badger]

The Black-Jack  kinda grows where no other oak tree will and never gets very tall.  Being of the red oak variety it's acorns have a lot of tannic acid, while an important food source for deer it can cause tannic acid poisoning in cattle.  It will dull chainsaws quickly but it's wood burns long and hot and is preferred by some BBQ officianados.

If'n ya want any black jack I got acres of it! and your welcome to it!  3 chainsaw blades a year just to cut enough wood for heating the house on occasion!

[William]

The Black-Jack  kinda grows where no other oak tree will and never gets very tall.  Being of the red oak variety it's acorns have a lot of tannic acid, while an important food source for deer it can cause tannic acid poisoning in cattle.  It will dull chainsaws quickly but it's wood burns long and hot and is preferred by some BBQ officianados.

If'n ya want any black jack I got acres of it! and your welcome to it!  3 chainsaw blades a year just to cut enough wood for heating the house on occasion!

Got enough Live Oak and Post Oak to get by around here, and that's just what is on the ground already from the oak decline disease.

[Honovi Mahala]

The most palatable acorns come from the black oak........but you should still leach them till the water runs clear.

[redhawk]

A few miles from where I live , on a mountain above the Yadkin River is 4 or 5 stone oven type pits that I was told was made by the Indians.  I was told they use the pits to cook or bake acorns to make meal .  They are located on one of the prettiest white oak ridges around. It is really neat.  I have some pictures somewhere I'll try to find them and share.  I don't know which acorns would be the best but evidently they used the white oak.  I do know deer like the pin oak acorns and willow oak acorns the best.  They must be sweeter to them.

[voyageur1688]

  If you boil accorns and roast them afterwards they are not bitter although some may need to be boiled a few times.  As for oak being hard on chainsaw chains, we dont have much oak up here but do have lots of Tamarac which is also hard on chains but not to the point of ruining 3 of them for 1 seasons worth of heating. I mainly heat with birch, maple or ash and get about 3 years out of a chain cutting wood for 2 households as well as for rondys and camping. I like a good sharp saw and when I sharpen mine it will usually spit out 2-6 inch ribbons of wood rather than chips like most people up here get there saws to do. When mine gets to where its spitting out chips I resharpen it.
Voy

[DandJofAZ]

If the blade isn't really sharps, you may as well put it away and go home...pine and oak here are good to cut, but that darned hard old juniper sure eats blades...1/4 cord and they need to go back to garage and be sharpened---unless my son is runing saw-he likes to cut 2 inches into the ground when he gets through a log and we seem to have rocks here in AZ instead of dirt, where those trees grow at least...... They grow slow and burn good...I shined up one piece about 6" wide and you can count over 300 rings..darned tree was only about 12" trunk size and about 20ft tall and 15ft wide..Hot summer, cold  winter and no water--they still grow....No acorns, but berrys are pungent if you like gin!!