SURVIVAL FOOD CACHES | To help you survive the winter - From oak to acorn snacks/leeching tannins!

24 days ago
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Learn an easy, reliable way to build a winter food cache and make white oak acorns edible with a simple 4x boil leaching method. In this bushcraft/survival tutorial, I show how to select safe acorns, crack and shell them, boil 4 times to remove tannins, and enjoy a acorn snack.

What you’ll learn:

How to ID usable white oak acorns and avoid bad ones

Step-by-step acorn leaching (4 boils) to reduce bitterness

Simple food cache creations

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:00 Acorns & processing
6:00 Starting a cache
8:31 Tannin water/hot leeching
9:39 Cache work
18:12 3rd leeching of tannins
20:00 Taking acorns off the fire & Hypotheticals
24:10 Eating acorns & Outro

Gear used : Steel pot, knife, Hatchet, Towel (cloth) for shelling.

⚠️ Foraging disclaimer: Positively ID species and consult local regulations. Some people are sensitive to tannins—process thoroughly.

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#bushcraft #survival #Acorn #outdoors #nature

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