This turned out SO well, it's got me thinking I should try making even more wood flavored ice creams (maybe another blind taste test video in our future???)
Sassafras would be perfect. While the roots are the traditional flavor for rootbeer, the much easier to collect green sticks have a floral and herbal taste. The leaves have a floral and fruity taste.
I think that's a really fascinating idea. I'm currently making a long list of recipes that I need to try from this channel, please keep adding to it! I'm currently trying out pine cone sirup; I was late to start, but I found some decently green cones, although they could have been stickier. Excited to try again in late spring/early summer, as well as trying recipes using spruce tips. This winter I will focus on locating foraging sites for these coniferous species. Thank for giving me another good reason to get outdoors ❤
@6ooooooog the shell of eucalyptus wood had been used in eastern medicine and for general consumption at times, the other person was being weirdly defensive about which race of people found things first lol
Hi Justin just a quick safety advise: counterintuitivly the danger zone of a bandsaw is to the side. So especially when working with a older or dull blade; if it breaks it will leash out to the side. So standing in frontbof the machine increases safety. :) all the best from Germany
Evolutionary botonists have determined via gene sequence that most trees actually have very little in common. That's why they all smell a little or a lot different. It's a consequence of Evolutionary convergence. Tyrns out, the shape and structure of a tree is actually just very advantageous for a plant to evolve into. Even trees that we consider similar or related actually have no or few common ancestors. Douglas fir and ponderosa pine wood look similar, but ponderosa is way stronger in smell, and they have no common ancestors.
That’s one of my favorite nerd things to subject my friends to. The words “tree” and “fish” don’t mean anything in a scientific sense, they’re purely linguistic tools to refer to common forms things take. But in reality, a flowering maple is fairly unrelated to a white pine, and a tiger shark is fairly unrelated to a white perch. But yeah, that’s absolutely why trees smell/feel/taste/look so different, even in subtle ways! Each kind of tree evolved on its own, so the chemical makeup inside two trees might be vastly different, even if they look superficially similar on account of being large plants with gigantic stalks made of sturdy cellulose and lignin. It’s just a smart shape for big plants to be.
This makes me think of crabs, since lots of separate evolutions have resulted in crab shaped things. The shape is just too good to pass up. Trees are the crabs of plants. 😂
Damn that looks DELICIOUS. There was a spruce needle flavor at my local ice cream shop a while ago and it was the best ice cream I've ever had. I don't have the patience for acorn harvesting honestly, but infusing the milk with wood would be easy enough. Great idea!
@@Justinthetrees is there some sort of way to preserve the spruce tips? Would making a spruce tip syrup and then using that to flavor ice cream or something like that work?
Your log pile reminds me of my yarn stash. The both of us need a big set of shelves with lots of deep cubby holes, so the different types of wood/yarn can be separate and organized and easily grabbed!
I love how much you love wood working and trees. It’s not something I particularly care about out, but your videos are so engaging and enjoyable and your passion is evident. Any day I get to watch you do what you love is a good day
These long form videos are some of my favourite on the internet There's nothing better than listening to someone talk about something they're passionate about That combined with the comforting voice over and gorgeous nature and wood? Beautiful. I love trees so much
Once, when i was very little, i collected a bunch of acorns from my great grandma's tree. I had them on my desk for a while before my little brother decided to eat them, and later throw them up.
You know, after watching Justin's shorts for so long, I eventually moved to watching his long form (the reason I didn't before is because I didn't KNOW he made long forms). And something you don't get from his shorts all that often is the dedication and care to his craft. This exemplifies it ten fold! The amount of work this man puts into his videos is insane to me, and it reminds me of a story (strap in). I attended an event one day where the main 'welcome, all' event had started and we were almost ready to go to different sessions. Then, a keynote speaker came up by the name of Kelly Barnes, an Oklahoman man with insane energy and love for what he does, that being professional speaking. And I ended up going to his personal session where he talked about giving back to the community, and being the best person you can be. I ended up talking to him afterwards and told him just how incredible it was to hear him speak. He was fun, energetic, and it was oh so obvious just how much he cared. And it bears saying that, no matter what you do be it teacher, chef, speaker or a simple woodworker, the amount of care you bring to the table makes a difference, and it shows just how much people care. All of this to say, Justin, you care a LOT and it does not go unnoticed nor underappreciated. I appreciate you, your work, and what you bring to this world. And I'm sure I'm not the only one considering the following you've got. Keep it up, man, you really are one of a kind.
That bowl turned out beautiful, and I really love how elegant the wood of the spoon was. Thanks for another oroject to add to my list, I definitely have to try this. I might have to break it down by trying out candied acorns first!
You are developing quite the talent for description words, a skill that authors love to cultivate. Perhaps a novel would be a worthy side hustle. Maybe a western, or wilderness survival fiction?
Loved when you talked about different wood scents!! It's always something that has fascinated me as well. I've only taken one wood shop class, since I am going to school for art, but had the chance to use a variety of wood for my projects. For one I purchased some bloodwood and man.. it smells SO GOOD. It smelled sweet and cherry-like for days after being cut.
Love the longform video! This one has kind of a livestream flavor which is fun. And I am incredibly inspired to go out and make my own oak-flavored things. I'm thinking maybe a mocktail syrup is in order? I'm not really one for nuts in my ice cream but I think a syrup swirled through would be incredible, plus its applications in drinks.
I grew up in a northern state and on my grandpa's property there was a grove of enormous oak trees. As a child, that grove marked a part of the forest we were allowed to play in because there were no low boughs to block the view of us from the house. I named those trees as a kid and considered them friends. When I moved to Colorado a few years ago, one of the things that I missed was those large oaks, because the portion of the state I live doesn't have a whole lot of large trees outside of various pines. However, I have have a deep fondness for the scrub oak that lines the hiking trails here. This episode made me smile the entire time.
Oh, it's great to see you back! This was a welcome return, and tons of wonderful work here. I'm really tempted to try out making some oak ice cream myself after seeing this. But also have to say you're such an inspiration in your low-stakes, playful and experimental approach to woodworking.
You snuck in a state tree map video on us! I'm loving this, but I'm still really hoping for a video that involves making root beer with Sassafras! (And maybe natural root beer ice cream) Maybe for Tennessee or West Virginia?
Oh man I am waiting on that “how to properly dry wood” video. I’ve brought back a few logs back home over the last two years and unfortunately all of them have cracked. Some more than others but all have at least some cracks. So I am very excited to see how to prevent that from happening. Amazing video as always!
Hey Justin, wanted to say thank you for inspiring me! I recently made some incense from pine needles I harvested, blood orange peel, and fresh ground cinnamon, which smell amazing! My girlfriend just got me a got me a lathe for my birthday cause I've been geeking out with her about your videos. Cannot wait to try wood turning and love you mentality behind it. Keep on doing what you love. 🤘🏼
At first, i was like, yikes a half-hour video. Usually, they are 20 min. Now i am watching and relaxing so deeply. ❤ that half hour flew straight by. Justin every video is a master piece, informative, funny, relaxing somewhat asmry(i dont even like asmr but turn table go brrrrrrrr sooths my brain) Love you justin! ❤
Hey Justin, I just wanted to thank you for your content, it's genuinly so enjoyable to watch you make all that neat stuff out of wood, it's really relaxing to see how cool each piece turns out and your way of describing and moderating what you're doing also is very enjoyable to me. Especially in this times when a lot of sick stuff is going on in the world and on top of that it's getting colder and darker outside everyday watching content like this helps me a lot to calm down. So thank you, lot's of love from Europe! (Austria)
Just put notifs on because I keep missing your long form videos! I never would have thought to make oaky ice cream like this. It’s cool to see the things that are edible that you never think of as edible. You’re always showing me cool stuff like that, and I love it!
Hi justin I just want you to know how happy your videos make me, probably mostly from your own enthusiasm that you're not afraid to hide. I had a pretty bad night last night, but this made my morning. I'd love to properly smell oak some day
Your point about the uniqueness of the smells of different woods is so good! It's one of the reasons i love working with black walnut so much - that dark sort of almost chocolate smell. It's a very sort of comfortable scent, and it's fascinating to see (or i guess smell) what a new species of wood smells like when I start working with it. There's one wood (and I don't know the species, as it was from a scrap pile (but I almost think it might be myrtlewood)) that i carved a little sign into for my fiance's office, and i had to be like, "if something smells a little like urine, feel free to take the sign down, lol." It's fun stuff! :)
It is so inspiring to me with how much time and effort you put into each video. There’s no crazy editing, no complex cuts, no jumping around from one topic to the next, just you and your camera documenting your really hard work. In a day where so many people are rushing to make quick click-baity and dopamine-sucking videos, it is very encouraging to see someone like you putting your craft and talents on display in such a wholesome and genuine way. I will always admire your love for nature and the effort that you put into creating incredible products and videos ❤
Acorns also produce starch which can be used to make a gelatin like food. Feral Foraging has a video about it I believe. I love the smell of pine and eastern red cedar. Lowes is my favorite place to go because the smell reminds me of going there with my dad (who was a carpenter). You should try your hand at making wood stains from woods and nuts like acorns and their caps, walnut hulls, shag hickory bark, etc. Also, shag hickory bark syrup, which people say tastes just like tapping it to make syrup (both of which are on my to do list). I know wood is beautiful as is without anything being added, but I am curious about how natural wood made wood stains would look on different types of wood. And maybe next time you make a dish with cracks that could be an issue, try filling them with clear pottery glaze or even clay then glaze and firing them somehow to make a very unique piece, if that is even possible. And I never thought I would be saving recipes and recipe ideas from a wood working channel, but here we are lol I really am glad I found your channel.
I watched this video out of random curiosity and I think you honestly opened my eyes to the wonder of wood. The way you were describing the smells of different woods, I found myself slowly agreeing with you and then it hit me. I realized how different they actually are. I just never really thought about it. I'm going to make this ice cream now and read about wood.
I love youtubers who are clearly just so passionate about what they do, it makes everything so much more enjoyable to watch. I've never been particularly interested in woodworking but you've gotten me into it :)
Oh, man. I count it as tragic that you aren't my neighbor, we would have so much fun nerding out about this stuff. You've inspired me to get off my duff and actually use my culinary saunders, for ice cream of course. I didn't know what to do aside from medieval recipes but now it's a no-brainer. I absolutely want to see you do more of these. I recently cut and carved Carya ovata and _Prunus yedoensis_ so those scents are still fresh in my memory, and the cherry wood was hard to stop messing with because it smelled so delicious. I'm excited to see what you do next!
Such a great video! We got a combo What's In That Pile, Eating Trees, and a State Map! Any other creator would have a separate video for each creation, but you make a bowl, ice cream, and state all in one, and then throw in a hand-carved spoon like it's no big deal. Thanks so much for creating such amazing content.
LOVE your channel! Super-creative and I always learn something!! And ... can’t get over the first word you said after you tasted the ice cream - ‘...Oak-eh...!’ subconsciously spoken, having to add the ‘Canadian-ism’, and just summed up the entire episode for me! Oak-eh! Beautiful. Just beautiful 🌳🌳🌳
RUclips shorts lead me to a video of a wood worker using a tree to eat a tree. I might have found a new channel to watch lmao. Brilliant video, I love how much you love the trees. The scientific aspect and the going out in nature was very pleasant
FWIW, I propose one of California's many native oak trees for the US Map project. Live Oak, Valley Oak, Black Oak, Coastal Oak are all very good options.
I am a fiber artist and you can use absolutely every part of the oak tree as a dye source even using the oak galls to dye but also as another mordant material with other dye materials. That being said the water you first poured off of the acorns could have been used to dye and the color in the cream was not surprising.
Man I really love your channel. You have genuinely unique and creative content, you're an engaging presenter, audio levels are perfect, shots are beautiful, editing isn't distracting. Really firing on all cylinders. Thanks for the great videos, brother.
honored that THE oak icecream video was for colorado! really fun to learn about this oak when i feel like colorado is mostly known for pines and aspens (we have a whole tree and town named after each respectively) and i'll certainly never look at them the same! great video :)
On the topic of wood smells, I can smell this video in some parts. My dad was a carpenter and a craftsman, so the smells of sawdust and wood itself are very comforting to me.
Just so you know - epoxy resin is absolutely NOT food safe and you shouldn’t use it for stuff you plan to eat off of. Even if it’s labeled ok for “incidental” food contact, that doesn’t include liquids of any kind. For 2 part epoxies, there’s a real danger of small parts of uncured resin leaching into your food. You can’t be sure you have both parts incorporated.
@@Desert-Dweller not really. Shellac or poly aren’t suitable for plates/bowls and cutting boards because you can easily chip it and eat it. Usually food safe wax or oil are used so the wood can still breathe and be naturally antimicrobial by wicking out moisture.
There are a lot of things used for food that are not food safe. Like any plastic. Styrofoam takeout containers are super toxic. Recently they admitted to there being computer fireproofing chemicals in black plastic items, including cooking items like spatulas and spoons, because of recycling practices. Aluminum cookware is very bad for your health. They are telling people that non stick cookware is extremely toxic and flakes off like crazy into your food but leaches anyway every time you use it even if it doesn't flake.
Actually there are food safe resins made nowadays, I know a woodworker who makes goblets and mugs and he uses a food safe resin inside the cups. It’s able to handle both hot and cold liquids but he does say using soap can dull the shine on the inside from the resin coating. I’ve had it for years and it’s still in amazing condition, he also has a lifetime repair warranty on his work too.
There are FDA approved food grade epoxy resins. If the FDA is claiming some epoxy resin is food grade then are you telling me you know more than the FDA? Actually that could be possible - the America FDA allows food ingredients that are banned in other countries due to being carcinogenic or deemed a health hazard in the EU and countries like Japan and South Korea. So yeah I’m sure you’re right but technically if he used a FDA approved food grade epoxy resin then he is also technically following the rules.
I want to try that icecream so bad, looks amazing! the bowl and spoon look great as ever as well! I love your videos and this one was just as amazing as the rest! Keep up the great work! :D
Ever thought about ultrasonic steeping? It's basically vibrating the wood and liquid rapidly, which helps the flavors infuse. Some companies are even starting to use this technique to make rapid aged alcohol for a cheaper price. It can be accomplished pretty cheaply and easily with a small jewelry cleaner. Would probably be able to get even more wood flavor into the milk this way, and without using heat, which could preserve some of the more volatile flavors
I absolutely love making things with oak, it's such a beautiful and hardy wood. I just finished building a guitar out of oak the other day and used acorns and oak leaves in resin for the knobs and back plate. I have yet to try eating acorns, but I'm definitely curious now.
I was actually asking this question! Thank you for making this ice cream. It was actually something I wanted to make last year but I don't have the equipment 😢 Glad it worked out well!
I'd like to make a suggestion for Iowa: the prairie crabapple, _Malus ioensis_ . The native range includes Iowa, part of the species name ( _ioensis_ ) means "from Iowa", and prairies are one of the important types of native habitat to Iowa. I grew up in the state, so I'm excited to see what the tree for this map ends up as! Also gotta say I love seeing the food experiments that come with some of these videos. I'm glad the ice cream turned out good, and the candied acorns definitely sound tasty.
Love the long form videos, and brother I am HERE for the deepdive tangents on the differing beauty of various woods. The scents and appearances are a hard thing to describe, so your words on them feel fleeting and subtle just like the subject itself. Not sure if that makes sence; a meta comment on it is even more subtle 😂 Just glad I'm not the only one who enjoys the subtle beauty of things in life! Much love from Maine 🌲
Thank you for the shameless plug in the short. I would not be here without it & content like this is perfect to pair with a weekend afternoon smoke sesh💚🌿
I've actually been wondering where you'd been, I'm so glad you're back! You meet my niche love for both trees and cooking, and that's just incredible to feel so seen and understood! I actually often put your videos away a little, for the time when I have a nice quiet evening with delicious dinner, and then I'm just on cloud 9 lol :) I hope you are doing well! 💚💚 In my eyes you really are a modern-day druid ☺
This turned out SO well, it's got me thinking I should try making even more wood flavored ice creams (maybe another blind taste test video in our future???)
Sassafras would be perfect. While the roots are the traditional flavor for rootbeer, the much easier to collect green sticks have a floral and herbal taste. The leaves have a floral and fruity taste.
I think that's a really fascinating idea. I'm currently making a long list of recipes that I need to try from this channel, please keep adding to it!
I'm currently trying out pine cone sirup; I was late to start, but I found some decently green cones, although they could have been stickier. Excited to try again in late spring/early summer, as well as trying recipes using spruce tips. This winter I will focus on locating foraging sites for these coniferous species. Thank for giving me another good reason to get outdoors ❤
I already want to try cedar ice cream, always loved the smell of that one as a kid.
@@SpriteGuard redcedar is slightly toxic, so I'm not sure about using it as a flavor.
How about a wood cookbook?
It's funny how I've learned more about edibility of trees from woodworkers than foragers.
Oh, so it's weird to use trees for flavor when they're Asian but totally ok when a Westerner "discovers" it and does it
@@bl-nb8fo wtf are you talking about. no one said anything about that.
@@bl-nb8fo Can you please stfu? who tf said anything about Asians. Are you that insecure about being Asian ? lmao
@@bl-nb8fogive me an example of Asians using trees for flavor? Because I was not aware of this and therefore have never formed an opinion on it
@6ooooooog the shell of eucalyptus wood had been used in eastern medicine and for general consumption at times, the other person was being weirdly defensive about which race of people found things first lol
Hi Justin just a quick safety advise: counterintuitivly the danger zone of a bandsaw is to the side. So especially when working with a older or dull blade; if it breaks it will leash out to the side. So standing in frontbof the machine increases safety. :) all the best from Germany
Oh I know! I stand to the side only for filming purposes, a good note for anyone watching though, for sure
@@Justinthetrees
Safty>Cinematics
also unhinged icecream enjoyer❤
Evolutionary botonists have determined via gene sequence that most trees actually have very little in common. That's why they all smell a little or a lot different. It's a consequence of Evolutionary convergence. Tyrns out, the shape and structure of a tree is actually just very advantageous for a plant to evolve into. Even trees that we consider similar or related actually have no or few common ancestors. Douglas fir and ponderosa pine wood look similar, but ponderosa is way stronger in smell, and they have no common ancestors.
Dope!
That’s one of my favorite nerd things to subject my friends to. The words “tree” and “fish” don’t mean anything in a scientific sense, they’re purely linguistic tools to refer to common forms things take. But in reality, a flowering maple is fairly unrelated to a white pine, and a tiger shark is fairly unrelated to a white perch.
But yeah, that’s absolutely why trees smell/feel/taste/look so different, even in subtle ways! Each kind of tree evolved on its own, so the chemical makeup inside two trees might be vastly different, even if they look superficially similar on account of being large plants with gigantic stalks made of sturdy cellulose and lignin. It’s just a smart shape for big plants to be.
This makes me think of crabs, since lots of separate evolutions have resulted in crab shaped things. The shape is just too good to pass up. Trees are the crabs of plants. 😂
@jacklandismusic Same with vegetable. Hahaha my friends are tired of hearing about how scientifically there's no such thing as a vegetable
This makes me think of that tree alignment chart meme on reddit. Chaotic Evil was "Duckweed is a tree, prove me wrong!"
Damn that looks DELICIOUS. There was a spruce needle flavor at my local ice cream shop a while ago and it was the best ice cream I've ever had. I don't have the patience for acorn harvesting honestly, but infusing the milk with wood would be easy enough. Great idea!
Spruce tip ice cream is an annual favorite of mine to make. Will have to try and long form it next year when they're in season.
@@Justinthetrees is there some sort of way to preserve the spruce tips? Would making a spruce tip syrup and then using that to flavor ice cream or something like that work?
@@cooltool.nem.n.nem.I feel like it would.
@@cooltool.nem.n.nem. for sure. you put it in a jar with sugar and the tips and make syrup. i believe hes done it before.
I want to try spruce needle ice cream so bad
bro is so whimsical, it's so fun to see people just doing what they love and being excited about specific things
I‘m not gonna lie-I‘m here as much for his character as I am for the woodworking 🙈 what a friendly and bright person!
i love the way you used “whimsical”.
Your log pile reminds me of my yarn stash. The both of us need a big set of shelves with lots of deep cubby holes, so the different types of wood/yarn can be separate and organized and easily grabbed!
Every time I organize anything I immediately need the one on the bottom.😢
this makes me want to see just a bunch of types of trees made into ice cream, like maybe a small series or something?
I love how much you love wood working and trees. It’s not something I particularly care about out, but your videos are so engaging and enjoyable and your passion is evident. Any day I get to watch you do what you love is a good day
These long form videos are some of my favourite on the internet
There's nothing better than listening to someone talk about something they're passionate about
That combined with the comforting voice over and gorgeous nature and wood? Beautiful.
I love trees so much
25:43 - "Oakay"
I read the subtitle as just "oaky" before realizing that oaky and okay have the same letters. Guess I'm just a bit slow sometimes!
Once, when i was very little, i collected a bunch of acorns from my great grandma's tree. I had them on my desk for a while before my little brother decided to eat them, and later throw them up.
why did yu make it sound like a poem?
@@htoaletaarxidatet I wasn't trying to make it sound poetic, but I'll take the compliment lol
@@Lutefisk445 It sounds like a nursery rhyme.
You know, after watching Justin's shorts for so long, I eventually moved to watching his long form (the reason I didn't before is because I didn't KNOW he made long forms). And something you don't get from his shorts all that often is the dedication and care to his craft. This exemplifies it ten fold! The amount of work this man puts into his videos is insane to me, and it reminds me of a story (strap in). I attended an event one day where the main 'welcome, all' event had started and we were almost ready to go to different sessions. Then, a keynote speaker came up by the name of Kelly Barnes, an Oklahoman man with insane energy and love for what he does, that being professional speaking. And I ended up going to his personal session where he talked about giving back to the community, and being the best person you can be. I ended up talking to him afterwards and told him just how incredible it was to hear him speak. He was fun, energetic, and it was oh so obvious just how much he cared. And it bears saying that, no matter what you do be it teacher, chef, speaker or a simple woodworker, the amount of care you bring to the table makes a difference, and it shows just how much people care. All of this to say, Justin, you care a LOT and it does not go unnoticed nor underappreciated. I appreciate you, your work, and what you bring to this world. And I'm sure I'm not the only one considering the following you've got. Keep it up, man, you really are one of a kind.
Moral of the video: Gather ye acorns while ye may
That bowl turned out beautiful, and I really love how elegant the wood of the spoon was. Thanks for another oroject to add to my list, I definitely have to try this. I might have to break it down by trying out candied acorns first!
I knew bro was confident in this recipe when he made the bowl huge
You are developing quite the talent for description words, a skill that authors love to cultivate. Perhaps a novel would be a worthy side hustle. Maybe a western, or wilderness survival fiction?
I think he's mentioned in a q&a that he wrote stories. Not sure if he still keeps up with it
Let’s convince him to publish a book!
Loved when you talked about different wood scents!! It's always something that has fascinated me as well. I've only taken one wood shop class, since I am going to school for art, but had the chance to use a variety of wood for my projects. For one I purchased some bloodwood and man.. it smells SO GOOD. It smelled sweet and cherry-like for days after being cut.
there's just something so special about your videos. i'm locked in for the entire 27 minutes of this and it's such a joy to watch you create
Nice profile picture
Love the longform video! This one has kind of a livestream flavor which is fun. And I am incredibly inspired to go out and make my own oak-flavored things. I'm thinking maybe a mocktail syrup is in order? I'm not really one for nuts in my ice cream but I think a syrup swirled through would be incredible, plus its applications in drinks.
Ahh such a nice idea
I grew up in a northern state and on my grandpa's property there was a grove of enormous oak trees. As a child, that grove marked a part of the forest we were allowed to play in because there were no low boughs to block the view of us from the house. I named those trees as a kid and considered them friends. When I moved to Colorado a few years ago, one of the things that I missed was those large oaks, because the portion of the state I live doesn't have a whole lot of large trees outside of various pines. However, I have have a deep fondness for the scrub oak that lines the hiking trails here. This episode made me smile the entire time.
Oh, it's great to see you back! This was a welcome return, and tons of wonderful work here. I'm really tempted to try out making some oak ice cream myself after seeing this. But also have to say you're such an inspiration in your low-stakes, playful and experimental approach to woodworking.
I'm so glad to see you back, You're one of my favorite channels here on RUclips.
You snuck in a state tree map video on us! I'm loving this, but I'm still really hoping for a video that involves making root beer with Sassafras! (And maybe natural root beer ice cream) Maybe for Tennessee or West Virginia?
Problem wiþ þat is you have to remove þe chemical þat gives it þe flavor because it is •highly carcinogenic•
Oh man I am waiting on that “how to properly dry wood” video. I’ve brought back a few logs back home over the last two years and unfortunately all of them have cracked. Some more than others but all have at least some cracks. So I am very excited to see how to prevent that from happening. Amazing video as always!
Can't you just look up another video instead of waiting for him to upload
Your channel is absolutely tree-mendous! Three great projects and so many fun facts!!
the gambel oak is one of my favourite trees, both the bowl and the -square- state turned out so pretty
I have absolutely no idea why RUclips recommended this to me but I'm glad it did, this is neat
Very inspiring ❤ KEEP DOING YOU!!
0:42 It's a trail you grew up WHAT?!
Did he stutter?
Same thought 🤔 if I may.. AYO?
XD at least I wasn't the only one
25:42 "Oak-kay" 😆 I know it was certainly unintentional but I laughed at it anyways.
Hey Justin, wanted to say thank you for inspiring me! I recently made some incense from pine needles I harvested, blood orange peel, and fresh ground cinnamon, which smell amazing! My girlfriend just got me a got me a lathe for my birthday cause I've been geeking out with her about your videos. Cannot wait to try wood turning and love you mentality behind it. Keep on doing what you love. 🤘🏼
I got so excited when I saw that this video was almost 30 minutes long and not just a little RUclips short
At first, i was like, yikes a half-hour video. Usually, they are 20 min.
Now i am watching and relaxing so deeply. ❤ that half hour flew straight by. Justin every video is a master piece, informative, funny, relaxing somewhat asmry(i dont even like asmr but turn table go brrrrrrrr sooths my brain)
Love you justin! ❤
You do the Oaky Pokey and you turn a bowl, that's what it's all about! 🎵🎶
A lot of people don’t like it, but I love the smell of Cottonwood trees.
Yesss!! Cottonwood is so uniquely strange but nice at the same time
I can't even imagine how delicious this was... Also the bowl and spoon are surprisingly beautiful!
26:12 Funnily enough, a Swedish company makes vanillin from wood.
Hey Justin, I just wanted to thank you for your content, it's genuinly so enjoyable to watch you make all that neat stuff out of wood, it's really relaxing to see how cool each piece turns out and your way of describing and moderating what you're doing also is very enjoyable to me. Especially in this times when a lot of sick stuff is going on in the world and on top of that it's getting colder and darker outside everyday watching content like this helps me a lot to calm down. So thank you, lot's of love from Europe! (Austria)
Just put notifs on because I keep missing your long form videos! I never would have thought to make oaky ice cream like this. It’s cool to see the things that are edible that you never think of as edible. You’re always showing me cool stuff like that, and I love it!
Talk about A corn-y concept. I would love to try that! Hail and well met from Colorado!
Hi justin I just want you to know how happy your videos make me, probably mostly from your own enthusiasm that you're not afraid to hide. I had a pretty bad night last night, but this made my morning. I'd love to properly smell oak some day
Bro's got the camera that captures emotions. 2:00
Your point about the uniqueness of the smells of different woods is so good! It's one of the reasons i love working with black walnut so much - that dark sort of almost chocolate smell. It's a very sort of comfortable scent, and it's fascinating to see (or i guess smell) what a new species of wood smells like when I start working with it. There's one wood (and I don't know the species, as it was from a scrap pile (but I almost think it might be myrtlewood)) that i carved a little sign into for my fiance's office, and i had to be like, "if something smells a little like urine, feel free to take the sign down, lol." It's fun stuff! :)
It is so inspiring to me with how much time and effort you put into each video. There’s no crazy editing, no complex cuts, no jumping around from one topic to the next, just you and your camera documenting your really hard work. In a day where so many people are rushing to make quick click-baity and dopamine-sucking videos, it is very encouraging to see someone like you putting your craft and talents on display in such a wholesome and genuine way. I will always admire your love for nature and the effort that you put into creating incredible products and videos ❤
Oh YEAH! This precious smell of freshly cut Baltic pine, full of resin, best part of helping dad with making some fire wood for next winter
Oh justin, oakscream sounds amazing 😂
Acorns also produce starch which can be used to make a gelatin like food. Feral Foraging has a video about it I believe.
I love the smell of pine and eastern red cedar. Lowes is my favorite place to go because the smell reminds me of going there with my dad (who was a carpenter).
You should try your hand at making wood stains from woods and nuts like acorns and their caps, walnut hulls, shag hickory bark, etc. Also, shag hickory bark syrup, which people say tastes just like tapping it to make syrup (both of which are on my to do list). I know wood is beautiful as is without anything being added, but I am curious about how natural wood made wood stains would look on different types of wood.
And maybe next time you make a dish with cracks that could be an issue, try filling them with clear pottery glaze or even clay then glaze and firing them somehow to make a very unique piece, if that is even possible.
And I never thought I would be saving recipes and recipe ideas from a wood working channel, but here we are lol I really am glad I found your channel.
I watched this video out of random curiosity and I think you honestly opened my eyes to the wonder of wood. The way you were describing the smells of different woods, I found myself slowly agreeing with you and then it hit me. I realized how different they actually are. I just never really thought about it. I'm going to make this ice cream now and read about wood.
I love youtubers who are clearly just so passionate about what they do, it makes everything so much more enjoyable to watch. I've never been particularly interested in woodworking but you've gotten me into it :)
That wood map is comming along Epicaly
Oh, man. I count it as tragic that you aren't my neighbor, we would have so much fun nerding out about this stuff. You've inspired me to get off my duff and actually use my culinary saunders, for ice cream of course. I didn't know what to do aside from medieval recipes but now it's a no-brainer. I absolutely want to see you do more of these. I recently cut and carved Carya ovata and _Prunus yedoensis_ so those scents are still fresh in my memory, and the cherry wood was hard to stop messing with because it smelled so delicious. I'm excited to see what you do next!
Colorado: Make me beautiful!!
justinthetrees: *Makes a rectangle*
Colorado: Perfection.
What an incredible video and incredible channel, love what you do!
I never knew a guy talking about trees could be so entertaining. Love your funny and comedic personality
Such a great video! We got a combo What's In That Pile, Eating Trees, and a State Map! Any other creator would have a separate video for each creation, but you make a bowl, ice cream, and state all in one, and then throw in a hand-carved spoon like it's no big deal. Thanks so much for creating such amazing content.
Oh wow. I came here from the short, but the long form video holds so much more! That's some beautiful wood
I don’t have time to watch this right now but loved the short and want you to succeed so hopefully this comment does something for the algorithm
Bro should open his own buisness of wood flavoured ice creams
LOVE your channel! Super-creative and I always learn something!! And ... can’t get over the first word you said after you tasted the ice cream - ‘...Oak-eh...!’ subconsciously spoken, having to add the ‘Canadian-ism’, and just summed up the entire episode for me! Oak-eh! Beautiful. Just beautiful 🌳🌳🌳
RUclips shorts lead me to a video of a wood worker using a tree to eat a tree. I might have found a new channel to watch lmao. Brilliant video, I love how much you love the trees. The scientific aspect and the going out in nature was very pleasant
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I love your longer videos, its so fun to see all of creative things you do with one type of wood.
FWIW, I propose one of California's many native oak trees for the US Map project. Live Oak, Valley Oak, Black Oak, Coastal Oak are all very good options.
It's genuinely so nice and relaxing to just watch someone this passionate and excited about something
I am a fiber artist and you can use absolutely every part of the oak tree as a dye source even using the oak galls to dye but also as another mordant material with other dye materials. That being said the water you first poured off of the acorns could have been used to dye and the color in the cream was not surprising.
Oakay, you've really outdone yourself this time
I love the way wood smells too. 😊
The full video is great!
Man I really love your channel. You have genuinely unique and creative content, you're an engaging presenter, audio levels are perfect, shots are beautiful, editing isn't distracting. Really firing on all cylinders.
Thanks for the great videos, brother.
yay another long form video!!!
honored that THE oak icecream video was for colorado! really fun to learn about this oak when i feel like colorado is mostly known for pines and aspens (we have a whole tree and town named after each respectively) and i'll certainly never look at them the same! great video :)
Oh MAN I would love to try the ice cream. I've never tried acorns.
i came back to this just because i still think it deserves more views😭❤️
On the topic of wood smells, I can smell this video in some parts. My dad was a carpenter and a craftsman, so the smells of sawdust and wood itself are very comforting to me.
This guy can actually make WHATEVER HE WANTS.
Does he open to teach students or giving lessons on carpentry.. absolute niche
Good job garage Justin and kitchen Justin. The eating Justin has the easy job.👍❤️I loved living Colorado.😊
Just so you know - epoxy resin is absolutely NOT food safe and you shouldn’t use it for stuff you plan to eat off of.
Even if it’s labeled ok for “incidental” food contact, that doesn’t include liquids of any kind. For 2 part epoxies, there’s a real danger of small parts of uncured resin leaching into your food. You can’t be sure you have both parts incorporated.
Can it be covered over with something else to make it safe?
@@Desert-Dweller not really. Shellac or poly aren’t suitable for plates/bowls and cutting boards because you can easily chip it and eat it. Usually food safe wax or oil are used so the wood can still breathe and be naturally antimicrobial by wicking out moisture.
There are a lot of things used for food that are not food safe. Like any plastic. Styrofoam takeout containers are super toxic. Recently they admitted to there being computer fireproofing chemicals in black plastic items, including cooking items like spatulas and spoons, because of recycling practices. Aluminum cookware is very bad for your health. They are telling people that non stick cookware is extremely toxic and flakes off like crazy into your food but leaches anyway every time you use it even if it doesn't flake.
Actually there are food safe resins made nowadays, I know a woodworker who makes goblets and mugs and he uses a food safe resin inside the cups. It’s able to handle both hot and cold liquids but he does say using soap can dull the shine on the inside from the resin coating. I’ve had it for years and it’s still in amazing condition, he also has a lifetime repair warranty on his work too.
There are FDA approved food grade epoxy resins. If the FDA is claiming some epoxy resin is food grade then are you telling me you know more than the FDA? Actually that could be possible - the America FDA allows food ingredients that are banned in other countries due to being carcinogenic or deemed a health hazard in the EU and countries like Japan and South Korea. So yeah I’m sure you’re right but technically if he used a FDA approved food grade epoxy resin then he is also technically following the rules.
I was here to learn if my beloved oak can be turned into icecream flavor like it smells, and i wasnt disapointed, thank you!
Loved the video Justin. So interesting and fun to watch!!!
I want to try that icecream so bad, looks amazing! the bowl and spoon look great as ever as well! I love your videos and this one was just as amazing as the rest! Keep up the great work! :D
I come from the short, I've never seen your content before and I live in Florida but I am very interested in the Beaver/Squirrel Oak ice scream haha
Ever thought about ultrasonic steeping? It's basically vibrating the wood and liquid rapidly, which helps the flavors infuse. Some companies are even starting to use this technique to make rapid aged alcohol for a cheaper price. It can be accomplished pretty cheaply and easily with a small jewelry cleaner. Would probably be able to get even more wood flavor into the milk this way, and without using heat, which could preserve some of the more volatile flavors
13:45 try working with sweet birch if you get the chance. Its a very deep, aromatic smell with a touch of wintergreen.
I absolutely love making things with oak, it's such a beautiful and hardy wood. I just finished building a guitar out of oak the other day and used acorns and oak leaves in resin for the knobs and back plate. I have yet to try eating acorns, but I'm definitely curious now.
It would be cool if you used a planer to make thin strips of wood to toast and use.
Saw the short and wanted to come and show some support. Really love you attitude and way of looking at life. And... I need to taste that?!
I was actually asking this question!
Thank you for making this ice cream. It was actually something I wanted to make last year but I don't have the equipment 😢
Glad it worked out well!
I'd like to make a suggestion for Iowa: the prairie crabapple, _Malus ioensis_ . The native range includes Iowa, part of the species name ( _ioensis_ ) means "from Iowa", and prairies are one of the important types of native habitat to Iowa. I grew up in the state, so I'm excited to see what the tree for this map ends up as!
Also gotta say I love seeing the food experiments that come with some of these videos. I'm glad the ice cream turned out good, and the candied acorns definitely sound tasty.
So cool! Thanks for sharing your love of wood
I never knew I wanted to try Oak flavored ice cream! 😭
I love your channel so much
9:00 Nice shirt! I'm from Alberta and I rarely see people with merchandise from here 😅 Great video! Keep this up!
What a solid video. Great stuff
Love the long form videos, and brother I am HERE for the deepdive tangents on the differing beauty of various woods. The scents and appearances are a hard thing to describe, so your words on them feel fleeting and subtle just like the subject itself. Not sure if that makes sence; a meta comment on it is even more subtle 😂 Just glad I'm not the only one who enjoys the subtle beauty of things in life! Much love from Maine 🌲
Thank you for the shameless plug in the short. I would not be here without it & content like this is perfect to pair with a weekend afternoon smoke sesh💚🌿
I've actually been wondering where you'd been, I'm so glad you're back! You meet my niche love for both trees and cooking, and that's just incredible to feel so seen and understood! I actually often put your videos away a little, for the time when I have a nice quiet evening with delicious dinner, and then I'm just on cloud 9 lol :) I hope you are doing well! 💚💚 In my eyes you really are a modern-day druid ☺
I've been unsuccessfully hunting for a pawpaw tree for a LONG time. The fruit is crazy, and i bet it would make excellent ice cream
This is so creative! I can’t say I’ve ever tasted oak before, but this has me dying to try!
the amount of work that went into this video is incredible. love the content Justin!!