TACACO - How to Eat This Rock Hard Fruit - Weird Fruit Explorer
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2022
- Episode 635: TACACO
Species: Sechium Tacaco
Location: San Jose, Costa Rica
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Check out this video on the Chayote: ruclips.net/video/ouZ6Jo3nkio/видео.html
Ah, the joys of Air B&B knives
Its a constant struggle haha
@@WeirdExplorer might be wise to invest in a small switchblade
@@gokiburi-chan4255: Or a large Bowie knife.
Or a katana...
@@WeirdExplorer I’m terrible at sharpening but if you’re not, packing a small whetstone might be wise…
Tacaco has special flavor, deep boiled when fully rippen, can be used to eat alone as an appetizer. You can peel it off like a banana from the tip (the side without thorns) When the fruit is tender it is used like green beans. Nowadays becoming rare its mostly used only to add flavor to stews. Tacacos were not planted but kind of favored wild wine letting it grow in bushy or shadow fences or borders in coffee orchards. The fruits just gathered when falling off.
So when the recipe said "boil for 10 minutes" I assume they should've been added to a steady boil, instead of what we saw?
@@Patrick.Weightman correct
Looks like a small green version of the poison sandbox tree exploding "fruit". I'm assuming there's no relation because this has only one seed and it's edible
Yeah the Tree you are thinking of is in the Euphorbiaceae (Spurge) family. Tacaco is in the Sechium genus and the Gourd Family. Neat running into you here, been a looooong time fan.
😄 didnt expect to see you here, its cool seeing my interests overlap haha
It's a little bit friendlier looking 😄
I wrote a comment some 100 videos ago where I hoped for you to visit costa rica and now I really enjoy all this videos! Still, you haven't even started with my favorite ones :D
Chan, Cas, carao, cubaces, lengua de vaca (berry), costa rican blue berries (consanguineum) and the bessst thing ever Gavilana leaves!
Pura vida!
30 plus years ago, my grandma used to sit me on her kitchen table and made me peel off a bowl full of those for the dinner stew. Of course not all of them made it into the stew. I'll find me some next weekend in my local Feria del Agricultor! Pura vida!
Fun fact about air bnb knives, its usually impossible to find an actual knife sharpener, but any tile or granite or smooth cement edge you can find can be used to hone the knife. It doesn't damage whatever you hone it on but the knife usually becomes miles more useable. I guess you could also try honing on another knife but I've gotten mixed results with that. I guess you could also use the rough unfired underside of a ceramic plate that has that little lip sticking out that it stands on.
My mom usually uses the underside of a ceramic dish (the part that doesn't have glaze) to sharpen knives.
Useful tips!
Love seeing your videos on Costa Rican fruit! Been binging all your videos for weeks now, love your work :)
Glad you enjoy it!
Guess what I bought today at the San Isidro feria? Tacacos! There are a couple (more ripe?) red ones in the bag. I just opened one- juicy, milky, sweet and a little dry mouth. I’ll cook the green ones.
I hated these when I was a kid, but now love them.
In the shot of the tacacos in the market, there was a basket of noni right next to them! Euurrgh! That might have put me off buying the tacacos, because I would have had to get so close to the noni and their smell. You are brave, my friend.
(I first encountered noni growing at a park in Hawaii, and had no idea what they were. They looked white and bloated, like one of those beetle grubs you dig up in the garden, and they smelled like dirty sweat socks and cheese, and I didn't even get that close to them!)
I used to remove chayote seeds carefully, not realizing that they’re edible and fit to just cut up with the rest of the fruit. I wouldn’t have recognized these as fruit of a plant in the same genus!
“Like raviolis” I thought the same when I saw them floating! Love your videos
Very cool. I'm always interested in hearing about different, unique, and complex flavor profiles of the fruits you try.
Again, you provide me with information I guarantee you I'd absolutely never have without you and your excellent videos. These guys look like something you'd crack open specifically to get at the seed inside. They almost remind me of the almond fruits you made a video about back in the day, just a lot bigger.
I'll be honest, I spaced out for a second near the later half of the video and thought you were putting straight up _toothpaste_ on that half of tacaco. Glad I was wrong lol.
Always nice to see another one of your uploads though-- when I thought I've seen it all, I get a pleasant surprise that there's even fruits out there!
Saaame :'D
I had to rewind a bit
Wow, would you look at that.. a very special fruit was in the basket to the left of the tacaco basket.. i wonder why he didnt pick that one up and give it a try ;D
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I know, he really must've had to restrain himself from getting that one
@@WeirdExplorer what are they talking about?
You have added so much to my life by just living your own. Thank you 😊
Dude start a series called " weird plant medicine explorer " and start with san pedro cactus 🌵 hahahah
Thank you for sharing video.
that's great interesting.
always enjoy your content. thanks.
The flavors on this fruit sound really interesting
hat was very interesting, thanks for sharing!
this show helps a ton thanks mate
Exciting!! Thank you
its a very nice looking fruit. aesthetically pleasing... exotic
Today I found Tacacos in a supermarket (automercado). They are amazing. The boiled fruit has a very distinct and prominent scent and aroma of japanese green tea (gyokuro, sencha, …) which i found very interesting and enjoyable :) Moved from Europe to Costa Rica recently and am so excited to check out all the fruits here. Whenever I find something in a market or grocery store that I havent seen yet I always buy it and look if you have a video about it :)
Hello! I am sort of new to this channel but it’s very interesting to watch! I have binged through a lot of your videos haha. I was wondering if you are allergic to any fruits? You’ve eaten so many fruits from around the world so I wondered.
The bitter spit was priceless Jared. Big Huggzz 🤗💜
You don’t have to sweat tacacos worrying about this review. It’s a great video!
Jared, will you be trying flowers, leaves or stems in the future? I would love to see those videos.
You got me interested in trying new foods from different cultures and countries also with the seed removed it looks like a forbidden fleshlight
Bro.
I'm learning english and one technique is by searching images of unknow words, now I know how a fleshlight looks like
Last part not needed
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@@anacleto_kgb congratulations
Wow that's a weird one. Excellent.
When you said it smelled/tasted like lime, flowers, and cucumber and I'm now thinking a water infusion would be good. I wonder if the dryness would come through in the water.
It would be cool to see you do a catch and cook but a fruit version. So basically foraging with a cooking lesson at the end
I do that sometimes. I actually filmed a bit of the tacaco vine, but sadly the footage is lost.
@@WeirdExplorer have you had the schisandra berry made by the Chinese 5 spice or Chinese Magnolia vine?
Its amazing you are still healthy and fit after eating all these exotic fruits throughout the years. Wow. God keep you well.
You know you just stumbled upon a very rare fruit when even the English Wikipedia doesn't have it yet
should make a salad like potato salad type of thing with it, bet it would be good
I'm just glad you still have all your fingertips.
Im from costa rica living for 30 years and i never heard of TACACO in my life
Interesting looking fruit
bonus: tacaco is really fun to say
I would love this fruit 😋
I have delayed purchasing an ilama tree until we hear a review from your trusted taste buds, lol
Really appreciate what you do.
Ha, I still need to try that one. I hear good things though.
I've actually bought/withheld myself from buying plants based on Jared's descriptions. Its a bit tougher for me since I'm in a pretty temperate climate and rare, hardy, and worthwhile plants are a tad hard to come by. But its still a pretty decent strategy when the plants are so obscure you can't get any idea of what you're getting into.
Seeing that smarter every day actually supports you is cool
Could you roast the seed? Like how almonds become much more palatable when roasted.
I love how you scanned the camera over the basket of noni...
omg didn't know you were here!!!!!!!!! I would have taken you to try Jagua fruit
I don’t know why I thought this was like a papaya variety related to the babaco when I saw this 🤣. I got a new pepper if you’d like to try it
Have you tried pejibayes en Costa Rica? That's the only place I've seen them there really good when boiled
yep! ruclips.net/video/6QMn_Ub8Hqg/видео.html
the spikes reminds me of trapa spp. aka "water caltrops" have you tried those?
The most common way to eat tacacos is in soups, in Olla de carne is delicious
Looks like little grenades cooking! It's interesting that they have some chalkiness in them when the flavors they have seem like they'd be the opposite of that. I think you get that kind of powdery thing from raw potatoes, which might have something to do with why it's starchy after being cooked.
You should have made some sort of tacaco taco, just for the the fun of it
ah missed opportunity. It would be good for that too
Another reason they're fairly hard to come by is that they're harder to grow than chayotes from my experience.
Tiene toda la razón! They are wild and usually grow their vines in fairly shaded places. They love barb wire fences from what I've seen
How about cooking it for less time or temperature?
"Maybe they're like... ravioli." I lol'd
Is it maybe high in some sort of latex or oxalates and that’s what gives it the mouth and throat feelings
Nice!
Thanks!
I just asked my boss who is from Costa Rica and he said he hates it, but then again I get the feeling he's someone who would still refuse to eat his vegetables! If you have a chance though he said arracache is delicious, more of a tuber than a fruit though.
Can you try a fresh macapuno?
I've been catching up and noticed you have a hard time cutting some fruit, to the point of possible endangerment. Have you considered purchasing a butcher block, nice cleaver and possibly a machete for these situations - or is it an active choice where you prefer showcasing the difficulties?
Tacaco on soup yuuuum... I leave it a lot more on the hot water
did is see some nice noni right next to it at the market? ;)
Sounds like a fruit I would like.
Interesting
Cool, they kinda look like massive capers!
Missed your chance to pick up some noni
Look at them in their box beside those lonely noni.
What if you added it to devilled eggs for more hardy flavor alongside the paprika
I wonder if chilli pepper would be good on it?
interesting!
Are thier any fruits exclusive to the US?
How would you know if it is ripe?
I want the seeeeeddssss pls, how can i get them?
I want to ask what botany book you read please 😅
It does act like a chayote -- you boil it, peel it, and it's kind of starchy.
I rather enjoyed the matterhorn-esque wind sounds.
This one definitely sounds like a vegetable when your cutting it hahaha
Good news everyone... It's a suppository!
😯
When did you change your name from weird fruits explorer?
"They're floating to the surface, so maybe they're like ravioli." 😆😆😆
When you read "tlaquah quaqua" I read it as "tea la caca" which means ”poop tea" in Spanish lmao
The other one that's related reminds me of a cashew apple,I guess it's a bit harder though?
Will it ketchup
Does it grow on a tree? Or a vine?
I live in Hawaii and want to grow it.
They grow on a vine, same as chayotes and cocoros.
I'd love to be able to try making a cream soup with these,
maybe cut them into halves, throw 'em into the oven and roast them until they brown a little like a baked pumpkin...
then saute some onions, throw in some herbs, throw these in and add some soy milk and blend it all up...
hmm and serve it with some chili oil drizzled on top and a few thick slices of toast.
nono wait, forget that, Tacaco Taco
@@TheFloatingSheep LMAO I had the exact same idea
best part is, it might actually be half decent as a vegetable in Mexican food
@@StuffandThings_ yeah, it kinda looks like a good avocado substitute once you boil it
@@TheFloatingSheep I was thinking more like a substitute for Nopales, with that sort of vegetal taste being described
@@StuffandThings_ oh I see
Try letting the chiyote ripen!
When will we see Tacacokethup?🙃
Ha, this one wouldn't be too good for that. I do have a new ketchup video coming up soon though!
In Mexico when someone is "having a cow" they say "pariendo chayotes" giving birth to chayotes in English
Is that a knife or a spatula
I’m sorry, but when you said “It’s really complicated” at 4:25, I immediately envisioned a teenage emo boy talking about his relationship with the girl he has a crush on.
Have you tried amelanchier aka serviceberry aka shadbush yet? I searched your channel to no avail
I think it's under Saskatoon berry:)
@@WeirdExplorer - You are correct! I cant believe I somehow missed that episode from back in the day. Gotta say, I miss that old musical intro. Thanks as always for the great content
If noni is considered a "famine food" and has the abhorrent taste everyone describes, why is it sold at the market? (at the very first seconds of the video). What is it used for?
Medicine.
I'm guessing
Casual torture, obviously.
@@csweezey18 autoflagellation
@@GirishManjunathMusic Right, the worse it tastes the more conditions it must heal and more efficiently as well... Yeah, you're right, basic human-medicine concept...
looks like a giant caper
in guatemala chayote was called chocho. but in spanish that is a bad word lol :P
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Somebody went to El Mercado Central.
any similarities to Artichokes?
hi