When out walking I often find myself mentioning to my wife something like "the Atomic Shrimp says..." about some plant or berry or a rock on the beach, and completely get the "I wonder what happens if I do this" thing. Please never stop! Thank you Mike!
I've got to admit, I loved the pesto recipe and the information about nettles, but the star of the show was the new tile in your kitchen! I really love that combination of colors. You'll have to tell us about it during the next random stuff video! ❤
Inspired by this video, I invited my parents and siblings and made someting like this nettle-seed based pesto-pasta for them today, it's really good! A good way to separate the seeds is to use a sieve, at least mine has too small holes to let the seeds go through, but its rough and coarse enough to neatly separate them from the stems if you violently rub it
For anyone who has trouble with inflamed joints ... try brushing them with nettles. A couple years ago I had inflammed knees. I remembered hearing that nettles were anti-inflammatory, so, while out for walkies with the dog, I grabbed a few and started flagellating my joints. Maybe it was just apocryphal but I swear after doing this two or three times over a couple days, my knees, despite being covered in red bumpy welts, were so much better. I might have looked like some strange self-penitant monk thrashing myself while walking the fields, but ... well, the locals are used to my eccentricities. 😅
The effect is real, but there's a much better alternative for arthritis: crushed (or finely chopped) cabbage. Use gauze bandage or just a clean piece of cotton cloth to hold the crushed cabbage (loosely) around the knee for a few hours (preferably at rest, most people do this overnight). You'll notice significant pain relief the very next day and the only side effect is some slight discoloration of the skin. Pain relief lasts less than with stinging nettles (2-3 days vs. about a week) but you can repeat the treatment as often as you like, just remember to take a shower after each application to remove the bad odor.
I would see a doctor first up, some forms of joint inflammation can result in disability if left untreated (although basic wear and tear related arthritis which is the most common usually doesn't). For what it's worth, painful stimulation is known to reduce pain from other sources, TENS machines are a common example but another is that you can buy capsaicin (the spice in chilli) in a cream to use as a painkiller
I learned a lot in this video about the difference between male and female nettles, and I never knew that the seeds were useful. Interesting pesto recipe too. And loved the glimpse of your kitchen, those tiles are lovely.
Your mortar and pestle set is gorgeous. Never thought of eating nettle _seeds_ -- I've mostly heard of collecting the greens and boiling them to remove the irritant. Good to know the seeds are lovely to eat, too!
I personally found them to taste similair to chamomile with a very earthy flavour. It's almost like the taste you get into your mouth after kicking up the sand on a forest floor during a summer drought, but in a very positive way. There's definitely some extra flavour that is hard to describe, to me it also tastes very slightly gingery, but others found them to almost have a vague taste of lemons. They're an odd flavour, but very pleasant.
nettle seed actually contain acetylcholine and serotonin which is probaly why they have some sort of "effect" on people. That being said it is my understanding that consuming neurotransmitters does not equate to an increase of those transmitters in the brain since things like serotonin are used at receptors all over the body, not just the brain. (I could be wrong about all of this, do not assume it is true or medical advice)
@@blunderingfool I am not qualified to answer that in any way sadly. That being said there are risks associated with increasing levels of serotonin (assuming these seeds do that) such as serotonin syndrome especially if your on ssri’s. I can’t speak on acetylcholine because i just don’t know enough about what increases in that do. **** please do your own research and talk to doctors and other more qualified individuals
Serotonin doesn't cross into the brain (so no stimullation from eating it) and is also destroyed in the stomach. There are some serotonin receptors in the GI track but those are responsible for nausea and simillar stuff. However, it is a strong irritant to the skin causing extreme itching and a certain bean-like plant uses it as a defence mechanism
Something I noticed when looking this up is that all of the claims come from herbalist/naturalist type sites and they all make different claims (sometimes very different) for how it works, the latter in particular often being an indicator that there isn't a specific known effect (doesn't rule it out but it suggests that the knowledge isn't really there)
@@RenTheWren The thing is, outside of exceptionally bad nutritional deficiencies and edge cases like L DOPA, the body's regulation of neurotransmitters is so tightly controlled that putting a few more precursors in your food isn't going to substantially change synthesis and release of the transmitters themselves
Wonderful! I have a large amount of nettles in my garden that have gone to seed, so I think I will be making some nettle pesto for myself over the weekend. Thanks for making this video!
@@AtomicShrimp it was very sudden. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it. But your videos have always helped with calming my thoughts. Thanks for the reply.
This was so delightful! I love how creative you are with foraged ingredients. I can imagine how delicious this pasta dish is. Wonderful to see a bit of your lovely new kitchen. Enjoy! 🎉
I have lush and verdant nettle beds in a few places in my garden (as well as "salad beds" of dandelions). I don't make enough use of them, though i do love nettle tea (dandelion root coffee is great too!). I never knew about male and female plants, cheers for that.
Beautiful tile! Great mortar & pestle. Would it perhaps be wise to put a kitchen towel under the M&P to avoid damage to the nice new stone counter? Will be so curious to see the rest of the new Shrimp Kitchen after this teaser.
Apparently the seeds make a great tea when cured, not dried. I remember reading it in an old book i have somewhere. Informative and Interesting as usual Mike.
I've been collecting and eating nettle seeds for years. I usually pick them by hand and don't generally get stung. I have been stung but only rarely. I also eat them raw and have never been stung on the tongue. They are a little glutinous but an interesting experience with a sort of nutty flavour. My dog also loves nettles. Despite his being short haired he doesn't seem to bother and seems immune to the stings to his nose. Don't know how.
Nettle tea was advertised on Amazon as being the most popular green tea. I bought an entire pound as it was the best value. It tastes like spinach farts and attacked my esophagus.
Thanks for this! My neighbour has a backyard full of these that I can harvest. We both love pesto, so this will make a lovely dinner one night next week. Looks delish!
Just looking at your glass, towards the end, and started to hope that one day we'll see your homebrew videos one day. I'm hoping that you'll be doing beers and wines made from nettles, elderberries, beetroot and maybe even a cheeky cider using store bought apple juice.
Ha! You remind me that back in the fifties, cranberry juice was sold in gallon jugs; there wasn't always room in the fridge, so Mom kept it under the sink. My sister discovered that if it stayed long enough, it got a little fizzy and fun. Consumption increased. Cranberry Juice Cocktail, indeed. 😜
What a good idea! It seems a shame to benefit from nettles only in the spring; this will make it worthwhile to have allowed them a spot in the yard. Fashion notes from all over: I enjoyed the subtle coordination of your shirt with the pretty bowl, at the end.
Nice video! An interesting fact about nettle seeds is that they are packed with several essential nutrients, including vitamins A, C, and E, as well as minerals like iron, calcium, and potassium. Furthermore, nettle seeds are a rich source of protein and contain all essential amino acids, making them a valuable nutritional supplement.
Lovely. Foraging and making meals with the foraged material is rewarding and fascinating but time consuming and impactable for most with busy lives including me. But I so enjoy your voyages into nature's larder. So much in fact that I found myself jumping over a fence to a lawn of an abandoned house FULL of primroses! I wanted to try your pickling idea but feared arrest and retreated. Keep posting your great content please :-)
really enjoy seeing pesto made in new inventive ways, just a couple weeks ago I made pesto gnocchi with beef tallow and asiago cheese and it came out very nice! Lidl here in the US sell shelf stable gnocchi which is definitely a nice thing to keep around!
I'm Italian and I always use cheddar cheese in my pesto 😊 I used to go on holiday with my parents in England as a kid, and we put cheddar on the pasta 🍝 since we couldn't find Italian cheese. Honestly I think now I like it even more than parmesan 😅
American nettles have male and female flowers on the same plant. I found this out when researching nettles a few weeks ago. Thanks for this video. I picked and dried some nettle seeds but wasn't sure how to prepare them.
When will you be doing the video where you ret the nettle stems in a pond or trough & spin the fibre, weave cloth & sew your own shirt? I feel that eventually you will get around to something like this & I am looking forward to it very much. I imagine this will involve a series of interesting experiments initially.
I could see a little peek of the new, shrimp cottage kitchen & can’t wait to see the rest 🤗The nettle pesto looked delicious & thanks Atomic shrimp 🦐😋👍
Nettle seeds are also good bakedbinto bread, dried and used as a topping for soups and salads etc 😊 great video Mr Shrimp, I live using nettle. Have you ever tried brewing nettle beer? My grandparents did it when i was a child. Edit: I forgot to mention that the seeds do still contain the hairs and can cause mild throat irritation if not processed correctly, good to mention that.
Coming to the end there. A little like peppercorns. So 🤔 maybe try them in a pepper mill? You have inspired me to go harvest and dry some. Worth a go. I love pepper on everything too. ✌
A useful tip, hopefully; if out foraging, and you don't want to attract attention to your hoard, a bag or basket is a useful thing to carry! In Finland, foraging is not only permitted, it is encouraged, even on private land (there are rules about foraging in peoples gardens!), it is common to see people carrying buckets and baskets in any bit of wilderness here.
Unfortunately here in England there has been a campaign of misinformation that has caused various authorities to just accept the story that foraging is detrimental to nature - in particular, it is widely repeated that 'picking delicate fungi harms the balanced ecosystem of the forest', which is simply untrue - if it were so, fungi would already be extinct in most of mainland Europe.
Huh......Well son of a gun, didn't know the seed pods were worth the hassle of getting near those lil stinging turds. Will keep an out to see if I can find any here In Florida. The dish did look pretty spot on for the part, wouldn't know right away unless I'd watch ya make it! Cheers Shrimpy, eager to see the new cottage cookery corner!
You can also get fibers from the stems that you can then make into strings or thread, every week I spend a couple hours in the middle of stinging nettle patches to harvest the stalks, it's a great plant! You can watch Sally Pointer's videos on the topic for more details
@@ZombieLogic101 I tied a piece of nettle string around my wrist and it stayed there for around 3 months before it broke, so I would say that it can make pretty good string
Years ago it was a 'thing' to eat cooked nettles with a hot breakfast. Always wanted to try this, but never did. I expect it might taste a little like spinach? Have you ever tried this Mr Shrimp? Love all your videos and now cannot wait for the next one x
Ooh, this is interesting -- I've been planning to forage nettle seeds for the first time this year. Interestingly enough, the seeds of Himalayan balsam are also edible. They're supposed to have a nutty taste, but I've yet to try them myself. Maybe later this year...
Makes me wish local foraging was possible, but here in Australia there just isn't much unless you're in the right area, preferably with someone who knows a lot about bush tucker.
Any suggestions on harvesting the seeds for future cultivation? Also do ripe , (fully developed) seeds have edible/medicinal uses. I've ate greens from this patch of mine , harvesting seeds , later roots and stalks for fiber experiments.
very interesting - I wonder if you can toast them and put them in a coffee grinder, not just for pesto but also potentially to make a coffee substitute.
Interesting, I knew something about nettle soup (I'll watch your video about that next) but not about the seeds being edible. I think I can easily harvest a couple of kilograms of seeds from the gigantic nettle plants in my front garden (over 7ft tall) and the 6ft ones by the pond in my back garden.
Rainbow spoon! ❤ I always do the like button at the start of your videos because I've never watched one I didn't like, so I just get that out the way first.
Will I risk trying them? I've made nettle soup, nettle muffins and nettle omelette and they all 'stung' my tongue even after they were cooked. 1 tiny muffin - nice taste - ooh ouch, my tongue hurts!
@@AtomicShrimp funny you should say that... seeing as I am a decorator i am ofter covered in paint and obviously I am a decorator.... and I always get asked if I am decorator in shops or on the street. To which my friend always says "of course he's the fu%%in decorator.... stop saying that" 🤣🤣🤣
If nettles are really so nutritious and good for you, then why on Earth aren't we already farming & cultivating them for food and adding them into our meals? it really can't be that hard to cultivate them in large numbers (fields), since as most people know, nettles seem to be able to grow almost anywhere and often in great abundance. Plus, they are often so hardy that they barely need any special attention while they are growing. They seem to barely need any watering, feeding or pest control and seem to be able to grow in most soils. Plus, if they where farmed correctly, farmers could possibly get 2 or 3 harvests out of them them every year. Although I guess, the real issue would be to try change the negative perceptions that some people have about eating so-called "weeds". Especially when those "weeds" are well renown to be able to painfully sting you. Plus I guess, if they where sold just like current vegetables are, they'd could be an absolute "pain" when it comes to preparing them for a meal (also need to be cooked) Maybe a better approach would be to first test out farming them on a modest scale for food production and then add those as an ingredient into pre-prepared meals (ready meals, tinned soups ect.). And then through that process, try and change people's negative perceptions that they might have about eating nettles. Also touting them as a beneficial "super food", would likely help. BTW, I believe nettles are already being cultivated but only on a very small scale (100 tons worldwide, per year). However, the vast majority of those are currently destined to be used for medicinal purposes.
Some tantalising glimpses of the new Shrimp Cottage kitchen, looking forward to the full tour!
A real tease.
That Delicious Suspense Though !!
When out walking I often find myself mentioning to my wife something like "the Atomic Shrimp says..." about some plant or berry or a rock on the beach, and completely get the "I wonder what happens if I do this" thing. Please never stop! Thank you Mike!
A nice little sneak peak at the new kitchen can't wait to see the full thing in a future video
where just about to write the same comment. I looks promising
the wall tiles look very interesting and nice to look at
I've got to admit, I loved the pesto recipe and the information about nettles, but the star of the show was the new tile in your kitchen! I really love that combination of colors. You'll have to tell us about it during the next random stuff video! ❤
Inspired by this video, I invited my parents and siblings and made someting like this nettle-seed based pesto-pasta for them today, it's really good!
A good way to separate the seeds is to use a sieve, at least mine has too small holes to let the seeds go through, but its rough and coarse enough to neatly separate them from the stems if you violently rub it
For anyone who has trouble with inflamed joints ... try brushing them with nettles. A couple years ago I had inflammed knees. I remembered hearing that nettles were anti-inflammatory, so, while out for walkies with the dog, I grabbed a few and started flagellating my joints. Maybe it was just apocryphal but I swear after doing this two or three times over a couple days, my knees, despite being covered in red bumpy welts, were so much better. I might have looked like some strange self-penitant monk thrashing myself while walking the fields, but ... well, the locals are used to my eccentricities. 😅
The effect is real, but there's a much better alternative for arthritis: crushed (or finely chopped) cabbage. Use gauze bandage or just a clean piece of cotton cloth to hold the crushed cabbage (loosely) around the knee for a few hours (preferably at rest, most people do this overnight). You'll notice significant pain relief the very next day and the only side effect is some slight discoloration of the skin. Pain relief lasts less than with stinging nettles (2-3 days vs. about a week) but you can repeat the treatment as often as you like, just remember to take a shower after each application to remove the bad odor.
I would see a doctor first up, some forms of joint inflammation can result in disability if left untreated (although basic wear and tear related arthritis which is the most common usually doesn't). For what it's worth, painful stimulation is known to reduce pain from other sources, TENS machines are a common example but another is that you can buy capsaicin (the spice in chilli) in a cream to use as a painkiller
Well that paragraph sounded like Thoreau.
this is a legit historical thing, urtification for arthritis
I learned a lot in this video about the difference between male and female nettles, and I never knew that the seeds were useful. Interesting pesto recipe too. And loved the glimpse of your kitchen, those tiles are lovely.
Your mortar and pestle set is gorgeous. Never thought of eating nettle _seeds_ -- I've mostly heard of collecting the greens and boiling them to remove the irritant. Good to know the seeds are lovely to eat, too!
I personally found them to taste similair to chamomile with a very earthy flavour. It's almost like the taste you get into your mouth after kicking up the sand on a forest floor during a summer drought, but in a very positive way. There's definitely some extra flavour that is hard to describe, to me it also tastes very slightly gingery, but others found them to almost have a vague taste of lemons.
They're an odd flavour, but very pleasant.
nettle seed actually contain acetylcholine and serotonin which is probaly why they have some sort of "effect" on people. That being said it is my understanding that consuming neurotransmitters does not equate to an increase of those transmitters in the brain since things like serotonin are used at receptors all over the body, not just the brain. (I could be wrong about all of this, do not assume it is true or medical advice)
So what would be the worst side effect I'd have to worry about?
@@blunderingfool I am not qualified to answer that in any way sadly. That being said there are risks associated with increasing levels of serotonin (assuming these seeds do that) such as serotonin syndrome especially if your on ssri’s. I can’t speak on acetylcholine because i just don’t know enough about what increases in that do.
**** please do your own research and talk to doctors and other more qualified individuals
Serotonin doesn't cross into the brain (so no stimullation from eating it) and is also destroyed in the stomach. There are some serotonin receptors in the GI track but those are responsible for nausea and simillar stuff. However, it is a strong irritant to the skin causing extreme itching and a certain bean-like plant uses it as a defence mechanism
Something I noticed when looking this up is that all of the claims come from herbalist/naturalist type sites and they all make different claims (sometimes very different) for how it works, the latter in particular often being an indicator that there isn't a specific known effect (doesn't rule it out but it suggests that the knowledge isn't really there)
@@RenTheWren The thing is, outside of exceptionally bad nutritional deficiencies and edge cases like L DOPA, the body's regulation of neurotransmitters is so tightly controlled that putting a few more precursors in your food isn't going to substantially change synthesis and release of the transmitters themselves
Wonderful! I have a large amount of nettles in my garden that have gone to seed, so I think I will be making some nettle pesto for myself over the weekend. Thanks for making this video!
You've no idea how timely this was. I was due to scorch back a large nettle patch tomorrow. I'll collect seeds first. Thank you.
You can make tea from the leaves. The hairs dissolve in hot water.
I lost my Mom very suddenly on monday. Your videos are conforting, thank you.
Sorry to hear that. How awful.
@@AtomicShrimp it was very sudden. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it. But your videos have always helped with calming my thoughts.
Thanks for the reply.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
_the things you can eat that you see when you're walking down the street and they're free_
This was so delightful! I love how creative you are with foraged ingredients. I can imagine how delicious this pasta dish is. Wonderful to see a bit of your lovely new kitchen. Enjoy! 🎉
These seeds provided both the green herb and the nutty seed qualities needed for the pesto which is helpful.
I have lush and verdant nettle beds in a few places in my garden (as well as "salad beds" of dandelions). I don't make enough use of them, though i do love nettle tea (dandelion root coffee is great too!). I never knew about male and female plants, cheers for that.
Nettles are so great, I've been thinking of grabbing some seeds and growing some in a pot in the corner of the garden.
Hmm. That looks and sounds like it could be a new shrimp kitchen! Looking forward to the tour!
Beautiful tile! Great mortar & pestle. Would it perhaps be wise to put a kitchen towel under the M&P to avoid damage to the nice new stone counter? Will be so curious to see the rest of the new Shrimp Kitchen after this teaser.
It has a disc of foam attached on the base
Fascinating! I didn’t know about the male and female flowers on nettles!!! Thanks ❤
Sorry for being distracted but I need this spoon 5:50 😄
It’s a very fine spoon, I agree!
Apparently the seeds make a great tea when cured, not dried.
I remember reading it in an old book i have somewhere.
Informative and Interesting as usual Mike.
Sneaky little Withnail reference. 10/10.
I've been collecting and eating nettle seeds for years. I usually pick them by hand and don't generally get stung. I have been stung but only rarely. I also eat them raw and have never been stung on the tongue. They are a little glutinous but an interesting experience with a sort of nutty flavour. My dog also loves nettles. Despite his being short haired he doesn't seem to bother and seems immune to the stings to his nose. Don't know how.
Nettle tea was advertised on Amazon as being the most popular green tea. I bought an entire pound as it was the best value. It tastes like spinach farts and attacked my esophagus.
Thanks for this! My neighbour has a backyard full of these that I can harvest. We both love pesto, so this will make a lovely dinner one night next week. Looks delish!
Omg I love your silicone spoon
That looked rather tasty indeed. Id definitely wish to add some of your lovely tomatoes to it.
Glad to see your kitchen is finished. Hurrah 🎉
Just looking at your glass, towards the end, and started to hope that one day we'll see your homebrew videos one day. I'm hoping that you'll be doing beers and wines made from nettles, elderberries, beetroot and maybe even a cheeky cider using store bought apple juice.
Ha! You remind me that back in the fifties, cranberry juice was sold in gallon jugs; there wasn't always room in the fridge, so Mom kept it under the sink. My sister discovered that if it stayed long enough, it got a little fizzy and fun. Consumption increased. Cranberry Juice Cocktail, indeed. 😜
What a good idea! It seems a shame to benefit from nettles only in the spring; this will make it worthwhile to have allowed them a spot in the yard.
Fashion notes from all over: I enjoyed the subtle coordination of your shirt with the pretty bowl, at the end.
In North America we have both woodland nettles and stinging nettles. They taste very similar if not the same.
Nice video! An interesting fact about nettle seeds is that they are packed with several essential nutrients, including vitamins A, C, and E, as well as minerals like iron, calcium, and potassium. Furthermore, nettle seeds are a rich source of protein and contain all essential amino acids, making them a valuable nutritional supplement.
Lovely. Foraging and making meals with the foraged material is rewarding and fascinating but time consuming and impactable for most with busy lives including me. But I so enjoy your voyages into nature's larder. So much in fact that I found myself jumping over a fence to a lawn of an abandoned house FULL of primroses! I wanted to try your pickling idea but feared arrest and retreated. Keep posting your great content please :-)
really enjoy seeing pesto made in new inventive ways, just a couple weeks ago I made pesto gnocchi with beef tallow and asiago cheese and it came out very nice! Lidl here in the US sell shelf stable gnocchi which is definitely a nice thing to keep around!
One of my favorite variants on pesto is made with arugula/rocket. I've also made it with wild garlic/ramsons.
@@chezmoi42 I'll have to try arugula pesto! sounds great
I'm Italian and I always use cheddar cheese in my pesto 😊
I used to go on holiday with my parents in England as a kid, and we put cheddar on the pasta 🍝 since we couldn't find Italian cheese. Honestly I think now I like it even more than parmesan 😅
Cheddar is a world-class cheese, I think. We do get some excellent Italian cheeses imported here too now, and I love to explore them.
Always enjoy your foraged foods videos. Thanks for another great one. I would not have thought to make a pesto from the seeds.
American nettles have male and female flowers on the same plant. I found this out when researching nettles a few weeks ago. Thanks for this video. I picked and dried some nettle seeds but wasn't sure how to prepare them.
They contain acetylcholine and serotonin, also vitamin c. Don't exceed 30 grams a day.
When will you be doing the video where you ret the nettle stems in a pond or trough & spin the fibre, weave cloth & sew your own shirt? I feel that eventually you will get around to something like this & I am looking forward to it very much. I imagine this will involve a series of interesting experiments initially.
Have you seen any videos by Sally Pointer? Lots of stone / iron age fabric stuff.
@@simonhopkins3867 Thanks. I will look out for Sally Pointers videos.
I could see a little peek of the new, shrimp cottage kitchen & can’t wait to see the rest 🤗The nettle pesto looked delicious & thanks Atomic shrimp 🦐😋👍
In my childhood in the 70's one of my favorite spring meal was nettle soup so curious about your experience with nettles...
She used a heavy pork bone broth though. Ahh the life without MSG huh(not easily available in scandinavia at the time)............
Nettle seeds are also good bakedbinto bread, dried and used as a topping for soups and salads etc 😊 great video Mr Shrimp, I live using nettle. Have you ever tried brewing nettle beer? My grandparents did it when i was a child.
Edit: I forgot to mention that the seeds do still contain the hairs and can cause mild throat irritation if not processed correctly, good to mention that.
When ever I work with nettle I make a spray bottle of strong yarrow tea. It stops sting instantly.
I love nettles as a tea or in a pasta loved hearing your take on them
Coming to the end there. A little like peppercorns.
So 🤔 maybe try them in a pepper mill?
You have inspired me to go harvest and dry some. Worth a go.
I love pepper on everything too.
✌
A useful tip, hopefully; if out foraging, and you don't want to attract attention to your hoard, a bag or basket is a useful thing to carry! In Finland, foraging is not only permitted, it is encouraged, even on private land (there are rules about foraging in peoples gardens!), it is common to see people carrying buckets and baskets in any bit of wilderness here.
Unfortunately here in England there has been a campaign of misinformation that has caused various authorities to just accept the story that foraging is detrimental to nature - in particular, it is widely repeated that 'picking delicate fungi harms the balanced ecosystem of the forest', which is simply untrue - if it were so, fungi would already be extinct in most of mainland Europe.
I've always found nettles to have a stimulating effect. They stimulate me to stop touching the nettles
Very interesting and thank you for showing as you got to cook it and tasted the results !! I will try to get those nettle seeds I hope.
Huh......Well son of a gun, didn't know the seed pods were worth the hassle of getting near those lil stinging turds. Will keep an out to see if I can find any here In Florida. The dish did look pretty spot on for the part, wouldn't know right away unless I'd watch ya make it! Cheers Shrimpy, eager to see the new cottage cookery corner!
You can also get fibers from the stems that you can then make into strings or thread, every week I spend a couple hours in the middle of stinging nettle patches to harvest the stalks, it's a great plant! You can watch Sally Pointer's videos on the topic for more details
@@defalur I wonder how good the string would be....Hum another nugget of information for the ol' brain to chew on! thanks!
@@ZombieLogic101 I tied a piece of nettle string around my wrist and it stayed there for around 3 months before it broke, so I would say that it can make pretty good string
Love that spoon at 5:45 !
Years ago it was a 'thing' to eat cooked nettles with a hot breakfast. Always wanted to try this, but never did. I expect it might taste a little like spinach? Have you ever tried this Mr Shrimp? Love all your videos and now cannot wait for the next one x
Thank you for sharing this delightful looking way to prepare nettle seeds! 👍 (Plus a comment for the YT algorithm.)
Ooh, this is interesting -- I've been planning to forage nettle seeds for the first time this year. Interestingly enough, the seeds of Himalayan balsam are also edible. They're supposed to have a nutty taste, but I've yet to try them myself. Maybe later this year...
In Armenia nettle soup is a common soup we enjoy in winter and it's quite delicious.
Just boil nettle, some potatoes and add garlic towards the end.
The shrimp makes me happy
I had no idea this was a thing. 😮 Very inspiring. Thank you. 🙂
I swear you can make anything out of anything - love it :)
what the hell? I just watched your nettle soup video yesterday... The timing!
I have literally just come from his nettle and wild garlic one. Spooky.
A foraging hghlight of my year.
For some people it wild garlic, for me, its nettle seeds. 💚
Thanks for inspiring the internet to get out and forage weird and wonderful stuff!
Brilliant. I love nettle leaves but never knew nettle seeds are also edible. Thank you.
I gotta say, that looks very tasty indeed. I just wish you would have used an unprinted bowl. It's surprisingly adept at concealing your pasta
I liked the look of lunch... I loved the look of the tiles! 🎉
That look Delicious, great job
Love foraging videos!! Have a good day Mike, regards from the Canary Islands
Loved the Withnail reference :)
Looking at all the comments it seems like the hedgerows are going to be crowded this weekend! Guess I'll see you all out there!
stinging nettle seeds eaten fresh raw are helping when you have diarrhea
Just at the right time for harvesting tne seeds - cheers
Makes me wish local foraging was possible, but here in Australia there just isn't much unless you're in the right area, preferably with someone who knows a lot about bush tucker.
Any suggestions on harvesting the seeds for future cultivation? Also do ripe , (fully developed) seeds have edible/medicinal uses. I've ate greens from this patch of mine , harvesting seeds , later roots and stalks for fiber experiments.
It's about the time of year where hogweed seeds become available as well - any idea as to how these could be used in cooking?
Spotted the Withnail & I reference!
Doctor Adam Shrimp said I could have this.
It’s the exact opposite in humans.
At our ages I droop down and my wife sticks out sideways 😃😁
😂😂😂
Absolutely wild
very interesting - I wonder if you can toast them and put them in a coffee grinder, not just for pesto but also potentially to make a coffee substitute.
Try that with cleavers (sticky willies). They even have caffeine!!
An alarming lack of basil
If you pound the seeds instead of swirling the mortar and pestle it might help better
Interesting, I knew something about nettle soup (I'll watch your video about that next) but not about the seeds being edible. I think I can easily harvest a couple of kilograms of seeds from the gigantic nettle plants in my front garden (over 7ft tall) and the 6ft ones by the pond in my back garden.
Rainbow spoon! ❤
I always do the like button at the start of your videos because I've never watched one I didn't like, so I just get that out the way first.
Love the Withnail and I reference 😂
I'd never considered using other things than basil in a pesto but this has got me thinking...
Will I risk trying them? I've made nettle soup, nettle muffins and nettle omelette and they all 'stung' my tongue even after they were cooked. 1 tiny muffin - nice taste - ooh ouch, my tongue hurts!
You may be one of the unlucky people who are allergic to nettles.😥
I love the withnail and I reference to the gloves. Perhaps you could throw some more differnt one in sometime. I often use "im making time"
Are you the farmer?
@@AtomicShrimp funny you should say that... seeing as I am a decorator i am ofter covered in paint and obviously I am a decorator.... and I always get asked if I am decorator in shops or on the street. To which my friend always says "of course he's the fu%%in decorator.... stop saying that" 🤣🤣🤣
If nettles are really so nutritious and good for you, then why on Earth aren't we already farming & cultivating them for food and adding them into our meals? it really can't be that hard to cultivate them in large numbers (fields), since as most people know, nettles seem to be able to grow almost anywhere and often in great abundance. Plus, they are often so hardy that they barely need any special attention while they are growing. They seem to barely need any watering, feeding or pest control and seem to be able to grow in most soils. Plus, if they where farmed correctly, farmers could possibly get 2 or 3 harvests out of them them every year.
Although I guess, the real issue would be to try change the negative perceptions that some people have about eating so-called "weeds". Especially when those "weeds" are well renown to be able to painfully sting you. Plus I guess, if they where sold just like current vegetables are, they'd could be an absolute "pain" when it comes to preparing them for a meal (also need to be cooked)
Maybe a better approach would be to first test out farming them on a modest scale for food production and then add those as an ingredient into pre-prepared meals (ready meals, tinned soups ect.). And then through that process, try and change people's negative perceptions that they might have about eating nettles. Also touting them as a beneficial "super food", would likely help.
BTW, I believe nettles are already being cultivated but only on a very small scale (100 tons worldwide, per year). However, the vast majority of those are currently destined to be used for medicinal purposes.
We used to, before industry farming. Hence why you can see nettles growing near old farms.
It' spinach thirsting indeed.
are those new kitchen tiles??? soooo in your style :D I was afraid of boring subway tiles backsplash :D
The kitchen has noticeably less of an echo.
Never seen the seeds, quite interesting, wonder what else can be done with them.
Very happy spoon, love it. Were you using an AI filter in the garden? Thanks for the video, have an awesome weekend.
I'm using voice isolation on the outdoor but as there were lawnmowers and such
@@AtomicShrimp I've been hearing it in a lot of videos lately; it has a distinct sound. Enjoy your weekend.
I picked some a while back, no gloves and my fingers tingled for a couple of days.
A stimulant, interesting.
Be interesting to see what they taste like when dry? Do they become more like pepper or retain that gingery taste?
Thats a nice spoon!
Weird sound quality, seems a bit tinny with a slight echo?
Different camera for various reasons
Ive always assumed that nettles would taste tangy, because the sting? Idk probably because i relate them to vinegar
They're quite mild flavoured. The leaves in spring are like a more tasty version of spinach
The leaf is medicinal in Kenya
Looks delish