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[FeralForaging]

I want to emphasize that you don’t *need* to have a dehydrator for drying acorns, but if you do have one, they are quite helpful. The most important things are:

1. Spread them out into a single layer
2. Put them in an area with good airflow

With that, you should have acorns that do not spoil on you. Remember that some acorn species are more difficult to dry than others. Depending on species, size, and other conditions, they can take 1-18 weeks to completely dry. (Sam Thayer - Nature’s Garden)

In my experience, red oak acorns typically dry and keep better long-term than white oak acorns.

If I didn’t have a dehydrator, I’d definitely use some kind of fan to increase airflow as a bit of insurance on my harvest! (at least at the beginning)

I hope you’re enjoying the series so far! Have you foraged any acorns yet?

Remember to tag your acorn foraging photos and stories with #acornseries !

[AaronALAI]

Squirrel's watching and taking notes: 👁️👄👁️

[chanticleer]

I have that book! I should probably read it

[angelikabertrand]

As a child in Germany me and my cousins would collect them un 10 lbd potatoe sacks. Than we would drop them off to the forestry and we would earn 5 German Marks. For us kids a lot of money. Lots of fun. Forestry than winter feed for wild life.

[MrMelange]

What do you do with the acorns? How do they taste?

[annettefournier]

So if you dry them do you still have to soak them before you grind them and eat them? Or is this only needed when fresh?

[miainsel]

Is this 3 days after you have leached the tannins out in a burlap bag in a river?

[realstatistician]

I know where a couple of bur oak trees are but I wonder if the acorns will take too long to dry. Do you think a dehydrator would be a requirement for extra huge acorns?

[mof_ren]

Whaaat, i didn't knew this! In fact i had been told to let them cure in water after peeled right after picking them up, they went bad after a few days, it was just a handful though

[alaib]

I've always wondered if acorns are edible

[sahibsingh]

I had the same question regarding the edibility of acorns. Reading through the comments, seems like you process them into flour. However, I heard that acorns have a lot of bitter aniti-nutrient tannins that need to be removed by washing it several times in water. The guy made some sorta bread out if the acorn flour, after mixing it with wheat flour. I am curious to know how to do eat your acorns? Do you wash the flour with water? Do you mix other flour? What do you make with the flour? How does the bread taste?

[bornontherimofchaos]

I et the squirrels keep an eye on your yard. You must be popular with them.

[donhagerty]

I have always heard that it is a lengthy process to take the tannon out

[dabbin]

Where is part 4?! my acorns are all dried out now some of them are splitting open. I don’t know what to do next.

[hydrotilling]

🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰 that’s not how you do it you got to leave it outside in a very large tray that has holes in it all the way around it and a lid that has holes on it so the rain can go and penetrate it also a better way than that. Is you just stick it in the ground somewhere in a in a row?😊

[blueskyg]

Can u write down the IBSN number of the book maybe ?

[maureenanderson]

I thought you needed to run them through several water baths to get the tannins out?

[BrigitteGoodman]

Since when can you eat acorns? Acorns are from oak trees and only eaten by squirrels.

[goblin_frog]

Also don't hear them up because the moisture inside might explode

[naomikriss]

This would not work where I live. The chipmunks are AGGRESSIVELY eating their way through trees and the ground and outside of our apartment buildings. I think they would murder to get at that many acorns.