Can you eat Fiddleheads? #foraging #ferns #wildfood

[germantaco]

I’m from Maine. Perhaps the only place where, during the right time of year, you can find fiddleheads for sale at grocery stores.

[NAP.P]

Never knew these were edible thank you for the info and entertainment, there is a mock version of this plant in my favorite game, Pikmin.

[cyancyborg]

Stardew Valley said I could make these into a risotto.

[coolpichu]

WAIT THOSE WEIRD PLANT THINGYS FROM PIKMIN ARE A REAL THING!?

[MissTayPlays]

Out here in Québec we have Ostrich Fern fiddleheads ! They should start popping up in the next few weeks :D

[freefall_]

I love this vegitable if you cook in indian style its umhhhha

[ChirpsalotPlaysGames]

It's amazing how many edible things you can find when you forage it in a damp forest.

Here in Oregon we have mushrooms galore, chanterelle's grow like crazy here.

[sahilali-winm]

I'm from India and we get a lot of them in our northern region, people make a couple of dishes out of them as well. They are absolutely delicious.

[Hadrada.]

Am I right in saying you should not eat to many of those as they have load of a certain Bvitamin I seem to recall?

[hithere]

I saw these alot in our local forest area. I never knew you could eat them. Is it sweet or savoury?

[rossmerrill]

I'm from Maine and pick 2000+lbs a year and send them all over but the fiddleheads here are not fuzzy they are solid green with a orange brown paper covering the head and the are only good for a few weeks a year as they grow out of the shoot before they unfurl into ferns

[bonitobonita]

Lots of eastern Asian countries eat fern sprout but I didn’t know uk eat too.

[ili]

ha! I’ve become a quick fan of this guy

[autumnjade]

We eat them in Canada and they’re delicious ❤

[acisverycool]

i never realized they were called fiddle head ferns because they look like the heads of fiddles and now i feel stupid

[frostedmelon]

I guess you never read Enid Blyton as a child lol. She wrote about kids eating fiddleheads. Thats crazy it's not mentioned now tho. Man I'm showing how nerdy I am.

[Pim]

You meant parboiling instead of blanching

[cipherhex]

Ill be honest... I didn't guess it...

[dassboot]

You can eat them raw, you just wipe it down really good to get the fuzz off of it. They are very tasty though!