When life gives you acorns, make acorn flour - and go mad

By adamg - 11/20/09 - 9:10 am

Tall Asian Dude reports on his experiment with turning all those nuts in his yard into flour for pancakes:

... [A]fter investing several hours of selecting, hammering, shelling, sorting, skinning and sorting again and then ending up with maybe a cup of acorn meat is making me reconsider. I may go through one more container of sorted acorns just to have enough to bake or cook something, but I think this is going to be a "learning experience" kind of project. (i.e. I've learned that I never want to do this again, unless maybe if I'm trying to torture some hypothetical future children with their own "learning experience" or something.) ...