Stinging Nettle Soup - Delicious! - Foraging Tips And Recipe 

Bruh I fucking laughed when he said "you should use a glove" then walks over and steps into it with shorts! The balls on this guy are ridiculous.

C SEXY 3 that’s why he’s wearing shorts, he wants to show them off !

incredible

It was pretty funny. They also grow around patches of poison ivy where I live so yeah long pants are also very necessary.

Right now you can scoop them up bare handed. I picked a kg today and was munching them on the go with some common sorrel and bramble leaves

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swahilimaster I’m waiting...

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@@danielyoung_ Perfect for placing in your rivals salad.

i love this

We drink it as a tea as well...not im the UK.

The leaves you can actually touch, it's the stems that sting

Feels very early RU-vid lol. In a nice way.

You’d love Robbie Knox

Think it's because he's so respectful of his viewers

Yea it's so much better to watch naturally without editing

He does have an obnoxious vinyl table cloth though.

Right?!? As soon as I heard "Gingery, spiciness" and "Tastes expensive" I was sold. I need to know what expensive spicy, ginger herbs taste like.

Especially when it’s free!

sounds to me like another way to say "unfilling and immensely overrated"

God dammit

When I first tried nettle soup I said the same thing.

Fuck off with that "alpha male" horseshit.

AFunkyHypnoCat nobody talkin bout him bein the next contester fo The Nettle Olympics

FunkYeah funk off with that funky horseshit

FunkYeah It was a joke, my man.

FunkYeah ...it’s a joke, man.

how you doing man?

@@pvp216 much better thank you. I discovered Alan Watts and Eckhart Tolle. I've been in EMDR therapy for four months now and have made some awesome strides. I will keep trying my best, some days are harder than others but I have felt joy at times. Thank you for asking. I wish you all the best for 2023. Nettle soup is beautiful and I made it regularly after watching this. I even jarred some up but not sure it's worked until I open it and smell. Looks lovely and green still so fingers crossed. 🖒

@@bexp748 I wish all the best in 2023 also man! Its good to hear that you are doing way better than before. Really glad to hear that. I was wondering what happend to you after you posted that comment and thanks for clearing that out for me. I hope that this year will be amazing for you man!

@@bexp748 Also the soup I have to try it, I heard few times already its amazing

@@pvp216 that's so lovely and kind. Love and peace to you 💖 I really do appreciate your message. It's reminded me how far I've come. The soup is my favourite now. My mum, sis and daughter also love it 🖒It's wonderful trying something new🖒Let me know in the spring if you get round to it. All the best to you too 💖

hahahahaa , love it ;-)

True. However, revenge is a dish best served cold. :p

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Lol

You dont go out alot do u

He means weird in a good way, that's what expensive things taste like

I didn’t bother blending mine as I was going to use the juices for other things like tea and cheese making- was genuinely surprised at the depth of flavour just from adding some salt to the nettle-water after boiling the shit out of them.

@@SobrietyandSolace This makes me want to try it even more.

Makes me look for more descriptors because it's meaningless. Some things expensive taste great, somethings taste like garbage and only expensive because of social norms of rich people and wannabe rich people falling over themselves to show that they're alpha ape in this tribe, while they do so by eating something that tastes like sucking excrement from some animal's ass.

@@brandonfeng3780 Yeah they really do taste like that don't they haha

maybe his scambaiting videos?

Lol ! I would like a mother and grand mother who does that to me but I make it myself now I am an adult ! And it seems that nobody like it...

Cool, where are you from? 😂

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Stop trying to steal our shit britan has so little native food

this was lovely to read :)

Awesome story mate!

I read your letter and I found it very touching. From your tone it seems that you nice memories of your life and that is good, I too, am older -72. I am retired but my wife still teaches and fills in at the local hospital when they are short staffed. I therefore took over the cooking chores and I find that many of my recipes and methods of cooking come straight from my granny. To me, slow cooking means a heavy cast iron pot in the oven and when I mince my meat, I push a piece of bread through the grinder to get all the meat out and make the grinder easier to clean. When I make a pie, I put three slits in the top because she did. She only ever told me that you could eat stinging nettles but would not cook them as she said there were too many dogs around. My Gran died many years ago in her nineties and I still think about her from time to time. I will be her birthday soon and I think I will celebrate by tracking down some decent suet and making a proper steak and kidney pudding the way she used to do.

Nice story! I get why you’d be surprised that they’re what you were eating haha. I’ve never tried nettles but always been curious about it since I heard you can eat them. I’m happy to see older people sharing their stories on here, it’s nice :)

Nice. Thanks for the interesting story. But you should avoid too many sour vegetables if you happen to have kidney stones or other trouble. Rubbarb too. Some poor guy died after eating sorrell soup cause kidneys were bad ._.

Gan Ainm sounds fantastic! so glad you enjoyed it

Did u just boil and blend the carrot?

@@AtomicShrimp Thank you so kindly. Maybe Nettles will become more popular thanks to you. I've always loved the idea, but this compels me to try it now.

@@AtomicShrimp can you feel the onions

Traci Scheelk we will successfully eradicate stinging nettles for all the times they have hurt us!

I've had success freezing the nettle leaves - get a pan of water boiling and drop in some leaves - take them out as soon as they wilt (less than a minute) briefly into cold water to stop them cooking, then I squeeze out the water and pack them into empty yoghurt pots and place them on a tray in the freezer - once they are frozen, I pop them out of the pots into a bag - when frozen like this in small portions in a bag, you can easily take out the amount you need.

@@AtomicShrimp thank you , iv'e subscribed to your channel , looking forward to seeing your creations, i'm not a chef , and i would'nt really want to be , i just enjoy cooking , and to use freely avaliable natural seaonal ingreadiants , best wishes

@@thomasglover520 inspiring

@@AtomicShrimp will do!

Just make a large amount of soup and freeze the soup!

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@@seekercpt rip

i wish nettles grew around here all i get is dirt and rock soup :(

@@seekercpt rip clara

2021: Fighting former neighbours and friends to the death over a patch of nettles.

That's about as positive an ID as you can get!

@@AtomicShrimp 😊

Mm, smells itchy.

how can you not recognise them?? they are one of the most abundant plants

@@ThEsOuNdInYoU Well you might be surprised but they don't grow a lot here in my part of Ca. I've never seen a large patch like in the video. There are less than half a dozen growing in my yard and they are small and scattered all over the yard and will be gone the first time the county makes me mow . So I've been thinking about digging them up and transferring them to a dedicated bed or grow pot.

BountyHunterJ the Bob Ross of prank-calling

I've been freezing them this spring - I give them a brief 1 minute dip in boiling water, then quickly out into cold water, then pack them down into plastic yoghurt pots - freeze them like this, then tip out the frozen blocks into a bag. Later in the year as long as the weather is not too dry, patches of nettles can be cut to the ground and they will grow fresh new shoots that are just as good as in spring

thanks Rome, you fucking assholes

For what purpose were they imported over they’re horrible

@@Kaiyats it’s just that when the Romans invaded they brought nettle seeds on their boots without knowing.

Didn’t know that. That’s pretty cool

But apart from stinging nettles, what have the Romans ever done for us?

@Willz __ where's the fun in that?

Willz __ yes but then its not nettle soup is it

@Willz __ A lot of the food we eat cause a reaction, I guess we're just going to starve, right? With your logic, anyway.

@Willz __ Sounds like someone that thinks sriracha is spicy. Lmao

@@alecnolastname4362 come on if this person is just ignorant about stinging nettles let him off. Those burn like a mofo it's not comparable to chili peppers

That sounds wonderful - I have to try it!

Same where I live-usually served with hard boiled egg and thyme.

What you're describing sounds more like Green Shchi. Green Borsch is usually meat based (at least in Ukraine), but that might be a regional difference. Really good soup either way though

Sounds nice

Yum, yum. Thank you. Please tell us another Russian Recipe. How about a wonderful beet recipe, PLEASE! Or, what's your secret to Sauer Kraut or another tasty fermented veggie dish? :) .

Lmaoo

are you a stinging nettle?

hi

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Not funny

I love how this comment shows up directly under another one which praises nettle tea :D

I've always loved the soup, but abhorred the tea, even though my mom swears by it. I'd rather just eat the nettle.

Back in the Eighties us alternative teens drank nettle tea for a statement.

Haha my granny’s hands are so calloused from you thing hot stuff. He can literally put her hand on a toaster while it’s on and be ok.

i mean, if you were boiled alive I think all of your defenses would disappear as well

Tastes good

Not just the Brits. Scandinavians as well.

if you go along with the hairs on the leaves, you can pick them, fold them up twice so it only has 2 parts of the bottom of the leaf on either side, with the hairs folded on the inside, and eat it like that raw as a weed grower, i like how cannabis leaves have crazy hairs too, they don't sting or anything but they grip your hand palm like crazy if you rub against the hairs, they have quite a samey look between them, i also like how nettles are absolutely stacked with nitrogen :D

Your mum ( more d )

ok first i thought relatable comment so I wanted to answer here, then I looked at your profile picture which is even more relatable lol

I have discovered that if I wash with dish-washing detergent ( lifts any oils), get skin very dry ( hairdryer), place a strip of packing tape over the affected area then yank the tape off. Repeat once or twice more. It works a treat!

And absolutely delicious

There's a dairy in Cornwall that makes a nettle cheese too - well, sort of. It's called Cornish Yarg cheese, and the rind is coated in nettle leaves.

i wanna taste this cheese

We have this in Northumberland 👌🏻

Oh wat mis ik brandnetelkaas!!

My great grandmother apparently cought bees and had them sting her. Apparently good for the heart...

That is what i call torture, did your gramps work for the Nazi's?

Supposedly ointments made from nettles have some positive effects on arthritis and other inflammatory conditions, so weirdly enough your grandpa might have been onto something there. The folk remedies that actually work do often end up being folded into modern medicine.

@@errolcollins7647 RU-vid comments will always delve into politics. Go outside.

When I was a kid I fell into a load of nettles just with trainers and shorts on ... I was covered from head to toe in blotches but never felt a thing... Later because I thought I was immune from their stings I used to roll nettle leaves up and chew them raw and still never got stung .... I don’t really notice getting stung now when I walk through them .

Just don't get the wrong stuff. Or it will hurt you again.

fosheimdet instead of letting farmers spray pesticides, just eat the problem! :p

ah yes a perfect philosophy: if they hurt me... EAT THEM

Literally how I found this video... Looking for the Rune Recipe

I kinda wish they only existed in Runescape -- where we live, they hide in with all the other plants and manage to sting me every spring.

Lovely fresh pineapples! Get them while they're ripe!

We don't have them in Australia. I was travelling in England and went for a walk through Epping Forest when one stung me. I had no idea what it was at firsy and thought I'd been electrocuted

@@TheDrunkMunk Interesting. They aren't poisonous enough to survive in Australia.

i mean, so do chillies and coffee beans

Wolf Draws ikr

They evolved defenses, but never evolved to not be tasty

i mean, im sure australians and russians could handle a tiny sting but ok...

@@ryanm.191 I don't think you're aware of how ignorant it comes across for you to say that a plant developed a stinging trait to avoid being eaten. I'm fairly certain you thought just the opposite, that it made you sound smart. What are your thoughts on strawberries? Did they decide to be brightly colored so they seemed poisonous? Were they trying to trick animals? Or did they decide to be delicious because they wanted to be eaten?

do you cook the nettles first lan?

@@laser00 no, we just wash it very, very thoroughly

I wonder if it could be made into a tasty pesto...

That's cute :)

Haha, maybe it was Patterson's curse or a thistle

What happened to the cat?

@@classonbread5757 he had a few operations and got better and lived a very happy life. he actually only passed away last year at 16 yrs old.

@@jeremymcadam7400 haha I hope there wasn't but that might of explained the taste! I've never heard of a Patterson's curse, do they look very similar to stinging nettles?

Did it sting to eat

@@SirHaunted Of course not it's fricking cooked the defensive hairs will pretty much die at that temperature

@ST aLien um... No they don't? Perhaps some do but to say "usually" is a stretch

ST aLien Yeah that’s why people all across the world from many different cultures drink herbal tea that has absolutely no caffeine, right? Dipshit.

ST aLien Are you illiterate or something?

I used to drink strawberry and nettle tea but they stopped selling the teabags

@@tylerdrainville1136 Calm down my friend, he obviously had the wrong idea. Nobody's here to prove anything, we're just here to grace this nice man's channel and his educational video about nettle soup.

Plus so many foods full of flavour too, roast dinner with roasted garlic and herbs on the roasters, with homemade gravy, liver and onions, a good hearty stew, made with actual heart and MOAR garlic and herbs. I think in medieval times quite a few spice dishes existed too mainly using nutmeg also pottages are amazing.

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@@ecos889 Despite being non-white I do enjoy some jellied eels for some reason, maybe because I like seafood.

Despite being human I still like to do things that dont conform me to a certain race or culture. I just eat what I damn well want.

They'll give you but a scratch, now boar, that wants to hurt you

Moocow2oo There are a lot of edible plants people call weeds nowadays... and remarkably they have a tremendous amount of good in them for nourishing and healing our bodies! Here is only one link.... look up others for the lists of what these wonderful plants can do for us. www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/eat-dandelions-9-edible-garden-weeds.html And think of what you do with any greens: salads, scrambled eggs, quiches, pesto (I freeze my wild greens pesto into ice cubes and store them in containers in the freezer for my winter greens), soups, side dishes....

There are things such as nettle eating contests where people just stuff raw nettles in their mouths and munch them lil

They are delicious, much better tasting than spinach.

@@louisegogel7973 it IS a weed. Being edible doesn't mean it's not still a weed.

@@kryten88 The naming of a plant as a ‘weed’ is ever changing because the term is a relative one! I nurture and plant dandelions, narrow and broad leaf plantain, lambs quarters, and other wild edible greens in and around my kale, beans, peas, squash etc as an essential part of the food I grow for our family. “Weed, general term for any plant growing where it is not wanted. Ever since humans first attempted the cultivation of plants, they have had to fight the invasion by weeds into areas chosen for crops. Some unwanted plants later were found to have virtues not originally suspected and so were removed from the category of weeds and taken under cultivation. Other cultivated plants, when transplanted to new climates, escaped cultivation and became weeds or invasive species. The category of weeds thus is ever changing, and the term is a relative one.” (www.britannica.com/plant/weed) “any wild plant that grows in an unwanted place, especially in a garden or field where it prevents the cultivated plants from growing freely” (dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/weed) “A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place". Examples commonly are plants unwanted in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks. Taxonomically, the term "weed" has no botanical significance, because a plant that is a weed in one context is not a weed when growing in a situation where it is in fact wanted, and where one species of plant is a valuable crop plant, another species in the same genus might be a serious weed, such as a wild bramble growing among cultivated loganberries. In the same way, volunteer crops (plants) are regarded as weeds in a subsequent crop. Many plants that people widely regard as weeds also are intentionally grown in gardens and other cultivated settings, in which case they are sometimes called beneficial weeds. The term weed also is applied to any plant that grows or reproduces aggressively, or is invasive outside its native habitat.[1] “ (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed) note from above: Taxonomically, the term "weed" has no botanical significance!!! “a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth especially : one that tends to overgrow or choke out more desirable plants” (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weed) I hope this helps in understanding the definition of that interesting word, weed.

ha,ha "not into food".......gotto eat my friend!

I thought Koalas only ate eucalyptus? 😋

You really should try food. I'd reccomend pizza.

There are 2 types of people; eat to live or live to eat..meaning some people only see food as sustainence, There for recipes and fancy meals don't interest them

Not into food, but hopefully food gets into you.

crazy huh.

@@MuzikBike crazy huh

@@Aurmm crazy huh

@@fatguy4994 crazy huh.

Blue Peter also told me that Jimmy saville was a trusting guy...

haingis eating those stingers was your revenge. Go you xxx

How interesting!

That bark bread is supposed to be absolutely horrible though, isn't it?

@@just_a_rock It's worse. Those who call it bread are either delusional or have simply never tried it. My mom had few "Live off of nature" years when I was a kid. Never fully recovered :P

The underside and top on the leaves don't sting, only the edges and stem

@@I_V_X That's not true, at least not here in Central Canada. The way you pick nettles without getting stung is you grab them in a particular direction. The spine hairs all point in one direction, always away from the stem, so if you hit them straight on, you'll get stung, but if you come at them from the stem side, you're very unlikely to be stung.

@@keithklassen5320 you're probably right, I just got taught that as an easy way to do it haha

@@I_V_X Wrong. The underside stings alot and the top stings a little

People with a strong immune system can just roll into the nettles without getting hurt because the poison won't affect them

That sounds tasty - I will seek out a recipe!

@@AtomicShrimp you should try carrot and squash mash it's SOOO good! My mom adds some brown sugar to it as well. She makes it every thanksgiving

in Romania we have ,,urzici mestecate"

Get the boy a milkshake man

@@billybigbaws9993 He has those sometimes too!

@@clairrollings3988 any other good foods with vitamins ?

Collect all your left overs, Onion skins and the ends, carrot tops and skins, garlic skins, literally anything like that, freeze it and then boil it all when you need stock :) So any part of the veg what you'd normally throw in the bin

@@Ryan_Nath wow i never knew, thanks

@@knowledgewillincrease7508 if you get a small chicken you can also use the bones! And boil them in water with veggies and there's your stock.

you can also smoke the leaves out of a volcano bong. Here's a link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p48-G4KmRXk.html

You mean spinach soup? In Finland we serve spinach soup with a soft boiled egg.

@@jennapedersen2286 But it's always hard boiled tho

@@jennapedersen2286 yea some people prefer it hard boiled, I'm more of a soft boiled kind of guy. Also eggs with spinach soup is also a classic.

@@vilshe7449 sorry yeah i meant hard boiled 😅

My mother would always make it with a poached egg!

Yes looks delicious

@toilet paper colouring/additives.

@toilet paper even though it's color is completely natural and it's literally fresh nature it still looks (in person probably) really unnatural.

@toilet paper you don't get it. It's ironic because he called nature unnatural.

@toilet paper it's literally the correct use of "literally"...

Couldn't have said it better myself

Damn if only id found this the day it happend i lnow the natual cure its a plant that grows close by it

@@raheem8086 What plant?

@@zxyatiywariii8 plantain or plantago major

zxy atiywariii dock leaf

@@RaahPolo isnt called burdock and yes that helps also

Same

Pee is one of the best fertilizers

Raheem savage not so great for flavour tho I’d imagine.. 😂

@@Wanderingwalker-ke6mg u dilute it with water 3 parts water 1 parts 1 piss and there is no flavor or smell left over

@@Wanderingwalker-ke6mg they always use cat piss as fertilizer it's just named something else on the label like cow manure is really cow shit well instead of me buying a cat an waiting on it to piss I'd rather use my own

@@raheem8086 I find the thought of storing my own urine for later use quite disgusting. So I use my neighbor's pee.

When I was a young lad I always thought it tasted a bit like those fake watermelon drinks...

This is a best soup ever !

Does it sting when you eat it?

@@jlm5743 like eating a box of wasps haha no it doesn’t sting when u eat it lol it’s really nice and full of vitamins and minerals n helps with detoxifying the body!

@@br4d101 thank you so much its been on my mind for ages