/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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Southern California should have plenty of acorns, everything west of the San Jacinto mountains is naturally an oak savanna, not a desert as a lot of people think. It used to be pretty much all oak. I think the problem in So-Cal is that so much of it is urbanized that a lot of the good stands of trees have been cleared or are near some kind of pollutant. The good news is that I live in Riverside which isn't as packed which should have some decent stands and I know the local Tongva do exactly as you describe with gathering acorns.

The only reason I haven't tried is that I don't know if I could identify it properly or if I could prepare them and leach the tannin without fucking up. I think I might actually give it a shot. Any advice on gathering acorns so I don't poison myself with overripe/under-ripe/diseased acorns?