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Posts: 370 (04/27/09 3:50 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Ok I see them in the bulk foods section of the local store. How can a guy obtain them in the wild & process them? ''Life's tough......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'' -- John Wayne
Coyotlviejo		#1	[-]
Posts: 4173 (04/27/09 7:48 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Get a pine cone that has not yet opened, but that has reached maturity. Starting at the base end, pry off the scales to reveal the nuts underneath. Continue working from the base toward the tip. It's a lot of work for very little return, but it can be a fun process (and sticky!) OR... Get the book "Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes" and read up on how that tribe collected nuts. I don't remember the details right now, but I believe they collected the cones while still closed, then used fire to open them up and release the nuts. Dan My Website...
early1		#2	[-]
Posts: 371 (04/28/09 6:34 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thanks Dan. Do you eat them raw or do you have to roast them? ''Life's tough......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'' -- John Wayne
Coyotlviejo		#3	[-]
Posts: 4174 (04/28/09 6:36 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I've eaten them raw, but I can't get too many at a time so I don't know if eating them raw in quantity might affect you or not. Until you hear otherwise, assume they should be roasted. Dan My Website...
Waterlogged		#4	[-]
Posts: 322 (05/03/09 1:55 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	They can be eaten raw, used to have a friend who would gather them as a lunch.
alberto hernandez		#5	[-]
Posts: 203 (05/04/09 4:22 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have eaten them raw too!
Rocks in Head		#6	[-]
Posts: 329 (05/05/09 10:39 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	So how in tarnation do you open the pesky little boogers? Once I got a whole wheelbarrow of them from a neighbors tree that fell down and they never opened. They even dried out but never opened and it was WAY too much trouble to peel them one seed at a time. I ended up burning them in a burn barrel. Very hot fire!
thanrose		#7	[-]
Posts: 143 (05/13/09 12:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Rocks, it depends on the type of pine. Some pines keep their cones for two years before dropping the pine nuts naturally. Some wait for forest fires. I think most types are annual, though. I've eaten raw pine nuts from any true pine I've come across at the right time. If I can get the seed out, it's the right time. Squirrels will eat them when they are still a bit sticky. Even if the seed husk is black, I'll nibble it out of the papery wing. I used to make things with pine cones, and started baking them in a slow oven to 1) open them and 2) kill off any bugs and 3) cook the sticky resins to hard and brittle, especially important on white pine cones, unless you go for that tarry streaked look. Even in sugar sand (bright white, almost looks like snow in moonlight) the tiny bits of black will find the sticky resin to make that attractive striping on your hands or clothes.
igmuwatogla		#8	[-]
Posts: 268 (05/13/09 3:28 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I know around here the pine seeds from the cone are tiny. I think the ones we are use to at the store come from the pinon pine.
Rocks in Head		#9	[-]
Posts: 336 (05/14/09 3:15 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Around here we have lodgepole, ponderosa, sugar and in higher elevations, jeffery pine. The lodgepole cones are small, but the ponderosa and sugar should be plenty big enough to make it worthwhile. If I find some more, It would be interesting to experiment with them some more. I have read accounts of the local indians climbing the 200 to 300 ft tall sugar pine to get at the 2 ft long cones. They would sit on the branch and swing it in a circular motion to twist the cone off. Im not crawling up a tree to get a few seeds though.
countrynatureboy17		#10	[-]
Posts: 1 (07/03/09 6:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	i had some of these a few weeks ago camping in PA. my grandad said put over the fire in heat (not flame, they burned) for 30 min or more, till started to open up a lil, then can peel off n find the nuts. most pines make small nuts but they are good. i heard somewhere the energy put to getsing out the seeds plain is much more energy then u'd get from the seed, so it'd be worthless. lol. but yea, good luck. my 1st post: Kevin.
EB Jones		#11	[-]
Posts: 1093 (07/04/09 4:26 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	countrynatureboy17 wrote: i had some of these a few weeks ago camping in PA. my grandad said put over the fire in heat (not flame, they burned) for 30 min or more, till started to open up a lil, then can peel off n find the nuts. most pines make small nuts but they are good. i heard somewhere the energy put to getsing out the seeds plain is much more energy then u'd get from the seed, so it'd be worthless. lol. but yea, good luck. my 1st post: Kevin. Welcome to the planet Kevin!! You'll a lot of good info here and the people are the Best!!! And thanks for the tip from "grandad"
Cuddles McKitten		#12	[-]
Posts: 106 (07/04/09 3:05 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I can second Countrynatureboy's general technique. I grab unopened (eastern white) pine cones in early fall and stick them in the oven a little while after cooking something. They pop out pretty easily -- relative to prying them out yourself.

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