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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a nettle eating championship in Dorset England.

There was apparently a new record set this year.

Ms Hodges, who travelled from Wales, said she was surprised and happy to have won again, although her hands were still painful. "My voice is also an octave or two deeper and I'm a bit huskier," she said. "I did really sting the inside of my mouth and your tongue goes a really funny colour but I was concentrating more on the pain in my hands, so I probably forgot about my mouth. "The dryness is the tricky thing, and chewing them. I think it depends what the weather has been doing - this year they have been a bit hard to chew."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Don't worry they have plenty of cider to help it go down

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Nettles are easily removed of their stinging property by drying or cooking. Light streaming even does it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

I blanch it and use it as a spinach substitute

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So you're saying if I combine raw milk with raw nettles I'll be a god?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

You need more rawness but you are close

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nettle tea is also really good for swelling and chronic pain, at least according to my grandfather and his friends that have used it. My grandpa did go to medical school so I tend to trust him, but it was also in the 60s and he calls tattooing and piercings "psychosomatic self flagellation" so take it for what you will.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

They are super high in vitamins and minerals. Most wild foraged and grown herbs have more vitamins and minerals per oz than even cultivated super foods like spinach. You can even get most from brewing it in a tea

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What kind of streams work best? Gaming streams? Just chatting?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hot streams mostly. So hot it's boiling. If I would be more specific I would say steam streams.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or, as I like to call them, steareams.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Beautiful word

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The chinese nettle is also the same plant that makes ramie fabric, which is like linen, but more durable. It's been around for thousands of years, which I think is cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Clothes were made from nettles in medieval europe. And paper from old clothes.

Wait, was it nettles or old clothes that were considered critical ressource (for administration) and trading restricted?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They're also delicious. One of my favorite spring greens back in Europe. Can't buy them in the US though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They are an invasive weed and are everywhere in the pacific northwest

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

They're invasive here too in the UK. Some people are just clever/nuts enough to eat that invasive plant.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Stinging nettle tea goes hard I hear

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

now I have to think of salad fingers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

"What if we boned under the nettle ~~bouquet~~ shrub?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Aww Yiss spank that skeleton ass with dat nettle bush! 🥵

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

481 grams of calcium per 100 grams of nettle