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I've eaten them right off the cactus, it's pretty good actually you just have to scrape off the spines with your fingernail or a rock or something

Poke Lev yeah cause we all carry weed burners and bottles of gas round with us just incase we want to eat a cactus

richcampoverde But Something as large as that is a bit much in my opinion xD I guess its a usual thing to have around in situations like this... as I've never went out in areas with cactus fruits.

It could totally be used as a weapon of mass destruction though...

Lmfao

LMAO

"How to"

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hahahaha

and propane accessories

Texans*

brittany andrade try eating alot of these fruits including seeds and let me know what happens in 24 hrs? Lmao

Should only eat a Maximum of eighth. The seeds COULD plug you.

Reece Crump YUP!! YEEEE YEEEE!!!!

It is good to be prepared.

+bob shut the fuck up

HeavenHammer chill

@@404killer Jesus Christ, chill dawg

@@christianmccauley7340 lol hi

Tunas!

Victoria Matamoros tunas are ok but pitallas are much better and has little seeds

we eat those in Jamaica as well too.

Victoria Matamoros I have 6 prickly pear cactuses in my backyard. I keep them since I love tuna. I once made tuna juice from my backyard tuna cactus.

Victoria Matamoros we eat them in Israel too...they are the yellow ones though. We cook them, eat them chilled, or make syrup and juice

No, we heard, alright. It's just funnier to address the former. My hands went _right_ up to my head when I saw that.

Ben Barrage "How to"

Ben Barrage You never know when you have to use it to cook a entire cow in under an hour

BEN, WATCHA DOIN HERE?!? YOU'RE A GROWTOPIA KZfaqR

There's one on my Swiss Army knife.

Aren't you supposed to be playing gt?

"And if you're in a survival situation, use a torch."

obviously he ment aa wooden torch ......atleast thats what i thought he ment but a wooden torch still has fire so i dont see why it wouldnt work..

Issac Lugo YOU DONT NEED A TOUCH!

+Noles Dire lol ok baloo

Noles Dire 😂

Danmmit I thought I was safe from Jungle Book references!

That's just the bear necessities!

Thank you for your wisdom.

Thanks a lot. Few days back I happen to see them on cactus and grabbed it bare hand. It was really bad with so many spikes. Took me hours to get rid of them.

Sounds about right. The desert always provides, if you know where to look. Thanks for the story.

How do you catch these reptiles? And the birds too?

@@utdutd8336 To catch a big rattler I used a long forked branch to pin down their heads with. If I wanted it alive for later, I would grab them behind the head, flush with the back of the jaws, so it cannot twist around and bite, then bagged it. Or I would just decapitated them them on the spot for immediate use. When you do decapitate and dress them, you need to remember to bury the head, so the yellow jackets do not feed on it and the venom glands. Either way bury the head a few inches deep, so the yellow jackets cannot get to it. To catch a big lizard, you need to be fast or catch them first thing in the AM while they are still sulggish and before they warm up. Or get lucky and hit one with a thrown rock, my aim was never very good. I never tried to catch birds during survivle training. You expend too much energy trying to catch one, unless you got lucky and found them roosting somewhere for the night.

Noones hating tho

I think they’re just Joshin, but it isn’t really funny.

Iv seen them in Australia out west Queensland desert

They are actually only native to the americas and then brought to Sicily where I'm from a few hundred years ago. And became an Italian favorite. All cactus comes from the Americas. Look it up blew my mind!

No you're a stalker! 🙄

It's multifunctional... Having a B.O.B. test every now and then I dig deep and make a bit of creme brulee. Survival just isn't the same without that torched glaze on top.

They are tunos.

+Sicily not ripe , they are still sweet but not as when they are purple

they are actually a different type. we call them white but they are actually green. they are ripe and very sweet. Ther is also some orange looking ones also ripe and very sweet. Back in my hometown you can also find xoconostles, its another kind of prickly pear fruit but they are bitter, those you can heat up and eat them with lime and salt, very delicious.

try them when you see them again. make sure you eat them cold, they are very refreshing

haha no i had never seen anybody do this

So that explains why everyone is saying that rather than prickly pear fruit... But god danmmit! I have no knowledge of Spanish... And good spelling on your part! Help me clean up KZfaq!

iTheGeek Unfortunately that is all too true. What a sad state for the Country to be in.....

Knowledge is power. Enjoy being out here making thee videos. Always something to learn.

This is how I harvested them in Israel. Very easy!

This method removes the spines?

@@KohavEsh nah

Getting a fire to burn uncontrollably in that marsh would take a good bit of effort. Know your srea and act accordingly. If we are talking survival, especially with this specific cultivar of prickly pear, the thorns will embed and fester some causing infection. It is best to eliminate all riskes no matter how seemingly insignificant when out in the wilds. They tend to accumulate and without modern medicines and lack of day to day sanitation a nusiance these days can mean death on another.

+Bob Hansler alright well you've obviously put some thought into it, fair enough. Enjoyed the video regardless just a fleeting thought. Thanks for the reply

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Eric Nguyen........ KZfaq is such an interesting place... oh and hi

you are correct it's also a well-known fact it makes it taste like shit when you heat it up like that first thing you need to know is that you peel off the outer layer with all the thorns on it so I burned them anyway it's a wasted step we just grab a razor blade cut a line around it peel it back and get to Cookin we've been making jelly from this fruit my whole life never went through some of the crazy steps this guy did

thick leather. two stiff sticks used as pinchers works good too.

Those do sound interesting. Ive a ffew ideas, but there are more than a few characteristics that need to be confirmed before confirming ID. My first stop when trying to figure out what I am looking at is a website called Foraging Texas. Take some pictures of the stalk, leaves, berries, flowers, ets... Wold be interested in seeing what youve got if you could shoot me some pics on my FB page.

ok cool man, when I run into them again I'll shoot you a pic.

Sweet. The follow up replys do not come through my notifications. New comment threads appear to me in que though. Shoot me a message through youtube or FB request me at some point. Always interested in what people find out and about.

Too easy !!😂..

@@tomcatt998 Of course this does eliminate the possibility of using the wrong rag to blow your nose. ;)

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valentin montiel and if you didnt want the spikes you would whack it with a branch for a while

You can pick them by hand no problem if they are super ripe. Most people pick the ones that aren't ripe enough.

hahhahahahha, yea. I still Wana try it. the tiny needles are the worst ones. :)

EXACTLY what i was gonna say.

Eduardo Vargas man that's true it only takes a minute or two to to cut the spine nodes off of one,,,but imagine doing that to three or four hundred of them or thousands! that's three or 4 hundred minutes... * and god, everyone is so critical of the TORCH (not a flame thrower BTW.!!!) but I doubt most of you've ever actually even picked any or maybe you watched "momma" rub a few clean or skin a couple in the comfort of you're own fully equipped kitchen with clean running water and plenty of utensils but if you're in the DEEP THICKET and need to clean a few hundred or thousand in just a few minutes THATS THE BEST FREAKIN' WAY TO DO IT. And *NO* it doesn't ruin the fruit or *HURT* the( poor 😰) plant at all. Flora like this flourish best in areas with natural forest and prairie fires and can withstand much much hotter temps for much longer than this mans torch is producing. if you've never observed the world around u during your life on this planet, the O2 rich flame isn't really so hot, as it just catching on the hair like spines and burning them off. you could run your hand through that flame without even burning it, ( well a TEXAN could! lol) . but seriously, in texas we've cleared our property with controlled burns since the beginning of time. native Americans showed us how for god sakes and its never caused a real problem (here) ever. we know what we are doing and have situational awareness enough to be responsible with things like FIRE AND GUNS and FREEDOM unlike most of this country's population now days. and Edwardo sir, I'm not trying to be disrespectful in anyway to you or your comment and I apologize for writing all this on your comment where I should have started my own post. I originally wanted to just respond to your comment. in interest of saving TONS of time is why the torch and no harm to either fruit or plant if done intelligently and kept moving fast over the plant and just burn off the prickly hairs. I think he was just demonstrating for the camera how the torch would completely burn the spines off on the few leaves that he let get a little too hot, but that still didn't hurt anything due to the tough skin and large water content of the cactus. *watch and observe the world around you in the way it actually is, and not through the lens of your favorite sitcoms' movie camera... and you'll learn something that's true and real. * "remember son, there's only two kinda people in the world, people from Texas and people that wanna be." A.D.C.

It will. These cactus are very forgiving.

Awesomeness

I have cactus around my yard it has the purple pairs I heard they are poisonous is that true

+SOBOBA NATIVE I've eaten a few prickly pears in my life and I have never encountered a purple variety that's poisonous but definitely not an expert

+SOBOBA NATIVE nope eat em all the time and the cactus, there are other types but they dont produce this fruit my people call it tuña

Not poisonous at all, but not only the red pears, there are also yellow and white(lookin' more orange the first and green the second), the spines are so microscopic but they're total HELL, i know, one way of getting the spines out is with a wad of chewing gum, but as practice makes perfect, you find the way to avoid 'em. In spanish they're called tunas, in nahuatl nochtli.

+SOBOBA NATIVE I've eaten them several times they are so good but those tiny spines will get you if your not overly cautious

+nagwagi2000 Yes, out of the thousands that I manage across my property, this one displeased me... It knows what it did. I later shredded all of its close relatives in order to end its line, salted the earth it grew in to send a message to the others.

+Bob Hansler lol

Leave the wild cacti alone and stop tormenting those hapless succulents with your psychotic pyromaniac proclivities, BoB!

They started this war.

+Bob Hansler This comment made me love your channel even more.

Could I bother you for that process?

Don't know if you saw it. Posted the process above. Enjoy.

It got lost in the comments. Copying it now and plan on running this next spring or perhaps this fall. Greatly appreciate it and look forward to making a few batches.

+jakepv1 Try broadening your perspective a bit... Might find that you've only considered a tiny part of what you think you know about this.

Bob Hansler I've always just used tongs. Never needed a flamethrower. Lol But to each his own, I guess

jakepv1 I burn a few hundred patches a year. The wildlife enjoys them once the spines are gone. This is cactus country, the torch I am using is called a pear burner, which folks out here use regularly to burn n the thorns off of prickly pear cactus pads that the cows then make use of.

Bob Hansler thanks for the response. Learn something new everyday... sorry man. Just giving you a hard time. I actually like your vids.

Bob Hansler I have a giant patch of these in my yard. They taste delicious for sure.

terrahorsesIsrael Ignorance is no defense against blatantly spouting your lack of understanding in such a scornful manner... The torch is called a pear burner, because it is designed and marketed for the specific use of burning cactus pears. Tens of thousands of pears are burned here in Texas deliberately, especially on years that are in drought and thusly dry. The pears are burned so that the cattle have access to the pears as a food source. I clear hundreds of acres each year as my fields and roads are taken over. The plant that you have risen to the defense of has already grown prolifically and now towers over me. Welcome to the wider world and keep working on your English.

Bob Hansler terra is right no need to burn the plant to get its fruit. if you want to destroy the plant do so and burn it there may be many uses for burning the plants but if all you want to do it to eat its fruit pick the fruit with a basket or a picking tool and brush off the thorns. iv been doing that for years. and no need to insult people with your oxford English degree... it just makes you look bad.

shelory Terra is not correct. The primitive method of picking cactus fruit is to use fire. Furthermore, cactus management for a land owner here is a routine thing, akin to pulling weeds in a yard or garden. I would not expect you to transplant weeds in order to preserve their life. It is mch the same with the cactus here.

hey guys, no mean to offence. sorry for spelling badly. please be gentle with the earth and what grows on it. usually the less force the better in my opinion. kind regards

terrahorsesIsrael As a Conservation Biologist I agree whole-heartedly.

no, that only happened if that's the first thing you eat. prickly pears ar best served for dessert

dedfed321 no your wrong

miguel meyers that's my personnal experience. and by the way, the seeds are not hard, you can crush them with your teeth and avoid the problem alltogether

dedfed321 lies on top of lies

miguel meyers try it and you'll see for yourself