I don’t know if it’s the same variety we have in Sweden/Scandinavia, but ours are delicious.
We blanch them in boiling water for like 30 seconds, put them in ice water to stop the cooking process, then squeeze the water out.
Then use it like spinach, only infinitely more tasty.
Gator242
Tea time! Make nettle tea
mysageisonfire
If you have arthritis or inflammation you can use the sting on the areas to help reduce it. Yes it sucks for a bit but much less pain after it goes away. It’s medicine and food 🙌🏽
PumpkiNibbler
Stinging nettle in an amazing herb used for healing you can make it into tea as well or stimulate your immune system by beating yourself with it 😂
MercifulWombat
Wearing gloves, you can harvest the young buds ad first, maybe second pair of leaves. Steam, boil, or fry until well cooked as you would any other cooking green. They’re absolutely delicious. I love them in tomato sauce.
The dried leaves have several alleged health benefits as a tea but the flavor is just leaf without anything particularly interesting.
The stems of mature plants can be treated like flax (retted, beaten, and combed) to make a workable fiber for ropes or even fine thread, if you have the skill.
The whole plant is great in for your compost too.
JaSamGovedo
Nette, eaten in all ways, they are everywhere.
90_proof_rumham
Had a terrible reaction to nettle over the summer. Whole arm went numb! Lol First thing, too. I typically just grip and rip and didn’t have gloves on.. Oh man… T’was no fun!
Gengrar
Prime eating.
sparkster777
r/eatityoucoward but unironically
V0lguus
Same here in Romania, a very brief season in spring when you harvest young nettles and blanch them with sliced garlic. Cooks just like spinach. If you can top it with a runny-yolk fried egg, you gotcha serious lunch.
No_Ocelot_6773
You can touch it and find out.
Ok_Panda_1478
Grab it really hard with bare hands. If it hurts, it’s stinging nettle. If it doesn’t hurt, congrats, you’re immune to stinging nettle.
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Stinging nettle. Hope you didn’t get too close
Reminds me of the stinging nettle that grew in my backyard as a kid. Good for making tea but, don’t touch it with bare skin.
Look but don’t touch sweetheart that’s what that is.
Nettle.
Ouchie bush. Stinging nettle. Totally off topic, I love Auburn. Great little town.
Non-native Urtica urens [https://ipm.ucanr.edu/home-and-landscape/burning-and-stinging-nettles/#gsc.tab=0](https://ipm.ucanr.edu/home-and-landscape/burning-and-stinging-nettles/#gsc.tab=0)
I don’t know if it’s the same variety we have in Sweden/Scandinavia, but ours are delicious.
We blanch them in boiling water for like 30 seconds, put them in ice water to stop the cooking process, then squeeze the water out.
Then use it like spinach, only infinitely more tasty.
Tea time! Make nettle tea
If you have arthritis or inflammation you can use the sting on the areas to help reduce it. Yes it sucks for a bit but much less pain after it goes away. It’s medicine and food 🙌🏽
Stinging nettle in an amazing herb used for healing you can make it into tea as well or stimulate your immune system by beating yourself with it 😂
Wearing gloves, you can harvest the young buds ad first, maybe second pair of leaves. Steam, boil, or fry until well cooked as you would any other cooking green. They’re absolutely delicious. I love them in tomato sauce.
The dried leaves have several alleged health benefits as a tea but the flavor is just leaf without anything particularly interesting.
The stems of mature plants can be treated like flax (retted, beaten, and combed) to make a workable fiber for ropes or even fine thread, if you have the skill.
The whole plant is great in for your compost too.
Nette, eaten in all ways, they are everywhere.
Had a terrible reaction to nettle over the summer. Whole arm went numb! Lol First thing, too. I typically just grip and rip and didn’t have gloves on.. Oh man… T’was no fun!
Prime eating.
r/eatityoucoward but unironically
Same here in Romania, a very brief season in spring when you harvest young nettles and blanch them with sliced garlic. Cooks just like spinach. If you can top it with a runny-yolk fried egg, you gotcha serious lunch.
You can touch it and find out.
Grab it really hard with bare hands. If it hurts, it’s stinging nettle. If it doesn’t hurt, congrats, you’re immune to stinging nettle.