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He made it sound like his yams aren't that tasty, I guess it depends a lot on the strain and growing conditions.
Boiled, roasted (as mentioned), as a porridge, fried and pounded.
Boiled - Cut, salted (some add sugar)boiled and eaten with sauce, palm oil, beans...
Pounded - Boiled unsalted yams are pounded into dough form and eaten with soup. It's called pounded yam.
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the primitive tech blogger guy is not trying to live off the land. he just have a Survivor/Bigbrother kinda of tv show for survival nerds. he probably live off the proceeds of paracord bracelets and pocket knife banners :)
Again, I was commenting specifically on this claim: > This form of farming is a good way to get around the conventional farming practice of clearing trees to make fields. It's not a good form of farming, because it's both low density and expensive.
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Are yams ever tasty plainly roasted? Most people wouldn't enjoy eating a plain baked potato. Some salt, paprika, and butter makes a world of difference.
Paprika on a yam? Yeah, yams are unbelievably sweet when exposed to direct fire, like candy sweet. But I'm talking about the Garnet and Japanese varieties, this might just be a less cultivated specie he found locally and just went with it.
My favorite thing this guy does is not talk, for some reason.
I clicked this fully expecting "yam", "cultivate" and "cook" to be archaic Unix tools. Instead I got this. Such a happy surprise.
I was pleasantly surprised, as well.
There's a lot of sophistication in "primitive" agriculture. Humans have always been as intelligent and ambitious as they are today; they just didn't always have today's tools. Yams always make me think of Gone with the Wind . The climax of Act III (not labeled as such, but stories are stories) is Scarlett O'Hara at her family's plantation. Yankee soldiers have come through and taken every scrap of food, but they didn…
Humans have always had the same/similar capacity for intelligence, but the modern world creates people with IQs significantly higher than the median would have been only 150 years ago.
Also I disagree partially, I do think the modern world creates smarter and/or more educated people, but that's thanks to education. Lots of education. And access to information of course.
My favorite thing this guy does is not talk, for some reason.
There's another channel called kiwami japan about a guy who mostly is making knives out of things or other silly metal crafts. He also doesn't talk in most of them. I think the sound of banging wood or polishing metal is just very relaxing.
Interesting, the enclosure need only be big enough to cover the tubers themselves. > ...conventional farming practice of clearing trees to make fields. Instead the yam vine uses the trees as scaffolding to climb on, allowing it to reach the light in the forest canopy. The vines would have to climb a long way, depending on tree height. (Obviously unacceptable for "primitive technology", but) cooking in aluminium foil…
Interestingly, aluminum is a really really new material for us. Wasn't really available until ~1950, and used to be more rare and valuable than gold.
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Interestingly, aluminum is a really really new material for us. Wasn't really available until ~1950, and used to be more rare and valuable than gold.
How's that? Hard to refine? I did hear elsewhere that aluminium is one of the most common metals on the world, possibly even moreso than iron.
> Frishmuth proposed that the pyramid be made of aluminum at a quoted price of $75, and if he was unsuccessful in casting it in aluminum he would cast it in aluminum bronze and plate it with gold for a total cost of $50, or, if platinum-plated, for $75. Aluminum bronze was an alloy of 90 parts copper and 10 parts aluminum and was quite abundant on the commercial market in 1884. The principal manufacturer was the Cowles Brothers of Niagara Falls, New York, who used a patented thermal process employing an electric resistance furnace and a raw material containing aluminum oxide and copper. The aluminum produced was always combined with the copper and could not be separated from it.