I tried to cook acorns once. It was a hell of a lot of work. Gathering the acorns, peeling the acorns (this ain't easy), boiling the acorns... and in the end, it tasted terrible. If you are used to eating wild food your whole life it may be possible, but for the modern human I decided it isn't possible. In addition, store bought flour really isn't even expensive. I tried it once, never again! Oh, I almost forgot. Tannins just don't taste bitter. They are poisonous. Eat too much tannin and you are in trouble.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I haven't tried it yet but I would try just to know I could if I had to. What did you make out of the acorns? I saw some recipes that didn't look too bad. I agree it would be a huge amount of work to process all the acorns.
I boiled them (to get the tannin out) and roasted them with salt. I never tried to dry them out and pound them into flour, which would have been even more work. The trick is to find acorns that don't have a lot of tannin. I boiled the shit out of those acorns but no matter how much I boiled them there was still tannin.
Cool I will probably try as an experiment when mine get ripe. What kind of acorns did you use? I believe mine are from a white oak. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Identifying different oak species is beyond my pay grade. All I know is that we have a lot of huge oaks around here.