woods - eating and cooking

[Janne]

I love making and using utensils made from Juniper.

 

[Sundowner]

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Lowest one is applewood, others are all buddleia. Spoons 3,4,5&6

Like those spoons

 

[Sundowner]

This is usually referenced as a definitive data base:

http://www.wood-database.com/

Very useful, thanks

 

[Spirit fish]

Hi Guys,

I have done a quick search on the tinterweb and our site and can't find exactly what I am looking for. So I wonder some members can help.

I am only really interested in the more 'common' UK woodland trees and I am wondering which woods are food safe (FS) (ie for spoons or cups) and which woods are safe to cook directly (CD) over or in either case toxic (TX). I suppose there might even be a difference between seasoned and not seasoned, so a little note might note go amiss.

So...here is my list - can anyone who knows for sure copy and annotate and we might get to a full list.

Alder
Apple
Ash
Aspen (UK ?)
Beech
Birch (FS) (CD)
Blackthorn
Cedar
Cherry
Chestnut
Douglas Fir
Elder
Elm
Field Maple
Fir
Hawthorn
Hazel
Holly
Hornbeam
Horse Chestnut
Larch
Lime
Norway Maple
Oak
Pear
Pine (?)
Poplar
Rowan
Spruce (?)
Sweet Chestnut
Sycamore
Walnut
Whitebeam
Willow
Yew
Missing Any?

don't use yew dogs have died just chewing the sticks the berries are edible if you spit out the seeds though

 

[Samboni]

I only recently started looking deeper into foraging I studied the pro and cons of Apps dedicated to ID plants and after a bit of brain grinding I decided for this pocket book .The key factor is mainly a guide of what we have at hand in UK

 

[Pattree]

I’ve had this book since the seventies (I think) but I only discovered the pocket edition a couple of years ago. I love a reference that I can stick in my shirt pocket.

Enjoy!

 

[Keith_Beef]

I’ve had this book since the seventies (I think) but I only discovered the pocket edition a couple of years ago. I love a reference that I can stick in my shirt pocket.

Enjoy!

I got a copy back in 1979 or 1980... my last year of junior school, anyway, whatever year that was. Richard Mabey... It's odd how little details like that can stick in my mind. I've probably not taken it off the shelf (at my mum's house) for thirty years.