09/28/2026
Staring at these acorns, thinking of how dark times are here and darker days might be coming. It’s a good year for acorns. A good year to learn to cook with acorns.
My process is simple, we let them dry out for a couple weeks, crack them, throw them in pillowcases and soak them in 5 gallon buckets rinsing the water twice a day, keep doing it until it’s no longer cloudy, and the tans are mostly gone. In the 5 gallon bucket, where the acorns are soaking, you can sift off the red skin of the acorns, again those have a lot of tans. You don’t wanna eat them.
Then we dehydrate it … we don’t have a good dehydrator so we just put it in the oven on the lowest setting and then shut it off and leave it overnight and then blend it one last time and you’ve got a high protein flour that taste like almonds . I’ve had acorn tempeh, cheeses u can do anything w it.
we did a class on acorn cheeses at Brunswick library last year …  originally I had the idea of being one of the first to the market with acorn cheese, but this was so labor intensive. I feel like we’d have to sell them for $50 a round so it’s better thing to teach people to do on their own 
For how to guide on making cheese w acorns check out pascal bauder wildcrafted fermentation (that is also where we learned the technique for our original line of soft sunflower chèvre’s). There’s lots of information out there about how to make acorn flour, and process them in general, if it’s something you really wanna do I would recommend seeking some further resources out because what I have just typed is a brief outline and there’s a lot of details to consider.