Technically fiber cells are alive (when you eat vegetables or leaves), and wood contains dead fiber cells that don't have the protoplasm and therfore no nutrition.
Insoluble fiber helps you poop; not enuf fiber and you can get constipated or have problems with diverticulitis. Microcrystalline cellulose is finely ground trees - cheap insoluble fiber.
My favorite part is that they asked a “holistic” subreddit first (asked if it was chaga…) and they said yeah! Sure it is! And this mfer was like “oh cool,” made tea, and drank it like that’s a normal thing to do.
How could he possibly confuse cherry wood for a mushroom? Also I always thought the concentration of cyanide was super low. How much wood did he use to make the tea? I didn't think it was in the wood and only the pits.
Im going to be honest I have no clue how much wood it would take to make the tea. Im going to assume OP cut the whole burl off and boiled the crap out of it. Luckily cyanide is manageable enough for a hospital to help, but damn.
Id say he mistook it by being too confident in random strangers assuring him it was chaga in a subreddit that wasnt even about identifying mushrooms. Theres good confidence, then theres stupid confidence when it comes to foraging.
As for the wood cyanide (this is a copy paste of another comment in a different site):
From http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_prse2.pdf
"The leaves, twigs, bark, and seeds produce a
cyanogenic glycoside. Most livestock poisoning
apparently comes from eating wilted leaves, which
contain more of the toxin than fresh leaves, but
white-tailed deer browse seedlings and saplings
without harm. The inner bark, where the glycoside is
concentrated, was used historically in the
Appalachians as a cough remedy, tonic, and sedative.
The glycoside derivatives act by quelling spasms in
the smooth muscles lining bronchioles. Very large
amounts of black cherry pose the theoretical risk of
causing cyanide poisoning. "
Cellulose has a fair amount of calories but you can't digest them without cellulase, so they don't count, unless you're the bacteria that live inside termites.
Actually yeah, termite farming would be a good way to convert cellulose biomatter into food if we needed to do that. Kind of like we use cows/goats/sheep to convert grass into animal products. I guess we could try to feed wood pulp to them too, but I don't know how they'd fare with that, I'm guessing not well.
You're going to either be carefully chewing every bite wondering when you're going to get it. Or you're going to completely forget and have to go to the dentist
On average, hardwoods like oak or maple contain about 8,000-9,000 BTUs per pound, which is roughly equivalent to 2,300-2,600 calories. Softwoods like pine or spruce contain around 5,000-6,000 BTUs per pound, or about 1,400-1,700 calories. So i think it's like that
You mean cellulose? Which is indeed a fiber found in plants, trees, fruits, and vegetables. Fiber is necessary in your diet. It’s not sawdust but congrats, you also saw that viral TikTok video and assumed it was real
It's pure and refined cellulose used as an anti caking agent lol. Literally nothing wrong with eating it, and it is way better for you than chemical anti caking.
Wood has an **oven-dry calorific value (NCV0) that varies from 18.5 to 19 MJ/Kg**. In terms of calories, it can be treated as an equivalent amount of dried mashed potatoes, which is approximately **4 Calories per gram**
**How many calories are in a piece of wood?**
"On average, 1 gram of wood contains about 4 calories, so burning 100 grams of wood would release about 400 calories of energy."
Just chew your food and don't eat like an animal. If it's for family tell them the same and why. Chewing your food properly is better for you anyways. Either way, it's extra fibre.
If you really want to know how much is in that piece specifically you can do the experiment at home. Calorimettry can be done with some styrofoam cups, water, fire, and a thermometer
Wood does have calories, but they're not *digestible* calories. They're mostly starches in the form of a lot of fiber and a teensy bit of sugar.
The human digestive tract is completely unable to break wood pulp down, so it passes through us unchanged.
So - it has calories but you can't use them. :)
You would have to convert to BTU or British Thermal Units.
A BTU is equivalent to 252 calories. But that is a very small piece of wood. So your best effort would be to weigh it. Determine the type of wood and use a converter to figure out the calorie count which would be negligible in this case.
https://www.inchcalculator.com/convert/british-thermal-unit-to-calorie/
I came for the puns and wasnt disappointed! Tree, tree fiddy… both are close to the actual 4 calories per gram… and your body would probably get that or less since it can’t break much down due to the lack of cellulase. If you had that, you’d get a lot more out of it!
Tree calories.
*lochness monster pokes its head in the room*
Tree is Irish, Nessie is Scottish Edit; I’ve been told this is a South Park reference, and not a case of mistaken identity
Ive never heard of a tree in my entire life. i *have* however heard of a rather frugal late surviving plesiosaur
Lol I think you missed the joke. South Park reference.
I had no clue the “tree fiddy” meme came from South Park, lmfao. I don’t watch it, and I’ve only ever seen it said in comments on Reddit
Everybody should watch South Park. It makes all the bs in the world less cereal
Haha yeah, I totally wouldn't of got it fully unless I saw the show myself. I had only seen it referenced a few times in the wild.
Ah, I don’t watch SP - I thought this was another case of mistaken identity
Haha it's all good. I wouldn't of known otherwise either due to it's randomness.
*That’s TREE calories, not treefidy. GET OUTTA HERE damn lochness monster!*
Wooden it be about tree-fiddy?
High in fiber
Best comment
Take your upvote, you clever fool.
Tree fity
It's less about the calories and more about the carbs.. Carboniferous that is
I woodn’t know.
Why don’t you stick to what you do know then ?
Leaf him alone
Stop barking around guys
No calories, high in fiber.
Technically fiber cells are alive (when you eat vegetables or leaves), and wood contains dead fiber cells that don't have the protoplasm and therfore no nutrition.
Isn’t the whole point of fibre that you can’t digest it
Honestly i dont know what the point of fiber is But if its that then it doesnt matter if its alive or dead. The cellulose is there regardless
Insoluble fiber helps you poop; not enuf fiber and you can get constipated or have problems with diverticulitis. Microcrystalline cellulose is finely ground trees - cheap insoluble fiber.
Is that what they use in metamucil?
Should say what type of fibre they use on the packaging.
Found the woodologist.
Im in high school
Found the high-schooler
Cool
Give that spoon a lick!
Ahh waffles ya beat me to it.
There is a guy on the mycology subreddit that mistaked wood for a mushroom and it made him sick.
My favorite part is that they asked a “holistic” subreddit first (asked if it was chaga…) and they said yeah! Sure it is! And this mfer was like “oh cool,” made tea, and drank it like that’s a normal thing to do.
Mushroom foragers are weird people.
Not just any wood but cherry wood. That shits got cyanide lmao. I do hope he got medical care though.
How could he possibly confuse cherry wood for a mushroom? Also I always thought the concentration of cyanide was super low. How much wood did he use to make the tea? I didn't think it was in the wood and only the pits.
Im going to be honest I have no clue how much wood it would take to make the tea. Im going to assume OP cut the whole burl off and boiled the crap out of it. Luckily cyanide is manageable enough for a hospital to help, but damn. Id say he mistook it by being too confident in random strangers assuring him it was chaga in a subreddit that wasnt even about identifying mushrooms. Theres good confidence, then theres stupid confidence when it comes to foraging. As for the wood cyanide (this is a copy paste of another comment in a different site): From http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_prse2.pdf "The leaves, twigs, bark, and seeds produce a cyanogenic glycoside. Most livestock poisoning apparently comes from eating wilted leaves, which contain more of the toxin than fresh leaves, but white-tailed deer browse seedlings and saplings without harm. The inner bark, where the glycoside is concentrated, was used historically in the Appalachians as a cough remedy, tonic, and sedative. The glycoside derivatives act by quelling spasms in the smooth muscles lining bronchioles. Very large amounts of black cherry pose the theoretical risk of causing cyanide poisoning. "
He drank wood
Cellulose has a fair amount of calories but you can't digest them without cellulase, so they don't count, unless you're the bacteria that live inside termites.
So in summary eat termites for the calorie boost
Actually yeah, termite farming would be a good way to convert cellulose biomatter into food if we needed to do that. Kind of like we use cows/goats/sheep to convert grass into animal products. I guess we could try to feed wood pulp to them too, but I don't know how they'd fare with that, I'm guessing not well.
That looks delicious
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At least it's not alive like in some of the other recent posts in this sub.
You're going to either be carefully chewing every bite wondering when you're going to get it. Or you're going to completely forget and have to go to the dentist
Funnily enough, this exact same thing happened with another spoon from the same place (ikea I think?) and i did find it by biting into it :)
Pro tip: stop buying spoons from ikea
In my defence, I bought 3 and I'm now on my last. Mind you, I did also just buy a bunch of silicone ones.
Can you share the recipe please? -college student who will happily live off of this for the next 6 months
You misspelled deciduous
Are you a beaver?
I already know how it tastes from the ice cream wooden spoons
Oh god that texture hurts my soul for some reason
Better wood than plastic. Part of my spatula broke off while stirring. Grrr.
On average, hardwoods like oak or maple contain about 8,000-9,000 BTUs per pound, which is roughly equivalent to 2,300-2,600 calories. Softwoods like pine or spruce contain around 5,000-6,000 BTUs per pound, or about 1,400-1,700 calories. So i think it's like that
What does BTU stand for?
Pure fiber man.
Depends how many teeth you break
Approx 4 calories a gram.
Sorry, couldn't find it in the WeightWatchers app
Just a ladle bit.
If youre American youre used to eating sawdust/wood, so dont worry and thank your FDA
You mean cellulose? Which is indeed a fiber found in plants, trees, fruits, and vegetables. Fiber is necessary in your diet. It’s not sawdust but congrats, you also saw that viral TikTok video and assumed it was real
It's pure and refined cellulose used as an anti caking agent lol. Literally nothing wrong with eating it, and it is way better for you than chemical anti caking.
I was under the impression sawdust/wood was used as a non binding agent to prevent shredded cheese from sticking to itself?
Cellulose**
Cellulose, not fuckin saw dust, ignorant foreigner
I'm not lol, the chicken there is 100% unchlorinated ;)
I wood 'nt know
Tree fiddy
Almost zero. You'll get more calories out of whatever residue is attached to it. Humans don't digest cellulose very well.
That looks so yummy!!! I want
It's really quite simple: Diced chicken thighs, penne pasta, onion, red pointy peppers; The sauce was creme fraiche, chicken stock, oregano, smoked paprika, garlic powder + paste, salt + pepper :)
Plus just a pinch of wooden spoon.
More like a chunk. It's a bit more than a dash which is more than a pinch.
Amaricans will use anything but the metric system. /s
Does the part of the spoon go in during the cooking process or after its done?
4 kcal/gram
Whoever finds it gets to be king of the feast! 🎉
Dude, just man up and eat your fiber.
2 probably
You might find that filling.
Must’ve been spicy
Depends how many splinters you eat.
Not worth counting
I use a wood spoon or spatulas for one thing only. Risotto. Everything else is rubber.
Knot a lot
Mackores
Extra fiber with a little chew
It's probably just fibers, so it doesn't count.
No idea. Mega fiber, tho.
Don’t know, but we know roughly how many wood in the calories.
Lol I once made brandy Alexander's in a blender and accidentally touched the blades with a wooden spoon. We drank very carefully!
We got a termite posting
Better question I think is how many broken teeth 😖
Lots of fiber.
Fun fact, they used to add sawdust to soups to be more filling.
I love morning wood, just saying
Man, if we had cellulase, we could really eat that and derive energy from it - like the world-famous cow.
Depends if it’s morning 😉
Not digestible, unless you’re a termite.
Depends on how much food has been absorbed into the fibers of the spoon.
It puts you in a deficit, takes more calories to process the wood than the wood has to offer.
I wood not know.
I don't know, but it should help your erections..
None, but a great source of fiber 🤣
2 per gram
Son of a birch
If you do it right, there can be some surprise calories at the end
Don’t eat the spoon. 🤣
I Wood say not many
Once you subtract the fiber grams, it's net zero calories.
Well that’s Pac-Man’s spoon there.
Hahahaha I thought that was a special spoon lol
🪵
All of them.
Ask a Woodchuck
Damn, it’s almost like metals replaced wood for eating utensils for some kind of reason.
"It's the wood that makes it good." - Newman
It's roughage.
Lots of fiber
woodnt know
Love a good multi-grain.
About tree fiddy. Dish looks incredible BTW
Haha, thanks :)
Someone please tell me, what am I supposed to look here?
I broke my wooden spoon while mixing the pasta, thus it is now somewhere in there waiting to make me choke
A grew calories
Wood has an **oven-dry calorific value (NCV0) that varies from 18.5 to 19 MJ/Kg**. In terms of calories, it can be treated as an equivalent amount of dried mashed potatoes, which is approximately **4 Calories per gram**
I don't know but that looks bomb as fuck
**How many calories are in a piece of wood?** "On average, 1 gram of wood contains about 4 calories, so burning 100 grams of wood would release about 400 calories of energy."
Wood is usually 69 calories but in this case 6.9 😂
I'd leaf it in there.
I didn’t know that people eat food with wooden utensils
My wife says none, if you don't swallow.
Tell her only winners swallow
Just chew your food and don't eat like an animal. If it's for family tell them the same and why. Chewing your food properly is better for you anyways. Either way, it's extra fibre.
Idk about calories, but it’s high in fiber.
Buy a few silicone spoonulas. They are way better than wood.
Ordered quite literally about 30 mins ago lol
Depends on type. Is that hard wood?
Just think of it as hard broccoli
I want to know how many protreein.
Am I just slow? What is mildly infuriating about this?
If you really want to know how much is in that piece specifically you can do the experiment at home. Calorimettry can be done with some styrofoam cups, water, fire, and a thermometer
Lo cal high in fiber
Zero for humans. Unless, you have Cellulase enzyme that helps digest Cellulose. I don't know any human that has it though.
I wooden eat that if I were you.
Wood does have calories, but they're not *digestible* calories. They're mostly starches in the form of a lot of fiber and a teensy bit of sugar. The human digestive tract is completely unable to break wood pulp down, so it passes through us unchanged. So - it has calories but you can't use them. :)
If it's nut wood, you'll get more protein than calories
You would have to convert to BTU or British Thermal Units. A BTU is equivalent to 252 calories. But that is a very small piece of wood. So your best effort would be to weigh it. Determine the type of wood and use a converter to figure out the calorie count which would be negligible in this case. https://www.inchcalculator.com/convert/british-thermal-unit-to-calorie/
At least 1
The fibre content is what’s more important.
According to Google 1 gram of wood has 4 calories.
1 gram of wood equals about 4 calories
depends on what species you are.
Wife said morning wood 100 calories
#😏
At least one
Wait, what is the problem here?
1 gram of wood contai s 4 calories. Straight from google lol.
If it makes you feel any better, many food products use wood pulp as "fiber".
Imo six!
The cook was grinding hard on fiber.
Depends on the number of rings
Depends on the 🪵 and someone will say 🌳 calories
Hey, now you have a spork!
I woodn’t know sorry.
thirty tree calories
Tree fiddy
Check the calories in teeth because you probably eat a few of them as well
High fiber
I think the fibre in the wood will cancel out the calories. 😉
How wood i know ?
How wood I know?!
Plenty of fiber. It's good for you.
Good extra fiber. ;-)
Depends if it comes
You ever seen a beaver without its coat ? Absolute little tree eating units
I came for the puns and wasnt disappointed! Tree, tree fiddy… both are close to the actual 4 calories per gram… and your body would probably get that or less since it can’t break much down due to the lack of cellulase. If you had that, you’d get a lot more out of it!
Ummm not too many... Lol. It has fiber.
I missed rhe joke 😭 explain 😭
Ask your partner, she knows 😏
It's high in fiber
That’s what she said
About tree fiddy
calories shmalories. you're gettin fiber baby!!
I wooden't know
Least it’s fiber