Anyone tried cooking bamboo shoots from the garden? My Phyllostachys
aureosulcata spectablis is throwing up some very juicy looking shoots at the
moment. Wondered if anyone could recommend at what stage they should best
be cropped and how to prepare them.

"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
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Anyone tried cooking bamboo shoots from the garden? My Phyllostachys
aureosulcata spectablis is throwing up some very juicy looking shoots at the
moment. Wondered if anyone could recommend at what stage they should best
be cropped and how to prepare them.

Not tried it myself but found this:
http://agsyst.wsu.edu/bambroc.pdf

I usually eat the tinned ones :~)
Jenny

Anyone tried cooking bamboo shoots from the garden? My Phyllostachys
aureosulcata spectablis is throwing up some very juicy looking shoots at
the
moment. Wondered if anyone could recommend at what stage they should
best
be cropped and how to prepare them.

Not tried it myself but found this:
http://agsyst.wsu.edu/bambroc.pdf

I usually eat the tinned ones :~)
Jenny

Thank Jenny

Article says eat before 2 weeks old or one foot tall! I don't think mine
will make a foot in a fortnight, not this year anyway but will leave them
another week and give them a try.

Article also says...
Bamboo shoots are crisp and tender, comparable to asparagus, with a flavour
similar to corn.
Here's hoping.

Justin Thyme writes
Bamboo shoots are crisp and tender, comparable to asparagus, with a
flavour
similar to corn.

Whoever wrote that has eaten some funny asparagus!
--
Kay

"K" wrote in message
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Justin Thyme writes
Bamboo shoots are crisp and tender, comparable to asparagus, with a
flavour
similar to corn.

Whoever wrote that has eaten some funny asparagus!
--
Kay
no....the tips of the asparagus does kinda taste like corn...mild corn.....
madgardener who loves asparagus, baby corn and sweet raw corn off the stalk
sometimes without cooking....(ummmmm, wonder if that timber bamboo down the
road would be tasty? with the heat lately, it's probably grown two foot by
now and too tough to eat

madgardener writes

"K" wrote in message
...
Justin Thyme writes
Bamboo shoots are crisp and tender, comparable to asparagus, with a
flavour
similar to corn.

Whoever wrote that has eaten some funny asparagus!
--
no....the tips of the asparagus does kinda taste like corn..

Well, I guess having been brought up in the prime asparagus growing area
of the UK and eating asparagus all my life, I probably have a reasonably
good knowledge of asparagus, but you will have a better knowledge of
corn. I would be exceedingly disappointed in any asparagus which tasted
like corn - it has a very strong and distinctive flavour, and if I had
to classify it, it would be nearer to baby broad beans - but then your
corn may well taste like that.

All I can say is that no bamboo shoots that I have eaten were in any way
similar to asparagus, either in taste or texture. There again, maybe
bamboo shoots taste different in China from the ones that finally make
it, in preserved form, over here.

--
Kay

According to the Plants For A Future (PFAF) database at www.pfaf.org, P. aureosulcata shoots make good eating (given a 4 out of 5 score for edibility), having very little bitterness, even raw. You should cut them when they are 8cm above ground, make the cut 5cm below ground. Plainly, specific cultivars of a given species can vary considerably in their edibility.