Sunchoke problem solved…sorta
Dec 18th, 2007 | By Hank Shaw | Category: The Garden | Comments | 5 Comments |
OK, so I made that sunchoke salad the other day (although my persimmons were too soft, so I subbed in Granny Smith apples) and it was good. I’d do it again. Thinking I needed to do something different, I sliced a bunch of them with a mandoline and fried them in canola oil last night, and ate a bunch while watching Monday Night Football. Chased with a beer, these sunchoke chips are pretty darn tasty!
And then the farting began. Oh gawd, but these are the windiest veggies I have ever had the misfortune to consume. We’re talking volcanic, explosive-decompression gas here. It’s the damn inulin, which sunchokes have in abundance, but which is very tough to digest. Seems that, like beans, the “intestinal flora” living in your large intestine can digest these lumps o’ gold, but gas is a byproduct. And that is an understatement. I’m not the only one with this problem, either. Here’s another blogger’s unfortunate encounter with jerusalem artichokes.
So, in a way, I’ve solved my problem. The five-gallon buckets of sunchokes will get composted, where their gas will be more welcome. As for me, next time I will think twice before eating what I have come to call jerusalem fartichokes.
umm. Yes. We too discovered this unfortunate result. And we LOVE the darn things.
Do you think taking something like Beano would work?
Save some for me! I’ll take some home and eat a whole bage and seek revenge on my roommate.
Well, I was thinking about looking for some of these things after checking your first post. Sounded good and kinda interesting, and I’m always interested in new veggies and such.
But, jamba (Swahili… look it up) is an issue for me already, I sure don’t need to make it worse.
Thanks for the warning.
Dude, I speak Swahili, so I am very aware what “jamba” means, especially since “hey there” is “jambo.” One slip of the tongue and…ew.
OMG! FUNNY! You are sooo right! I sliced these little things like chips and fried them. They were soooo good then…..Well needless to say we were up ALL night. Maybe they could use these things as some kind of natural fuel.
You could win the longest fart ever recorded contest with these babies. I haven’t laughed like this in a long time. I was just going to do some research on the little package of dynamite beacuse of what it had done to all of us and found this site. Thanks for the laughs