Stop Halloween pumpkin waste - carving pumpkins are edible, and delicious!

For years I wondered are Jack-o-Lantern pumpkins really "not worth eating", as conventional wisdom seems to insist? This year I tried it out myself, and I can conclusively assure you, "carving" pumpkins are 100% edible, and delicious, and definitely worth cooking with! That they're a lot cheaper by weight (than acorn, butternut, or kabocha squash) is just added bonus!

Vegetable carving is a tradition dating back centuries - but exclusively "carving-only" vegetable is hardly a thing outside North America. It really doesn't make sense to waste perfectly good crops that are actually fresh enough for carving. While my journey to use up the whole pumpkin didn't end exactly how I expected it to, I am really glad I gave this a try!

Check out my sweet rice wine video, traditionally made, with mycelium saccharification and no added sugar:    • Easy Sweet Rice Wine for any Variety (Rice...  

Super simple steamed pumpkin gnocchi:
   • Easiest 3-Ingredient Pumpkin Mochi!  


00:00 Introduction
00:11 Brew-in-Pumpkin Wine
00:29 Sake science - how fungus is used to make wine
00:47 Testing TikTok's raw pumpkin wine
01:48 Importance of Gelatinized Starch for Saccharification
02:14 Try again with cooked pumpkin puree
03:40 Cooked pumpkin wine result
04:14 Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin Soup!
04:27 "Carving" Pumpkin Gnocchi!


#halloween
#pumpkin
#zerowaste


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