Making the Amadou better. Part 1

[Music] hi guys and welcome back today I'm going to make Tinder and I'm going to use something called amadu and amadu is a part of this fungus I believe you call this Tinder fungus in Sweden we call it fusk Tika ausk Tikka yeah it's that funny letter we have in Sweden uh o with two dots if you put an L behind it you have L and that's actually beer good to know um I have taken one syndr fungus and I cut cut it in half so you see this layer just beneath the gray skin this layer is called amadu and that's what I'm going to use not this only this and since I'm I'm a teacher I have prepared so you peel off uh the gray skin and you have to do it quite immediately when you take the fungus cuz otherwise it will get very dry and very hard so I've done that with this one here is the amodo as you can see and I have cut it in very very thin slices and I'm going to use those they look like this you see they almost feels like suede yeah and what I'm going to do is that I'm going to boil them in Birch Ash and I'm going to boil them for an hour well you can boil them longer if you like but one hour and then I'm going to I'm going to bash them you know spank them no and um and then they're going to dry so this video will be two so in this video I will show you how I cook the amodo and then the next video I will show it to you what it looks like when it's dry and then I'm going to try to make fire uh or make it Glow by using flint and steel I know there are plenty of other ways to make fire or glow but I think this is more Bush crafty you know stuff you find in nature I didn't find my pots in nature though but anyway Ash and water looking something like this I will show it to you okay as you can see this is boiling now M gross well as we say in Sweden a real gya so I'm going to take my fungus and I'm going to put it in here and then it's going to boil for an hour approximately okay I have quite a lot okay so okay now I'm going to show you what this look like follow me okay then you see M yummy okay I'm not going to eat this time I promise you okay now they've been buling for an hour so I'm going to take them out of this ash water thing and then I'm going going to do some serious spanking let's see okay and you're not supposed to Brea in that stuff either let's see what we got here e okay they really look like cold oh I get really hungry okay then there's one e well try an error with Emily I know but if you don't try you won't learn as I used to say to my students learning by doing but really I didn't think I didn't expect them to look like this maybe I something wrong well it was fun anyway okay that's all I think so going to move the camera so you can see what I'm about to do okay and I want don't want it to fall into the fire it's too expensive for that okay then something like that perhaps okay well let's try this shall we I don't know if you can see this h well it's still very soft but it's very well black interesting let's keep on doing this okay so I will put them here so they can dry for a bit okay then my poor Spork okay that's one so in my next video I will try to use this as Tinder with flint and steel look I believe that you're also that you have to you know smash it when it's get dried as well uh and when this dry you should should roughen up the edges um so it gets more fluffy okay then maybe I okay maybe you shouldn't do it that hard but this is fun okay so I'm going to do this with all the pieces I think you get the message by now but it's going to be quite interesting to see if this really works next time I have never done this before so it's really new it's very wet look do you see this Amad or I think it's called Tinder now actually okay thank you thank you for watching it's been very interesting to do this and I really hope I will be able to make some fire next time and um some of you have told me that you miss my Swedish Proverbs so I'm going to give you one right now um as most Swedish Proverbs it's a bit odd uh anyway goes like this and if I if I translate that one it will be I send ow in the b anyway thank you for watching if you like my videos please subscribe and share that would make me very happy I'll see you next time when I'm going to use flint and steel

Channel: Emelie's Outdoor Adventures

Views: 53,272

Keywords: bushcraft, bushcraft sweden, survival, survival girl, swedish forest, swedish woods, forest, woods, outdoor, survival bushcraft, swedish bushcraft, tinder, tinder fungus, amadou, preparing firestarters, flint and steel, bushcraft girl, making fire, emelies outdoor adventures, revolution race, fritidsfabriken, swedish girl, svensk tjej, flinta och stål, överlevnad, friluftsliv, svensk kanal

Id: 14NCSsGno_0

Length: 10min 5sec (605 seconds)

Published: Mon May 23 2016