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\u00a0The other day I dug up a yucca plant to share with a friend.\u00a0 The two that were planted here a decade ago have spread to about six or seven.\u00a0 As I pulled the plant from the soil, being sure to leave plenty around the root ball, a tuber fell to the ground.\u00a0 I didn’t know if it came from the yucca, and mentioned it to my sister, who said, “oh yeah!\u00a0 That’s where the saponins are!”<\/p>\n

I didn’t plant these.\u00a0 Her husband, my brother in law, has a thing for hostas and yucca.\u00a0 He’s a tree nurseryman, and he likes plants that you can put in and forget about.\u00a0 If I’m not paying attention, there will suddenly be a whole patch of hostas in my back yard.\u00a0 In fact there are two.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Same thing happened with the yucca, but they are stately and lush, so I didn’t mind.<\/p>\n

The next day I went out and picked up the tuber. One reason was so that it didn’t grow and another was because it seemed like a fun experiment.\u00a0 As we talked about it, Maryanne told me that it was (is?) traditionally used by the Navaho to wash wool.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These are the original two, on either side of a walkway out through the fence.\u00a0 The closer one houses many small creatures around its base, which might account for the smaller size.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0This one is smallish, about the size of a large fingerling potato.\u00a0
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In fact there’s a net bag of fingerlings on the counter, and it occurred to me that they looked similar except that the yucca has a dark, thick skin while the potato is pale and thin.\u00a0 The yucca’s texture is a cross between a potato and a water chestnut.\u00a0 Very firm.\u00a0 It is slippery as soon as you cut it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Normal people would look up how it is typically processed at this point, but that would be too easy.\u00a0 Instead, I chopped it up into pretty small pieces.<\/p>\n

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Added water and put it into the microwave for a minute (where it foamed over a bit).\u00a0
It sat overnight and got nice and cloudy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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On my hands, the feeling was definitely clean.\u00a0 There’s something else though.\u00a0 Not a coating, but the skin feels soft and an indescribable feeling of having some kind of protective barrier.\u00a0 There’s no drag when hands or fingers are rubbed together – hours later.
So then I washed my hair.\u00a0 Straining out the bits of yucca, there were about three ounces of liquid.\u00a0 The first thing I noticed is that it’s hard to tell where the “soap” has gone because there aren’t any bubbles or foam.\u00a0 Did I get the part behind my left ear?\u00a0 What about the crown?\u00a0 The feeling was “squeaky clean.”\u00a0 It took a while before it seemed to be rinsed out.\u00a0 We have very hard water here, so I would never use it at the beach, where even regular shampoo or soap feels impossible to rinse off (super soft water).\u00a0 My sister tells me that when detergents first went on the market, they didn’t sell because they didn’t bubble or foam.\u00a0 In order to get people to buy them, they needed to add a foaming agent.\u00a0 Using this liquid, I can agree that it was disconcerting.\u00a0\u00a0
#1 I think I should have diluted it.
#2 A little vinegar rinse might have been a good idea.
BUT the results are great.\u00a0 The volume and texture is increased, and it’s very clean.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Later, I sniffed around the internet and found that I could pound it (or use my Ninja) and then dry it for later use.\u00a0 To use the dry root, it should be reconstituted.\u00a0 It might be worth digging up some more tubers!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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