Harvesting acorns

Next season should be an 'on' year for us and in that mindset I'm setting up to harvest this time. As I research harvesting, fermenting and multiple of uses, I have read one confusing article I hope you can confirm or deny for me.

Article spoke of acorns that fall with their caps still on. Basically stating they are not ripe enough to work with.

Even if true, then why could you not at least cold press for the oil?

what they’re saying is that if they drop early, underdeveloped, the kernel itself won’t be developed enough to get anything useful from, including oil.

what species are you expecting a lot from? oak mast years can be a lot harder to predict than the generally biennial bearers like walnuts.

One of our forum members has written a book on acorn forage that some folks might be interested in:

https://permies.com/wiki/73585/Acorn-Foraging-Alicia-Bayer

greg mosser wrote:what they’re saying is that if they drop early, underdeveloped, the kernel itself won’t be developed enough to get anything useful from, including oil.

what species are you expecting a lot from? oak mast years can be a lot harder to predict than the generally biennial bearers like walnuts.

My reds are due. Have had two weak years and that seems about the cycle for me. Two on, two light, two almost none, then away we go again. Just what I've seen on my land. Now couple miles away the reds had a great year! A friend of mine hunts those woods and we were comparing notes.