[Tax-chick]

The locals just aren’t that hungry yet. Kudzu is okay ... I’ve used it in place of spinach ... but you can eat stinging nettles, too, if you’re on the verge of starvation.

[ArGee]

Then tell Michelle O. that cooking with Kudzu reduces childhood obesity and you’ll have a shortage in no time.

[NoCmpromiz]

but you can eat stinging nettles, too, if you’re on the verge of starvation.

If I remember the recipes I have seen dumping them in boiling water kills the stinging stuff. I have never tried any. Mostly because it's easier to cook a lot of other stuff that I don't need to handle with gloves on just to throw it in the pot of boiling water. Should I at some indeterminate time in the future get a hankerin' for some nettle cuisine, there is plenty of the product growing on the 78 acres here - enough that if it ever becomes a hit I could sell it - certified organic too so I could double the price. (Only what grows up close to the house gets watered with glyphosate...)

Here ya go - if you're adventuresome. ;-)

Stinging Nettles: 8 Recipes for Spring Cooking