My mum is a typical akoko woman.there was a time when we eat poundedyam everysunday until power change hands,now it has been just twice in two weeks.The problem here is that I can't just pound.I am 5'4,48kg,where will the strength come from,when i pick the pestle within five minutes i just get tired.am i being lazy?have decided to stop eating it though and it is shameful my younger sister pounds well.she is way bigger than me..so,to pound yam,skill or strength.which is more important?...yeah i made front page.Thank God and to everyone who viewed this post

pounding yam is more of skill and not strength....if you know what you to do...hitting the pistil right is key

Skill

Tone tonz: The problem here is that I can't just pound.I am 5'4, 48kg

4' 5", 84kg you meant? . Cuz ur meant to have enough strength to handle it.

Strength first; then any other tactics follows!...
When you get fatigue, even with the best skills available, you can't pound yam!... BUT with your little strenth, you can just simply, continously and mechanically be hitting the pistle on the pieces of yam, with time, a soft one would have been ready to be swallowed!...

Wow ! ! you really are small .you have no business pounding yam for anybody joor strength is important, i have the skill but abeg no strength.

My sister,no be only you,once I hit dt pestle 2ce,my body go just dey shake,I'll start sweatin profusely, becom cold and hot at d same time,hian ,na so I jejely advise myself,started usind d tiny morter used for pounding soup ingredients,for d yam,even dt tiny mortar sef no be beans,so I pound for only my husby,d rest of us na to face eba,I no fit shout

how my bobo? @tjskii.

byvan: how my bobo? @tjskii.

he dey o,ow ur side,sheee o wa pa

tjskii: My sister,no be only you,once I hit dt pestle 2ce,my body go just dey shake,I'll start sweatin profusely, becom cold and hot at d same time,hian ,na so I jejely advise myself,started usind d tiny morter used for pounding soup ingredients,for d yam,even dt tiny mortar sef no be beans,so I pound for only my husby,d rest of us na to face eba,I no fit shout

.Most of una "can't-fit" pound common nyarm, yet una go wan compare una selves wif men!... "ahhhhrrr!.."...
#winkz#

^^like say u wey dey talk sabi pound yam ,I sure say to make ordinary eba sef,go be war

tjskii: ^^like say u wey dey talk sabi pound yam ,I sure say to make ordinary eba sef,go be war

Lolz!... Na mouth yhu just yarb me so ooo!...
But the truth be say, i dey cook well well, nor be mout, i been don help my aunty cook for her restaurant before...
Abi yhu wan try me?.... *hehehe*

Try u ke,abeg my pikins stil small,I never ready to chop poison

tjskii: Try u ke,abeg my pikins stil small,I never ready to chop poison

hahahahaha!...

IT'S STRENGTH NOT SKILL..
IF U GET THE SKILL N DER IS NO STRENGTH,THE POUNDED YAM WON'T BE SOFT,EDIBLE ENOUGH..
IT'S THE STRENGTH YOU NEED

Me myself I don't have the power to pound yam,so I don't eat it as much.

Most Times I Just Stand And Watch And Marvel At How My Mum Does It. I No Fit. My Mum's On The Slim Side And She Doesn't Show Any Sign Of Tiredness. The Day I I Try am My Two Shoulders Hear am.

The Style I Dey Always Use Chop The Pounded Yam Sef . Na Small Small. I Go Con Dey Look My Mummy With Stylish Pity. Na Skill O.

Both are nided...bt i tink d skill is mre important..i av ds male friend who dnt pound yam evn though i knw he has strenght of doing hard work bt leav it 4 d younger sister to do d pounding....

I thought dere is a machine dat pounds d yam these days....... Wats up wit d advancement in d tech world.

I can tell with outright confidence that pipo wia sabi level pounded yam, na them go de dis thread!!
#I like puunded yam;buh pounding that stuff is really a problem, most times you see blisters all over ma hand after the excercise, and that alone turns me off..

Are people still pounding yam when we have poundo yam flour readily available
in the market?. Very easy to prepare?

Both is required but skill is necessary. Cos if you master the skill well enough, you'll spend less energy...

Let me just observe,i still be learner.

99% strength, %1 skill.

You need the two! But I hate pounding yam! Because I always injure myself when pounding

For me, na the skill and strenght to finish the pounded yam concern me pass

Only God knows how dem came up with dat energy draining food preparatn....me na ajebota,its nt a must to eat pounded yam..if my future wife insists on preparn it,well i no go discourage her,bt i will nt b responsible for any diziness experienced aftaward..

First you need skill on how to pound,that is hitting it at the right place and when you start adding water. You can start pounding gently after the first 3-5minute.
I pound very well but pounded yam is my least favorite food.

Both.
Because I always had the strength to pound, but couldnt finish the pounding, why? Because I couldnt "rin".

But now with the combination of "rin-rin" and my strength, pounded yam is ready, baby!

#teampdyam3timesaweek.