/ck/ - Food & Cooking

maybe it's the red color tricking my brain, but i swear i taste red apple and cinnamon.

>>11214770
I had an anon ask me about Amanita muscaria in another thread; how do you prepare it so you don't get sick?

>>11214750
the ones that make me see stuff

Maitake / hen of the woods

For me, it's chanterelles

The big ones.

>>11214921
Please try not to get my thread pruned again.

>>11215045
I'm have a mushroom soup with some of these tonight.

>>11215068
I found some golden Chanterelles the other day, always a delicacy.

>>11215219
Did you know giant puffballs release 7 trillion spores? Just one is enough to eat for days.

real question do button mushrooms even taste like anything?

>>11215534
While slightly woody in taste, Agaricus bisporus absorbs the flavor of the dish if you use a wet cloth to clean them instead of rinsing with copious water. Anyone who doesn't like mushrooms has usually only had this gateway species.

Russula for me.
Parasol mushroom s well, but that one's much rarer out here

Don't eat any of these, they all exhale mustard gas. This thread is bait.

DUDE SHROOMS LMAO

>>11216324
Europeans have excellent mushroom selection. South America is a close second though they are less documented.

>>11216607
They only exhale various byproducts of respiration... and spores.

>>11216895
Looks like I'm not the only one who adores Mycology.

>>11214750
Are these edible?

>>11217496
That might be a species in the Amidella section of Amanita since it doesn't even have a partial veil like the "blushers" which bruise red slowly (pic related). I'd recommend grabbing a spore print (should be white) and keeping one specimen aside for the ER considering how dangerous Amanita species and gilled fungi as a whole might be.

Edible Amanitas include: A. Rubescens, A. Caesarea, A. Calyptrata, A. Velosa, A. Fulva, A. Vaginata, A. Constricta, and A. Pachyolea.

If you're referring to my (OP) pic, Old Man Of The Woods is edible.

>>11214750
Porcini without a doubt. Yellowfoot and chanterelle come pretty close. I'm lucky to live in an area where I can pick pretty much an endless supply of these and other mushrooms. Of course some years are better and some worse.

>>11217496
Unless you really know your stuff I wouldn't pick amanitas. I've been mushroom hunting since I was a little kid and I still leave them be.

Going to dump some mushrooms I find regularly near me, if any are good for eating let me know.

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>>11218163
These are russula. Good for eating and pretty delicious but those ones are old and dry.
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>>11218164
These are amanitas. I don't know enough of them to identify edible from poisonous. Don't pick.
>>11218169
I have no idea what these are but don't look like anything good.

>>11218185
My slav family insists russula are bad quality mushrooms and taste like shit. I want to try them though

>>11218338
They're nothing special and the texture isn't very good because they are so brittle but they aren't bad in any way. Dice them up and make sauce with them or something similar.
Oh also there are couple of russulas that are inedible because they taste horrible. At least the ones that grow here are bright red and almost burn your tongue. So if you aren't sure you can take just a tiny piece and place it on your tongue because even one of those will ruin the whole dish.
If you want to get into mushroom hunting get a good mushroom book and carry it with you until you can identify the mushrooms that grow near you.

>>11214867
You make reindeer eat it and drink the piss.

Btw, can I eat pic related?

>>11214867
You dry them. I wouldn't suggest it tho. I've tripped on them once and it was the worst shit ever. Horrible looping and at one point I thought I had destroyed the whole universe and felt extreme anxiety and guilt because of it. I was just floating in nothingness all alone and felt like that would go on for an eternity.

>>11214867
Don't dry them. All the literature I have suggests boiling them and straining out the water several times is the best option. Many of the toxic compounds are water soluble as are many of the nutritious compounds though, so although you can do this with a variety of poisonous mushrooms, it will leave you with a pot of soggy, bitter and still slightly poisonous cardboard a majority of the time.

>>11215219
the woman on the left was probably really good looking in her youth

Just moved onto 80 acres of family land in Virginia. Went on a hike with a buddy and a couple other people and found out they are into mushroom hunting. I don't know anything about it, but I just ordered an identification book for my region and am excited to get after it. Just had a ridiculous amount of rain the past week, so mushrooms are blowing up on my land now.

>>11218111
You are lucky! Boletes are good drying specimens so if you find a lot consider dessication. Boletus edulis truly deserves the nickname "King".

>>11218133
A. Caesarea is easy to ID. The sweet taste of A. Velosa is unforgettable; though in age they can be confused with A. Ocreata.

>>11218161
It's hard to tell without seeing the gills, volva, and veil, but I'd guess A. aspera (European form is edible), or maybe A. gematta (poisonous) so it's not worth the risk.

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>>11218164
Take a spore print, if it's creamy yellow it's likely Russula Mariae (poor edible), if it's whitish it's likely Russula Fragilis (fragile, inedible), or Russula Xerampelina if it's yellowish (DELICIOUS). Taste a piece then spit it out and if it's acrid it's no good. Look out for Russula Emetica as it is an emetic and Russula Densifolia as it is poisonous.

>>11218169
Nice LBM though try to get a shot of the gills next time so I can go through my 69 page key to LBMs.

>>11218185
Want to hunt with me, Anon?

>>11218338
Some are delicious, but the bitter/sour and sharp taste of some species cuts deep into memory.

>>11218515
Or you can upload a pic to an anonymous Mongolian underwater basket-weaving forum. I carry a small field guide and have a larger key/ use the Internet once I get home with an unfamiliar specimen.

>>11218570
Mycena murina. No species of Mycena is worth foraging. I knew the reindeer trick.

>>11218584
Is that what happens when you combine psychedelics with toxins? Sounds horrid.

>>11218617
...So it's really not worth it.

>>11218621
Woman are like mushrooms - beautiful and vibrant in youth, haggard and discolored in age.

>>11218785
Try flagging pages of specimens that you find for easier reference in the future. Hunting with enthusiasts is a great way to learn your area's mushrooms since they have so much first hand experience.

>>11219061
>Mycena murina
You failed the test. That's a Psilocybe semilanceata I photographed and identified in 2014, including a microscopic analysis of the spores.

>>11219061
I'm looking at a bunch of reference websites now until my reference book gets here. I think I'm going to try and set up a weekly walkabout on my land for my buddy and his girlfriend to come by and spend an hour or 2 walking and collecting any and all mushrooms we find and try and identify them after. I just read that there are no mushrooms that will really irritate you if you handle them with your hands. I was surprised to learn that (if it is in fact true) as I am always very careful about what plants I handle (especially with the new worry of the terror that is hogweed in my region).

Could be a fun way to traipse around my land with a few beers and get to know my property a little better anyways.

>>11219104
You can even chew and spit out mushrooms for identification purposes. An emetic russula for instance will taste very spicy.

>>11218570
is this a nipple

>>11214750
I've been growing more and more fond of these little bastards lately, as we tend to find decent amounts around the family summer house.
Pretty mild tasting when cooked, but very nice just fried up with butter.

Beyond that, well, being a degenerate Swede, the quintessential pleb mushrooms up here are chanterelles, and I'm not going to argue.
Always take those when I can get them.

Why do funghi have these funky colors and shapes?

>>11219103
>no: reference measurement, gills visible, spore print, microscopic view of spores, odor, vertical or lateral crosscut and a single non gourmet specimen LBM to boot! Anon, I...
I'm glad you weren't my Mycology professor. It was fun playing, keep up your enthusiasm! Do you have a microscope at home, and if so what model/magnification do you use?

>>11219104
I wouldn't collect any and all mushrooms if you are planning to eat them since the spores/milk of poisonous mushrooms can contaminate edible ones. I have a separate bag for known edible and unknowns. Good hunting.

>>11219272
Good to know. I was thinking of bringing a big basket and having separate bags or containers for potentially edible ones vs. ones I know to be dangerous or types that I should avoid.

I’ve been thinking of joining my local mycological club (US north east) but I don’t know how welcoming they are to complete newcomers :/

>>11219336
Likely it’s going to be a bunch of older hippies, or just old folks in general. They should be friendly to anyone who shows geniune interest in the hobby

>>11219061
>You are lucky! Boletes are good drying specimens so if you find a lot consider dessication. Boletus edulis truly deserves the nickname "King".
Yeah I dry the ones I can't use right away. Yellowfoot I pickle.

>>11219219
I love them as well as these magnificent bastard. Sadly near me they are pretty rare. There can be several years in a row when none grow.

What about these fellas?

>>11218111
I once found a big one casually growing by the sidewalk in a public park. It was a good day.

>>11219774
The nice thing about them is that they seem to attract very few maggots for whatever reason. Even when they have grown old and big they are almost always maggot-free. Most other boletus you have to find young or they are more than likely infested.

>>11219535
Little brown mushroom. They are pretty much impossible to identify from pictures alone.

>>11219272
Nah, I used the one at my department. It has a nice reticle to measure spore dimensions.

One of these popped up in the back yard at work over the weekend. According to Wikipedia, they're edible, but I'm not interested. Also found some kind of stemonitis mold on the same log, which is cool looking.

I grew some Stropharia rugosa-annulata this summer, they were great. I got probably close to 15lbs.

>>11220886
How would one start growing their own mushrooms?
Forests around me have enough mushrooms to last me the whole year but it sounds like a fun hobby.

>>11221151
Figure out what you want to grow and the substrate that works best, then set up your plot. Usually a semi-wooded area with consistent moisture works best, but it depends from mushroom to mushroom. Paul stamets has some great books on mushroom cultivation if you're looking for more info.

Ceasars mushrooms

>>11221174
Thanks anon. It's time to do some research. I'll see if my local library has a copy of that book.

>>11221151
Start with the Shroomery forums. They mostly focus on psilocybe cubensis, but you can find info on other species as well.

>>11214750
Chicken-of-the-Woods

>>11221301
Fuck Ted Nugent and fuck the NRA
And fuck their attitude
He thinks riding a buffalo and wearing Oakley's
Will make him look real cool

He's a dick, fuck him
Asshole, fuck him

>>11221394
had a couple of these pop up on an oak tree in my backyard last year and again this year.. unfortunately it rained like crazy for a week straight and they got bugged to shit as soon as it dried out. got to try it the year before though and it really is insane how much it LOOKS like chicken as well as the taste, if you saw a piece sliced like a slice of chicken say in fajitas, you wouldn't be able to tell a difference.

>>11221415
Yeah, they are quite amazing. People actually thought it was chicken and I had to explain that it was fungi.

>>11221407
>fuck the NRA
fuck you! they're far from perfect but at least they go to bat.

>>11218584
simply drying them only converts a very small amount of the ibotenic acid in them into the actual drug, you still got majority neurotoxin in those badboys.

you need to dry them and then boil them at 90 degrees Celsius (it needs to be high enough for the acid to break down but just below 95, since that would also cause the psycho active compound to break down) for a couple hours. i think adding vinegar is a thing aswell, dunno, never tried it. then you filter it and drink the liquid.

>>11221394
>all that oil
Disgusting amerifats

>>11221438
Actually I have some pics here

Rained on ones from this year, last year's was MUCH more yellow than orange

As far as I know, these ONLY grow on oak roots and they have no other lookalike, not even a similarity unless your visual acuity is severely stunted. Great one to know and a better treat in mid-late summer

Abalone

snack

>>11214750
Call me a pleb, but I like the common brown mushrooms most, and the black slimy kind in my version of my mom's "kitchen sink stew"

I had an interesting kind last year while in the woods with the bf and mom. Lobster mushroom. It's infected by another fungus which is very picky and it's a available at Whole Foods if you want to try it without getting your hands dirty.

>>11222588
>black slimy kind in my version of my mom's "kitchen sink stew"
Can you elaborate? What are black slimy mushroom and kitchen sink stew?

>>11222516
Yeah my man!


Macrolepiota procera. Great breaded and fried until crispy. With mashed potatoes...

>>11222610
cloud ear fungus
The stew contains a lot of ingredients.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/everything_and_the_kitchen_sink

I usually make it with homemade seitan, thyme whole wheat dumplings, and a bundle of mustard greens, among other ingredients.

>>11214750
Champignons are good.
Chanterelle are elder God Tier with polenta, grilled cheese and sausages

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>>11217998
In general, the amanitas like these are poisonous (always exceptions, but not worth the risk in my opinion, since the cap colors can change significantly and these often grow in mixed woods where the associated tree is unclear). You can almost always tell them by the specks of white on the cap. That's a classic tell for a great many poisonous amanitas out there. We get Aprica, Muscaria, and "Pantherina" here, all poisonous.

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>>11216324
These are russulas. They are legendarily difficult to identify at the species level, which means only a very experienced hunter should try to eat one. Fortunately the worst you'll get is a very bad stomachache, but the fact that the "species" found in most field guides out there actually exist as clusters of related and even distantly related species means you should be very cautious with them.

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>>11219219
Hedgehog mushrooms are a great beginner species. Very hard to mistake them for a poisonous variety.

>>11214750
Porcini & Chanterelle, Morrel are so fucking good but too expensive

I love porcinis, chanterelles and parasols, but they tend to get btfod by 90yo grandmas that scour the woods at 4am to get first picks, blushers are delicious and most senior farmers don't pick them cause they look too much like panthers

>>11222624
I always bread and fry them whole, shame to waste a cool cap like this

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>>11218617
It might be worth it, just not in a survival situation. If you want to go on a psychedelic adventure, boiling them and drinking the water supposedly is best method.

This thread is giving me a bit of a chubby. Thinkin about seriously getting into this stuff. I have some land and we just got shitloads of rain so there are a million mushrooms that have just popped up over the last night or 2. Might go wander a bit today and see what all I can find.

>>11222827
It's a great, relaxing hobby. You get fresh air, some light exercise and free food. What's not to love?

Oysters. Temp just dropped and it rained a lot, need to go foraging in the back yard for that some some woods birds.

>>11222917
Just went down by my pond and there are a number of different types that have blown up. About to look online and try and identify a few of them now. I used to not enjoy mushrooms all that much, but the past few years have really gotten into them. Love them in omelettes and from what I've read and seen lately, there are a million great ways to prepare them.

Check out these aesthetic Cystoderma amianthinum. Not palatable, but they look cool as shit.

This here is Sparassis crispa, a bitch to clean but good eating.

I'll let you guess this one. Hymenium is adnate, spore print is white. Yes, it's edible.

>>11222791
Exactly! The stems are tough but the caps...OH MY MY! That lovely crunch! Looking forward to this weekend gonna go to a place where tons of these are every year.

Another edible that's fucking rad. Cordyceps militaris. Grows out of burrowed insect pupae. It's used in Chinese traditional medicine and cuisine.

Coprinus Comatus

>>11214750
Who /trumpetofthedead/ here?

>>11223577
Me when I can find them. Sadly the area where I live doesn't seem to be favorable for them. Some years I've been able to find them though and they are great. Also they just look cool and funky.

>>11223577
My favorite, these and candy caps.

>>11224692
>Eating anything you haven't absolutely certainly identified
Yeah, don't do this. Also what were those?

>>11224709
dude weed lmao

I want to eat these someday

>>11214750
Deicious cranberry shroom smoothie

>>11215219
Now that's a big shroom

>>11214750
Chicken of the woods
T. hillbilly

>>11226163
Just cleaned, de-grubbed, sliced & dried 10# for stock to get me through the winter

damn I'm super jealous of these massive CotW clusters- all I've ever found is chanterelles and a very small number of oysters
anyone want to share tips for hunting in western washington?

My 1st and second fav have been posted already
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>>11222516
So I'll post my 3rd fav, opieńka miodowa (armillaria mellea for you gaijins).

>tfw live in a semiarid climate with little in the way of mushrooms

>>11214750
My favourite mushroom is deadly nightcap

You can eat it, but only once

>>11223859
Luckily they are easily found in my area (if the weather is good). Making a risotto with them is just the best.

>>11224894
OwO what are these wow

aside from getting a book or reading websites, how do you anons learn what's edible

>>11227247
lactarius indigo

>>11227263
I learnt by picking them with my mom since I was a little kid. If you know someone who knows your local mushrooms then that is your best bet.
If there's a mushroom hunting club close where you live they will probably take you with them for a hunting trip. They are mostly old people so I don't think they would mind the company.

>>11227270
Fortunately have a few friends who have been hunting for the past year or so. Don't trust them implicitly, but for the basics I do. I think we're going to look for a local club in a week or 2. My land is blowing up with them and I don't want to miss a potentially good harvest. Gonna get out there this weekend.

About chicken of the forest, I found a bunch growing on what is most likely fir-tree stump. I cut them in small cubes, parboiled and then fried them before dumping them in a curry sauce and while it tasted amazing the texture came out quite rubbery, a few pieces even inedible. Should I prepare them differently or was they simply to old?

>>11223577
>tfw have not found any in my usual spot this year
Feels bad man. Also did not know they have such a hardcore name in other languages, here's they're just known as black trumpets.

>you will never find matsutake while on a mushroom search and sell it for thousands of dollars per kilo to a bunch of rich japs

>>11219219
I hate these foreigb mushroom names, it's literally just some latin bullshit, while we finns have comfy names for all of our mushrooms

>>11227395
One year I found a couple of them but they were too old to be eaten. I was a bit pissed off because had I gone hunting a week earlier they would have been perfect.

>>11227263
Websites and modern books are honestly your best bet. Many mushrooms that are considered edible in general and are said to be so in older books are actually poisonous in varying degrees. For example, true morsels are actually somewhat poisonous even after excessive boiling and you shouldn't eat them more than once or twice a year since the toxins accumulate in the body. Regardless they are viciously defended as edible by various retards and older people.

>>11227352
We call them "Trombette dei morti", french call them "Trompette de la mort" and I read that in english they are called "Trumpet of the dead" too, so I went for it and posted them with that name.

Other mushrooms with a hardcore name are Boletus Satana (pic related), we call them "Porcini malefici" (maleficent porcini)

>>11227426
I’m going to need a source on that. I’ve always been told true morels are safe when fully cooked.

>>11227749
Fugg, I seem to have confused true morsels with false morsels during translation. I'm mainly talking about Gyromitra esculenta, which is considered a delicacy in several parts of the world.

Bump to keep a great thread alive. Anyone goin' out hunting this weekend?

>>11228942
Nah, probably the next one. But they are already growing, loads of them...
Pic related. Some people found over 60kg of porcini mushrooms.

>>11228942
I'm going out early next week. It's been a dry season so most mushrooms are late. I'm hoping to find some orange milkcap and trumpet of the dead, so far they've both been absent this year.

>>11228942
Yep, this sunday. Going in a place at the foot of our mountains, hope to find porcini, cantharellus cibarius and russula virescens.

>>11228986
That's a lot of money on that table.

>>11214750
Pretty hard to just pick one favorite. Top few:

>pine mushrooms
>lobster mushrooms
>hedgehog mushrooms
>black trumpets
>morels, especially orchard morels

>>11227395
I'm so goddamn salty that the japs are willing to pay so much for those. They're so delicious but I can never fucking get any unless I find them myself because it's not worth selling them here when people in Japan will pay goddamn ridiculous sums for them.

>>11229979
What's even so special about them? I know japs give them as gifts but I can't imagine any mushroom tasting so good that it would be worth the price. Truffles at least are hard to find but I still think they are overpriced.

>>11229995
It's a cultural thing there, not 100% sure why. From my perspective it's because they have a great texture and insane flavor. Like if cinnamon, pine, and king oyster mushrooms could be mixed together. They're really distinctive and have a super firm, meaty texture.

>>11222990
That is nice looking

>>11227263
in addition to having a book, I've found a facebook group about mushroom IDs in my area to be very helpful. I try to identify them on my own, but then I always post pics to the facebook group for confirmation by experts (including sometimes the guy who wrote the ID book I use lol)

>>11222990
mmm looks like buttery egg noodles

>>11214750
Morel, it's the only one my parents could get me to eat, I like them pan fried on their own.

>>11229645
Yea, but nobody actually cares about it. Mushrooms are very common thing here so people sometimes giving them for free to their neigbours or relatives becase “we have too much of them”...
The 60kg of mushrooms will yield around 6kg when dried. Packets of 50g grams are sold in supermarket for 3-3,5€. So yeah, it’s quite a lot of money if you consider the only thing they had to do was go to the forest and spend here all day or maybe two.