Mushrooms

[Anonymous No.4882152]

>being American
>only buying those little white mushrooms or portabellas from the grocery store
>not knowing there's hundreds of other edible varieties
>not going innawoods and picking your own

Pick related, its a god-tier edible mushroom

What the fuck is your excuse for not eating these?

[Anonymous No.4882157]

don't blame being american on your own ignorance. pick up a fucking book once in a while and you'll know there is more out there than what's put in front of you at a grocery store.

[Anonymous No.4882161]

My excuse is that I don't want to educate myself in mushroom hunting enough to be able to not poison my dumb ass.

My mushroom hunting is limited to morels in season.

[Anonymous No.4882165]

>>4882161
>>4882161

[Anonymous No.4882169]

I have a ton of friends who hunt mushrooms and I live in the Pacific Northwest where they are everywhere. Every time I ask to tag along on one of their hunts they blow me off. Every time I see them they ask me, "So dude! Why haven't you gone mushroom hunting yet?" It's sort of annoying.

[Anonymous No.4882175]

>>4882161
not wanting to educate yourself on something you wish to do is lazy and silly.

[Anonymous No.4882179]

>>4882169

Thats weird, maybe they don't want to reveal to you their favorite picking spots.

Sounds like shitty friends there anon

[Anonymous No.4882185]

>>4882179
>shitty friends
This is the story of my life. I can't tell you the number of times I've made a big dinner only to have them bail on me and I'm left with pounds and pounds of food that my wife and I have to struggle to get through.

[Anonymous No.4882186]

>>4882169
Mushrooms tend to grow in the same spots year after year after year. Given the high price mushrooms can command, mushroom hunters can be very very protective of their "spots" and unwilling to show them even to close friends.

Do you have any woodsmans skills to speak of, or will you get lost the moment you wander from a trail?

[Anonymous No.4882190]

>>4882186
I have moderate skills, I guess? I've done a fair amount of camping and stayed out in the badlands for two weeks without dying.

[Anonymous No.4882192]

>mushrooms
fck no no no

even seeing mushrooms growing on people's lawns evokes a panic response in me. I want to live in a world where there are no such things as mushrooms.

[Anonymous No.4882202]

>>4882190
Then I'd go looking for your own spots. I don't know what mushroom hunting in your area is like, but I was self-taught just by wandering through the woods during the right time of year. Morels are easy, though. There's no imposters if you go looking at the right time.

Anyways, though, if you can prove that you can find your own mushrooms and might even have something to contribute to their group, they'll be a lot more likely to reveal their secrets. Otherwise, you're just an extra mouth to feed.

[Anonymous No.4882221]

>>4882202
Awesome, thanks for the vote of confidence.

[Anonymous No.4882229]

Another excellent eater

[Anonymous No.4882232]

Oysters are pretty good too

You don't even need to go in the woods for these, they will grow on trees on the side of the road

[Anonymous No.4882236]

>>4882185
I would stop being friends with them.

[Anonymous No.4882246]

I'm doing a PhD in mycology and although I can identify all the edibles in my area, I'm not really big into eating mushrooms. I find them underwhelming and they are far more interesting from a biological point of view than just seeing them as food.

Most mycologists I have met are like this. The worst is when you are hosting a foray and the people who only ask "is it edible?" are there.

[Anonymous No.4882247]

Nowhere good to go around here, in the middle of Orange County California. Luckily, there's plenty of markets where I can get all sorts of mushrooms.

[Anonymous No.4882277]

>>4882229
Good lord, it'd take an entire village to eat that fucker.

[Anonymous No.4882809]

>>4882169
http://www.psms.org/index.php

Fuck yeah pacific northwest. Chanterelles, morels, oysters, princes, pscilocybes, we've got everything.

>>4882246
Mushrooms are an accessory food to make other things taste better, most can't stand on their own, with a few exceptions.

[ram No.4882820]

>>4882246
if you dont know everything about your field and if you dont enjoy picking and eating ones you find in the field, then you will not be one of the best in your field. just a loan debtor like the rest of your ilk.

[Anonymous No.4882822]

>>4882277
Psshhh no!
Give me 5 minutes with it, and you can have all of the left overs.

[Anonymous No.4882831]

>>4882809
I love mushrooms sauted in butter anon. I figured most peopled liked them .

[Anonymous No.4882845]

>>4882831
I love the stronger tasting ones that way, but if you're limited to low/meh tier, they tend to do better in other dishes in my very humble opinion.

[Anonymous No.4882891]

>>4882845
Well I like button mushrooms and those are literally the only ones I have been lucky enough to have fresh and sauted. The Culinary World just keeps getting bigger damnit.

[Anonymous No.4882900]

>>4882152
I don't live in america
not many mushrooms around and no info about them
it makes me sad, mushrooms are fascinating

[Anonymous No.4882908]

>>4882152
I'm a super taster so mushrooms have a dirty taste to them. The same goes for cilantro.

[Anonymous No.4882920]

>>4882820
>if you dont know everything about your field and if you dont enjoy picking and eating ones you find in the field, then you will not be one of the best in your field.
Mycology =/= eating mushrooms

[Anonymous No.4882933]

I personally enjoy my kidneys and with the exception of >>4882246, you bastards are playing with fire if you think you're masters of identifing edible mushies. Case in point: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8675690/Nicholas-Evans-I-wanted-to-die.-It-was-so-grim.html


What about the psychedelic variety?

[Anonymous No.4882948]

>>4882933
To be fair, the guy was asking for it:
>"It had been 10 years since I’d picked ceps and I thought: these are a bit more ginger-coloured than I remember. I didn’t spot the crucial difference – that they had gills and ceps don’t.”

They look completely different. There is literally no reason he should have made that mistake. Even someone who was blind could feel the difference between Boletus edulis and a Cortinarius.

If you stick to the easy ones and stay away from Amanita, Cortinarius, Galerina spp. and other little brown mushrooms you will be fine.

Identifying edible mushrooms really isn't difficult. You should just go with someone who knows what they are doing and learn from there. There is nothing to be afraid of.

[Anonymous No.4882960]

>>4882152
>Trying to get Amerifats killed.

[Anonymous No.4882993]

>>4882908
If cilantro tastes soapy/dirty to you then it is genetic. It's in the same cluster of genes responsible for being able to smell hydrogen cyanide gas. Some people can either draw no taste from cilantro or find it soapy. Some find it delicious.

[Anonymous No.4883026]

>>4882152
i kinda expect someone to suggest magic mushrooms in this thread after all this is the internet..

[Anonymous No.4883184]

>>4882809
>Fuck yeah pacific northwest
Fuck yeah indeed. On top of the ones you listed, we also get turtle mushrooms, hedgehog mushrooms, lobster mushrooms...

[Anonymous No.4883217]

>>4882152
word chantrelles are in season here in washington right now. i make the best fucking ragout ever.

[Anonymous No.4883356]

I've been an avid mushroom hunter for upwards of fifteen years. My taste buds could not be happier for that cheesy little mushroom book I got for my tenth birthday all those years ago.

[Anonymous No.4883378]

>What the fuck is your excuse for not eating these?

I don't live near any wooded areas, I wouldn't even know how to begin looking for them in the wild anyway, and no one's selling even the dried ones online.

[Anonymous No.4883405]

Mushroom hunting seems absolutely fascinating but I'd be too worried about selecting wrongly and getting really sick.

[Spaghetti No.4883448]

>>4882152
eew why would i go to the woods and pick mushrooms? gross. and honestly OP, i prefer buying them from the grocery store.

[Anonymous No.4883489]

Midwesterner here, going innawoods and picking your own mushroom is absolutely playing a game of russian roulette if you don't have an experienced forager with you for the first few times. Even the most handy of mushroom guides can only help you so much, especially when for every edible mushroom there are at least 2 "false" ones that look just like it but are mildly poisonous at best

[Anonymous No.4883507]

I have some of these in my yard could I eat them?

[Anonymous No.4883532]

>>4883507
no u die

[Anonymous No.4883534]

>>4883507
Yes. They are tasty and have an intoxicating effect similar to wine.
And if you eat too much you die.

[Anonymous No.4883548]

>>4883507
dem psychoactives

[Anonymous No.4883549]

>>4883507
if nothing else they are very pretty

[Anonymous No.4883553]

>>4883507
Go for it. They'll turn you into a giant.

[Anonymous No.4883566]

Alice looked at the paper that was written as "Eat Me", in wonderland.

...With this.

[Anonymous No.4883569]

>>4883566
That must have been nature's inspiration for giving mammals tits.

[Anonymous No.4883601]

>>4882152
>2012
>implying that portabellas aren't the same species as button mushrooms
>implying America has more than one mushroom on their grocery store shelves

captha related: doubtful revaliat

[Anonymous No.4883627]

>>4883601
the next food fad will be "baby portabella mushrooms". Manhattanites will be eating them for a month or two before someone notices what happened.

[Anonymous No.4883634]

I used to go mushroom hunting with my dad all the time when I was younger in Michigan and Pennsylvania and occasionally in our home state of Ohio. Nothing better than getting a big batch and bringing them back to mom to deep fry.

>pic related

[Anonymous No.4883642]

I feel obligated to post this.

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000700.php

[Anonymous No.4883659]

>>4883627
made me lol with troof

[Anonymous No.4883667]

>>4883627

So... criminis then?

[Anonymous No.4883669]

>>4882933

that old honkey taking a kidney from his daughter.... wat a dick

[Anonymous No.4883672]

>>4882185
>wife

[Anonymous No.4883675]

>>4882152
Mushrooms have power dude, they could fucking kill you!

I ain't a wizard, I don't know which mushroom does what!

How you expect me to learn all that shit and still live my life?
Fuck!
mushroom eating fairy fucker

[Anonymous No.4883864]

>>4883507
u gotta boil them first bro

[Anonymous No.4883879]

>>4883507
People rarely die from amanita muscaria but if you don't prepare them properly they act as a deliriant, basically giving you a very unpleasant high.

[Anonymous No.4883928]

>>4883634
Shit nigga I have those in my garden, what do they taste like?

[Anonymous No.4883934]

>>4882152
When I find them, I eat the hell out of them. Schnitzel'd is my favorite way to eat them. They are pretty inconsistent with their flushes though.

[Anonymous No.4883978]

>>4883928
They're amazing. Bread them and deep fry them

[Anonymous No.4883995]

>>4883928
They taste like delicious. My dad took me mushroom hunting as well and would just fry them up in some butter for me when we got home.

[Anonymous No.4883999]

Hhhhhnnnnnnnnnggggggg
Chanterelles, maitakes & morels
sauteed in brown butter
All of my want

[Anonymous No.4884003]

>>4883928
Make sure the caps are attached at the base (not hanging) and that they are hollow inside.
I'd like to get into mushroom hunting, but I don't know the best time to go out, and coastal Texas doesn't seem to have many readily identifiable edible mushrooms.

[Anonymous No.4884617]

>>4882232
bit unsure of eating fungi next to a road, since they are so porous I imagine they would be vulnerable to pollution. IDK

Yeah, I have a friend who was talking about where she finds amazing amounts of chanterelles every year, and when I expressed interest in going out foraging with her got a total and utter shutdown like "sorry...I can't tell you where they are" What the fuck.

[Anonymous No.4884649]

champignon has an aftertaste that is similar to what my cum smells like. Which is why I dont like it.

[vtak yo !EGW8pzdbCs No.4884668]

>>4882152
because knowing my luck id eat something poisonous and die

[Anonymous No.4884673]

>>4882236
dude just eat them!!!

??? the whole bag?! fuck it

omnomnom

*super troopers*

[Anonymous No.4884791]

Is there anyone/anyplace that sells spores so I can just grow my own instead of hunting innawoods for my morels?

[Anonymous No.4884946]

>>4882152
Not dying

[Anonymous No.4886078]

>>4884791
Fungi Perfecti (Olympia, Washington) used to sell kits, not sure if they still do. I've read mixed reviews on whether or not they worked. At a guess, the required growing environment is more complex than is understood, so the kits are a little hit-or-miss. It's also possible that some buyers figured, "oh, sure, the instructions *say* the spores need to be put on oak tree roots, but I'm sure that this palm tree will work just as well!"

[Anonymous No.4886083]

>mfw the chanterelle season is over

[Anonymous No.4886311]

>>4886078
I've had 2 orders from them. The first was a bagged pearl oyster sawdust kit for indoors. It took a while getting here and started flushing while in the box in the UPS trucks. When it arrived it had eaten about half the Fungi Perfecti catalog included in the box. I was able to get 6 pounds of mushrooms from it and I made other kits from it.

The second time I ordered shiitake mushroom plugs. I got some small maple logs from a recently fallen tree (wind damage) and installed the plugs in it and used wine bottle wax to seal the holes. This year I missed the first flush for them because I was using the logs as boarders for my blackberries and I neglected to keep weeds clear so I could see them. I weighed them and there was 6 pounds of shiitake mushrooms. All were too old to eat though. Pic related.

I'm planning on selecting a few tree limbs and ordering more plug spawn. This time to make an actual area to grow mushrooms. Fungi Perfecti's kits are good from my limited experience.

>>4884791
Morels are super difficult to cultivate.

[Anonymous No.4886693]

What's a good way to find logs to inoculate? Pretty sure people would take offense if I just walked around the woods taking decent sized logs.

[Anonymous No.4886741]

>>4882152
MiddlEurope here, jigglypuffs.
I cannot actually believe that what my grandfather told me about Murica was true. As I can see it does not apply to all of you, but srsly, mushrooms can kill you? Yes, if you are retard and picking what you do not know. in my country every five year old knows all of Boletaceae and recognizes Macrolepitoa from amanita ten meters away or just by scent of the forest. Just a heads up - I live in city and mushies are even in park. I would kill for your redwood forests and all those Suilli in there. Shame on you, notpickers.

[Anonymous No.4886764]

>>4886741
I want to go picking but by the time I got around to eating that many shrooms they would have gone off.

I am the only person I know who doesn't despise mushrooms

[Anonymous No.4886772]

>>4886741
We don't have to eat garbage here in America

>We willingly choose to, as long as it's made in a lab :^)

>please end my misery

[Anonymous No.4886926]

>>4886693
You need fresh logs. The fresher the better the inoculation will take place. The logs need to be 4-6 inches in diameter.

I find the best way to get logs and limbs is to drive around with my truck and a saw just after a major wind storm. If there's a power outage, I head to the area the linemen are and they are more than happy to cut logs to length and help load them on my truck for me.

>>4886741
American culture is fear-based. Lack of knowledge about a subject broods fear and anger as well as a complete disregard for wanting to learn. Not everyone is like that, but the majority is. Also, not all places in the USA are like that. It can be quite mind-bogging and tiresome to deal with these people day in and day out.

[Anonymous No.4887206]

>>4882152
I've eaten chicken of the woods before. Tasted only vaguely like chicken but I think it would make a passable chicken soup.

[Anonymous No.4887254]

>>4882175
not when it come to becoming well versed in edible fungi.

There are some dangerous ones that grow right along with the edible ones that look nearly identical.

I would prefer buying mushrooms from a market than trying to become a mushroom expert and poisoning myself or others with a toadstool.

[Anonymous No.4887871]

>>4887254
Every year in the Seattle area, we get news stories about Vietnamese immigrant families getting themselves killed because they went off and found some "delicious edible mushrooms" just like the ones Uncle Hoa used to gather back home in Vietnam.

Well, oops, it turns out they look almost the same, but there are important differences like toxins that will either put the eater on the liver transplant list or kill him outright.

There are groups that teach people about mushroom identification and gathering, but some people are too stubborn or too stupid to bother with learning.

[Anonymous No.4888129]

>>4887254
>There are some dangerous ones that grow right along with the edible ones that look nearly identical.

Nothing looks like chicken of the woods or giant puffball and is poisonous. Stick to things that don't have look-a-likes and you're fine. If you are the type of person that can't do simple shit like this image then don't try going for things that have look-a-likes.

[Anonymous No.4888340]

>>4882161
From what I've learned from mushroom picking and panicking about eating a poison one, pretty much anything that's legit dangerous LOOKS legit dangerous. If it's bright red or has white spots or just ugly looking with fucking shit and more fungus puss on the spots, stay the fuck away.

OPs a weird case but rednwith no spots, could be safe or if not, not life threatening, just diarrhea or something

[Anonymous No.4888918]

>>4886772
In which universe is mushroom garbage???