BS: Wild Mushrooms

Subject: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: olddude
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 04:30 PM

tis the season, I love the things but if you don't know exactly what you are doing it can kill you.

I just picked a yummy giant mushroom ... home made mushroom soup oh yes
check this guy out

puffball

If you want to do it, focus in only on the mushroom called "hen of the woods" that mushroom is always edible

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: gnu
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 04:38 PM

What I (used) to do was watch what deer were eating. Had a lotta good scoffs that way.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: olddude
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 04:39 PM

The hen of the woods is very distinctive and is up to 40lbs. It grows everywhere. It has an amazing flavor and there are no poison ones that look like it. Pull it up on the website. Giant puffballs are ok but you gotta look at them ...   NO little Brown mushrooms. You have to know the gills completely or you will kill yourself

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: pdq
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 04:49 PM

Puffballs are safe if you are sure they are puffballs.

No mushroom is worth the risk.

Ask Phil Lesh or David Crosby what it's like to need a liver transplant.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: olddude
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 04:50 PM

no little white ones either, again you gotta know the gills. The death angel is a little white bastard that will kill you quicker than the gas chamber.

These you cannot go wrong on . ever

this is the perfect site for a beginner only the ones at the top can't mess up then

here

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: olddude
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 04:51 PM

I know what I am doing PDQ been doing it since I was sperm

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 06:23 PM

Just ate some myself, olddude, courtesy of Beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: gnu
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 06:44 PM

Beer eats fiddleheads.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: gnu
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 07:53 PM

I am serious. He does. No shit, man. Fiddleheads. Can you imagine that?

I expect he has a recipe for pine needles too.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 08:20 PM

pine needle tea, has 10 times the vitamin C as orange juice no kidding

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: gnu
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 10:23 PM

I'll bet it wakes ya UP real quick, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: Beer
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 10:36 PM

I'll eat just about anything. That is I use to when we had to. The worst was porcupine. Tasted just like a spruce tree.

mushrooms I experiment with all the time. That is I let me wife try them first. If after 1/2 an hour she is O.K. I try them. Works so far. It's a bit late now to dig out my book, but I will maybe tomorrow and list the ones I've tried so far. I still prefer the field mushroom over all the others.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 10:43 PM

Agree with you completely on the field ones. I really like the hen of the woods. I get those buggers Adrien the size of a bushel basket ... you can even dry them out and use them in soup ... great stuff the ones that look like human brains are amazing also .. love em

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: Beer
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 11:10 PM

I'll be honest Dan, Hen of the Woods I have not tried, but "Chicken of the Woods" I have and they are not bad at all.
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Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 28 Sep 12 - 11:46 PM

probably the same thing does it look like this?

hen of the woods

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 29 Sep 12 - 04:36 AM

Shaggy ink caps and shaggy parasols are good, both very common in the UK.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: MudGuard
Date: 29 Sep 12 - 06:37 AM

I love Boletus edulis (Steinpilz in German).

Cut into 3mm to 4mm slices, heat butter in the pan, put slices in, turn when they are goldenbrown, and fry on other side till that side also is goldenbrown.
Add a little bit of salt.
And just eat fresh bread with it.
Very most super delicious!


Or chanterelle (Pfifferling or Eierschwamm or Reherl in German):
Finely cut onion (about 1/5 of the weight of the chanterelles), cut chanterelles in small pieses, heat butter in pan (not full heat!), put onion into pan, when onion turns "glassy", add chanterelles, wait till chanterelles give lots of water, then wait till the fluid has vanished again. Add some pepper.
Delicious!



Most important rules when going for wild mushrooms: if you are not absolutely sure that you have an eatable mushroom, then don't take it. If there is the smallest doubt, throw it away (or better: don't pick it in the first place - thus someone who knows better can still eat it)!

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: Beer
Date: 29 Sep 12 - 08:42 AM

Dan,
This video shows the difference very well.
Adrien
http://youtu.be/7inp5z9GHpE

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: Beer
Date: 29 Sep 12 - 09:14 AM

Here are a few that i have tried.
Yellow Fleshed Boletus
Funnel Shaped Chanterelle
Oyster Mushroom Shaggy mane
Sulfur Shelf (Chicken of the woods.)
Puffball
Meadow Mushroom (Still my favorite.)

There are others I could have tried like the Black morel , but why chance it if you might get sick. I mentioned the following in a previous thread on Mushrooms (Can't seem to find it though.).

Taken from the book "The New Savory Wild Mushroom" by Margaret McKenny and Daniel E. Stuntz.

"Only 1 to 2 percent of the approximately 5 thousand species of mushrooms growing in north America are significantly toxic."

If your going to try wild mushrooms (Not saying this just to Dan.)and have never done so before, than I would suggest the following.

1) Make sure you have a book with very good photo in it. Not black   and white pictures.
2) Try a very small amount and wait about 1/2 hour to see if you are feeling uncomfortable.
3)Record what you are trying. Name,Approximate location and Date. Often you can go back to the same area the following year.

Remember that what can be slightly toxic to you, may be fine for someone else. I don't claim to be an expert at all. However, I do like to experiment once in awhile.
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Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Sep 12 - 01:18 PM

On a little farm we had, there was a collapsed wooden granary in a small field that had been allowed to revert to cover. The squirrels there collected mushrooms and stored them on supports that were still solid. Their selection was of the edible types.

A native showed us the edible types. We had a couple of government manuals on mushrooms, but care must be exercised it their use!

The giant puffballs must be fresh- older ones- yuck and gaaaaa if one is that stupid....

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: pdq
Date: 29 Sep 12 - 01:37 PM

Eventually, a puffball becomes a big bag of spores. Inedible.

When young, a fresh puffball can be sliced and fried like zucchini or abalone. Shave off skin after slicing.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Sep 12 - 11:05 AM

Two thumbs up for old dude's chicken of the woods.

You will find it in great quantities growing on fallen hardwood.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 30 Sep 12 - 11:28 AM

That giant puffball was wonderful. There are a couple of varieties of puffball. The lizard skin is not edible. The smaller puffballs are good but if you find the giant version they are tasty I think. That variety has to be the size of your table before it seeds.   I mixed it with some Hen of the woods and made the best cream of Mushroom soup you can find .. great stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 30 Sep 12 - 11:37 AM

show you what I mean, this is what is left over from my giant puffball
you can see no spores. See the grain..

inside

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 30 Sep 12 - 12:00 PM

If you look for a giant puffball (they are at the edge of the woods not normally in the woods)they are everywhere in the east cut it .. should be bready white like mine. No gills no other color... They have a nutty flavor ..

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Sep 12 - 12:12 PM

Off the subject, but grocery stores here have bags of mixed dried mushrooms from China. Very good in stews and soups.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: MudGuard
Date: 30 Sep 12 - 05:08 PM

>> 2) Try a very small amount and wait about 1/2 hour to see if you are feeling uncomfortable.

That's VERY RISKY!!! Kids, don't try that at home!!!

For example:

Amanita phalloides (German: "Grüner Knollenblätterpilz", English "Death cap"(?)), the most toxic mushroom here, is highly toxic.
It takes only 35g (1 1/4 ounce) of this mushroom for a 70kg (~ 150pounds) person to be deadly.

First symptoms show about 8 to 12 hours after eating it!
By then, it is too late for taking anti-toxin.
All that might help then is a liver transplant within a few days (10 days is the typical time till death ...)


Other toxic mushrooms (Amanita pantherina "Pantherpilz"/"panther cap", Amanita muscaria "Fliegenpilz"/"fly agaric") also show symptoms much later than 30 minutes.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild Mushrooms
From: Beer
Date: 30 Sep 12 - 06:07 PM

MudGuard,
I'm not speaking of the toxic ones. I'm speaking about those that are classified as edible. These can also up set your stomach. I guess I should have explained better.
Thanks for posting though.
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