Here in the NorthWest (US) we are in the middle of the mushroom season. It's one of the best since I moved here - chanterelles, boletas, birch boletas, lactarius, russulas, and many more edible mushrooms. The chanterelles are the most popular with the pickers, and most pick 2-3 gallons on an outing of about 3 hours. What fun! Yesterday, my husband and I found 31 shaggy parasols, in my opinion, tastier than any other mushrooms. We had a feast for supper last night, and the rest will be dehydrated to reconstitute later in the winter. I already have several containers with sauted chanterelles in the freezer, and hoping to round off my mushrooming season with a good find of matsutaki this weekend.
Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking?
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Here in the NorthWest (US) we are in the middle of the mushroom season. It's one of the best since I moved here - chanterelles, boletas, birch boletas, lactarius, russulas, and many more edible mushrooms. The chanterelles are the most popular with the pickers, and most pick 2-3 gallons on an outing of about 3 hours. What fun! Yesterday, my husband and I found 31 shaggy parasols, in my opinion, tastier than any other mushrooms. We had a feast for supper last night, and the rest will be dehydrated to reconstitute later in the winter. I already have several containers with sauted chanterelles in the freezer, and hoping to round off my mushrooming season with a good find of matsutaki this weekend.
Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking?
Magdalena Bassett
Does your family know where to find your last will & testament?
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Here in the NorthWest (US) we are in the middle of the mushroom season. It's one of the best since I moved here - chanterelles, boletas, birch boletas, lactarius, russulas, and many more edible mushrooms. The chanterelles are the most popular with the pickers, and most pick 2-3 gallons on an outing of about 3 hours. What fun! Yesterday, my husband and I found 31 shaggy parasols, in my opinion, tastier than any other mushrooms. We had a feast for supper last night, and the rest will be dehydrated to reconstitute later in the winter. I already have several containers with sauted chanterelles in the freezer, and hoping to round off my mushrooming season with a good find of matsutaki this weekend.
Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking?
Magdalena Bassett
Does your family know where to find your last will & testament?
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Here in the NorthWest (US) we are in the middle of the mushroom season. It's one of the best since I moved here - chanterelles, boletas, birch boletas, lactarius, russulas, and many more edible mushrooms. The chanterelles are the most popular with the pickers, and most pick 2-3 gallons on an outing of about 3 hours. What fun! Yesterday, my husband and I found 31 shaggy parasols, in my opinion, tastier than any other mushrooms. We had a feast for supper last night, and the rest will be dehydrated to reconstitute later in the winter. I already have several containers with sauted chanterelles in the freezer, and hoping to round off my mushrooming season with a good find of matsutaki this weekend.
Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking?
Magdalena Bassett
Does your family know where to find your last will & testament?
Yes, but you're not in it, so what's it to you?
Magdalena
Heard an interview with some mushroom expert from Cornell a couple of years ago. He said even the best mushroom hunters occasionally make a mistake.
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Here in the NorthWest (US) we are in the middle of the mushroom season. It's one of the best since I moved here - chanterelles, boletas, birch boletas, lactarius, russulas, and many more edible mushrooms. The chanterelles are the most popular with the pickers, and most pick 2-3 gallons on an outing of about 3 hours. What fun! Yesterday, my husband and I found 31 shaggy parasols, in my opinion, tastier than any other mushrooms. We had a feast for supper last night, and the rest will be dehydrated to reconstitute later in the winter. I already have several containers with sauted chanterelles in the freezer, and hoping to round off my mushrooming season with a good find of matsutaki this weekend.
Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking?
Yes, every year.
Even some of the poisonous ones.Toadstools, cut up and simmered in milk kill flies.
Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking?
Magdalena Bassett
Does your family know where to find your last will & testament?
Yes, but you're not in it, so what's it to you?
Magdalena
I think he was making a tongue in cheek comment about the potential risks of wild mushrooms? It certainly isn't something I'd be comfortable eating. I just don't know enough about mushrooms to feel safe?
Here in the NorthWest (US) we are in the middle of the mushroom season. It's one of the best since I moved here - chanterelles, boletas, birch boletas, lactarius, russulas, and many more edible mushrooms. The chanterelles are the most popular with the pickers, and most pick 2-3 gallons on an outing of about 3 hours. What fun! Yesterday, my husband and I found 31 shaggy parasols, in my opinion, tastier than any other mushrooms. We had a feast for supper last night, and the rest will be dehydrated to reconstitute later in the winter. I already have several containers with sauted chanterelles in the freezer, and hoping to round off my mushrooming season with a good find of matsutaki this weekend.
Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking?
Magdalena Bassett
Dry summer in the NE made for a poor harvest of mushrooms. The only thing I came across that I can identify were a few Horse Mushrooms which I had in an omelet and then grilled some when their spoors darkened. I can't wait to get a chance to grill some more next year - they were great.
And I guess I saw some Shaggy Manes, but I find them to be a bit bland.
My quote is "There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old bold mushroom hunters."
Here in the Beaujolais we are having a mushroom season to beat any that I have seen. There are mushrooms growing in places I have never seen them growing in before. Luckily we have neighbours that know what they are picking so can take advice when we aren't sure.
Unfortunately this is just a by-product of the [censored] weather we have had this year so far. Here we are in October and the parsley has just decided to start growing properly ! Not a gardening year to be remembered with any fond memories
> Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking? >
Does your family know where to find your last will & testament?
Yes, but you're not in it, so what's it to you?
I think he was making a tongue in cheek comment about the potential risks of wild mushrooms? It certainly isn't something I'd be comfortable eating. I just don't know enough about mushrooms to feel safe?
You're absolutely right. People not knowing enough about mushrooms shouldn't pick them. I've picked them for 36 years now and never had any problems. A note to beginners : When in doubt, photograph the bugger and look in a book. Don't pick the shroom. When you pick clustered shrooms like chantarelles, always leave a few in place. Otherwise, no shrooms next year. Don't pick shrooms which show snail or insect bite. They're past sell-by-date.
I think he was making a tongue in cheek comment about the potential risks of wild mushrooms? It certainly isn't something I'd be comfortable eating. I just don't know enough about mushrooms to feel safe?
In addition, the last place you want to go for advice with life and death consequences is usenet.
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Here in the NorthWest (US) we are in the middle of the mushroom season. It's one of the best since I moved here - chanterelles, boletas, birch boletas, lactarius, russulas, and many more edible mushrooms. The chanterelles are the most popular with the pickers, and most pick 2-3 gallons on an outing of about 3 hours. What fun! Yesterday, my husband and I found 31 shaggy parasols, in my opinion, tastier than any other mushrooms. We had a feast for supper last night, and the rest will be dehydrated to reconstitute later in the winter. I already have several containers with sauted chanterelles in the freezer, and hoping to round off my mushrooming season with a good find of matsutaki this weekend.
Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking?
Magdalena Bassett
Does your family know where to find your last will & testament?
This may surprise you, JSB, but some people actually have the intelligence and knowledge to pick and enjoy wild mushrooms without the slightest risk.
This may surprise you, JSB, but some people actually have the intelligence and knowledge to pick and enjoy wild mushrooms without the slightest risk.
I don't dispute that there are people with the intelligence and plenty of knowledge of mushrooms, but I do dispute that it is without any risk. ALL wild mushrooms carry a risk of misidentification for whatever reason? Knowledgeable pickers have been known to make mistakes.
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Here in the NorthWest (US) we are in the middle of the mushroom season. It's one of the best since I moved here - chanterelles, boletas, birch boletas, lactarius, russulas, and many more edible mushrooms. The chanterelles are the most popular with the pickers, and most pick 2-3 gallons on an outing of about 3 hours. What fun! Yesterday, my husband and I found 31 shaggy parasols, in my opinion, tastier than any other mushrooms. We had a feast for supper last night, and the rest will be dehydrated to reconstitute later in the winter. I already have several containers with sauted chanterelles in the freezer, and hoping to round off my mushrooming season with a good find of matsutaki this weekend.
Does anyone else on this group pick wild mushrooms for cooking?
Magdalena Bassett
Does your family know where to find your last will & testament?
This may surprise you, JSB, but some people actually have the intelligence and knowledge to pick and enjoy wild mushrooms without the slightest risk.
-- Peter Aitken
Even the best can make mistakes, Peter. Except you, of course.
This may surprise you, JSB, but some people actually have the intelligence and knowledge to pick and enjoy wild mushrooms without the slightest risk.
I know a few guys who know their mushrooms. I don't. If I am every inclined to go mushroom picking I will get some proper instruction and save myself from anything from a mild buzz to death.
I don't dispute that there are people with the intelligence and plenty of knowledge of mushrooms, but I do dispute that it is without any risk. ALL wild mushrooms carry a risk of misidentification for whatever reason? Knowledgeable pickers have been known to make mistakes.
Not only that, but identical-looking mushrooms can have a small fraction of poison mushroom genes in them, which can cause a level of toxins that will stress your liver but not necessarily make you feel sick.
Note that your liver has to be more than 90% damaged before you feel any symptoms.
You're absolutely right. People not knowing enough about mushrooms shouldn't pick them. I've picked them for 36 years now and never had any problems. A note to beginners : When in doubt, photograph the bugger and look in a book. Don't pick the shroom. When you pick clustered shrooms like chantarelles, always leave a few in place. Otherwise, no shrooms next year. Don't pick shrooms which show snail or insect bite. They're past sell-by-date.
Cheers,
Michael Kuettner
Yes, you're correct. It's very important to learn from experienced pickers. I learned from my Grandfather and my Father, who to this day bests me in his finds. He can walk through a paved parking lot and find edible mushrooms 🙂
I'm a member of a local chapter of the Mycological Society and we often foray together. It's a great way to learn from experienced pickers and to learn the local woods and local spiecies. Even without mushrooms, it's a great thing to go climbing through the incredibly wild forests of the Olympic Wilderness. My husband does not pick, but he goes with us for the pleasure of the forest.
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This may surprise you, JSB, but some people actually have the intelligence and knowledge to pick and enjoy wild mushrooms without the slightest risk.
I know a few guys who know their mushrooms. I don't. If I am every inclined to go mushroom picking I will get some proper instruction and save myself from anything from a mild buzz to death.
Well said. The failure to get proper instruction can kill people. And the failure to know about the propagation habits of mushrooms can kill the mushrooms.
