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Chef Bear said:

A mushroom at that price-does not exist and is not worth
$55/lb, only someone willing to pay it. I happen to
appreciate the finer foods in life and will pay the
wholesale market price only because I have been in the
business for many years. "Just a small perk".

Wanna sell me some at market price??? :-)

K.

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Chef Bear said:

A mushroom at that price-does not exist and is not worth
$55/lb, only someone willing to pay it.

What a silly thing to say. Dried mushrooms are always expensive-
sounding because they've surrendered 90% or more of their
weight in drying. When you take 10 pounds of mushrooms and
dry them to 1 pound, they still cost the same as the full 10
pounds. So a $5/pound mushroom is now only 1/10 of a pound
and still costs $5 plus the labor cost on top of the
material cost. A whole pound of these mushrooms would cost
$50 plus labor. Dried morels or dried wild mushrooms that
someone had to gather will cost double that and still not be
unreasonable.

The difference between price and cost seems to have
escaped you.

When you rehydrate them, the real price is in effect.

Quoted message said:

I happen to appreciate the finer foods in life and will
pay the wholesale market price only because I have been in
the business for many years. "Just a small perk".

It sounds like you're cheap and want "the finer foods in
life" only if you can get them for bargain prices. I've been
in foodservice for more than three decades and I don't agree
with your vision even distantly. If you've never paid $55
and more a pound for dried mushrooms, you haven't had the
finer foods in life.

Pastorio