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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Anybody know about 'shrooms?
- Thread starter slowmotion
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Don't bother slomo, if they were any good for consumption someone would be growing them commercially already
OP
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Truffles?
Come to think of it, my sister has half a dozen pigs. I see a future of financial security stretching ahead.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Rabbit, home made mash and mushrooms, delicious!!
Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
I remember being out on a bike ride with my husband a few years ago. We passed a massive fungus growing out of the side of a tree. Using the trusty Phillips book we identified it as chicken of the woods when we got home. Al promptly hopped back on his bike with his rucksack and went back to get it. He made it into a fabulous stew that fed 6 people!
gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
If you're looking for simple mushrooms, there's a simple rules of thumb my dad taught us when we were kids...don't pick any near trees or bushes, only in open grassland..don't pick ones with pale undersides and make sure they peel.
The only time I made a mistake was not heeding dad's ADVICE and saw what looked in every way like a mushroom, but near bushes. Peeled OK, dark undersides...but when I fried them they kinda went red on the underside. Straight in the bin.
Syerston airfield, we used to find massive field mushroom, a foot in diameter and an inch thick. Anyone who tells you button mushrooms are best is simply talking rubbish, the juice alone from those field mushrooms was a delight.
Puffball..tried them...Meh...a strange taste.
The only time I made a mistake was not heeding dad's ADVICE and saw what looked in every way like a mushroom, but near bushes. Peeled OK, dark undersides...but when I fried them they kinda went red on the underside. Straight in the bin.
Syerston airfield, we used to find massive field mushroom, a foot in diameter and an inch thick. Anyone who tells you button mushrooms are best is simply talking rubbish, the juice alone from those field mushrooms was a delight.
Puffball..tried them...Meh...a strange taste.
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The only rule of thumb that holds good is that there are no rules of thumb! All of those applied at once might decrease your likelihood of picking something dangerous, but none of them works in isolation and taken individually they could be wildly misleading. You can peel death caps (apparently, though I never have), and all sorts of mushrooms grow in association with trees. Some good edibles have bizarre colour responses such as turning bright blue when cut, and some very dangerous things grow in fields. Your red-staining mushroom might be Agaricus silvaticus, which is edible. There is at least one deadly red-staining shroom, and your pale gill rule might arguably protect you from that one - but its pinky gills can be a similar colour to a young field mushroom.
The ginormous field mushroom is most probably a Horse Mushroom. One of the best, as you say, and not tricky to ID. I agree that Giant Puffballs are boring to eat, but they are not boring to find, especially if you are a kid. I once found one way bigger than my head, and was so excited I ran with it to show my mum, tripped and went flying, and shattered it into a thousand pieces.
gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
Posted these before, but for the sake of the discussion...
Saw these from several hundred yards away on a ride one day, but I had to cycle about 5 miles to get to them (other side of a river)
Once I got there, they were puffballs, like this one..
Perhaps their size, and therefore maturity is what made the taste somewhat...err....woody ? Perhaps younger specimens might taste better.
As the above photos show, they were growing in a stubble filed, so it must have been this time of year. I might venture out there again...
Saw these from several hundred yards away on a ride one day, but I had to cycle about 5 miles to get to them (other side of a river)
Once I got there, they were puffballs, like this one..
Perhaps their size, and therefore maturity is what made the taste somewhat...err....woody ? Perhaps younger specimens might taste better.
As the above photos show, they were growing in a stubble filed, so it must have been this time of year. I might venture out there again...
OP
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Posted these before, but for the sake of the discussion...
Saw these from several hundred yards away on a ride one day, but I had to cycle about 5 miles to get to them (other side of a river)
Once I got there, they were puffballs, like this one..
Perhaps their size, and therefore maturity is what made the taste somewhat...err....woody ? Perhaps younger specimens might taste better.
As the above photos show, they were growing in a stubble filed, so it must have been this time of year. I might venture out there again...
Fantastic!
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
If only it had been wearing a helmet.
Holy Christ, I'm still quivering at the thought....
numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
The New Forest has just banned all mushroom picking, thank to the commercial pickers 
now that's a poo
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/147...nce_total_ban_on_New_Forest_mushroom_picking/
now that's a poohttp://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/147...nce_total_ban_on_New_Forest_mushroom_picking/
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Oh, bums!The New Forest has just banned all mushroom picking, thank to the commercial pickers
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/147...nce_total_ban_on_New_Forest_mushroom_picking/
