Thor is the reason I'm on my 4th round of oyster mushrooms growing in buckets and sawdust this year. If they start popping out of my walls, I will also be blaming Thor.
a great additive to your substrate would be soy husks. They're cheap as they're a byproduct of soy farmers, and it works well cut 50/50 with hardwood sawdust/hydrated-pelts. Personally, I've had much better yeilds - happy farming!
Huh. Never knew they were all the same thing. Yet another example of "Thor can talk about basically anything and still be interesting and entertaining" :D
3:31 took me wayyy to long to realize in my adult life. Most people just see "Mushroom" as a singular thing like a tomato or corn, but there's sooo many different types of shrooms that all have different textures and flavor profiles. Also that thumbnail will haunt my nightmares now, thank you
I’m a mycologist. Please please please anyone interested in foraging don’t just look at the mushroom to tell if it’s poison. The amount of people I know who have been poisoned due to chemicals in the area or stagnant stink water being in them. Worked with a council recently on stopping the use of harsh pesticides along the sides of roads on the mountain showing it was being picked up by the fungi and other plants in the area down hill and the animals eating them were having pregnancy complications and showed signs of renal failure. You do not want renal failure or pregnancy complications
Bro does Game Development, Cybersecurity, RU-vid, Streaming, Ferrets, and now he does Mushrooms Someone stop this man before he becomes the leading expert in Nuclear Fusion
Just to re-state, get a local expert. Some poisonous mushrooms locally look like edible mushrooms from different locations, and vice versa. This has led to several waves in the past of East Asian immigrants getting poisoned bc they thought wild, poisonous mushrooms in US were ones they harvested back home that were edible. Also, soil can affect the edibility of mushroom or fungi. Mushrooms and fungi tend to concentrate toxins in their environment, and sometime local expert will know that x is not edible here but edible there
Indeed, many mushrooms have deadly look-alikes, since alot of people know about button mushrooms they may assume similar looking mushrooms to be edible when in actuality they just harvested destroying angels, or death caps. False morels are so poisonous they can give people chemical burns by touching them, but some places in Europe double cook them in order to render them edible. Likewise what you said about the edibility of mushrooms also depends on their location is very much correct and needs to be heeded, fungi are biological sponges. Some mushrooms prefer certain species of trees such as hen of the woods( maitake) which can be found under apple trees but since these trees are also found in agricultural areas such as orchards which tend to treated with rather nasty and stubornly lingering pesticides, especialy abandoned orchards that are decades old.
Yes. Learn from someone knowledgable. Sometimes it's not that easy to tell the difference. If you are even 1% unsure, don't eat it. Few examples: boletus crataegi, Satan's bolete (poisonous) often mistaken with edible boletus eduli, penny bun. Or macrolepiota procera, parasol mushroom, mistaken with death cap. Death cap is so easy to mess yourself up with that a few people I know just flat out avoid picking anything that even looks remotely similar.
Most people who say "yuck" probably do so because they've only ever had badly cooked champignon/portobello mushrooms. The gross texture comes from them being badly cooked. Mushrooms need to be cooked for a pretty long time to get the water out of them. If you don't cook them for long enough, they're slimy. And by "long enough", I mean about 30-40 minutes, depending on the mushrooms. If there's steam coming out of them, they're not done.
I dont know about the most part, I'm certainly one of those who just didn't like the texture of champignons. The taste could be ok, but basically no matter how small and how they're cooked the texture would be obvious to me. Tasted it in different countries, home cooked and at restaurants. I'm fine with them today, but it took me about 22 years before I became ok with them.
One of the things I've done is you can slice them and soak them in soy sauce for a bit which helps get the water out and then you sauté them and add garlic. Very strong flavor
I wonder if this could be a simple fix of just using dried mushrooms instead of fresh ones so you don't need to cook them for so long. Flavour is supposed to be stronger with dried ones too
@@axis8396Yep. I prefer to sear them to get the moisture out and then add any liquids to them like soy sauce, soup stock, Watchyersister sauce or whatever.
@0:35 this is some of the best advice I have ever heard someone give on mushrooms, the variety is so large, and changes so much between area this is so important!
Lion's Mane is also incredibly helpful if you have neurological issues. I have multiple tbi type injuries that affect memory, speech, and headaches. Lion's mane ABSOLUTELY has helped me function instead of it being instantly obvious ive had numerous head injuries
@Meanpeter1 technically all the above, but different sources and methods have different levels of the specific chemicals in Lion's Mane that help the brain. Some doctors will swear by one and curse all the others. Ultimately, i would say first, see if it's something you can have, then figure out what methods you can easily have regularly. Then pick which method(s) you want. Some people aren't able to get fresh mushrooms regularly..so they just get the tinctures, some people only eat the mushrooms because they love the taste, some can't have some of the non active ingredients in the tinctures(allergies) so they use capsules. Like i said, ultimately they all can work. Some might be more effective/tastier/affordable.
@Meanpeter1 the order i prefer is Fresh, dried, frozen, tincture, capsule. The tincture/capsules are sold as a supplement, everything else you can find as culinary ingredients.
Lionsmane mushrooms have genuine medicinal application that have thorough scientific backing on its effects. It contain compounds that greatly encourage neuron growth and is being used to treat many different neurological conditions. It has been proven to reduce the neuron degradation caused by alzheimers, and have genuine effects on improving cognition and memory in both young and elderly test groups. What really gets me is the way they extract the compounds, in which they steep both the dried and fresh mushroom in hot water to extract the water soluable compounds, filter it then steep it again in high proof alcohol which extracts the alcohol soluble compounds, then you combine the mixture so that its shelf stable in the form of tinctures. It genuinely sounds like homepathic snakeoil crap except it isn't you can brew a genuine working potion at home using the same methods they use in labs especially since the compounds are very temperature stable. All species of lionsmane mushrooms are medically significant and they grow everywhere but can be hard to find in the wild. It also not very hard to grow yourself and it is recomended to do so as they can be grown like any other wood mushroom.
Great advice Thor - there are deadly look-a-likes for many of the tastiest mushrooms - find a local mycological group with true trained and experienced experts to go on a mushroom hunt - you'll learn a lot, get exercise and fresh air, make new friends, and get food! All wins.
Morels are also mycoryzal meaning they have a symbiotic relationship with trees and plantroots, they tend to pop up where there is fire because those place tend to be prime places to grow fruiting bodies and release spores, many mushroom species are triggered to fruit by wildfires and you can find alot mushrooms sprouting in clearings made by them. Morels also like popping up in recently burned areas because they help funnel the minerals left behind to their plant host in return for sugars. Unlike most mushrooms we eat that have a cap and gills known as club spore fungi (basidiomycete), morels are sac mushrooms (ascomycetes), and are more related to single cell yeasts than other fungi we call mushrooms.
Chanterelles are absolutely delicious. Everyone in my area talks up Morels like they're the best thing ever but I prefer the slightly fruity and savory flavor of chanterelles. Try making chicken marsala with them some time!
On Clarkson's Farm Season 3 he remodelled a bunker into a mushroom shed and it was the biggest money maker ever. They just grew new stems every day. Eventually the mushrooms were done they would get mouldy and he would have to get new spore packs. But it was fun.
The monster boletes are so cool to find but Holy Moses Do Not Bring Them Home. Horribly vivid memory of seeing a pile of huge ones sitting on top of my boyfriend's fridge (his grandparents were visiting from another country and had been very excited to go foraging, but were very much Not From Around Here) and casually thinking "oh wow those are all so big I hope they checked them for fly eggs" and then watching someone go to grab a drink and a full on _waterfall_ of tiny maggots spilling over the fridge as the door swung open. 🤢
You ever try Chicken of the Woods? It grows around where I live, and is nearly impossible to mistake for something poisonous. It tastes vaguely of chicken.
@@Cool-Vest hen of the woods is indeed a different mushroom and is also known as maitake, they are rarer than chicken of the woods as they prefer certain live host trees over others and have medical significance. Chicken of the woods meanwhile are a bright orange shelf fungus that grows on decaying logs, meaning they can be found on dead trees. They can be hard to miss compared to maitake which grows at the base of live trees, they are called dancing mushrooms due to their rararity as people would dance upon finding a clump.
In eastern europe everyone picks mushrooms during the season. I mean like I don't think I know a single person who has never picked mushrooms. I was surprised to learn that it's not that popular elsewhere, and because of it you can even find mushrooms in public parks because nobody takes them.
Chantrelles are called "gold of the forest". They have a very distinctive peach aroma and one of the few edible mushrooms that dont get worm infestations. But theres false-chantrelles that are slightly poisonous. Usually, real chantrelles are a nice yellow colour. Think of an egg yolk yellow, while false chantrelles tend to be carrot orange. And since chantrelles are so sought after, local people know most of the spots where they grow.
I loved collecting mushrooms in Oblivion. And all the damn alchemy ingredients. Half my game was spent grabbing stuff ill never use. Fallout 4 let's you make recipes, and New Vegas. Loved that mechanic.
we used to gather morels and fiddleheads where I grew up. It was in a valley and there was a lot of edible mushrooms, and we also would go berry picking.
The thumbnail is some cryptid shit. I decree it, the elusive "Toad Goblin". It screams hello when you come within sight of it and upon capture will inform you that whatever your looking for is somewhere else.
Mushroom hunting is so much part of the culture here that nobody ever goes to a professional, and you are taught about the ones you can find in our country in grade school
Ok so, I’m not a mushroom expert (so don’t quote me on any of this) but morels do not produce hydrazine. False morels however contain gyomitrin which is metabolized into monomethlhydrazine inside your body. It’s a derivative of hydrazine but not the same. Monomethlhydrazine is very toxic and should never be consumed. Also cooking false morels will not remove the gyomitrin (at least not completely)
I used to forage mushrooms and berries since 10 y.o. In autumn we drove about 20 km and then walked another 10 in the wilderness. 4-5 hours about 80 kg of boletuses, milky caps, ceps. 2-3 trips about a day of cooking and you have all the mushrooms you need till next autumn. Now it's so wild to me that many countries have no mushroom foraging tradition.
In Europe from medieval times onwards, much of the land was owned by royalty or rich landowners. The idea of public routes or right of way did not exist. Trespassing would be heavily punished, with the assumption you were poaching. Land owners would recruit cruel violent guards to patrol their lands, to make an example of trespassers (often children). People disappearing was the norm, so everyone learned to stay far away from gentrified land.
The best version of these shrooms is 2-3 cm wide and 3-7 cm high. You only have a short period every morning to collect them. By noon, they are already outgrown and lower quality.
That's awesome! My dad and his dad foraged for chanterelles (and other mushrooms) in western PA. Our vacation house has a few chanterelle patches that we collect when they grow and they are SO GOOD. We're so lucky.
Safety tip that is applicable to all mushrooms. Most deaths and poisonings of mushrooms are from the Amanita family of mushrooms (95% of death in US and 50% of poisonings). All Amanitas have a stem and cap with gills on the bottom. If you are beginning mushroom foraging consider all gilled mushroom dangerous until you know more and have more experience. This is a grossly excessive precaution from an objective standpoint as Amanitas are only one of the hundreds of families that exists in the larger umbrella of gilled mushroom, and their are other ways to identify Amanitas. It is necessary for anyone beginning into mushroom foraging as mushroom can kill you and the no gilled mushrooms rule is the best safety measure you can take when it comes to mushrooms. Second only to not consuming any mushrooms you find in the wild.
I've wanted to hunt mushrooms soooo badly in all honesty, Chicken of the woods is something I've always wanted to try. I just need to head out with someone who knows otherwise I know I'd pluck and eat somethin that starts the infection from the Last of Us lmao.
Love mushrooms! They're such a weird creature that can either be good in pasta, make you see the 5th dimension or kill you quicker than Thanos. They're also so unique, I'm convinced they are just alien fauna. I believe Thor talked about a shroom called "bleeding tooth fungus" or something, and they look amazing 🤩
I'm sorry, there are mushrooms that naturally grow *R O C K E T F U E L?!* Daaayyum. If it wasn't, you know, poisonous.... That'd be a meal that's *out of this world!* :P
Thor is right. I'm not a big fan of the common mushroom they have on pizza or in chinese takeout. However other kinds of mushrooms can be amazing. Back when I was growing up, my dad and his best friend knew where morels would grow and they would pick them. Those were amazing. And yes, my dad did warn me that mushrooms are not something to screw around with. If you don't know what you're doing you can poison yourself. If you're lucky, it's just the worst diarrhea and delirium you've ever had.
Psilocybin you say? OOPS wrong comment section, dont mind me. Edit: we actually have rogue morells all over the odd creekbeds in but our state seems to produce them quite randomly, not necessarily due to humans i.e. burn piles and such
Thor, I had no idea you were so close to me... I live in Lacey! When you mentioned the State of Washington, I had to look up where you live. Super cool!
Just to say : Local experts are usualy your pharmacist ! If you don't really know how or what, don't hesitate asking us about the shrooms, we have some knowledge about it :)
