Why You Can't Overcook Mushrooms and The Science Behind Them | Mushrooms | What's Eating Dan?

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Mushrooms are neither plant nor animal. So what's the best way to cook them? Dan explains the science behind cooking this delicious fungus in this episode of What's Eating Dan?.
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@hwang1607 5 лет назад

I only understand measurements in football fields

@phill.5993 5 лет назад

you should watch Galileo then

@CC-fo7oh 5 лет назад

You remind me of American math problems

@seanholland6132 5 лет назад

How many washing machines make up a football field?

@CC-fo7oh 5 лет назад

@@seanholland6132 well, if you make a washing machine that's football field big then you only need one washing machine.

@seanholland6132 5 лет назад

@@CC-fo7oh Oh. My. God.

@OhRaez 5 лет назад

Fuuuuck man. Those greek taste testers must have been tripping balls with some of those fungi.

@kennie39 5 лет назад

yeah until they died from the poison

@OhRaez 5 лет назад

@@kennie39 yeah until that part..

@Nik.No.K 5 лет назад

There are very few species of mushrooms that are known to be psychedelic, only two that I can think of so no, probably not.

@MercenaryTau 5 лет назад

There's roughly a half dozen species in Greece alone. Certain ancient Greek festivals supposedly involved the use of psychedelic mushrooms.

@aviko9560 5 лет назад

@@Nik.No.K Even Amanita muscaria was proven to be psychadelic. It's still poisonous though

@forevergogo 5 лет назад

He doesn't leave mushroom for debate.

@gman9035 5 лет назад

Nice

@ferociousmaliciousghost 5 лет назад

You seem like a -fungi- good person.

@MrJackwork 4 года назад

Congratulations, you won the Internet.

@Hayden_Cat 4 года назад

You must be a dad

@neosiah8654 4 года назад

That hurts to read but wp

@door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978 5 лет назад

You forgot red mushrooms. A certain Italian plumber ate a red mushroom and he became 6'8" tall.

@sabin97 5 лет назад

you should see what happens when he eats a certain flower after he's 6'8"....

@kystersweats8465 5 лет назад

@@sabin97 you should see what happens when he eats a star.

@jectblade 5 лет назад

"Whats your craziest experience on mushrooms?" That has to be tongue and cheek, there's no way its not.

@jordanmercier3616 5 лет назад

Amanita Muscaria.

@bodyofhope 5 лет назад

You should see what happens when his friend joins him 🍄

@moneymaker8815 5 лет назад

Craziest experience with mushrooms? You ain't slick on me undercover cop bro

@beatsbeercigarettes 4 года назад

Unless your from Denver, then you're cool.

@linusmlgtips2123 4 года назад

@@beatsbeercigarettes or Oakland, CA.

@matstaley388 5 лет назад

My dad is a mushroom nerd and once when I was a child he picked some skunk mushrooms. They didn’t smell like skunk or taste bad so we figured they were fine since they are classified as edible. What we discovered the next day is that the “skunk” came from the wind produced by the unfortunate soul brave enough to eat them...

@stephentalley7829 5 лет назад

LOL thanks for sharing

@sneakybeaver8866 5 лет назад

Brave Enough? I would use these mushrooms as weaponry, brave is the man who stands beside me.

@faerefolke 5 лет назад

Wow!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ferociousmaliciousghost 5 лет назад

@@sneakybeaver8866 Load the biohazard in a bottle and now you have the deadliest bottle.

@adterpandrea 5 лет назад

@@sneakybeaver8866 Or BEHIND you 😂

@OYWOldMusics 5 лет назад

...At the "Use Water to Sautee" part, my mind exploded and i realized i've cooked mushrooms wrong and oily since day once. I also realized my assumption mushrooms broke down was wrong, and am now a little less frightened to toss them in a soup and them breaking down. Changed the Mushroom game.

@nagualdesign 5 лет назад

FYI, there is no right or wrong way to cook mushrooms. However, boiling is _NOT_ the same as sautéing! What you have in this video is a suggestion that you should boil your mushrooms in water. The use of the word _sauté_ is plain wrong. And If you do want to sauté mushrooms simply use a little oil or melted butter, quickly toss them around to get them evenly coated, _do not add more oil,_ then just fry them. Dry frying = sautéing. If they're too oily you've used too much oil, and you don't need RU-vid to tell you that!

@TheAce12570 5 лет назад

@@nagualdesign exactly right, this video kind of annoyed me to be honest, it's informative to a point but it got quite a lot of details wrong. Sauteed mushrooms taste (and have a texture) completely different from what you get by "sauteing them in water". The key with sauteing mushrooms is high heat, very little oil (or butter) and not stirring the mushrooms, instead just turning them over when they brown.

@nagualdesign 5 лет назад

@@TheAce12570 RU-vid is full of videos of people presenting their opinion as fact, and comments by people who've taken everything as gospel. Makes me sad.

@stuartpratt3662 5 лет назад

wow I usually use leftover fat from cooking a steak or pork in a pan and that way I get the infused flavor in the mushrooms but I guess that the water use does cook the mushrooms enough that they don't soak up the oil

@androy5188 5 лет назад

@Jay L lel

@yakovgolyadkin 5 лет назад

I watched this video about a month ago, then yesterday made mushrooms. I made them from what I vaguely remembered from this video - water first, then oil later. And damned if it wasn't the best batch of mushrooms I've ever made. Thank you for this one.

@joec.9591 3 года назад

When I was a kid, we had an elderly neighbor who was from Russia. One of Jacob's many talents was being an accomplished mushroomer. He would go out for walks and come back with loads of mushrooms, and marinate them. He used to bring jars of them to as, as we lived right next door to him. My parents were very skeptical about eating them, at first, but my oldest brother pointed out that Jacob had been doing this all his life - and he was still very much alive and well. They were the best marinated mushrooms I have ever had. I love mushrooms, but I have to say I've never had any that came even close to the ones Jacob made. Thank you, Jacob! RIP.

@tylisirn 2 года назад

An issue is though that each region has different mushroom species, and there are several species which in one region the local species is safe and in the other region an extremely similar species is not safe. An expert mushroomer is only an expert in the region they have studied, everywhere else their knowledge is not safe. Hopefully he knew that and had studied the mushrooms in the new area he had moved into and wasn't relying solely on his old knowledge.

@Temulon 2 года назад

@@tylisirn Well, everyone obviously lived, so yeah, I'm going to assume his knowledge was sufficient. 🙄

@dementissilenti5603 2 года назад

My dad loves his mushrooms. When I was living with him, we'd grow all sorts of varieties. Lions mane is perhaps my favorite of the 'exotic' species, as it's very tender and has a wonderful taste that no other mushroom can replicate. He also grew a lot of mushrooms, like reishi, which can only be consumed in tea as they're too woody to be eaten. But, really... Mushrooms kick butt and now I'm gonna saute up some. I might try this water method, though that goes against everything I believe, because I understand that mushrooms need to lose a lot of that moisture... But hey, don't knock it until you try it, right? Also, Jacob, RIP. You apparently gathered some damn good shrooms and your friend will never forget you!

@rncommercial 2 года назад

@@Temulon Every mushroom is edible....once! Hahaha

@JeffLeonard0 2 года назад

@@tylisirn People should take this seriously. I have no problems eating shiitake grown in Ali-Shan in Taiwan, ROC, but I get sick when I eat the same mushrooms grown in the PRC. That just reminded me, there is an edible nightshade-family berry that my friends from PRC pick in the wild, and there is the same plant in Oklahoma, USA, but there is also an almost identical looking plant in Oklahoma, which is poisonous, called Deadly Nightshade. The only difference is that the berries on the poisonous one are glossier, but sometimes it is hard to tell. I had a lot of trouble convincing them not to eat it when they came to Oklahoma.

@razorhighflyer 4 года назад

"You cant overcook mushrooms" My cooking skills: *Are you challenging me?*

@michaellaij2526 3 года назад

Same. I could even burn water.

@SheenaSpeaks 2 года назад

Dood. I like my portabellas nearly black.

@TRManderson 4 месяца назад

I once tried to do crispy roast mushrooms but forgot I had the oven on for 3 hours, safe to say those ones were overdone (and turned to charcoal)

@v8trauma 5 лет назад

You learn something new every day. Today I learned I've been accidentally cooking mushrooms properly all this time.

@gaudia3985 4 года назад

Yup. The first time i realised they were eating up oil, i couldnt bear to saute them the same way again. Using water was instinctual.

@vanessasamayoa9329 2 года назад

Cool. Yeah. I cook mushrooms water first… then oil later. No one taught me this. I started doing that about a year ago. Nice to see this video confirm my method ^-*!!!!! I just wanted to keep the mushrooms I work with plump! and this method works 😆!!! Like for one year! that’s what I’ve been doing.

@schmidth 2 года назад

It's way better to just fry them high heat for 10 minutes in oil. You barely need any oil and you don't need to add more oil. The only objective here is to remove water from the shroom.

@TrueHero123 5 лет назад

In the early 90s when I was young and growing up in Poland, I would wake up in the wee hours of the morning and go mushroom picking with my father. There was something about walking through a damp forest in autumn collecting nature's bounty.

@JoelGonzalez-ud7qo 5 лет назад

What a great memorable time with your father. Reminded me of similar times with my Dad in backyard vegetable garden. Food can do that in many different ways!

@jackielinde7568 5 лет назад

My family lived in northern Italy for three years. We had a house along the base of the Alps near Giais. In the fall, mushroom hunters would walk past our house, and Mom would buy mushrooms off them when they came back. I remember Mom sauteing them and we ate them as a meal.

@MGHallmann 5 лет назад

TrueHero123 I too went mushroom hunting in my early years in Germany. Great memories !! Miss having Pfifferlingen ( chanterelles) and Steinpilze

@dwaynewladyka577 5 лет назад

My relatives used to pick mushrooms. They were so tasty.

@justifiedlife1595 5 лет назад

What a fabulous blessed memory! dad's are great aren't they?!

@Flyingtart 5 лет назад

"What's you craziest experience with mushrooms?" lol is he's asking for trip-reports?

@Mason-lr5dz 5 лет назад

He seems to be holding back a cheeky smile after he says it, guaranteed he knows what he's doing.

@hardstreg6980 4 года назад

Yes, my report, short version, I drank tea made out of 30 grams of dried Amanita Muscaria mushroom. I went to sleep, I died, I was in hell for an eternity, then I was in void for an eternity, then I was life for an eternity, then I was human, then I woke up.

@jalexb503 4 года назад

@@hardstreg6980 You're a legend

@LanceDaPsycho 4 года назад

You’re handsome

@Gurrehable 4 года назад

How to chanterelle: 1: Put a bunch of them in a frying pan with a lid on medium heat 2: When they are sweating so much they are soaking, remove lid and turn the heat to high 3: Fry away all the water (ALL of it) 4: Add lots of butter and some salt and keep frying for a while Great on crisp flatbread

@CD-qt9rl 2 года назад

and make sure not to add vegetable F&%$ing oil or water.....

@siggylev4268 5 лет назад

I tried sautéing mushrooms in water before adding oil and other veggies. It came out wonderfully. I used a fraction of the oil I usually have to use. Thank you ATK

@AmericasTestKitchen 5 лет назад

Wonderful to hear!

@mi2092 5 лет назад

My husband doesn’t like mushrooms. But one time I cooked some King Trumpet (or King Oyster) mushroom slices and he thought it was scallops. He ate it. He couldn’t tell the difference.

@wildog47 5 лет назад

ny husband stil says he doesnt like mushrooms but I've been putting them in food without him even realizing lol

@Djoser122 5 лет назад

I was given some lobster mushrooms once and told to saute them only with butter. They were the most lobster tasting substance aside from lobster itself. The bad news is that in the 10+ years since I've only seen them sold once, in a Balducci's in NYC

@HickoryDickory86 5 лет назад

Many people _think_ they don't like mushrooms but actually do, when fed the right kind cooked well.

@paulsmith9341 5 лет назад

Most of the family I married into do not like mushrooms. Oh, well, that's more for ME!

@lorrie2878 5 лет назад

@@wildog47 sometimes it's best when partners don't know. If you asked my husband (36 years) if he likes fish sauce he'd say hell, no! But every time I make a stir fry (once a week) there's fish sauce in it.

@victorbenner539 5 лет назад

I believe that this is you're best video so far. I use mushrooms alot. The water before oil is new to me, however, I don't normally use oil but use unsalted butter instead. How about you folks do a entire special edition of mushrooms. How to saute, make soups, sauces, salads, well you get the idea.

@BALLASTATUS11223344 5 лет назад

*a lot

@LV-ni3qs 5 лет назад

@@BALLASTATUS11223344 Fuck off

@Dimbliss. 5 лет назад

@@BALLASTATUS11223344 Fuck off

@RandoBagginz 5 лет назад

BALLASTATUS11223344 fuck off

@chrisbleezy2988 5 лет назад

BALLASTATUS11223344 fuck off

@kap4020 4 года назад

Grew up in Ukraine, and I still remember, 30 years later, picking mushrooms in the forests with my grandparents. I was just a kid so I didn't know the difference between the good and poisonous ones, so behind my back, they threw out the bad ones. ;) Besides being delicious, they are incredibly sustainable. Based on some quick googling, you can grow 25 pounds of oyster mushrooms in a single square foot of area! (I can confirm that with my own oyster experiments.) That's before you start stacking!

@HATEgoo-gle 2 года назад

I'd sooner trust the next mushroom I find growing in Chernoble than anything google says.

@ARCSTREAMS Год назад

25lbs in 1 square foot area?? what do they stack on top of each other and grow like a xmas tree?? 25lbs is really hard to believe

@colleen6341 4 года назад

"your craziest experience with mushrooms" well.....

@SUBZEROxACID 4 года назад

Quite a few to say the least 😂😂😂🤙

@en2336 5 лет назад

Now this is a REAL food science *cooking* series...not the blasphemy on the Everyday Food channel. Hope this gets more popular!

@nikosfilipino 5 лет назад

Everyday foods is actually quite informative, especially Thomas Joseph's show.

@andrewenglish1066 5 лет назад

you should watch Good Eats with Alton Brown! He delves into food science in a really entertaining way

@meme-hz1mq 5 лет назад

@@andrewenglish1066 He's still doing the show?

@veridiumundaunted7978 5 лет назад

@@meme-hz1mq he's been teasing on the show coming back

@danielleanderson6371 5 лет назад

Naming dogs after pasta has to be the cutest thing I've ever heard of.

@lareinadiondra6027 5 лет назад

Danielle Anderson I like Fagottini or Fideo for a dog.

@Taricus 5 лет назад

If you just say "Buca" it means the female version of the word "hole" in Italian... It's actually kind of disturbing LOL! XD

@jp4431 5 лет назад

@@Taricus a hole is a hole... *Unzips pants* Wait what?

@zitools 5 лет назад

until he cooks the dog with the type of pasta its named after.

@polishpat95 5 лет назад

@@lareinadiondra6027 FAGOTini ????? You gotta be freaking joking 😂😂😂😂

@Hayden_Cat 4 года назад

OMG STORY TIME: Me and my mom were making alfredo. She told me to sauté the mushrooms in a separate pan so I put so oil and the mushrooms and boom all the oils gone. Just like this video said I kept adding and gone. I told my mom “every time I add some oil it evaporates or something” and she told me I just didn’t add enough oil I was like “I added oil like 5 times and it keeps disappearing”. The she added it herself and witnessed it vanish and she shrugged it off as nothing. Now I finally know why. Great video lol

@mythydamashii9978 4 года назад

Great pfp ( ° \/ °)

@Hayden_Cat 4 года назад

MythyDAMASHII very good but I always have a lenny ready to go -> ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Also thx XD

@mythydamashii9978 4 года назад

@@Hayden_Cat yw :3

@mythydamashii9978 4 года назад

@@Hayden_Cat also I'm now 13 in 2020 yay now RU-vid community won't hate me

@TantiPraenuntiaFabam 4 года назад

@@mythydamashii9978 13 year olds are still hated, plus no one asked for your age

@brandonhoward3805 4 года назад

I love how at first glance the title and the thumbnail suggest that if you eat overcooked mushrooms they'll start digesting you, but in reality you genuinely *can't* overcook mushrooms due to their amazing thermal stores.

@GoblinDave152 4 года назад

I thought the same 😅

@alexsmith1207 4 года назад

Wrong, in MasterChef they said you can overcook mushrooms.

@brandonhoward3805 4 года назад

@@alexsmith1207 I mean yeah if you really put your mind to it, like charring them or just throwing them into a fire. The point was that it's near impossible to *accidentally* overcook them when doing so conventionally

@pooounderscoreman 4 года назад

Craziest experience with mushrooms? Once I found a mushroom the size of a softball. Shit was cash. Oh and one time I ate a bunch of mushrooms and my face melted into the ceiling then I was God.

@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence 4 года назад

Large puffballs can get as big as soccer balls. You likely found a small puffball known as calvatia bovinus.

@iarreolav 3 года назад

Great comment

@pooounderscoreman 3 года назад

@@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence Wow, that's so cool!

@munk6576 4 года назад

1:28 "They're in their on kingdom entirely" A mushroom kingdom?

@HondaFit-ot5ws 4 года назад

I think he meant Fungi but doesn't know there are more fungi other than mushrooms

@munk6576 4 года назад

@@HondaFit-ot5ws I was making a mario joke, ya know... The mushroom kingdom...Princess peach?

@c6d6c6 5 лет назад

Well played, Dan-great video. My usual technique, which I think offers a slightly more robust flavor, involves omitting the water and using a “dry sauté” -med low heat in an empty skillet. The mushrooms will eventually release the water on their own. Adding water of course helps to achieve this faster through heat transfer but also lowers the temperature in the pan, preventing that glorious Maillard reaction from sugars and amino acids that escape. Adding the oil of course does recapture some of that but in practice the surface of the mushrooms have changed their texture and have a bit more water so the browning reaction proceeds differently. With the dry sauté method you get more soy sauce/umami notes than the more light carmel/nondescript maillard that you get if you add water. There’s certainly a time and a place for both methods! Thanks again for the very informative video!

@CaseyConnor 5 лет назад

Absolutely agree. It's a little trickier to prevent them from sticking, but you can add a few drops of oil now and then if it's an issue. You can also toss a little powdered salt on 'em to help things along. Once I went the dry-fry route I never looked back. Even if I'm going to use them in soup I prefer to do this first.

@Sandwichplss 5 лет назад

100% agree. You can just toss some dry mushrooms. That'll help the mushrooms release their water and once it evaporates use a bit of oil or butter to brown them.

@Sandwichplss 5 лет назад

@@CaseyConnor Nothing beats it

@johnvanegmond1812 5 лет назад

Thanks for the dry pan method idea. That will work when I'm able to stay at the pan. I'll still use the water first, then the fat when I have other distractions to tend to.

@brendaford9482 5 лет назад

Hey - I just remembered how my mother made her cooked mushrooms taste so good. It involved a dry skillet and salt, and adding butter after they were cooked. Usually served with bacon or kidneys as I recall.

@n0lain 5 лет назад

My craziest experience with mushrooms I took like 4 grams, layed down on my bed and stared at the walls for hours

@zitools 5 лет назад

popcorn ceiling is the best.

@johnjohntv1195 5 лет назад

That’s not a story... get a life

@n0lain 5 лет назад

@@johnjohntv1195 Damn john john go off

@akillen77 5 лет назад

I would eat them and go running thru the redwoods in Humboldt ahhh good times

@prod.tutilio4953 5 лет назад

Johnjohntv 69 he had fun, that’s good. You ate some shitaki mushrooms and had fun eating it

@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger 4 года назад

"I fed it to a dog. This dog. Buca. Buccatini." Buca is looking at the camera like "please, they only feed me overcooked steak, my tastebuds and tummy are sad" (Also: garlic powder and a touch of lemon or red wine vinegar near the end. Maybe a little rosemary for fragrance. Alternatively cut them a little smaller and make a nice pan sauce from the butter; add flour to build a roux, brown it a bit, add more water. Viola, mushroom gravy to top your hopefully not overcooked steak and or potatoes with)

@marshallwilburn6939 4 года назад

K Ryuzaki I died, they only feed me over cooked steak

@ValerioGiganteGiga 4 года назад

*Bucatini

@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger 4 года назад

@@ValerioGiganteGiga thank you, the auto-detect subtitles lied to me

@DimT670 4 года назад

Add salt when you saute mushrooms for the water to release faster, that way they have less time to absorb the oil and you can saute them as you do with most other foods. Cutting them small also helps in that

@ARCSTREAMS Год назад

how are you sauteing them dry? please explain step by step what you are talking about, also instead of adding water to cook the mushrooms and make them non oil absorbent i am thinking why not use white wine instead? that way they may be flavored in wine that i was gonna use in my mushroom sauce anyways then i can brown them in oil or butter once the wine has evaporated having done its job, what do you think?

@karldelavigne8134 5 лет назад

Dan is a fun guy. His stomach has much room. And he never gives us shitake. That's the morel of the story.

@Pastadudde 5 лет назад

lol them puns tho.

@lindabuck2777 5 лет назад

Karl Delavigne oh you’re just too clever lmao

@danlewis1871 5 лет назад

I chanterelle anyone

@karldelavigne8134 5 лет назад

@@danlewis1871 You'd be asking for truffle...

@YT4Me57 5 лет назад

Love it!!!

@funny-video-YouTube-channel 5 лет назад

*Try sour or acidic, if you want to overcook the mushrooms :-)* Boiling mushrooms with Sauerkraut or Kimchi makes them soft and breaks down their cells.

@bigmongus7441 5 лет назад

epSos.de yeah that’s not overcooking it’s denaturation

@hibiscusflower5911 5 лет назад

Cool what's the texture like after denaturing?

@w.o.jackson8432 4 года назад

@@hibiscusflower5911 overcooked

@sunriseschild 5 лет назад

YT's algorithm finally got it right and recommended something useful. This is brilliant, thanks so much!

@Ewasomeer 5 лет назад

Bro I just eat the blueies raw straight out of the bush. Like a real man. Bet your "cooking" method doesn't even let you talk to the spirits of dead children's leftover pets. See nobody thinks about them then one day you watch a RU-vid video of some flanneled dope get lured in with a funny comment and now you thinking about how Jimmy the Parkinson's chiwawa felt after his adolescent owner took one to many. All cos this dude can cook a mushroom. Cheers for the pointers though mate, saves me from wasting my oil, now I have more to drink.

@Brandon-ps3lh 5 лет назад

this... was a roller coaster lol

@FriendlyYandere 4 года назад

I've been pronounce Chitin wrong my whole life.

@shawnleist8999 4 года назад

Ikk so have I 😂

@shawnleist8999 4 года назад

Ch-itin

@samwright6853 4 года назад

English is dumb ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@hexf3248 4 года назад

You've got to be chitin me

@fishfan2 4 года назад

@@shawnleist8999 I've always pronounced it either as Kai-tin or Chi-tin

@potatitis6441 5 лет назад

You can't overcook mushrooms? Challenge accepted.

@AlasdairGR 4 года назад

Potatitis Yeah, you can definitely overcook and burn mushrooms.

@saggiteightyfour8367 5 лет назад

Fun fact: You can leave mushrooms in sunlight for 10mins to increase the vit D content 10 fold. This bit is taken from an article where they increased the vitamin D content of shiitake mushrooms 460x (but they were left in the sun for 12hrs) Here is a simple experiment we did one summer afternoon in Kamilche Point, Washington. We compared several forms of organically grown shiitake mushrooms, which had starting level of 100 IU/100 grams. We compared the vitamin D levels of three sets of mushrooms, all from the same crop. The first was grown and dried indoors. The second set was dried outdoors in the sunlight with their gills facing down. The third set of mushrooms was dried outdoors in the sunlight with their gills facing upwards for full sun exposure. The most vitamin D was found in shiitake dried with gills up that were exposed to sunlight for two days, six hours per day. The vitamin D levels in these mushrooms soared from 100 IU/100 grams to nearly 46,000 IU/100 grams (see chart). Their stems, though, produced very little vitamin D, only about 900 IU. Notably, vitamin D levels dropped on the third day, probably due to over-exposure to UV.

@colleenkaralee2280 2 года назад

Valuable data, thank you.

@evelynrose2257 5 лет назад

Now I'm craving mushrooms.

@u.e.bytheseashore2348 4 года назад

So water first, then oil, then seasoning. Got it.

@abcdeisthekeygaming277 5 лет назад

I already cook mushrooms with just water. You don't need oil or butter...

@throughcolouredglasses9300 5 лет назад

Butter is good for flavor tho, and depending on what oil it might add something too

@abcdeisthekeygaming277 5 лет назад

@@throughcolouredglasses9300 taste pretty amazing without it I never missed it. Cook my eggs only egg too

@Arisaema55 5 лет назад

In college, we used to go into the forest outside State College, PA to gather wild mushrooms. We would bring them back to our dorm room and place them in little foil packages with a pat of butter, salt and freshly-ground pepper. We would heat our iron on the cotton setting and gently place it onto the foil for exactly five minutes. Combined with the similarly prepared, but on the steam setting, rice, it was heaven. 😉

@galacticwarlock2271 5 лет назад

I am afraid of poisoning myself. I would be afraid to be so bold.

@johnswaim3919 5 лет назад

Psyloscibin shroomers? Lol

@akillen77 5 лет назад

People did that in my dorms with morels and someone called the cops on them lmao

@polishpat95 5 лет назад

*that's a good way to die if you dont know your mushrooms like a real expert* I've heard so many stories of people doing that for a while. Then theres the good looking mushrooms that look almost identical to edible ones but it isn't the same. And the family dies from poisoning. Ive heard of those stories, be careful! It's very real.

@well_as_an_expert_id_say 5 лет назад

Imagine thinking about the last dog to come along and piss on em

@matthewtoader1 5 лет назад

i was tripping 6 g golden teachers for my first time and then 20 cats ran out of an alley and circled me 10/10

@archangelgabe013 5 лет назад

I once made mini pizza's out of portobello caps. Pretty legit.

@grendelum 5 лет назад

Steve Eady - when I lived on tour we hit this restaurant in Vermont... hamburger bun, lettuce, grilled portobello cap with a slab of melted (Vermont) cheddar on top, pickles and a yogurt dill sauce. Even tho it technically isn’t, it’s one of the best hamburgers I’ve ever had... I still remember it 21 years later !!

@archangelgabe013 5 лет назад

@@grendelum Sounds amazing!

@sabin97 5 лет назад

@@grendelum sounds pretty delicious. i like beef, but once in a while i eat a baked potato with mushrooms instead of ground beef....

@drizzyrauvryar6992 5 лет назад

@@grendelum you stole my comment

@TimBagels 4 года назад

@@grendelum do you remember where the restaurant was in the state?

@domdib 2 года назад

"Entangled Life" by Merlin Sheldrake gives a deeper insight into how amazing fungi are. And great tip on the cooking!

@hankl456 4 года назад

The craziest experience I had with mushrooms is when I ate a fistful and was catapulted into the heavens and found myself standing before god

@jessstuart7495 5 лет назад

Breaded and fried morel mushrooms are my favorite. There's nothing quite like foraging in the woods for your own food. I always slice them in half, then soak them in salt-water overnight, which helps to keep the oil from soaking them when deep-frying.

@1badMucker 5 лет назад

My girlfriend claimed to hate mushrooms (she didn't even refer to them as mushrooms only as fungi) for years limiting how much I could buy at the store. One evening, I made chicken thighs with mushrooms. I didn't do anything fancy or special but I did make sure to brown the mushrooms and skin of the thighs well. My girlfriend now eats mushrooms. Thanks for the water tip Dan. I am going to try it out.

@TheWarrrenator 5 лет назад

The secret to getting people to like mushrooms is to blitz them up in a food processor first and then adding them to for example, a spaghetti sauce so that you get the flavor and a little texture but not too much and your mycophobic eater won't know the difference! It's so funny that people won't eat mushrooms, but they will eat bread, drink beer (yeast) and eat cheese (mold).

@hailervin 5 лет назад

Right, it’s really odd to me.

@hailervin 5 лет назад

@Eric Grijalva shut up ya damn snowflake. Jesus do you always freak out and say stupid shit like this? No dipshit, she wasn't allergic, it already has been made clear she just didn't like them and was just being picky when it came to mushrooms.

@scottgray6276 5 лет назад

Craziest experience: finding Morels growing next to my driveway!

@Sandstimes 5 лет назад

I have to drive like 3 hours into the woods wtf

@iletyoucallmestevesy 5 лет назад

Morel of the story: keep your eyes peeled

@stephenhill6791 5 лет назад

I found out about 15-20 years ago to cook my mushrooms almost the same way from watching one of Emeril's shows. I use wine instead of water with a little butter, worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Sometimes, I'll add garlic (or garlic powder) and/or sliced onions. Let it reduce until the mushrooms start frying and browning a little. Add a little more butter if needed and cook until you get a nice glaze and the mushrooms are browned nicely. YUM! The darker the wine (red as opposed to white), the more robust the flavor will be. I usually end up eating about half of them out of the pan! LOL

@TimeingStudios 5 лет назад

That mushroom is older than jesus

@yakovkosharovsky8487 5 лет назад

wow. Thank you man. you just saved me and my family a ton of callories that can go into desert! Thank you very much!

@ManiacallySmithing 5 лет назад

Craziest experience with mushrooms leaves the spectrum pretty wide, eh?

@lilSenDog 5 лет назад

😂 😂 😂

@Bein_Ian 5 лет назад

I lived with a vegan once. We were eating steak on the grill when he brought portabello mushrooms to cook and eat on the grill. I would say he overcooked them because by the time they came off the grill they were black and still partially on fire.

@Sandstimes 5 лет назад

How tf did he burn one of the easiest things to cook 😩

@Bein_Ian 5 лет назад

@@Sandstimes put them on the grill and then walked away

@acninee 5 лет назад

That's what happens when you consort with beings from Vega.

@GamesFromSpace 5 лет назад

Cooking stops when carbonization begins.

@thisispeacefull 4 года назад

Very informative video. Thank you! But how do you properly clean and dry mushrooms?

@atomicwinter31 5 лет назад

I love mushrooms. I dont know why, i guess it was alice in wonderland, with the big red mushrooms and other books n stuff. I always was like "OO THAT LOOKS SO COOL AND SMOOSHY"

@Merlmabase 5 лет назад

Great segment! Really dig everything about this series. Tight editing, tight sound design, and just an overall really warm and fun presentation. Didn't want to ruin everyone's appetite by mentioning that insect shells are also chitin?

@dwaynewladyka577 5 лет назад

Higher heat and a good pan makes the mushrooms cook better, with less oil. Fresh garlic, chopped scallions, and dill are great with mushrooms. I'd like to see your take on a good cream of mushroom soup, in a future video.

@kenq7948 5 лет назад

Yes, I put the heat 3/4 and make sure the oil is hot before adding the mushrooms.

@darthinvaderzimm 4 года назад

That's what you think. I'd still find a way to burn the mushrooms with my cooking skills

@moonfireandpecanpie 4 года назад

I've did it

@freedapeeple4049 4 года назад

When I was a kid, they said that mushrooms have no nutritional value.

@nordicmind82 4 года назад

Wow... Rather odd claim. What country are you from? :)

@freedapeeple4049 4 года назад

@@nordicmind82 I was a kid a long time ago. They simply didn't know. Smoking was considered to be a health benefit, too, back then.

@Arkylie 4 года назад

...and now we have Quorn, the delicious fungus-based fake meats. Good source of protein (assuming you don't have a mold allergy, because some people have reacted very negatively to Quorn but, as I understand it, it was simply an undiagnosed allergy, not Quorn itself being dangerous). I had their chicken in a curry and it was way better than other fake meats I've tried -- seemed to nail the texture, not just the taste. (But mushrooms are tasty regardless.)

@operationsauce 4 года назад

the crispy brown shrivels in my frying pan disagree with this title.

@carlosandleon 4 года назад

you gotta heat up the pan first, like really really hot. Then chuck em in there and shake them up a bit for a few minutes

@itsianman 4 года назад

@@carlosandleon and they wont ever overcook right

@carlosandleon 4 года назад

@@itsianman they will shrivel

@peter-radiantpipes2800 5 лет назад

We used to pick chanterelle mushrooms here in Santa Barbara, CA for fun and make a really good profit for a day walking around oak groves. Sell them to local restaurants and make a few hundred bucks for a few hours of work. Lots of fun and lots of money for a teenager. Miss doing that. Now it’s gotten competitive with people making deals with landowners etc. but was a great way to spend the day.

@travisdenney8980 5 лет назад

How do you clean mushrooms? I was told once to never wash them, you should wipe them with a clean cloth. How do you clean mushrooms?

@bH-eo5tz 5 лет назад

Travis Denney with dawn dish soap

@nathanhallisey441 5 лет назад

I don't even bother. I just cut em up and cook them.

@kiltedcripple 5 лет назад

Being serious, you don't want to disk your mushrooms, but you can absolutely put them in a colander and run water over them to wash them. You can also wipe with a damp paper towel, but that won't rinse dirt out of the gills of white or cremini mushrooms. If you're mushrooms take up a little water, as Dan just showed, no harm no foul.

@YT4Me57 5 лет назад

@@kiltedcripple thanks for the information. I don't often eat mushrooms but I like to throw them in pasta sauce.

@tatunuotio6016 5 лет назад

I'm a bit late to answer, but if you harvested them yourself you want to clean them pretty well to get rid of all the insects and dirt, in which case you should actually use a small brush.

@mdbenoit 5 лет назад

I love it when I learn something new and exciting. This is going to be my new way of cooking mushrooms. Thanks!

@Nyx773 2 года назад

For my future reference: 4:43 wonderful nerd talk ends, How-To begins Put 1 pound 🍄in skillet Add 1/4 cup 💧 (or 1/2 pound 🍄 + 1 oz ?) High Heat Saute ~5 minutes until 🍄 have collapsed and skillet is dry Add 1/2 tsp oil Brown Season

@louistomlinson6427 2 года назад

trippy_psyche1

@tylermagoon4366 4 года назад

Aaaand take a drink every time he says “mushrooms”

@HondaFit-ot5ws 4 года назад

Alcohol poisoning 👍

@silkytp789 5 лет назад

love your series Dan. Truly. My rule of thumb with mushrooms is to follow Julia Child's technique. Dry sauté them without crowding the pan - so, in batches if necessary. No need for liquid of any kind or salt until the end. This is how they're prepared when added to Boeuf Bourguignon after the braise. I've found this technique to be reliable in developing the marvelous browning that contributes to the umami. Your mileage may vary.

@shawnpitman876 5 лет назад

"Your mileage may vary" means the exact opposite of "reliable". Reliable means that the outcome is able to be reproduced the vast majority of the time.

@acninee 5 лет назад

I, too, have had very good results for mushrooms with Julia Child's technique.

@deprofundis3293 2 года назад

Has anyone compared the two methods side by side??

@Merlmabase 5 лет назад

I could watch slow zoom on Dan for hours

@lindaf3851 5 лет назад

Weird!

@ajaler1 5 лет назад

Same here

@intuit5767 5 лет назад

AGREED

@l4ndst4nder 5 лет назад

I actually really hate the slow zoom, it’s like they’re building tension but it doesn’t resolve to anything. Love the video though, very interesting stuff

@IPODsify 5 лет назад

Didn't know that was pronounced "kite-n" I've been saying "chit-in" since highschool bio class

@tmford5025 5 лет назад

Great pro tip with the water. I just cooked shitake this way for my omelet and that was delicious. I've been using olive oil forever...thanks

@TheDestroyer5670 2 года назад

I didn't know "what's eating dan" was the series name and assumed this video was going to be about the horrors of mushrooms and how they eat us.

@spartan11mcxbox 5 лет назад

Nobody: Joe Rogan: But have you tried DMT?

@Iron_Thunderstorm 5 лет назад

Worth

@alexanderhowarth6460 4 года назад

Me: Yeah, but did god take you on the roller-coasters?

@nordicmind82 4 года назад

Hehe. He is a wonderfully silly man. My summary: Long duration psychedelics like psilocybin, mescaline, LSD, ibogaine, (and MAOI combined ingested DMT), etc. brings you with them, transforms you, and gives you the potential to process and deal with your emotional baggage. You are a participator and an active person in the process. Smoked/vaped DMT only puts you in the car, goes to the drive in cinema, and shows you stuff like a movie you have no part in. While you are still your normal baseline self inside, viewing the show. Interesting, spectacular, scary, beautiful, etc. but not very ..constructive, or useful. Joe Rogan should go out into the desert with something that dives deep and brings him with it.

@Phamtomdark 5 лет назад

I've been trying to recreate this dish I once had where mushroom and cheese were served under a rabbit sausage. I had not noticed there was cheese on the dish until I bit into the mushroom, where in I could have sworn that both the mushroom and the cheese grew from the same source as they just complemented themselves note for delicious note, the cheese was smooth and almost felt bare without the woody base of the mushroom; these two things which were once separate became as one and gave off visions of a fictitious Mushroom-Cheese plant that must have only be cultivated by masters and the gods who blessed them with the knowledge. The sausage was good too.

@chefvods6880 2 года назад

he never left flavor town

@Hx3ney 2 года назад

It's dangerous to chasing a high like that

@leanmeangreenbeanmachine3347 5 лет назад

“Have you ever wondered how we found out what mushrooms are safe to eat?” Idk, with a lot of lives I’m assuming.

@nordicmind82 4 года назад

I am so happy that we started making books. Mushrooms identification books were, for obvious reasons, quite early in the bookmaking history. ^^

@kenmore01 3 года назад

Honestly, I'm not sure why people went on testing them.

@maartenschumacher 3 года назад

Slavery

@navirockmusic 2 года назад

You also don't need to taste a large amount of mushrooms to know if it's dangerous. If you puke after eating a bit of it you would classify it as poisonous i assume.

@mtpstv94 2 года назад

@@nordicmind82 The problem is that it's a very complex thing even with books. Misidentification is easy.

@cmenowOn 5 лет назад

i love science talk about food ☺️

@mayolson2 5 лет назад

me too.

@cedricburg8374 2 года назад

Good video.... but... that said: it's like saying: how to cook plant, or how to cook animals. As you noted: it's a kingdom of its own.... I haven't tasted all 1000+ edible varieties yet, but I'm above 400 and I would say that just like a pork chop and a beef tongue should be cooked differently, every mushroom should be cooked according to the technique and seasoning that best brings out its flavor... Some are actually best raw, some baked, some grilled and some pickled..... Still a good video, should just be the first of several dozens, thanks.

@boatraft 2 года назад

"Let me know in the comments about your craziest experience with mushrooms." OK NICE TRY OFFICER.

@Ricee_e 5 лет назад

I hate mushrooms but still watched the video lol

@BrotherOats 5 лет назад

I'D love to like them though:( I have to try other varieties I guess!

@Raikuthedragon 5 лет назад

I made someone hating myshrooms liking them now... if you know how to prepare them, it's delicious. Also, mushrooms picked in nature are 10x better

@Sandstimes 5 лет назад

@@BrotherOats have you tried enoki? They look sorta like noodles and they taste savory like meat. Even my super picky grandma likes them so if you haven't I'd recommend giving them a shot.

@iglidor 5 лет назад

Kinda suprised that out of all mushrooms, boletus was not mentioned.

@johnvanegmond1812 5 лет назад

You sound like a mushroom hunter. Pheasant Back (which I love) is considered a fair or poor edible. I use a little water to cook them down and the toss them into another frying pan with tallow from left over beef roast. Salt, pepper, and garlic chives. My wife isn't a mushroom fan and the kids are grown so I almost feel bad that I don't have to share them. Peace from SE Iowa.

@mthomsmith 5 лет назад

They were! Dan just referred to them as porcini, their more common name in the States

@jakoborrazor4059 5 лет назад

Aren’t mushrooms like super healthy? What if I sautéd some Mushrooms with veggie oil and a little lemon juice? Tasty, tangy, vegetarian treat, or gross (not a vegetarian just wondering)

@ernestoparra2618 3 года назад

Thanks for your video, I will try the suggested way to cook it, I will tell you , regards from Colombia, South America.

@krazypeople4 5 лет назад

Fantastic video, surprised I haven't stumbled on this channel until now.

@niagargoyle 5 лет назад

I would like to see an episode about eggs. How can you whip the whites into stiff peaks unless the yolk is mixed in? Why do they act like glue in baking? Why do I hate them if they're scrambled, boiled, poached, or fried but love what they do to French toast, German pancakes, and fried chicken?

@colleenkaralee2280 2 года назад

Yes, best tasting with French toast.

@feartheghus 5 лет назад

I can definately overtook mushrooms

@xion1305 5 лет назад

Unintentional clickbait. I never seen your show. When I read what's eating dan along with why you can't overcook mushrooms, I thought overcooked mushrooms where eating some guy named Dan from the inside out. :)

@leylamoone6284 4 года назад

Yumm fried till a little burnt then season with lemon, ACV, salt, sesame oil, soy sauce, cilantro. Breakfast Lunch Dinner

@vicreaves3077 5 лет назад

Just cook mushrooms in a dry pan with salt and pepper then finish with butter.

@crossmxn 5 лет назад

Even healthier without salt. Plus, the mushroom flavor it's retained!!

@ecks7165 5 лет назад

@@crossmxn mushrooms don't have flavor?...

@crossmxn 5 лет назад

@@ecks7165 They do have, a very tasty one. I was referring that if you put oil and other things you hide the flavour.

@ayekantspeylgud 5 лет назад

Maya McCullough what kind of mushrooms do you eat that they have no flavor? They don’t have a LOT of flavor on their own, usually (referring to common varieties only), but they definitely have a meaty, earthy flavor to them. If you only eat white button, try crimini (also packaged as “baby Bella” at times).

@brokenwave6125 5 лет назад

@@ecks7165 wth are you talking about?

@skexchykat681 4 года назад

So my friend sent this to me..I have micro phobia a fear of mushrooms and I’m lowkey not having good time

@carteradams43 4 года назад

think of it like this: those mushrooms? he cooks them! HE KILLS THEM ALL!!!

@Assterix 5 лет назад

We use many many more varieties of mushrooms here in Poland. Basically every consumable kind that grows domestic

@adde9506 4 года назад

If you wash your mushrooms, don't add any water to the pan. I just did a real quick job of making soup. I know it will boil off, but then I have to solve the problem of how to recover the flavor.

@Scorponox93 2 года назад

I can overcook mushrooms pretty easily by popping them in the microwave for 3 minutes, they come out like wrinkly mushy autumn leaf.

@blyat1648 5 лет назад

Legit just thought the title said why you cant overclock mushrooms

@MrCrazyChemist 5 лет назад

I love the fact that the mushrooms absorb so much oil, easy calories for my keto diet.

@pattaylor4407 4 года назад

My initial experience with morel mushrooms taught me something. I brought the morels home in a plastic bag because my intention was to cook them right away. To my horror I saw tiny worms coming out of the mushrooms. But that was the good news! They were coming out of the mushrooms because the natural heat of them being in a plastic bag drew them out. All I had to do was wait until they had all exited the mushrooms before cooking them. It didn’t take long for them to leave.

@colleenkaralee2280 2 года назад

No extra charge for the wormies :-))

@Hx3ney 2 года назад

You still ate them 🪱 😱💀

@papilloneffect4015 4 года назад

I'm glad people like mushrooms as much as I do. I'm not a nerd on it, but when ever I make food for friends or family; nobody wants mushrooms in it. It's really sad.

@yuppers1 2 года назад

You can also cook them dry. Just don't touch them or stir them until they brown. Then when you add sauce/butter/balsamic etc they will suck that up

@alexwansss 5 лет назад

That's very useful! Never adding oil first ever again!

@zerg_burger 4 года назад

I used to work at a decent restaurant and I always found that before I grill a mushroom it always worked better to steam it with water first. Also my boss told me it was impossible to overcook a mushroom. That's the main reason I watched this video