Meat without legs - Mushroom Hunting 2023’

[sacklunch]

Yup, gotta wing shoot it before is flies away from you!

(But definitely worth keeping an open eye for big orange yellow masses on hard wood trees) very good eating if you find the right one. So much so you can cover in olive oil & salt to grill. All mushrooms take a deep fry well too if health isn’t of interest!

Is there a preferred method for putting them down humanely before cooking, or we’re just grilling them alive?

 

[ProStaffSteve]

Is there a preferred method for putting them down humanely before cooking, or we’re just grilling them alive?

Learning experience here mushroom pickers typically aren’t the first creatures to find the mushroom. Bugs love em. Unless your mushrooms are very fresh & clean, drown em in saltwater for a couple hours!

For long term storage, rinse the water entirely and let em sit in the fridge, shrooms hold up well for weeks. For longer term you can fry em in front of a fan for 24 hours and jar em

 

[NRA4LIFE]

This was one from my ash pile.

 

[ProStaffSteve]

This was one from my ash pile.

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The bulls know where that private land line sits! Also respect for waiting till it’s big, not something I do frequently as the spots are too remote to be selective

 

[feanor]

Here’s one that looks like a scale hedgehog maybe….?

 

[ProStaffSteve]

Here’s one that looks like a scale hedgehog maybe….?
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Interesting find! I’m thinking amanita of some sort. Depends on your location. Hedge-hogs are edible but have “brittle teeth” instead of gills. The vail, the little collar on the stem, is common for amanita family, don’t eat that because amanita are notoriously toxic. To note, “the angel of death” falls in that family.

 

[feanor]

Interesting find! I’m thinking amanita of some sort. Depends on your location. Hedge-hogs are edible but have “brittle teeth” instead of gills. The vail, the little collar on the stem, is common for amanita family, don’t eat that because amanita are notoriously toxic. To note, “the angel of death” falls in that family.

Oh yeah -that’s some good information. Im on the front range at about 7,500 ft elevation. Ponderosa pines everywhere. This is a great thread! Thanks!

 

[roosterdown]

Interesting find! I’m thinking amanita of some sort. Depends on your location. Hedge-hogs are edible but have “brittle teeth” instead of gills. The vail, the little collar on the stem, is common for amanita family, don’t eat that because amanita are notoriously toxic. To note, “the angel of death” falls in that family.

Indeed - close enough to possibly be a Destroying Angel. A spore print would tell for sure, but if it were me I'd wash my hands if I had touched it.

 

[feanor]

Indeed - close enough to possibly be a Destroying Angel. A spore print would tell for sure, but if it were me I'd wash my hands if I had touched it.

I poke and overturn all mushrooms with a stick usually.

 

[feanor]

Got another here. Pretty sure it’s a bad one though.

 

[roosterdown]

Got another here. Pretty sure it’s a bad one though.
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Also an Aminita! ...Fly Agaric.

Not as poisonous as the all-white Destroying Angels...but same family, and you don't want to eat 'em.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

That looks like an Amanita Muscaria maybe? Those are bad juju.

 

[feanor]

So it looks like I’m surrounded by poisonous mushrooms so far.

 

[ProStaffSteve]

So it looks like I’m surrounded by poisonous mushrooms so far.

sometimes it’s like that! BUT most of the good ones start popping mid summer/fall. It’s a good sign you’re on mushrooms now

 

[wytx]

Big field mushroom.
How big is too big to eat?
Size 13 boot for reference.

 

[Fetty Wapiti]

Here’s one that looks like a scale hedgehog maybe….?
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Parasol

 

[backyardbandit]

Crazy you guys are still finding morels out west. They've been done in MO for 2 months!
Chanterelles are about to pop any day now here, and they're probably my favorite. Easy to find, lots in each spot, and delicious!
I've got logs innoculated with shiitake and oyster spawn.

 

[Kentucky]

I’m covered up in mushrooms, I’ll get some pics… awesome thread

 

[Felton]

The chanterelle is about the only mushroom I mess with. I’ve opened my horizons to a couple more but I’m too scared of messing up.

I found a couple oak trees in the middle of an old food plot that get loaded with these beautiful shrooms.


Obviously not chanterelles..

 

[idahomuleys]

Crazy you guys are still finding morels out west. They've been done in MO for 2 months!
Chanterelles are about to pop any day now here, and they're probably my favorite. Easy to find, lots in each spot, and delicious!
I've got logs innoculated with shiitake and oyster spawn.

We've had some crazy weather this year, very unusual. I picked a grocery sack full in about an hour last weekend in central Idaho. Left because we had enough, but they were still everywhere.

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