/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16584248
Might be some kind of ascomycete I'm not familiar with either, those can get pretty bizarre.

/ck/, please recommend me your oakiest whiskeys. Scotch preferred, but bourbon and rye are great too.

Edible mushroom thread?

>>13104233
>What time of year are best to gather
This depends entirely on what type of mushroom you're looking for. Early in the spring when things are warming up and pretty moist, the star of the show is morels. I don't live in a good area for morels, so my favorite species are in active growth typically in late summer through fall. This is when you find things like Coprinus comatus, most types of chanterelles, and a bunch of different boletes.
>where to look
Again, depends on what you're looking for. Mushrooms, to oversimplify, grow in two different patterns: mycorrhizal fungi, which form symbiotic relationships with specific trees, and saprobic fungi, which grow on decaying organic matter (when these types use living organic matter as a substrate (food source), they're classed as parasites). Mycorrhizal species grow in associate with very specific trees (for instance, you will pretty much never see something like Lactarius indigo under anything other than certain species of pine (I've read it can occasionally be found under oak, but haven't seen that occur in person). So your best bet is to do some reading on the species you hope to find and look in the vicinity of the types of trees it prefers to associate with. For saprobes, the story is similar. Many saprobic species have preferred substrates, but a lot of them can actually be cultivated. This is a common technique to get things like oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus species), and there's plenty of guides and even pre-inoculated started kits available online.

>>12030880
If you simply must eat bright-colored mushrooms, consume pic related instead. Much more pleasant experience.

edible.

>>11631517
Biggest retard in this thread of retards.

>>11632037
Lactarius indigo isn't quite as tasty, but is very fun because of the color.

>>11632278
Just because you don't, doesn't mean that nobody does. Eat shit.

>>11633310
A dealer. Don't pick your own if you have no idea what to look for already. It's not a beginner genus at all, and identification is actually really difficult for Psilocybe/Panaeolus.

>>11633437
>>11633914
The only sane men here.