/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Because i live in new york city amd would never eat something off the ground here

Because mushrooms suck.

>>12840074
I drove 2.5 hours each way to pick these. You have no excuse, there is plenty of big forests less than that distance from New York City.

>>12840020
are you the one starting the youtube channel?

Foraging is literally for beta cucks, women and children

Sorry, not going to poison myself by eating a poisonous fungus that looks exactly the same as an edible one. I'll keep buying them from my local grocery store though

>>12840082
You tried to convince them to forage and all you did was show how little you value your time. "Spend all weekend to pick a few mushrooms!"

because irresponsible people constantly over harvest causing it to be an incredibly unsustainable practice

it's hard to do even on your own land with all these city folk trespassing to steal your wild leeks, puff balls, and fiddle heads

I haven't seen a god damned fern in years thanks to them.

>>12840082
>I drove 2.5 hours each way to pick these
Ok sweetie I have things to do.

>>12841809
Hahahaha post body fatty! Hahahaha I bench LMAO3PL8 how about you mate?

>>12840020
Because I live in a polluted wasteland and anything that grows here is probably filled with heavy metals and toxins

>>12841875
Clearly, cause that’s why you’re arguing with people on 4chan. You’re not fooling anyone you pathetic no life faggot.

Jeez man, leave some for the rest of us. You don't gotta harvest every single mushroom

>>12840020
>>12840082
>drive out 2.5 hours
>spend at least the same time foraging for mushrooms
>drive back
>probably a total of 8 hours spent to find all these and get them home
>all $15 worth of it if even that
>versus
>working out 3 hours a day and spending a fraction of the money you'd spend on fuel to buy mushrooms from the grocery store
lol

>>12842823
> Durrrrrrrr why do something active and healthy when I can sit on my fat ass at home and buy 4 week old mushrooms instead.

Amerifats never cease to amaze me

>>12842841
>driving for 5 hours is active and healthy
>didn't even read my post
holy shit you're retarded lol
lay off the mushrooms bud

>lobster mushrooms
love those

>>12840082
>I drove 2.5 hours each way to pick these.
seriously anon

>>12840020
Foraging in the city, you mean collecting all the rat bones for my rat stew

>>12842823
> all hobbies should be cost effective
> why buy a fishing lure and bait for $10 when a fish only costs $5?
> why drive to the lake when you can just drive to the grocery store?

You sound like a real boring chap.

>>12842943
>hobby consists of walking around aimlessly in a forest until you spot a fungus that may or may not be edible
yeah I'm real boring...

>>12842327
>he thinks even people on nufit outside of cbt threads take bostbenis seriosly

Mushrooms are gross

Do you sell to local restaurants?

>>12840020
I live in the desert, and there's jack shit to forage here. Seems like it'd be a fun hobby, but tomorrow's forecast is 109 outside.

>>12840020
Because it's fucking dangerous. I don't want to end up with a pumped stomach or worse. Angel caps grow where I live, along with all sorts of other toxic lookalikes. Chinese immigrants kill themselves all the time here picking mushrooms and they're a lot more experienced than I am.

>>12840020
1) You don't know what asshole animal or human has come along and pissed or shit or spit on them.
2) You don't know if someone has sprayed chemicals on them or if they are downwind of pesticides/herbicides that are toxic to you.
3) If you aren't a mycologist, you are going to end up killing yourself or severely hurting yourself because you misidentified a plant.
4) You burn more calories collecting and cleaning all this shit than you get from eating it.

>>12840020
Holy shit are those chanterelles? That's probably like $2k worth of mushrooms right there.

>>12840020
Around me it’s all desert and sea

>>12840082
No you didn't, you took that image off the internet and now you're trying to pass it off as your own handiwork like a fucking redditor.

>>12843099
CRINGE

>>12843429
If the threads not dead tomorrow morning I’ll post a time stamp with the lobster tray.

>>12842989
Nope, preserve them for the year. I cook almost every meal I eat and extremely rarely eat out. My family and I will go through this batch in under a month this winter.

>>12842862
They are one of the best. But man they go bad so quick in the woods and when they go bad they smell absolutely horrible.

>>12840020
>Why haven’t you started foraging yet?

I actually live within walking distance of woodland, but I don't forage because:
-I don't know what's food.
-I don't want to get lost. LOTS of people get lost where I live; around 4 on average every year.

>>12842823
While I agree that for most people it would be a lot of time and effort for little reward, that haul is at least $60 worth, likely closer to $120 in NYNY.

I do.

>>12844142
Why would you eat poisonous mushrooms?

>>12843076
Just don't pick fucking angle caps? Are you stupid or blind? There is plenty edible mushrooms that are impossible to mistaken if you do some minimal research.

>>12843103
I don't know where you live but that's probably 100 or 200 bucks max.

rate my catch

>>12844166
I wouldn't. That's why I pick only edible ones.

>>12842967
It's a popular social activity in Finland :DD

>>12843099
>this was posted unironically

>>12843552
bring a damn compass

>>12840020
Because I live in an arid shithole that isn't conducive to growing decent mushrooms.

>>12840020
>unironically
no, I only ironically forage.

>>12843099
the shit non-vegans say just to distract themselves from realizing tyrone is fucking their girl lmao

>>12844142
How do you know these are edible? I don't see anything recognizable

DUDE
SHROOMS

>>12844354
Not the guy but I see plenty of king boletes. Not sure what the orangey blue staining boletes are but there are no boletes that will kill you.

>>12841856
Nothing says my time is valuable like posting on 4chan instead

>>12843429
>>12843459

Proof.

>>12840082
>foraging in the forest in the NY/NJ area
>all the mushrooms grow of shallow buried mob corpses

>>12845010
>find and old slice of pizza with only one bite in it
ayyy today's a good day.

I am not paying for two hours of gas to hunt for 13$ of produce.

>>12841864
This. I see stuff out in the forest and just leave it now, but the see pictures of people with bags full of leeks, morels, oysters, etc.
Its sad

>>12845247

Pretty ignorant comment desu. Picking mushrooms does not harm the host mycelium. In fact some studies show that disturbing the soil next to the fruiting body by picking the mushroom actually HELPS the mycelium.

Now, if you wanna talk about overharvesting ramps or fiddleheads sure. That’s a totally different ballgame.

>>12845237
This is a stupid attitude. The chanterelles at my local grocery store were shipped in from
Bulgaria. (I’m on the west coast of Canada). They cost $25 per pound. So if you wanna go strictly for cost that’s about $650 of chanterelles in the OP. But there are other species as well that you just can’t buy at the grocery store. Sucks to be you to only ever get to eat things that came from a grocery store, and never get to enjoy the finer things in life.

>>12841856
a full afternoon is not all weekend you god damn hyperbolous retard.

>>12843606
how do you even eat $120 worth of mushrooms though

you'll get sick of it

can they be frozen?

>>12845418
Yeah, I pickle, ferment, dry, and freeze most of them. I eat only a bit during actual mushroom season, mostly it is to feed my family mushrooms throughout the whole year.

>>12845427
thats sounds pretty awesome
i forgot mushrooms could be dried
does freezing them change/ruin their texture? mushrooms are mostly water arent they

>>12845459
Yeah it kinda does. You gotta fry them first in lots of fat (I use butter) and then vac pack to freeze. Even still they are no where near as good as fresh. But you could use them in meat pies, or something like that.

>>12842327
>bragging about benching three 5# plates
yikes lad

>>12840020

Morels grow like weeds here, Appalachia is good for something.

>>12841809
lol fast food is for KINGS!!!

>>12841790
Bump, I'd be interested to watch YT vids on this.

>>12845340
The way most people take mushrooms does not benefit the host. Usually people rip them out of the ground or cut them off a tree completely, leaving nothing left. At least that's the case for chaga around me I just assume it's the same with most other fungi. Improperly removing them is fairly common

>>12841809
I like finding wild edibles when Im camping/fishing. Especially wild onion and berries. You are mosr definitely a beta cuck.

>>12841790
>>12845828
Yes. I am. I’m working on a video but also just drowning in mushroom preservation in my free time at the moment.

>>12840020
The bugs add protein!

>>12847307
I like your stuff, but I'd prefer if you use more dialogue (in particular, I didn't like the bao video because it had none) also maybe you should rotate the overhead shots so they aren't upside down

>>12844354
Know-how
I've been hunting for mushrooms my entire life, my granddad taught me.
The red mushroom is I think are Boletus Luridus. Very common here.

>>12844212
Dwarf Fortress/10

>>12840020
because when i make a mistake painting my little plastic army dudes, i can strip the paint and start over. if i make a mistake while gathering mushrooms, my liver melts and i die

>>12848522
Thanks for the feedback!

Don't forget to put the damaged shrooms on branches for that extra spore dispersion.