/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14863025
I prefer chicken of the water. Sea hens. Also known as female toddlers in a public pool.

>>14863025
1. Yes
2. No
3. Pretty normal, like a firm mushroom really. You could probably shred it like chicken though.

>>14863034
eugh

>>14863074
come on dude that was funny, I don't care who you are

>>14863025
you talking about iguana, or that mushroom?

>>14863025
it's good as cream of chicken of the woods

It's good, tastes more like chicken than any fake substitute meat crap imo. Texture is dense like a regular button mushroom, but easier to pull apart into strips for cooking. I've made it in soup, fried, and deep fried. I've found it like 20 times at least, pic is one I found in the Appalachians.

>>14863025
It is delicious. Doesn't taste like chicken but it has a similar texture. Tastes like a savory mushroom. As if you had marinated a mushroom in stock. I usually bread and fry it but I also like to cook it with onions and garlic and throw it on sandwiches/burgers. I've got about 15 pounds of it in my garage freezer from this season.

>>14863432
Based. I haven't found any this year unfortunately.

>>14863025
Not as good as chicken of the sewer

>>14863285
>>14863432
>>14863737
is this real? why arent restaurants subbing it more?

>>14863761
It's difficult or impossible to cultivate many wild mushrooms, so you'd never have enough of a supply to keep them as a regular menu item. They're seasonal, temporary ingredients.

>>14863761
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus

>>14863737
f. I've seen probably 50 pounds this year but harvested enough that I didn't need any more. Also found a TON of Pheasant back this season. It was everywhere I looked. Struck out on puffballs and morels though.
>>14863761
It's not like an oyster mushroom that you can easily grow and harvest. You need to find and forage it in nature.

>>14863761
You can't grow and farm it like button mushrooms, you would have to find it wild. Yeah some fancy restaurants do make deals to buy wild mushrooms from mushroom hunters, but it's usually chanterelles, morels, or porcini, not chicken of the woods.

>>14863803
Damn I want to try pheasant back, but every time I've found it it's been all old and gross. On the upside I've found a shitload of Old Man of the Woods this season, and just tried Honey mushrooms and Lactarius for the first time.

>>14863823
>Damn I want to try pheasant back, but every time I've found it it's been all old and gross
Right when the temp hits mid 50's is when it's peak time for pheasant back. You usually have about a month to find ideal harvests. It's one of my favorite post-winter mushrooms to find. It's amazing in any creamy pasta dish or in salads.
>I've found a shitload of Old Man of the Woods this season, and just tried Honey mushrooms and Lactarius for the first time
V nice. I struck out on Old man and Honeys. Found a nice Lion Main that I dried and put in capsules. Also found a lot of Oysters this year

>>14863836
Lucky, I've only found Lions Mane once (technically it was Bears Tooth but whatever same genus). Making capsules out of it seems like a waste, it's got great flavor when you cook it.

>>14863849
I use smaller specimens for medical use. Whenever I find a "food" size one I always make a dish with it.

>>14863784
>>14863803
>>14863805
How have we not researched and successfully replicated the conditions these mushrooms need to thrive? Can't imagine it would be that hard to get spores and figure out what makes them tick.

>>14863896
Some mushrooms can thrive in man-made conditions. Others require conditions that aren't viable to re-produce. You can buy Laetiporus spores. But don't expect to get a good specimen even in ideal man-made conditions. Just like Truffles, a lot of edible mushrooms you just need to go into the field and search them out in the wild.

>>14863025
No

>>14863896
Mushroom is the fruiting body of a mycelium which can be years old and span a pretty large area. And a lot of mushrooms grow on dead wood. So it's not impossible, but a lot less convenient than growing tomatoes etc from seed. Mushrooms are actually really neat

>>14863920
Truffles can be grown. Only issue is that you need 10 hectares of spore-inoculated oak/beech/hazelnut and 20 years until you reach first harvest.

>>14863896
We already KNOW what makes them tick, it's just either physically impossible or economically unfeasible to make those conditions artificially. Most edible wild mushrooms that cant be cultivated are mycorrhizal, meaning they grow in symbiosis with LIVE trees, and they're picky about what trees they like too. You can get spores from literally any mushroom and try to spread them around, but whether or not anything happens is purely based on luck. And if something does happen it might take years. It's not like growing a plant at all.

>>14863034

>>14863896
Basically you'll need to plant a forest

>>14863205
I creamed in your mom's pussy of the pants.

>>14864046
Because they aren't a plant. The way they live is more like an animal.

>>14864500
Maybe debatable on a microscopic level but the way they "live" is certainly closer to a plant than an animal. They can't move, vocalize, feel pain, experience peepee friction pleasure, or defend themselves. That being said they're their own category of organism seperate from both plants and animals.

>>14864544
not that anon but,
you gotta think more primitive, sponges for example, sessile life that is so simple.

>>14863052
there you go this guy answered you

>>14863025
Yes, it's good. It tastes like ramen chicken seasoning, but less salty and spicy. The texture is firm but not crisp, similar to some breads.
If you have the opportunity to try it, I definitely recommend it.

Someone was the first person to go up to that stuff, look around, and when the coast was clear started eating it.

>>14865565
>But the coast wasn't clear
>as the gatherer filled his makeshift sachel with mushrooms, a spear was slowly being raised
>with a dull thud, the spear hits the gatherer in the chest
>the chad hunter takes the sachel back to camp and roasts it over the fire for Stacy
>mmmm
>taste like chicken

>>14863740
I like eating those on a stick, then it's chicken of the sewer of the skewer

>>14865721
the left one should say he bent his spear into a ploughshare

>>14863025
My Australian breasts were just badly bitten by a melange of venomous spiders. A sampling of toxic bites. Please let me die. I've been smoking a shitload of pot and edging.

Where might I buy some of this chicken of the woods?

>>14864452
Tell me more

>>14863896
The amount of resources you'd have to put in versus the yield you'd produce wouldn't be profitable.

>tfw you'll never have the balls to be a mushroom hunter

Tastes like store bought :(

>>14866222
It's really not that hard to get into, there are plenty of entry level mushrooms that are impossible to mistake for something poisonous. Chicken of the woods is actually one of them, you'd have to be a tard to mistake another mushroom for that. 4 years ago I was a normie like you then chicken of the woods was the first wild mushroom I tried. Now I've eaten at least 15 different types of wild mushrooms. I'm still scared to eat Amanita (eaten a blusher once or twice though) but those aren't for beginners anyway. Pic related it's the first wild chicken I ate.

>>14866267
I don't live in a mushroom growing zone regardless, but I have a friend in the UP that he and his friends took me on. It was fun and while I was nervous at first eating some of them, it was really cool. If I had a back yard, I've read those grow it your owns work really well.

>>14866287
>I don't live in a mushroom growing zone
I mean unless you live in Antarctica they pretty much grow everywhere

Any mushroom hunters in texas? How do I go about finding edible mushrooms in the wild?

>>14865976
>breasts
>edging
go back

>>14864452
kek

>>14866491
I'm in Texas, If you're in North or East Texas where there's lot's of forests you're good to go. If you're in West Texas where it's all dry and the trees are all shitty mesquite trees you're probably screwed. Mushrooms need lot's of moisture so go out into the woods on humid days, preferably a few days after it rained. Look for dead wood, downed logs on the ground, and live hardwood trees. Oak seems to be the #1 favorite for mushrooms.
I've only lived in Texas for a few years but so far fall seems to be the best season for mushrooms in Texas. Summer here is too dry for them, didn't find jack shit all summer but suddenly they're everywhere now.

>>14866834
How about in central texas in open fields?
Or do I necessarily need to be looking in a forest? I tried looking today and most of what I saw were cow shit mushrooms. IDed one as this guy

>>14866919
I definitely wouldn't recommend trying to ID "cow shit mushrooms" as a beginner. If you want to get high find a dealer. Food mushrooms are easier to identify. Yeah there are mushrooms in fields but usually harder to identify ones and way less common than finding them in the forest. Mushrooms like wood.

>>14866962
I'm obviously just seeing what food mushrooms I can find and finding zero out in the fields, besides the two today. IDed it with a field guide for practice.

I'm not about to poison myself for this.

>>14867006
Personally I never hunt in fields so I can't give much advice, the only one I can think of that grows in fields is Agaricus bisporus...which is just the same mushroom you can buy from the store so not worth the effort. Idk if central Texas is even moist enough to get a good yield. I live in Abilene right now and I can't remember the last time it rained. Truly a shithole. Moving back to East Texas soon.

>>14864557

Sponges are also nearly impossible to keep in captivity