/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16596716
Never tried it. Also never tried pic related. Saw a giant one inside a hollowed out tree, but didn't ID it till later. Missed opportunity.

>>16596773
This unironically tastes like chicken and grows like weeds in the PNW

>>16596716
>>16596773
>>16596818
Stop eating mushrooms. Stop eating fungi in general. They are dangerous.

>>16596876
Lion's mane is almost impossible to confuse with a toxic mushroom. Next time I find one I'm frying it up with butter and eating it, and you can't stop me!

>>16596894
You're going to be sorry. Fungi are dangerous. They are plotting something. I don't know what it is, but it's bad news. Trust me. Stop eating them, it's for your own good.

>>16596818
Yeah, grows around here (southern App) too. Need to start researching some of the safer mushrooms. We have the 2nd wettest forests in the country behind you guys, gotta be some good eating once you know what to look for.

>>16596716
>chicken of the woods has never been successful cultivated
Yes it has. It’s easy as hell to culture and large-scale production was reported almost 10 years ago.

There is just very little demand or incentive to do so.

>>16596818
Tastes like lobster/fish to me and I really don’t like it. Doesn’t matter where I’ve collected it or how young or what condition it’s in, I can’t stand the taste. Looks beautiful and turns the butter or oil you cook it in a nice deep orange color.

Can’t stand it though which sucks because I find hundreds of these every year.

I grow oysters and pioppino. Both better than Chickens desu

>>16596876
>>16596897
Are you this anon by any chance?

>>16598671
No. But he is a smart man.

>>16596818
I love picking these but i hate eating them. I’d rather have chanterelles and porcini. I always end up with loads of lobster mushroom when I go out for chanterelles because I can’t resist picking pretty mushrooms

>>16596716
How does my local store have loads of it every time I go there? Hard to imagine it's just foragers.

>>16598630
I also grow oysters and pooperinos but COTW is fucking bomb

>>16596876
>>16598671
>>16598826
>Fungus has been Earth's dominant lifeform since about the time of the Lower Paleozoic on Earth. But when, once every threehundred million years or so, the neural net at last achieves the critical mass necessary to become sentient, the final metamorphosis kills off most of the other life on the planet. It is possible that we humans can help to break this tragic cycle.

>>16599023
I fucking knew it.

>>16596716
Tried it but it was old and tasted like styrofoam.

Also this >>16596876, mushrooms offer 0 nutrition to the point that if you're in a survival situation you're better off not touching them.

>>16596897
Sounds exactly like what a fungus would say

>>16599502
one day a mushroom will eat you, so it's only right you get in the first strike while you still can

>>16596897
don't be afraid anon, eat some mushrooms they are delicious and good for you
you are being kinda paranoid for nothing

anyone try mushroom bread?

>Eat the mushroom
>Consoom the soylent
>Become one with the hivemind

>>16598671
We would like to know this human's location.

>>16596716
Always wanted to try chicken of the woods. I'm told it grows plentifully on the east coast but I'm scared of eating the death fungus and have yet to find an expert to go picking with.

>>16600090
COTW doesnt have many other lethal shit that looks like it. In fact its like the safest forageable becuase its very distinct to almost all other fungus

>>16596897
The longer fungi are in the ground connected to the mycelium network, the more control they have. We have to eat them as soon as they grow and keep eating them. It's the only way to kill this menace.

>brooo... mushrooms are epic...

I thought I didn't like mushrooms, but fried oyster mushrooms are very good

>>16599991
I did. It is OK, but do not expect much flavour.

>>16596897
this is a human eat mushroom world and if i don't eat them now they might eat me later

>>16600223
This makes the most sense, we gotta keep plucking them up and frying them up in butter with onions

>>16598671

I am a mycologist and while the recent increase in interest in fungi and related pop science attention is good for the field overall it does result in more people saying batshit things about fungi. And this sometimes results in me having to respond or at least waste time pretending to listen to these people.

>>16596716
If it was cultivated it would stop being chicken of the woods and instead be chicken of the farm. Also known as, chicken

>>16600928
sauce?

>>16599993
Honestly, joining a hivemind sounds increasingly appealing. I've already had enough "alone time" for a lifetime.

there's some HUGE mfers of those nearby
should i take them?
wat do with them?
we should also be farming more crabs and clams and shellfish like that

>>16602405
alone time gets old, no doubt, but being around people for any extended period of time is even worse
ain't no winning in this shit

>>16602320
click the dots by the poster's name (phone) or triangle by the post number (actual computer), then "image search", then "google".

>>16602320
Supergod

>>16600956
Go back to your fucking planet you fungus piece of shit

>>16600956
everyone is riding paul stamets' dick right now
I don't get why, he's a just snake oil salesman who took a load of shrooms

>>16602412
Don't take them unless you know what to do with them. Actually just don't take them.

mmmmm chickeny

>>16603420
what is that?

>>16603434
sea anemone, all its tentacles are just curled into itself because it's outside of water

>>16603477
>sea anemone
are they going to die?

>>16603482
We're all going to die, anon.

But those tiny hentai monsters are probably just in a tide pool and will revive when the water comes back in later in the day.

Fungi are so cool.They're also delicious. If they had more protein/calories I would eat them daily

>>16600956
Oh wow. You grew up, became educated, and realized the world is filled with stupid people.

>t. Lawyer
>"I know my rights!"
Yeah. No you don't.

>>16602669
>everyone is riding paul stamets' dick right now
>I don't get why, he's a just snake oil salesman who took a load of shrooms
This x1000. He presents himself as a mycologist too.

Nothing at all invokes primal fear in me like fungi. I have the urge to soak it in gasoline and light it on fire every time I see a mushroom.

>>16596876
What a brainlet and horrible take.
Mushrooms are going to save the world you absolute fucking retard. They can break down oil spills and plastics and clean them up, they can literally strengthen and enhance human immune systems, they are vital for life on earth for a multitude of reasons. I hope you never reproduce.

>>16603743
t. fungus

>>16603743
The fungus has already taken over your brain.

>>16602449
fyi the google search was coded by a retard. It sends the thumbnail to google instead of the full image. Copy the image link of the full image and do a manual image search to get for better results.

>>16603639
>>16602669
You sound like absolute retards that know nothing. What exactly is he bullshitting about? He's actually contributed and discovered very important things to the field whether or not you think he's a "real mycologist" or whatever the fuck. He doesn't tell anyone to take mushrooms or eat them more he literally just talks about the ways that they can help the earth and humans in general. You have to be some absolute butt raped retards to think he's trying to trick anyone about anything. Yeah he sells mushroom products but he literally never shills them in his talks. He just tells you it might be good to start taking this from him or not. Next you're going to talk shit about the McKenna brothers because you think you know shit.

>>16603780
Paul Stamets is first and foremost an entrepreneur-capitalist who sells ground up mushrooms and extracts under the guise of unsubstantiated health benefits. The fact that he has becomes fabulously wealthy doing what is unquestionably unethical should tell you what kind of person he is.

His public persona is the gentle eco-warrior dude mushrooms shaman and his public talks serve to boost his image and consequently his business. He is a shrewd businessman and all the more because the general public is none the wiser. Even that hat, which he will never cease to describe to you, is part of his image. It's all contrived.

He is a fraud and a charlatan and no amount of TED talks or pop science woah dude mushrooms talks are going to change this fact. He anthropomorphizes fungi and dumbs down the field with his new age garbage which, again, serves to make him wealthier.

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

>>16603859
Sounds like you're a jealous little queer. Plenty of the medicinal claims of his have been backed by hard science in recent years.

>>16603743
Fungus hands typed this post.

>>16603481
RANCH IT UP

>>16598671
Every time I've eaten psilocybin shrooms, I've felt like something is trying to reach out to me and take control of me, and I have to get up and walk around and do something to not let it take my mind.
Kinda funny since it already did, making me do things instead of just tripping.

>>16599023
fungus dont have neurons

>>16599991
I saw one of those in the forest. thought it was a ball.

>>16603420
WTF IS THIS SHIT I HATE HATE HATE THE ANTICHRIST!!!

>>16603972
such as?

>>16603972
>My mushroom is rock hard for science

>>16600928
>phosporolated

>>16603972
>Plenty of the medicinal claims of his have been backed by hard science in recent years.
lol no.

At most it's some Chink paper in a pay-to-play journal that wildly extrapolates weak in vitro results and gets shopped around by Stametes and the other fake mycologists as evidence that they were right all along.

>>16596716
>chicken of the woods
Isn't chicken the shittiest meat?

>>16605695
Rat and armadillo are far worse than chicken

>>16599502
>mushrooms offer 0 nutrition
Source?

>>16605695
it's called chicken of the woods because it's versatile and plentiful

>>16596876
t. mushroom

>>16599991
The proper use for these is waiting until they're dried out and hurling them as hard as you can at your buddy

>>16603765
>It sends the thumbnail to google instead of the full image
really?

>>16606055
depends on your plugin/extension

>>16596818
How to properly ID? I live in the PNW and love actual lobster but haven't seem these enough to pick it out in the wild like I would a chanterelle or morel

>>16606114
I just tried on Chrome(ium) 4chan-X and it worked fine

>>16604565
What makes you think a life form needs neurons to achieve intelligence?

>>16603859
>>16605629
Never met a mycologist as angry, bitter, hateful, jealous, pathetic, and deranged as you. What went wrong in your life that made you act like this?

>>16606122
yeah that guy is just retarded.

>>16606133
so what, they use something else that isn't neurons to form neural nets?

>>16603540
Not even the guy you're responding to but I can feel the projecting from here.

>>16596716
So after pulling this shit off a tree how do I prepare it? Just boil the fuck out of it? Can I eat it raw? Wat do?

>>16606156
I don't like charlatans misrepresenting my field and selling people snake oil. Not that difficult to understand.

>>16606480
I agree with you anon, those types of people are in a lot groups. I've had experience with small time snake oil salesman at so many farmer's markets. Some of them might genuinely believe what they are peddling will cure cancer though. Similar to THC crap, most of it is to prey on normies.

I tried watching "fantastic fungi" on netflix and I was excited for a comfy mushroom docu, but it just made me cringe.