[HN Gopher] Safest mushrooms to forage and eat
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Safest mushrooms to forage and eat
Author : mizzao
Score : 42 points
Date : 2021-12-31 15:51 UTC (1 days ago)
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| exhilaration wrote:
| I'm on a WhatsApp group with my neighbors in Pennsylvania, one of
| them sent this back in September:
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| _I would advise getting some live instruction and experience
| rather than relying only on guidebooks and online sources, since
| many poisonous mushrooms look very similar to edible ones. That's
| just my opinion. My dad grew up on a farm and thought he knew
| this mushroom to be edible. Mushrooming is a beautiful thing but
| I personally wouldn't risk it without gaining a level of
| expertise. I've been going back and forth all night between the
| children's wing and the ER observation room to see my 2 year old
| and 80 year old father, with both of them projectile vomiting and
| diarrhea and heart rates twice their normal level._
| xendo wrote:
| You should never give mushrooms to kids below 10. What in
| adults can lead to vommiting can cause serious liver damage for
| kids.
| joshgev wrote:
| I'm surprised to see morels aren't on the list. Anyone who
| confuses a morel for a false morel is _really_ not paying
| attention. On the other hand, there are toxic (not deadly)
| boletes that can more easily be confused for porcini mushrooms.
| -\\_(tsu)_/-
| alkonaut wrote:
| Even regular morels are (at least around here) toxic when
| picked and must be properly cooked to be safely eaten. So while
| delicious I wouldn't place them on a list of "safest" for that
| reason.
|
| Toxic mushrooms that can be confused for porcini are very rare
| in most countries. Rare enough that one can generally neglect
| the risk of ever seeing one. In places where those are common
| it might be another story of course.
|
| I think that's important to stress: advice like this is
| geographically _local_ . The list of safest mushrooms to pick
| in North America is not necessarily the same list as it would
| be in Europe. Use local advice.
| giantg2 wrote:
| With very few exceptions, wild mushrooms are supposed to be
| cooked before eaten.
|
| Do you have more info on uncooked morel risks?
| alkonaut wrote:
| The morels can be pretty nasty though compared to those on
| this list. E.g a common mistake is to dry them in a regular
| kitchen oven. When you do, you'll risk endning up with bad
| headache or nausea if your kitchen isn't well ventilated.
| This doesn't exactly happen when drying porcini.
|
| Morel toxicity is mentioned very briefly on the Wikipedia
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchella
| zwkrt wrote:
| And it's even more local than that. In the WA area you will
| find completely different mushrooms and have to be good at
| different positive idenfication techniques depending on what
| type of forest you are in
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| nabilhat wrote:
| I was about to post the same reaction to this article, because
| morels are even more distinctly identifiable than chantrelles,
| and of course, I've know for 40 years that they're safe to eat.
|
| That's what I've always heard, at least. I realized that I've
| never challenged the common knowledge and assumptions I've
| carried around for my entire life. It was worth the effort.
| I've (unintentionally) never eaten morels without cooking them,
| and now I know that I shouldn't.
|
| In regard to wild-sourced foods especially, it's good to
| acknowledge that safety knowledge is stocked with heaps of
| just-so stories and context-dependent tradition. I'll still
| snag a few morels when I seen a bunch, but now I know that my
| collection of common knowledge about them isn't comprehensive.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchella#Toxicity
| Alex3917 wrote:
| > there are toxic (not deadly) boletes that can more easily be
| confused for porcini mushrooms.
|
| Assuming that B. Huronensis isn't deadly, which afaik is
| unknown:
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| https://namyco.org/boletus_huronensis.php
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| http://www.fungikingdom.net/articles-by-bill-bakaitis/toxico...
| runarberg wrote:
| Indeed, I remember at my very first mushroom hunt I picked up
| some morels. After I went home and consulted my mushroom book
| there was no mistaken that what I had picked were indeed false
| morels. This autumn was third season, and I have yet to find a
| authentic morels though.
| treerunner wrote:
| Morels are a spring mushroom.
| runarberg wrote:
| Heh, no wonder I only ever find false morels...
|
| On the flip side, after moving to the Pacific North West
| from northern Europe I simply cannot get over how long the
| mushroom season is here.
| giantg2 wrote:
| Same for pheasant back and wood ear.
| julianeon wrote:
| There is a saying in the mushroom foraging community:
|
| There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom
| hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters.
| tuukkah wrote:
| I would add the yellowfoot to the list. Perhaps also the sheep
| polypore.
| giantg2 wrote:
| I thought they usually lump yellow foots in with chanterelles?
| tuukkah wrote:
| Oh, perhaps they do. I don't think you should lump mushroom
| species though, as the rules for distinguishing the related
| species from inedible species will be different.
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