What is your favorite spore Veeky Forums? Also do you like or have any dishes that are strictly mushroom based?

Is this even necessary? I worked with a cook that thought he had to do this.

it's an aesthetic thing, but if you're doing anything with them where you add them to other shit, you should do it or the spores or whatever you wanna call them will turn shit all black and discolored.

Came here to post this, especially good when you marinate them in basalmic and olive oil first.

Spores are how mushrooms reproduce. The fruit body you refer to is called mushroom. It’s not even fungus, because that’s the mycelium that grows beneath them.
Stupid easy. I grew them on shredded junk mail.

Anyone ever had a mushroom dip? We used to make one I think it had cheese.

sounds like it was invented when someone wanted stuffed mushrooms but didn't have a piping bag and didn't know you can cut the corner off a ziplock bag and use that, or they were just too lazy to spoon the filling in

So they start out as a spore.

Very fresh, properly sauteed and simply seasoned oyster mushrooms are an apex dish. Honestly I would rather have perfectly prepared oyster mushrooms than steak most of the time

If you can get chanterelle mushrooms they're really good with just shallots/garlic and butter, perhaps a little white wine.

mushroom soup I typically think of some kind of button/baby bella mushroom. Cream of mushroom soup is really good on a cold day.

Asian influence shiitake is pretty easy to get your hands on in most supermarkets, you can do stuff like chawanmushi, stir fry, or just pan grilled, add water to steam, and season with soy sauce.

Best fungus is truffles, though it's somewhat out of the realm of mushrooms, but a truffle risotto is one of my favorite dishes, so I wanted to mention it.

Chicken of the woods is my favorite mushroom of all time, only problem is I've never seen them in a store, I have to find them in the actual woods. They can be used as a chicken substitute because the taste and texture is so similar

and they're aesthetic af

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I want to learn how to do this without picking the wrong ones and dying.

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Porcini is the goat mushroom. Chanterelles and yellowfoots are great too. Didn't really have much time to go mushroom picking this year but mom gave me some pickled yellowfoots and dried porcini.

the psychedelic sort

I've thought about making a hamburger but use Portobello Mushroom caps as the buns.

Good idea? Or bad idea?

My mom put me off of mushrooms for the longest time growing up because she'd used nasty was rubbery canned mushrooms in shit.

I like them in certain things now, and even eat them raw or with a dip.

That's already a thing.

Enokitake/Needle shrooms. They are basically springy noodles and go well with sauce/soup

How do you cook them for a pasta substitute?

They don't grow long enough to be pasta substitutes, but they do accompany pasta and noodle dishes well.

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