Super! I love mushrooms. Some that grow wild here are worth A LOT of money.

Super! I love mushrooms. Some that grow wild here are worth A LOT of money.

Porcino / Yellow boleto is about 20/kilo in a huge supermarket here in Austria, which is not too expensive imo respective the forest experence I had..tahoe you should go and get some, I feel you are that type of person

Morf, are there any mushrooms in NYC?

A friend of ours went out in the forest here and got some. Lots of worms. I would not eat it.

How do you know they aren’t poisonous?

You’ll know when you have to be rushed to the hospital.

You become familiar with the good vs. the bad. By the looks of them.

I don’t eat anything that’s been on the ground. That’s why I live exclusively on Mt. Dew and cheez whiz.

You’ll know when you have to be rushed to the hospital.

You become familiar with the good vs. the bad. By the looks of them.

Yup. If they kill ya don’t eat them.

Very cool QT. Better than supermarketing.

You’ll know when you have to be rushed to the hospital.

You become familiar with the good vs. the bad. By the looks of them.

I just spit coffee everywhere…thanks Tahoe!

I was expecting to open this thread and have people talking about trippin’ on shrooms. Dangit!

How do you know they aren’t poisonous?

Ah..just eaten it.

Just kidding…parasol, the big one, I had put quickly to the pan with some eggs and flour around it..delicious. One looked slightly different (no hub in the middle) so I put it away. Parasol also have a movable ring on the shaft and don’t get reddish when e.g. cut a small piece off from it. The bay boletus’ sponge even gets immediately blue – looks super weird – after being touched, both the sponge and the meat. The blue color gets away after a few minutes, ending up in wonderful brown/white slices for future pasta dishes. Dried it in the oven, however the mushrooms get down to 10% of its original size, hope it will get big again when adding some water/milk. The forest ‘champignons’ are patterned towards the outside, also quite easy to identify, and grow in masses (supertasty with eg. Gnocchi).

Nevertheless I went to the official inspection bureau, such office should exist in any bigger town, to verify if poisonous or not. All other mushrooms were rather uneatable, I even had one or two poisonous in my basket. One gleamed slightly green (‘death cap’), the other one was a ‘fly agaric’. Here in Vienna they do check it for free.

Basically I can say (after this first mushroom rush) that you can forget all the mushrooms which look exotic (nice to look at), are small (not enough food from it) and those of which you find only one or few standing around (not enough either, possibly exotic/poisonous). So it’s better to let those in the forest but to focus on those big ones of which you can get a nice amount of it. Those I eat, the others not, after having them identified, of course. Next time I will bring all, not only samples, to the inspection office before eating them .

Another ‘risk’, btw, are the wild pigs. With 300-500 lbs. and 30-40 miles an hour, an angry sow protecting their babies can get you into serious trouble. They sometimes hide only a few yards away from hiking trails and usually stay there. However, if you go into the coppice you might meet some, which could be a surprise on both sides as their hewers can measure up to 8 inch. They do not wince at eating human intestines, btw, although this wouldn’t happen too often. Questionable if such a mushroom collector would ever be found. I actually heard some grunting, loud as a barking dog, with sort of a deep animalistic aggressive tone in it..not like the giggling one of house pigs. They do eat fly agaric’s for breakfast, btw. Guess big daddy heard me coming and made his statement. After a while (not seeing them inside an open forest) I decided to get closer and came to some small water/river but they had been on the other side up on a hill, where I did decide to not go. So I kept my intestines working quite well, so far. Porcinos not found at all, btw.

Best place to search for mushrooms is an area of cultivated spruces, about 30 feet high, with lots of needles on the floor and less undergrowth plants.

Parasol

Bay boletus

Champignon

QT

How do you know they aren’t poisonous?

Ah..just eaten it.

Just kidding…parasol, the big one, I had put quickly to the pan with some eggs and flour around it..delicious. One looked slightly different (no hub in the middle) so I put it away. Parasol also have a movable ring on the shaft and don’t get reddish when e.g. cut a small piece off from it. The bay boletus’ sponge even gets immediately blue – looks super weird – after being touched, both the sponge and the meat. The blue color gets away after a few minutes, ending up in wonderful brown/white slices for future pasta dishes. Dried it in the oven, however the mushrooms get down to 10% of its original size, hope it will get big again when adding some water/milk. The forest ‘champignons’ are patterned towards the outside, also quite easy to identify, and grow in masses (supertasty with eg. Gnocchi).

Nevertheless I went to the official inspection bureau, such office should exist in any bigger town, to verify if poisonous or not. All other mushrooms were rather uneatable, I even had one or two poisonous in my basket. One gleamed slightly green (‘death cap’), the other one was a ‘fly agaric’. Here in Vienna they do check it for free.

Basically I can say (after this first mushroom rush) that you can forget all the mushrooms which look exotic (nice to look at), are small (not enough food from it) and those of which you find only one or few standing around (not enough either, possibly exotic/poisonous). So it’s better to let those in the forest but to focus on those big ones of which you can get a nice amount of it. Those I eat, the others not, after having them identified, of course. Next time I will bring all, not only samples, to the inspection office before eating them .

Another ‘risk’, btw, are the wild pigs. With 300-500 lbs. and 30-40 miles an hour, an angry sow protecting their babies can get you into serious trouble. They sometimes hide only a few yards away from hiking trails and usually stay there. However, if you go into the coppice you might meet some, which could be a surprise on both sides as their hewers can measure up to 8 inch. They do not wince at eating human intestines, btw, although this wouldn’t happen too often. Questionable if such a mushroom collector would ever be found. I actually heard some grunting, loud as a barking dog, with sort of a deep animalistic aggressive tone in it..not like the giggling one of house pigs. They do eat fly agaric’s for breakfast, btw. Guess big daddy heard me coming and made his statement. After a while (not seeing them inside an open forest) I decided to get closer and came to some small water/river but they had been on the other side up on a hill, where I did decide to not go. So I kept my intestines working quite well, so far. Porcinos not found at all, btw.

Best place to search for mushrooms is an area of cultivated spruces, about 30 feet high, with lots of needles on the floor and less undergrowth plants.

Parasol

Bay boletus

Champignon

QT

It looks like they have a lot of boar around there they go to the bank and everywhere. http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/boar-roam … a-on-tape/ You mite need one of these next time you go mushroom hunting. http://www.steyrarms.com/products/hunti … s/classic/

I am happy that I live in a place that does not have 500 pound, 40 mile an hour pigs with 8 inch horns that kill people and eat their intestines.

LOL. That was entertaining, QT, glad you posted it.

-glurk

Glad you like it…not sure if that rifle would be enough to stop it..few shots only, reloading time etc…uh..

Maybe I should ask a friend of mine, Thomas Glock (you might know, his name ‘Glock’ is written on most of the police’ pistols in the world). Guess he got the right stuff somewhere.

In gallopp they run as fast as 6ft each jump..there are not many pictures of running wild pigs, so I guess they had succeed at last. They say it’s dangerous to attack them with a stick as they will finally win such a fight. One recently – in Berlin – attacked four people before being shot by the cops. They not only eat birds but also young rabbits, too. No idea of running away – up to 40 miles per hour and no chance to get away except climbing up a tree (look at that possibility the next time you are in a forest..). Trying to get into water? Nice idea, but they are excellent swimmers, too. So actually they have no recommendation of what to do against them, except slowly walking back or wearing a small bell on you so they’ll go away earlier.

QT

Glad you like it…not sure if that rifle would be enough to stop it..few shots only, reloading time etc…uh..

Maybe I should ask a friend of mine, Thomas Glock (you might know, his name ‘Glock’ is written on most of the police’ pistols in the world). Guess he got the right stuff somewhere.

In gallopp they run as fast as 6ft each jump..there are not many pictures of running wild pigs, so I guess they had succeed at last. They say it’s dangerous to attack them with a stick as they will finally win such a fight. One recently – in Berlin – attacked four people before being shot by the cops. They not only eat birds but also young rabbits, too. No idea of running away – up to 40 miles per hour and no chance to get away except climbing up a tree (look at that possibility the next time you are in a forest..). Trying to get into water? Nice idea, but they are excellent swimmers, too. So actually they have no recommendation of what to do against them, except slowly walking back or wearing a small bell on you so they’ll go away earlier.

QT

The Glock 10mm should drop those boar dead. http://www.casr.ca/id-arcticviking4sb-1.htm