What is the best mushroom?

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What is your favorite mushroom?

Reference: Article at chow.com

Poll Results

OptionVotes
MOREL 10
PORTOBELLO 4
PORCINI 2
CANDY CAP 1
FAIRY RING 1
LOBSTER 1
CHANTERELLE 1
SHIITAKE 1
NAMEKO 1
CREMINI 1
MAITAKE 1
PIOPPINI 0
MATSUTAKE 0
WOOD EAR 0
TREE OYSTER 0
YELLOWFOOT CHANTERELLE 0
CAULIFLOWER 0
BLACK TRUMPET 0
ABALONE 0
SHIMEJI 0
KING TRUMPET 0
BLACK TRUFFLE 0


mh, Thursday, 14 January 2010 20:59 (fifteen years ago)

psychedelic

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:00 (fifteen years ago)

Shit, I forgot to add PSILOCYBIN. Can the poll be salvaged?

mh, Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:04 (fifteen years ago)

amanita muscaria

sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)

whatever, mario

mh, Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)

I voted lobster, love them little bastards

Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:21 (fifteen years ago)

oyster mushrooms are amaaaazing

elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)

no way, the clear answer here is "morel"

living like the Na'vi will never happen (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)

my answer was based purely on a cute illiteration

Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)

hahaha DAN CORRECT

.81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)

3 cheers for mushrooms you were introduced to when your dad made you scrounge through the woods in your backyard for them!

living like the Na'vi will never happen (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

morels are the gold standard for north american native mushrooms, for sure

mh, Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

morels pan fried in butter maybe the best food on earth

.81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

totally

remember when a huge patch of 'em showed up in the yard when i was a kid, my dad nearly shat his pants he was so excited

everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

yeah one fall they popped up right next to our driveway (AWESOME), never to be seen again (BOO)

.81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:43 (fifteen years ago)

under a crab apple tree in our case and yup, one year and one year only

everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:45 (fifteen years ago)

I will seriously pacman these things in a heartbeat if I ever encounter them.

brb looking for online morel dealers

living like the Na'vi will never happen (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:45 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/15332010_4c079d12d2_o.jpg

these, found behind the house, are not tasty in anyway whatsoever :(

everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.drycreekgarden.com/images/425x283_stinkhorn.jpg

^ Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)

We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:52 (fifteen years ago)

(poisonous btw, don't go sticking one in your mouth)

We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

oh man hooray for hilarious latin translations. Go botanists!

.81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/photographs/CM/CM00/CM0075-150dpi.jpeg

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

Botanist John Gerard called it the "pricke mushroom" or "fungus virilis penis effigie" in his General Historie of Plants of 1597, and John Parkinson referred to it as "Hollanders workingtoole" or "phallus hollandicus" in his Theatrum botanicum of 1640.[1] Linnaeus was responsible for the fairly obvious genus name. Its specific epithet, impudicus, is derived from the Latin for "shameless" or "immodest".[2]

kudos all around

Jay Leno's Pony Vivisection Hour (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

ok then

DANGER: DO NOT EAT SHAMELESS DONG (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:10 (fifteen years ago)

Despite its foul smell, it is not poisonous and the young mushroom is consumed in parts of France and Germany.

this comes as a complete nonshock

Jay Leno's Pony Vivisection Hour (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_%28genus%29

Jay Leno's Pony Vivisection Hour (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:16 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2067/2522166406_30d020a436.jpg

^ Phallus rubicundus - would scare the shit out of me if I saw one in the woods.

We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:21 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/images/contrib/dubash_mutinus_caninus.jpg

Ew!

We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

just waiting for an earth-mother type

wanna be shartin' somethin' (WmC), Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)

if you have never gotten one of those grow-yr-own-portabella kits, they are truly awesome

Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:36 (fifteen years ago)

None of the choices is equivalent to Enoke, right? So I'll vote Shimeji. My partner sometimes uses one or the other in awesome soups/stews.

Monophonic Spree (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Enoki

Monophonic Spree (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Fairy rings are so cool! They play a major role in one of my favorite books of my childhood, Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls (author of Where the Red fern Grows). In it, a boy and his (grandpa? dad? uncle?) in rural oldtimey times try to catch monkeys that have escaped from the circus so they can get $$$. He wants a horse v badly, but his crippled sister also needs surgery. What to do??? One day a MAGICAL FAIRY RING shows up in their lawn which = wishes. In the end the girl gets surgery, and he gets his horse AND a gun. This just goes to show you how important an unusual fruiting body is.

sedentary lacrimation (Abbott), Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:37 (fifteen years ago)

Summer of the Monkeys is so great

DANGER: DO NOT EAT SHAMELESS DONG (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:38 (fifteen years ago)

It was even cooler to me bcz Wilson Rawls grew up in my home town, where I read it, so it was like "fairy ring any day now!"

sedentary lacrimation (Abbott), Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

Some monkeys also get totally drunk in the book.

sedentary lacrimation (Abbott), Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:40 (fifteen years ago)

I overcooked some shiitakes last night and I am so sad because they lost all their chewy awesomeness. The taste was still there, though.

mh, Friday, 15 January 2010 00:04 (fifteen years ago)

This is one subject I wish I knew more about. Aside from the basics I know very little about mushrooms. Are Truffles considered a mushroom? When this poll is finished I will try to track down each one and cook with them over the next year.

Jacob Sanders, Friday, 15 January 2010 04:56 (fifteen years ago)

shiiiiitake. shittake

I can't turn my face into a shart (dyao), Friday, 15 January 2010 07:49 (fifteen years ago)

can I just remark here that "I can't turn my face into a shart" is the most horrifying username of all time, and forall time.

dyao, you are to be commended & rebuked

Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Friday, 15 January 2010 10:01 (fifteen years ago)

which one of these options is just, y'know, a normal mushroom?

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Friday, 15 January 2010 10:50 (fifteen years ago)

cremini

Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Friday, 15 January 2010 10:54 (fifteen years ago)

i wd eat all this mushrooms btw

can't decide, may vote chanterelle, but considering what % of my meals feature (what I did not until this thread know was called) cremini that might be unfair

canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 15 January 2010 11:09 (fifteen years ago)

Cremini isn't quite the same as a "normal mushroom" (i.e. a white mushroom in the UK). I think we'd call cremini a chesnut mushroom. Same species though (same species as portobello too):

Among English speakers, Agaricus bisporus is known by many names. A young specimen with a closed cap and either pale white or light brown flesh is known as a button mushroom or white mushroom. When the flesh darkens, the immature mushroom is variously known as a crimini mushroom, baby portobello, baby bella, mini bella, portabellini, Roman mushroom, Italian mushroom, or brown mushroom. At this stage of maturation, the cap may also begin to open slightly. In maturity, it is called a portobello (frequently misspelled as portabello, or portobella). The French name is champignon de Paris ("Paris mushroom").

We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Friday, 15 January 2010 11:14 (fifteen years ago)

white, fat but not a button mushroom.

alternatively, the huge flat type you can use as a plate under a fry.

Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Friday, 15 January 2010 11:16 (fifteen years ago)

Oh. I like a chestnut mushroom too, possibly more than the white ones, but will eat whatever the shop I'm in has. Mushrooms are the best. Don't understand people who don't like them.

canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 15 January 2010 11:17 (fifteen years ago)

A button mushroom is just a diddy white mushroom. x-post

We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Friday, 15 January 2010 11:17 (fifteen years ago)

lol i accept my award with dignity and grace xps

I can't turn my face into a shart (dyao), Friday, 15 January 2010 11:47 (fifteen years ago)

this is ?_?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiitake_mushroom_dermatitis

I can't turn my face into a shart (dyao), Friday, 15 January 2010 11:47 (fifteen years ago)

so hard to choose. but where are the girolles? or do you include them in the chanterelle category?

spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Friday, 15 January 2010 11:53 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 1 February 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

<3 morels as much as the next guy, but shitaakes & creminis were robbed. dunno where I was when this poll went down, but this is the first I've seen of it. would have voted for boring old portobellos b/c I really, really love them (& mushrooms in general tbh)!

they ate only candy canes (Pillbox), Monday, 1 February 2010 00:24 (fifteen years ago)

is it bad i don't like shiitakes that much? they're too chewy and taste like feet

harbl, Monday, 1 February 2010 00:50 (fifteen years ago)

damn, I still haven't surveyed my parents' hundred acres since they sold the timber. I bet the area around all those hardwood stumps is just crawling with good fungus.

the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Monday, 1 February 2010 00:54 (fifteen years ago)

My parents used to own a parcel of land on which morels would pop up from time to time. It was weird: one year there wouldn't be any at all & the next would yield a bumper crop. Sauteed in butter & sat next to a venison steak = nom!

they ate only candy canes (Pillbox), Monday, 1 February 2010 01:41 (fifteen years ago)

I love shiitakes in savory asian stews - they soak up all the salt and spice. they are like sponges of spice.

you want it to be some dude, but it's the other dude (dyao), Monday, 1 February 2010 01:55 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

is it bad i don't like shiitakes that much? they're too chewy and taste like feet

― harbl, Monday, February 1, 2010 8:50 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

having some right now and having trouble shaking this image form my mind :(

ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 12:44 (fifteen years ago)

chewy gym socks

ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 12:45 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Fungus/Phallic/DogStinkhorn.jpg

Found a whole bunch of stinkhorns in the woods the other day. This one is the dog stinkhorn, or the Phallus de Chien as it's known in France. That brown stuff on the end is this super stinky goo that attracts flies like crazy. It contains the fungal spores so it's their way of spreading themselves around.

Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Thursday, 28 October 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)

Do Linnaean scientific names get any better than Bombycilla Garrulus?

― ukhhchavvin' (acoleuthic), Thursday, 28 October 2010 21:08 (27 minutes ago)

hahahahaha thanks for bumping this thread, Phallus Impudicus indeed

ukhhchavvin' (acoleuthic), Thursday, 28 October 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

i am going to a wild mushroom i.d. class / guided forage / cooking demo on saturday and i'm pretty stoked for it

your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:19 (twelve years ago)

!!

i can't wait to hear about it. I've only ever foraged for field mushrooms as a kid, always wanted to do like full-on wild mushroom foraging

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:27 (twelve years ago)

this thread is full of exciting fungi Foraging, edible fungi, not poisoning yrself?

no fomo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:28 (twelve years ago)

no votes for black truffle is enough to make a guy proud of ilx again.

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:33 (twelve years ago)

ten months pass...

can anyone recommend me a good indoor portobello growing kit?

Mordy, Saturday, 5 July 2014 02:00 (eleven years ago)

eight years pass...

Sorry no

| (Latham Green), Saturday, 29 October 2022 18:35 (three years ago)


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