What is the best mushroom?

psychedelic

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

amanita muscaria

whatever, mario

I voted lobster, love them little bastards

oyster mushrooms are amaaaazing

no way, the clear answer here is "morel"

my answer was based purely on a cute illiteration

hahaha DAN CORRECT

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

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

morels pan fried in butter maybe the best food on earth

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

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

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

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

brb looking for online morel dealers

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

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

http://www.surlatable.com/product/id/223899.do?mr:trackingCode=583EBBE2-A2C4-DE11-974B-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA
http://www.amazon.com/Mycological-Organic-Mushrooms-5-Ounce-Packages/dp/B001EO629E
http://www.earthy.com/Fresh_Morel_Mushrooms__1_lb2009_Season_Over_P75.cfm

on that last link, I am kind of freaking out for the 2010 season to start

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

^ Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)

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

oh man hooray for hilarious latin translations. Go botanists!

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

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

ok then

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

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

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.

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

Ew!

just waiting for an earth-mother type

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

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.

Enoki

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.

Summer of the Monkeys is so great

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!"

Some monkeys also get totally drunk in the book.

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

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.

shiiiiitake. shittake

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

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

cremini

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

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").

white, fat but not a button mushroom.

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

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.

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

lol i accept my award with dignity and grace xps

this is ?_?

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

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

<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)!

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

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.

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!

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

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 :(

chewy gym socks

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.

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

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

!!

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

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

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

can anyone recommend me a good indoor portobello growing kit?

Sorry no