Giant Mushroom! (3KG)

[Han]

BBC News - Giant mushroom found in Polish forest

 

[Stagger Lee]

man, had that been a diff sort of shroom that guy could trip an entire town.

 

[GeoShift]

Hmm listening to Mckenna on the psychedelic salon #367. There goes that Synchronicity again even though that's not a magic mushroom.

 

[dyingsun]

'...Of course.."

 

[nameless]

That's some good eating

 

[Christopher O'Brien]

That's some good eating

Smaller varieties of boletus are very tasty. That's the biggest specimen I've ever heard of. When I was a kid, my family were members of the WA state micological society—mushroom pickers. I learned a lot about them growing up. We'd gow out and look for chatrelles, Tricholoma. magnivelare the American, Japanese Pine mushrooms, shitakes, chicken-of-the-woods, inky caps, meadows, etc My brother and I were credited as the first to ever to discover amanita muscaria in the Pacific Northwest and made the cover of the state magazine. They are the famous bright red 'shrooms with the raised white warts. Extremely toxic and trippy, but the active ingredient is NOT evenly distributed through the specimen, so one bite might be benign and another will potentially kill you. Panther amanitas are fairly common, but the muscara was not thought to grow in the PacNW until we found some.

When I lived in Crestone, CO, we had a creek near the house famous for its giant puffballs. The largest ones were bigger than a basketball. The smaller ones I would substitute for eggplant, slice 'em thin, dreg 'em, bread 'em and make mushroom parmesan. Dee-licious!

 

[pixelsmith]

The fungus amongus are amazing.

 

[Han]

The fungus amongus are amazing.

some one has just rung us, complaining that, Humung us fung us among us, means there is not mushroom in here.

 

[Han]

The smaller ones I would substitute for eggplant, slice 'em thin, dreg 'em, bread 'em and make mushroom parmesan. Dee-licious!

Do you make this with tomato sauce and mozzarella? like "melanzane*"
I have never had it with mushroom but it sounds like something I would like .

This post has reminded me that I should get my father to teach me to identify edible mushrooms (he once told me about eating a giant puffball like you described), as after seeing his "handbook" I was kind of put off the idea because some of the mushrooms that are edible look almost identical to highly toxic ones. I wonder if there is a Mushroom ID app for smart phones**? if there is not there should be because I think more and more people are getting into "foraging" and it could potentially stop people poisoning themselves.

My father also told me that in Scandinavian countries they "take" magic mushrooms by feeding them to their reindeer and drinking their (reindeer) urine, because the reindeer's digestive system filters out the toxins but does not affect the psycho-active part which passes into the urine.

If the mushroom in the video was a white truffle it would be worth about seven hundred thousand US dollars!!!!!!!***





*I have googled eggplant parmesan and it looks similar to what I know as "melanzane alla parmigiana"

**Because it takes me so long to write my posts I have already checked and there is one Rogers Mushrooms | Mushroom Pictures & Mushroom Reference

***A man payed three hundred and thirty thousand US dollars for a 1.5 kg white truffle (source wikipedia)