Mushrooms

[notb665]

I would love to be able to correctly identify wild mushrooms and then eat them and stuff.

Where could I learn this? Books are OK but you can't risk these things.

Before anyone says anything, yes I know it's the season for a certain 'type' of mushroom; I am not interested in those.

 

[Thermo]

books are good, but try local ramblers or game keepers perhaps to see if they know of any (or the web!) I think there are some simple rules as well about what you can eat, but im not going to post them in case ive got it wrong!

 

[breezer]

books have been around longer than computers, and books do not need batteries, get a book with pictures

 

[notb665]

Yeah, but in the books I have there is still room for ambiguity. Some species in the same family look extremely similar but one you can eat and the other you can't.

 

[breezer]

well in that case pick neither of them

 

[Thermo]

books have been around longer than computers

really you sure?

 

[Steve]

Morrisons sell nice mushrooms. they come in a plastic container, and NONE of them will kill you.

 

[securespark]

Morrisons, Crafty???

What about ye olde Coop?

Not, Collins do a fantastic mushroom book. My sister's b/f is mad on them and swears by this book. One delicacy to look out for is Chicken of the wood.

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/laetiporus_sulphureus.html

He's not a fan, but I think it deffo worth a try.

 

[Steve]

Morrisons, Crafty???

What about ye olde Coop?

too expensive. i dont shop there, the customer service and availability in certain outlets is appalling.

 

[splinter]

Morrisons, Crafty???

What about ye olde Coop?

too expensive. i dont shop there, the customer service and availability in certain outlets is appalling.

Customer service should be all right on your day off

 

[JohnD]

Morrisons, Crafty???

What about ye olde Coop?

too expensive. i dont shop there, the customer service and availability in certain outlets is appalling.

That's what my Auntie Maisie says. She tells me the assistant manager in her local co-op is a really horrible young man, she doesn't like going in there any more, sends in the lad instead.

 

[hermes]

That's what my Auntie Maisie says. She tells me the assistant manager in her local co-op is a really horrible young man, she doesn't like going in there any more, sends in the lad instead.

 

[hermes]

When I go out walking with my wife, she often wants to stop to pick wild mushrooms, watercress, blackberries etc and she has never poisoned me. Yet. I bought her a book on identifying field mushrooms and she was well chuffed. She told me that occasionally her picking was "experimental"!

 

[JohnD]

...my wife... has never poisoned me.

Yet.

 

[securespark]

Did you get her this one?

Looks like you were just in time!!