Hello Guys Welcome to this my blog today I am going to write a some mistakes of a beginner mushroom picker Forest, mushrooms, clear air, autumn… A trip to the forest for honey mushrooms and white mushrooms is one of the wonderful adventures of autumn, a wonderful walk with which you can also bring products for pickling and salting. Or just frying mushrooms and potatoes is also good. But mushrooms are not the easiest thing, especially if you are a novice mushroom picker. They need to be collected correctly, sorted correctly and cooked to make a tasty, and most importantly, safe dish. We’ll tell you where newbies to mushrooms can make mistakes, even if they have perfectly learned all the mushrooms and can accurately distinguish fly agarics and toadstools from good mushrooms.
mistakes of a beginner mushroom picker:
Mistake No. 1. The mushroom picker makes one mistake
It sounds ominous – but it could be so. Because the venom of the toadstool kills pretty quickly. Therefore, if you are in doubt about mushrooms, do not take them. It’s better not to touch unfamiliar mushrooms with your hands, not to cut them with a knife, not to put them in your basket – just in case, “what if it’s normal, I’ll sort it out at home.” The poison can get on other mushrooms nearby, the mushroom can break and part of it will mix with the fragments of other good mushrooms, and you won’t even notice. So: if you’re not sure, don’t take it. Let it grow.
Mistake #2: Collecting in the wrong place
Mushrooms absorb all substances very well; they are not recommended to be collected near highways, in polluted places, in cities, near factories. Whites collected in a polluted place can be as dangerous as fly agarics.
Mistake #3: Wormy
Wormy, soft, old mushrooms can also be toxic. They can also be bitter, tasteless, disintegrate when boiled, and not hold their shape. Therefore, it is best to collect young mushrooms, elastic, dense, clean.
Mistake No. 4. Collecting in a bag
Mushrooms need access to air; if you put them in a bag, they will release moisture and deteriorate and wrinkle very quickly. You will already bring the porridge home. It is also not very good to collect mushrooms in a bucket, there is also no air circulation, although the container is hard, the mushrooms will not wrinkle as much as in a bag. So it’s no wonder that a mushroom picker’s best friend is a light, comfortable basket.
Mistake #5: Leave mushrooms until tomorrow
The mushrooms must be sorted and boiled the same day they were brought from the forest. If the mushrooms are very good and strong, they can be sorted and boiled the next morning. Mushrooms spoil very quickly, worms do not sleep in them either, even if you collected the cleanest mushrooms, some resident will still slip through somewhere, multiply and infect the boletuses or boletuses closest to him.
Even if you are not embarrassed by the appearance of a mushroom eaten by a worm and you are not squeamish, remember: worm-eaten mushrooms are noticeably bitter.
Mistake #6: Wash when you don’t need to.
most important mistake mistakes of a beginner mushroom picker It’s a difficult question. The fact is that mushrooms absorb water strongly, and then, if you want to fry them, they will give it away and will be stewed rather than fried. It will turn out to be porridge. But if you did not collect mushrooms in an ecologically clean, reliable forest, then it is better to wash them.
If your place is safe, you carefully picked the mushrooms, and intend to eat them immediately and not salt them, then you can simply peel off the leaves and twigs, cut off the bottom of the legs so that the soil does not get in.
Mistake No. 7. Forgetting about the earth
It is better to collect mushrooms so that there is no soil left on them, since rods that produce botulinum toxin can live in it. They multiply and cause a very serious, fatal disease – botulism. Therefore, we thoroughly clean the mushrooms, rinse them well, and it is best to marinate them (bacteria do not multiply in an acidic environment).
Mistake #8: Cooking with a sponge
If the mushroom has already opened, then it may have a fairly strong stem and cap, but a soft sponge under the cap (if it is white or boletus, for example). When boiled and fried, such a sponge turns into snot; it is better to cut it off before boiling.
Mistake No. 9. Not soaking
It is better to soak some mushrooms before cooking. This applies to those that produce white “milky” juice when cut. He’s bitter. Soaking is necessary to make the mushrooms tasty and sweet.
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Mistake No. 10. Do not cook
Most mushrooms require at least a short boil before cooking or frying. Usually only white mushrooms, chanterelles or champignons are fried without pre-boiling.
Mistake #11: Frying in a small frying pan
If the mushrooms are crowded, they will release juice. And they will not be fried, but stewed. And it won’t turn out to be quite the dish you were hoping for. For example, if you want to make fried mushrooms with potatoes, you won’t get a golden crust in a small frying pan. Need space.
Mistake #12: Putting mushrooms in a cold frying pan.
If you do this, the mushrooms will release a lot of juice and will not turn out crispy and springy. The frying pan needs to be preheated, heat the oil and only then fry the mushrooms in it, then all the juice and aroma will be preserved inside.
Mistake No. 13. Salt immediately
Mushrooms, like many vegetables, release juice if you salt them at the beginning of cooking. Therefore, if you fry them, you need to salt the mushrooms at the end. If you cook soup, it is also better to add salt at the end. Since the broth boils away during cooking, the salt concentration will increase and the soup will be over-salted.
Mistake #14: Ignoring foam
When you boil mushrooms, foam forms when boiling. It must be removed, otherwise the foam will give bitterness and an unpleasant taste. Let the mushrooms simmer for 1-2 minutes over high heat (if the heat is reduced, it will be more difficult to remove the foam).
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