3:00 snapshot #982: work-related clutter plus bonus mushroom

[urbpan]

I collected, cut up and sauteed a winecap. Then I ate it. Then I checked with the foraging community about how I should have cooked it. "Whatever you do, don't saute it," Wildman Steve Brill said, essentially, adding "let them cook on low heat, covered, with the juices they extrude, plus lemon juice, nutmeg, fennel, and salt. After 15 minutes of this, I remove the cover and cook over high heat, stirring constantly, until the excess liquid is driven off."

Next time: check how to cook it before trying to cook it. I was not poisoned, but I did eat what felt like a piping hot plate of slugs.

Comments

[uneko.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, is it likey/possible that cooking a mushroom the wrong way (sauteeing vs. ... whatever Steve brill recomended is?)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I don't think you finished your question...?

[uneko.livejournal.com]

this is what I get for being sleep deprived and posting on the internet. o_o

Um, is it possible/likely that cooking a mushroom in the wrong manner might cause it to be poisonous in some fashion? I can understand not cooking something ENOUGH to, perhaps, break down poisonous compounds, but.. well.. I'm not cook and no mushroom buff, so... curious! :D

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

No. As you say, you can cook a mushroom inadequately, or you can cook a mushroom covered (not allowing a volatile compound to evaporate) and it may still be poisonous, but I can't think of a situation where you cook something (mushroom or otherwise) and render it poisonous via cooking.

You can certainly cook a mushroom and ruin it, as far as making it unpalatable goes, and I've done that with 2/3 of the mushroom cookery attempts I've tried.

[uneko.livejournal.com]

thank you for the answer :D I could imagine a situation where heat applied would make something toxic, but that doesn't seem like an evolutionarily sound tactic. ;) Seems more like something that would occur in chemistry, or something rather then botany :)

As for cooking things and making it unpalatable.. that happens most of the time I cook, so I feel ya there. ;)

thank you! :)

[bosoxmom.livejournal.com]

piping hot plate of slugs......now that phrase belongs in a novel!!!!

Blech tho on the thought of eating that!!