Thread: Ever eaten wild mushrooms? should I be scared??

Chanterelles will never be found on grassy areas where no trees are present. http://www.mushroom-collecting.com/mu...

Jack 'O Lanterns grow on rotting stumps.

Well good for you. Positive: good tasting food. Negative, liver transplant or death. In my book the negative far out weights the positive.

I had a feeling he was lucky, not knowledgable.

Before it breaks through its egg shaped capsule, an juvenile amanita can look very much like a small puffball if the rain has washed off those crumbs on the cap. If you cut through it you see the embryonic curled up amanita instead of the solid interior of a puffball. So yes, you need to know them all under all conditions, as the stakes are pretty high.

If she learned which mushrooms to look for in Poland then she know what to pick. There is maybe 5-8 types that are v. common and popular in Europe (Poland) and these are quite distinct and not that difficult to distinguish. There is a large number of mushroom types in Europe and North America that are identical but ther are some varieties that are unknown to me and the rule I follow is that if I don't know it or it doesn't look...

<My husband says she grew up in Poland picking wild mushrooms with her greandmother and knows what she's doing.> Hopefully she is not using her knowledge of European mushrooms to identify American mushrooms... My freshmen year biology teacher told us that while he was getting his doctorate he would forage for food (bulbs, greens, 'shroom, etc.) He still did it and would bring random things he picked for us to taste.I...

I grew up in the Thumb of Michigan and was trained by my Mom and Dad which mushrooms were safe and those that were not, or those my parents didn't fully understand and avoided. The poisonous fungi were called Toadstools and we were taught to look at the underside to determine whether eatable. Even so, my parents were extremely cautious, not allowing some fungus I later found out was highly yummy --like the so-called Snow-Balls. I prefer...

by the sound of it, the mushrooms that yourecieved pickled are called "slippery jacks" they're a good mushroom, and they usually grow in glades where there are some small pine trees. i myself have picked them from the age of 4 on. they're NOT poisonous NOR are they "magic". the beauty of the slippery jack, is that there is no poisonous counterpart (i.e. a mushroom by simialar look, smell and...

The same advice goes for any food at all. Mushrooms are not especially dangerous. Fatal mushroom poisoning actually is not very common-- far less common than fatal food poisoning from eating E. coli or Salmonella contaminated meat or produce. The vast majority of 'bad' mushrooms produce nothing more than an upset gut and perhaps a nasty bout of vomiting. Of course there ARE lethally poisonous mushrooms, just as there are deadly...