Hunting for Wild Oysters (a PERFECT mushroom for beginners!!) - Identified, Harvested and Cooked
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2020
- Let’s go hunting for wild oyster mushrooms!
Oyster mushrooms are a tasty edible that grows in the spring, summer and fall. They are easy to identify, grow in abundance and make a great addition to any meal. In this video, we are looking for Pleurotus populinus. You may not have this exact species, but there is likely a species of Oyster (pleurotus sp.) that grows near you.
WHERE TO FIND?
Oysters are saprophytic and grow on dead or dying trees. Look for decaying logs, or dead trees in the spring, summer and fall. They will never be growing out of the ground.
WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE?
They are a shelf mushroom that often grow in clusters, but can also grow singly. The cap is often semicircular. They have a short pseudo-stem, and may have no stem present at all if they are growing laterally. The gills are fairly widely space, with some going all the way down the stem, and others that only run part way down.
ARE THERE ANY LOOKALIKES?
Yes, there can be, so be sure you know what you have. In Alberta, the main “look-alike” is crepidotus sp., but they are smaller, grow singly (not in clusters) and have brown spores.
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Tony's charisma and the amount of love he and his wife put in these videos really makes this the best mushroom channel on TH-cam.
your comment really made my day!! thank you for the kind words :)
This man is really overestimating my ability to tell the difference between two mushrooms
this gave me a chuckle haha, but honestly, once you get started looking at mushrooms it gets easier and easier
Tell em, don’t let him gaslight you🤣
i looove watching you pick them, i would honestly watch just a compilation of you picking/cutting them off trees, it's so satisfying. new mushroom asmr
For some reason TH-cam threw up to me this much earlier video, of FreshCap Tony and Teagan and what a delight to watch the earlier times and how humble it began and still remains. Awesome content always even back then, even if Teagan did do the cooking Tony LOL! It's still a thumbs up from us all :) Mush Love, as with Mush Loves, comes Mush Re-Spore-Ability! ;)
Great video. I didn't realize they sweated that much, I'm definitely going to bring a cloth bag next time I go hiking.
they really do! some are worse then others
I've become a big fan of your channel, really relaxing/down to earth videos man, got interested in growing mushrooms through Southwest Mushrooms, but you give some really good advice on how to start small and some good ideas there, and ofc also like foraging in the woods.
Thanks man.
Have a good day ay!
Loving the foraging videos.
glad you like them! will be plenty more :)
Love all your videos….thank you for sharing all your great knowledge. I love love the music in this one and the others…… still am working on watching them all.
I've been watching a lot of Tony's videos lately. I've been trying to grow Lionsmane outdoors and have a nice flush of oysters emerging , so , here I am. Never had them but anxious to give them a try. I've been a forager of medicinals for years now and try to add some new shrooms to my list each year. Thanks to freshcaps for great info.
Just found these today can tell by smell. I grow them so happy to find.
you guys' videos are so amazing and informative
Love your positive outlook for this is super info.cheers📢👍
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I live in Kansas and I'm pretty familiar with the plants that grow in my neck of the woods but I'm new (and a little intimidated) to the idea of mushroom identification. Awesome video!
awesome, glad you like the video! I can totally understand hesitation, but honestly if you have a local mycological society (if they are even doing them now) going on a few forays can be immensly helpful :)
Thanks for the video, anise smells like black licorice or even like a strongly flavored sweet Italian sausage (meaning it would have a lot of anise in it).
this is great info, thanks! I will have to get some and figure it out lol
It was always fun finding them in the woods all around Wisconsin
Great video, thanks!
thanks for wathcing!
oh, I can just smell them through this video! lovely *_*
Awesome I picked some today
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I've watched and thumbs-upped all your vids.
Thanks for the Info
Very helpful to aid in identifying. Thank u! PS, your lady is very lovely!
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Anise has a concentrated black licorice odor.
good to know!
We found some outside edmonton. A lot of worms in them but managed to get some trimmings to eat!
9:16 thinking you slick like we cant see you in the microwave hahah
Hahahah I laughed so hard at this.
I find these in my woodpile at home. Convenient because all I need to do is step out into the yard.
Fun video, thank you! Fennel or dill have also similar smell... Or Greek Ouzo!!! The licorice plant is an herbaceous perennial native to southern Europe and parts of Asia, such as India. It is not botanically related to anise, star anise, or fennel, which have though similar flavoring.
Thanks for the info!
The highly distinctive shaggy mane is also an excellent mushroom for beginners.
In my opinion, it doesn't look anything like it's so-called look alike.
Nice bro.
Latin pronunciation rules say the correct way to say it is /krep -IH-duh-tus/. Also, Anise smells like licorice. Hope that’s helpful! Love your channel! Found you from TikTok.
All mushrooms have worms/larvea, even the home -grown/cultivated ones. If the mushroom is not degraded/rotten, you can eat them without a problem. Just soak them in water with salt and vinegar for about 5-10 minutes and boil them, depending on the type of mushroom anywehere between 5-20 minutes. All worms will die and come out.
When I was a kid my family would always eat the buggy mushrooms tbh (unless they're ultra buggy and all mushy already), I normally just leave the shrooms in water for a while and all the worms crawl out. But hey, it's not harmful to eat the creepy crawlies anyway, I think. Or is it?.. lol
ya, I am not sure lol, just feels weird to eat them
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FreshCap Mushrooms wow... thats deep
Bugs can be rinsed off and flushed out of the gills with running water. I would've still eaten some of the ones you threw away 😭 cook them into butter and strain it off, PRESTO! oyster mushroom flavored butter! I been puckung these for years, have never found one that smelled anything like anise 😅. They have a strong savory mushroom smell. Bon appetit though man they're so good.... add some fresh garlic to that butter first 😉👍
In a few wild mushroom recipe vids i watched they recommend to cook the mushroom dry until a lot of the moisture is zapped otherwise they can be quite chewy.. would you do the same with the oysters or does it not matter?
Are these better than the cultivated variety in terms of taste, and nutritional value? Thanks!
I saw my first wild oyster today while walking my cat .
At which point do the mushrooms release its spores? I have oyster mushrooms growing on a dead tree in my backyard and want them to keep "coming back"... Do I have to leave some on the bark or can I harvest all of them?
What time of year do you find them?
What time of the year is this, where I live if theres green leaves on the trees the skeeters will eat you alive before you even have a chance to look for mushrooms.
If you think of mycelium as crystals, wouldn't concentrates be able to recrystalize into mycelium? I know dead, dry, decomposing tissues come back to life with ease. I'm sure about concentrates.
Are those poisonous ivy or wild raspberries next to those mushrooms?
I found a bunch of wild oysters. Can they be frozen for later use?
I found some on a dying maple
can we make tissue culture of that mushroom
Very nice! But that looked like some poison ivy you were screwing around with around 3:00 haha
good to know haha! I didn't notice any issues from it :)
I thought the same thing 😱 kudzu looks very similar to poison ivy though, and I'm sure lots of other plants are lookalikes. My general rule while hiking or foraging is to just stay far away from anything that looks remotely close to it
Looked like blackberry to me.
I am a big fan and I want to become a mycologist
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Make the business more real even, bro.
Been hunting mushrooms for the better part of 25 years and I don't often see this kind of fruiting. Pleurotus mushrooms (like all other decomposers) prefer to grow on the side of a log rather than on top, as this is what allows them to sporinate properly, I'm pretty positive you just innoculated a log with spores.
Found a large haul of Oysters on a downed tree here in the Southeast US and they were fruiting all around the trunk including directly on top.
i found bags full today :()
I recently harvested some lung oyster mushrooms…and found little whit worms in them. Yuck.
lol that mushroom with very small bug spots was perfectly fine to eat. just let them sit in salt water for 10 minutes and they'll all come out.
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Les "bugs" signalés vers 8:58 me semblent les larves de TIPULES sortes de grands moustiques qui ont des larves coriaces à têtes noires.
je mange ces champignons crus avec un peu de salade et rarement des tomates.
C'est encore le moment de trouver ces champis jusqu'en Août. Promenades avec des amis merveilleuses. Je vous souhaite à vous deux le meilleur des promenades au petit matin!
Unfortunately, every wild mushroom bounty I find is crawling with maggots :(
I know right?!? So frustrating, gotta get em early or get lucky
I mean, that's extra protein, right?
It may be gross to you, but I encourage you to recognize that those maggots have likely only eaten the mushroom you're wanting to eat. If you didn't see them you'd never know.
Has a light fishy smell. But tastes kinda like chicken.
The little worms in them are pretty gross
The ones I found here in Michigan are on dead shagbark hickorys.
I think I found some phoenix oysters today
Well i just ate something i think is oyster mushroom.... i hope