Why Matsutake Mushrooms Are So Expensive | So Expensive
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- Matsutake mushrooms harvested in Japan can cost over $500 per kilogram. Mushroom foragers like Gihei Fujiwara search for matsutake once a year around early fall. But it's hard to predict the quality of a harvest. Over the past 70 years, Japan's harvest has declined by over 95%. Now the mushroom's future is unclear. So what makes these mushrooms so expensive? And why have they almost disappeared?
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Why Matsutake Mushrooms Are So Expensive | So Expensive
I have picked them on the Oregon coast since 1988, many years ago I was picking by the road and 2 elderly Japanese women stopped and asked me to sell one to them, but that is illegal for me so I gave them all my bag, 3 lbs abt. I have never seen anyone smiling so much. They had driven from Seattle to Oregon just to get one. 😊
Why is it illegal tho ?
@@thunderb00m the state regulations for harvest in Oregon require a license for any sales of a regulated forest product. The picked can only sell to a licensed buyer.
@@billfoster213 what ? So harvesting raspberries and then selling them would be illegal ?
@@It-s-me-P probably not, berries are not regulated as strictly, but Forest service requirements for harvesting on Federal lands must be considered. There's a lot of different things that are available for market value in the Oregon region, from mushrooms to ferns, and shrubs for floral arrangements to Pine cones. I was lucky to be in the early days of it all , before the legislation passed to regulate our access. 35 years ago, there wasn't the huge money involved in matsutake that is common now. It was considered a family activity for the most part. Now, the prices have made it more mercenary with professional pickers who destroy the mushroom beds ,which limits the return for the future.
@@billfoster213 Wow, me who as one to become a forester soon in the future see this is a big business 😎😎
his work seems so peaceful besides the hard labour. out in nature collecting mushrooms. i truly wish him good harvests and health
hunting for mushrooms is no hard labour.
We all do, its a shame this story is run through Business Insider given their documented history of hate propaganda that they only post online to avoid comments here.
Tommy just a hike tho lol it’s nice
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Hard labour? You soft westerner.
If he has been doing this for 60 years. It is sad that he doesn't have any one to pass on this tradition. Hard word but that's what keeps him healthy at his age. Thats why people in Japan have the longest life in the world. Keep up the good work.
This is why many suicide in Japan bcs of overload 🥲
@@shyamkr2000 Not really. More of a combination of things
i think the western habit of ceasing all activity after retirement is killing us. I see a ton of people retiring at 65 and then more or less turning into vegetables afterwards, doing nothing but play games, watch tv, and lay around most of the day. I think it's actually unhealthy to stop working before 70 (assuming theres no health reason to stop you working) and we need to stay physically and mentally active after 70. Turning off your brain and watching TV all day or lounging around the house rather then going out or doing things that require some physical or mental work just causes your brain and body to degrade quickly, that's why a Japanese 80 year old seems like an American 50 year old
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@@lt3742 How about No.
I absolutely love watching how people do things the old ways.
Symbiotic relationship with nature is best
So uh…. Bending over and picking things up lol
@@thatguycarmine1 with no extra complications
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@@thatguycarmine1 well not really that.But i guess in a way kinda lol😅.
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Experience mushrooms picker like him make it look easy. This mushrooms grow randomly on mountain very rich in volcanic ash and requires certain pine trees near by. The mushrooms only grow once a year around September or November and in certain location that's why its rare and expensive. I used to pick them myself that's how i know.
True it's called mushroom hunting for a reason.
around here it's the hemlock trees they grow around.
Ah I need those mushrooms, my Adaptus Temptation running low on numbers
I live in Colorado and my Japanese mother knows of a secret spot where these grow wild she picks them every year they are seriously one of the best mushrooms !
yeah....gatekeep it. You don't know what people are capable of
Lol my brother and I are Japanese hafus living in CO. PM me if you ever want to ski or go mushroom hunting. He lives in Boulder and I live in FoCo
In Malaysia we call this cendawan bunian because of how rare it is to find them
Cendawan= mushroom
Bunian= a folklore creature that can’t be seen with the naked eye
Bunian = Elves..
@@noir2601 elves are small in size. Bunians are human-like
@@lisajxn9613 big elves then
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I always farm this in Genshin for healing.
Hahaha i was looking for this comment 😆
@@Zweizahar Matsutake meat rolls 🤣
bruh exact comment that I need🤣🤣
Finally 😂 Genshin comment
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I have a lot of this mushroom in Teyvat.
It's laborious within reason
I still love collecting mushrooms, it's fun to be outside, especially since the weather has to be good enough, fresh air, beautiful view
This world is hard compared to?
I work with steel, ob an industrial scale, chemicals in the air, heavy lifting, 3 shifts, overtime on weekends and sometimes I'm on standby for the rest of the weekend
I'm glad when I can go out into nature, instead of filtering industrial air with my lungs
You seem to have one heck of a life. I wish you the best of luck out there.
These aren't expensive! I find them for free all the time while doing my daily commissions. Sometimes they just pop into existence when I hit a bush with my sword, too!
Lolll XD
Facts! Infact my entire diet only consists of matsukake meat rolls, and it will stay that way so long as i can still force bennet to forage matsukake every day from expeditions
ehe
No one cares
resource collection xd
me, who plays genshin impact and picks 50 up daily
😆 me too
Haha same 😂
If matsutake was as common in irl like in genshin, its price would be lowered significantly
Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes
Lol, I was about to say something about Genshin XD
No shit how do u think supply and demand works
@@ppierce Lol chill
Yeah homeless issue can be solved if the homeless guy brought a house
*You guys need to do a segment like, "why everything in japan is expensive!"*
😂true
Because it takes 10 years to be an apprentice, 10 years to become a harvester and a lifetime to master it' .
Quality over quantity
It's either rare, labour intensive, or excellent craftsmanship.
Overpriced stuff
I first heard of these mushroom back in my childhood from a Japanese tv show Doraemon and it was fascinating.
The one where he has the small island and they shrink themselves! I loved that episode
Same lol
People of culture here : ] metoolol
I still have the manga with that story on the bookshell.
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These ain't magic, but they're magical!
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I find it fascinating that Japan has a luxury food auction from a million dollar tuna and wagu beef all the way to mushrooms!!
Quality and branding
Those first of the year auctions are mainly for advertising, and the money goes to the association. A restaurant chain will bid 1m or more for the first tuna of the year and distribute to 20 or 30 locations. They charge the usual price (not like $500 a slice, haha 🤣).
Luxury mushrooms aren't exclusive to Japan. Morels and Truffles are also very expensive and are found outside Japan.
I've seen Japanese materials to be costly(swords, knifes) . Now, even their plants are costly too...
Fungi are not plants
why? why ?why? so far i knw they have advance technology and cant grow the mushroom indoor. why? why? why?
Also not many Japanese comment on TH-cam, I heard they will train for many years before making the perfect post. True mastery
@@odenz91 Because it's a tradition. Would you eat plant based meat instead of a turkey on Thanksgiving? I know this is a terrible example but bare with me here
@@elevate5731 they should research the mushroom and find a way to grow them.
And yes once hosted on business insider price will get an extra price boom 😀
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In Genshin, this mushrooms are everywhere-
ye but still kinda rare
-Gathering matsutake isn't an easy task.
Grandpa proceed to collect 3 huge baskets before noon.
I always wanted matsutake and when i eat mushrooms i always imagine it as matsutake 😂
Impressive 😁🍄
Weird flex but okay
LoL 🤣🤣
I know that feel
What kind of mushroom you taking
In the southern part of the US there is an endangered species of bird called the red cockaded woodpecker. This bird only exists because the natives used to the burn the lands to manage the deer. That area by natures choice would be an oak savannah, and not the pine grove they lived in. Now that it’s being managed for what it should have been, the birds are slowly disappearing while we also try to prevent their extinction, it’s a weird duplicity.
This mushroom feels very much the same. It was only dense in those woods when they people were removing all the vegetation. Now that electricity keeps them warm, the woods are returning to a more natural state, one unseen for decades.
I've got multiple in genshin Impact tho
that is how Fantasy game works
In fact, Matsutake mushrooms with the highest quality grow in North Korea...Just it is almost impossible to get one.
I first heard the name Matsutake Mushroom when I was only in 5th grade Elementary School. Since then, I haven't heard of the Matsutake Mushroom Price dropping. In fact, prices are increasing every year, although sometimes they are stagnant. Hopefully in the future Mushrooms like this will maintain the beauty of their habitat and existence.
meanwhile they pay the pickers in canada,dirt wages for picking
Whilst working and living in Japan, I spoke with many young Japanese and they are not interested in looking for these mushrooms nor are able to tell them from any other mushroom. I would say the real decline is really the lower numbers of older Japanese looking for them and young Japanese like younger Europeans are not interested this sort of thing. Yes, i spoke with some younger Japanese maybe in their 40's who were out even with dogs looking for them.
Well depends on which part of Europe are we talking about. Mushroom picking is sort of "national hobby" in Czech Republic. And its mostly young people that I see in forrests every autumn (myself included). :D
@@martinbudinsky8912 That's great then for sure. I know may young people who say they would only buy them in the markets but of course only anecdotal. I've not yet picked any in the Czech Republic yet, although we have bought some books from there on mushrooms. For me it's almost as exciting as hunting LOL and in some cases better. BTW I have many videos of mushroom hunting on my channel.
I wish the video had featured someone who could actually tell the difference between Japanese mushrooms and ones from China and South Korea. That felt like an unsubstantiated claim.
The mountains have owners generally in Japan, So if picked Matsutake (also beneficial mountain herbs)with out permissions of owner, there are cases in which get arrest.
And I guess almost owners will not permission 😅
@@micca5nz Yes I came across mountain streams many times in Japan which had walled structures and surrounded too by rusty barbed wire. My friend told me they were areas for growing high quality wasabi.
Me trying to cook adeptus temptation understandable
Any genshin people
hello there fellow genshiner
I got tons of these Matsutake mushrooms. They literally grow everywhere in Teyvat.
You are rich export to Japan
May the rex lapis bless you
You can find them under almost every tree in Genshin Impact.
Gen Z, when they found out the name of the mushroom in the game. funny. you should watch more anime. 😂
@@odenz91 even more?
@@odenz91 mad that people refrence a game?
you are the even more pathertic when shaming other people for a game.
knowlegde are found everywhere, even it a game, movie
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One thing I learnt from Japanese people is that whatever they do, whatever their occupation may be, they do it with sincerity and care and they have respects towards whatever they do...I guess that is why they are ao blessed..
Absolutely. They are surgical in everything they do. Food, trains, hospitality. I cannot wait to visit.
LMFAO no 😂
Thank you.
After seeing this at my local Japanese grocery store for so long, I finally decided to try them. Made matsutake gohan and it was different. Very pungent and earthy but otherwise pleasant. Despite being steamed with rice, it retained some crunch.
I've heard so many wonderful things about magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??
I'm so interested in the experience but am terrified of having a bad trip
@@henrylawrence2715 I did two grams last time, it was a thrilling experience and I enjoyed it
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For an older man out in the woods, he is a brave soul. After watching Slapped Ham video on a mushroom hunter encounters a monstrous cry, he leaves the forest in a huff. The mushroom hunter never returns and now does tech videos instead.
Fake video. The "monster cry" is from an old dinosaur movie
BOO!
Genshin Impact players be feeling real rich right now
Finding mushrooms in a pine forest is surprisingly plentiful!
I consume cordyceps mushrooms daily and now this video has me wondering if I should look into these kind...
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Very informative
Amazing content ❤️
Just to confirm, it’s not pronounced “Matsuta-kee”, its “Matsuta-kae”.
I know right! The documentary was interesting, but the narrator mispronouncing the name of the mushroom made it impossible to focus on anything else 😓
yeah, matsutake, not matsutaki
Thank you. I basically stopped watching this halfway through because it was so grating to hear the mispronouncement.
Great job on promoting ignorance, BI.
Amazing video, mushroom everywhere, if cooked with pork, that is superlicious!, Sending my full support, God bless and stay safe everyone!
With all the knowledge and technology we currently have it's a shame that there's no way of replicating this type of environment and climate in an advanced greenhouse to grow these mushrooms easily without the pine trees. Not even an aeroponics system can work with this unfortunately.
Agroforestry techniques might be the solution for these type of rarer mushrooms that need an actual ecosystem to grow in
we have matsutake in mushroom farms in Canada. They cheap to make abt 130-280/kg. But the taste is diffent from the wild one I can tell. Same with the one from China or Korea
it's because fungi are a different class altogether. although we can domesticate certain species like buttons and oyster mushrooms, we have to remember fungi behaves more like animals-- some will require diets and environments that are harder to mimic artificially.
As per usual it's probably more a question of economics.
As mushrooms need a certain environment, basically forest, that makes it challenging to create them, not impossible, but definitely more difficult, as it was also pointed at in this video, as they said that once, when they needed more firewood the forests made more of these mushrooms as people were taking care of the forest. You basically would need to do that again, but the problem is, how much does it cost? And the answer is a lot.
@@alexis1156 Increasing wild production and growing in farms are two very different things. There are many species of plant, animal and funghi humans haven't been able to domesticate, due to them requiring specific conditions which may be hard or impossible to replicate outside of their natural environment.
I wouldn’t mind being his apprentice, this job seems like a skill set, peaceful and interesting
I'd love to go foraging with him for a day!!!!
That dudes little baskets are more than what I’ll make in 5 years 😂
Right? It doesn’t seem that hard if you have 20/20 vision and it pays so well, you’d think everyone would do it, even as a side hustle. I wonder if you need a special license.
As a mushroom lover this is sad. I want to try this mushroom before it’s gone
It’s alright. I’ve never been a big fan of pine mushrooms.
$800 per kilo, 8 big ones a kilo
Collecting mushrooms == Collecting USD$100 bills
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I really wish I could do that. Some headphones and fav tunes I would spend all day out there and be happy to.
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In Genshin it's free :(
Japan is always exaggerating the price of every vegetables ,fishes mushrooms, etc. prices that can be gathered and fished in other countries also.
They are delicious. I just tried them last week after buying 10 for almost 400 usd. They were pretty small too
Are they better than morel mushrooms cause dam morel is Hella bomb tasty.
Theres plenty of these in northern Europe and Russia. And the quality for sure is not worse, the environment is very clean. Of course if one would transport these to Japan for better price they would not be so fresh anymore.
There is plenty of Matsutake in Finland but like with any mushrooms you have to know where to look in the forest. The cost of mushrooms is mainly due to yearly changes. This mushroom is not that popular here so it's exported to Japan. Collecting mushrooms in the forest is really nice and meditative :)
@@toms5996 Agreed. Mushroom foraging is one of the best hobbies there is.
There on the north west coast of America as well. I've picked them as a child to sell to Japan.
@@yuomovaeh3028 It really is. Going in the forest and trying to find mushrooms. And if you know the forest and can sort of know were the mushrooms are - it's wonderful to find something you can make food of and the joy of finding😀🇫🇮
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could the narrator at least *try* to correctly pronounce “matsutake”? it’s the subject of the entire video. Japanese is easily pronounceable for even non-native speakers if they study hiragana for just an hour
‘Matsusake mushrooms are expensive”
Me with my 3k matsusake collection in genshin: mmhm… right…
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Oh my... He with his baskets reminds me so much of Moomin's anime.
Me - like most of children in Finland were grown by the japanese anime of Moomins.
Parents usually said that "once you've seen 3 episodes, your father will get back home from work"
It was something truly magical. And everyone in Finland has seen atleast a few episodes. Most children - all of them.
Everything requires decades of something in Japan
Bonsai, swords, knives, bows, mushrooms you name it
The reason they have declined is the harvesters take every single mushroom they see and dont selectively harvest this leaving nothing to grow the following year weather spores were dropped or not
It easy lol just pick it up on ground. Just like in genshin.
Hi fellow genshin player....
I have so many of them in my inventory that I barely used them at all
I'm Japanese but didn't know most of the things in this video. Learned so much. Thank you so much for making a good documentary.
Bro look at that YUUUUUGE mushroom 🍄 on the middle basket right at 2:04
Only Suneo Honekawa able to afford this mushroom while Nobita, Shizuka and Giant don't, unless with the aid of Doraemon. 😁
😂😂
So nice..looks so calm.
I love mushrooms, would love to try those. 🍄🍄🍄 I hope a younger person will start going with him, so he can teach them his secrets to the harvest and they won't be lost.
Matsutake has a very very strong aroma. I think it's much stronger than Natto, which is a Japanese fermented food with a unique taste. So maybe it takes time to get used to it.
OMG that japanese dinner spread looks freaking FANTASTIC
Food 👶
She said "matsutake" 4 different ways, all were wrong. Japanese is a phonetic language and is easy to pronounce. Mah-tsoo-taw-kay.
Keh***
Obviously she doesn't speak Japanese so ofc she would pronounce it that way
She can’t pronounce “Mountain “ either she said “Mou-un” 😹
I couldn't even listen to it for more than 2 minutes. Her idiotic pronunciation just made me sigh.
@@iseetheWAYVision Same sound different spelling.
Considering mushrooms originated shortly after lichens and mosses, it is amazing how inconsistent and hard to find they are. Conditions have to be just right.
Expensive things come from Japan. It is natural.
the world needs people like him...
I swear I just watched something like this but it was in Korea.
Maybe next harvest will be even better.
These days... EVERYTHING is expensive!!!
I don't even get to buy this hard to pronounce mushroom, but just spent neary $200 for a simple grocery.
I do get from a dude on WhatsApp at a cheaper rate
I love all your videos
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I hope I am able to physically work just as hard as Gihei when I’m his age!
But in philippines, so cheap, u may harvest sacks that u can carry, these grow seasonal
I remember when exporting matsutake to Japan was a thing in the news in Finland. Barely anyone picked them, so the price they sell out was a surprise. I don't know how much we now export to Japan, but it was a buzzing new thing back then.
I don't mind that shroom, it's ok. Won't go to specially find it, because there's plenty anyway, and most likely I'll just leave them there.
I wish i lived in Japan. Their food culture is so interesting and seems much healthier than other parts of the world
@@Ammeo Well why don't you just move to Japan and see for yourself then?
Wow, such a big mushroom bigger than my palm 😃. Beautiful video👌🙏.
не все люди понимают, что золото под ногами и мы по нему ходим)
Legendary Mushroom 🍄
My guess is that the forests these mushrooms grow in are at increasing risk of having devastating wildfires, too, as there are less people doing this kind of job and living off of the land. The way he tends to the forest reminded me of Indigenous land management practices in Coast Redwood forests in California. The Indigenous people maintained healthy forests by cleaning up built-up debris, thinning out trees, using controlled burns, etc. Without people keeping up the health of the land, dead plant material and overgrowth of young trees etc. has built up to levels it hadn't been for at least 10,000 years prior to European colonization. This built up material then catches on fire and (exacerbated by drought and rising temps) becomes the massive uncontrollable wildfires that have been incinerating the West coast. If people like Gihei Fujiwara aren't trimming branches, preventing fallen leaves from building up, and everything else, then their forests are probably going to start burning. And I've worked in the burn scar left in aftermath of a wildfire- it's devastating to the ecosystem, it takes a looooong time for a forest like that to get back to how it was, if it ever does at all.
The knowledge about forest fungus is scarce to put it mildly, but my guess is that if anything can survive wildfire it would be fungus with their underground mycelium which can spread across vast terrains (check out Armillaria ostoyae in Blue Mountains, Oregon for example - and this is just one example which was found, researches like this are not so common). Of course, they can be unable to produce mushrooms or grow without trees until the forest will revive itself again, but I believe they can survive years underground in such conditions or just use trees that weren't affected in completely different part of the forest (again, just a guess).
Japan's climate is nothing like California's.
@@crazy808ish that doesn't mater, in fact, I think it even helps. People impersonate forest mushrooms with what they can find on the ground, but there is whole other ground underground.
@@proosee It matters because there's no way Japan will ever get wildfires like California and I don't think it's really the concern you two are making it out to be. For that to happen, Japan's wind currents would need to change. They'd need lower rainfall rates than they currently do. They would need to have a lower water table and start getting the same droughts CA does. They'd need entirely different trees and plants covering the ground which do a different job of retaining water. There is soooo many factors beyond dead plant material to start getting wildfires.
Wildfire is actually good for mushrooms
We have the climate and red pine we could grow them here in canada
They do grow in Canada and the US, technically a different subspecies but in actuality the same mushroom.
Why have they disappeared? Well…..maybe because you keep harvesting all of them.
I heard it was because of mushroom 🍄 eating Pokémon 😋
As masutake depending upon red pine as long as we can solve problem of red pine we will be able to get more masutake in future...Respect to that man who is working for it since 60 years
and i have about 400 of these in genshin
Nice video.
What harvest method is he using? I was always taught to slice mushrooms at the base not tear them out of the mycelium. Watching him dutifully propagate spores and tend to the hillside is most admirable. I hope this feature draws more interest from future generations.
Exactly. You were taught the right method. I suspect that if they harvest the mushrooms this way it is a possible (on of many most likely) cause why they are in decline. Of course it cant be blamed solely on this but it can be a big factor.
Do not cut them! These are dug up carefully. If you are not commercial permit split in half length wise through the stem.
You are mistaken, most mushrooms are better off pulled up rather than cut, morels included. Cut stems make the mycelium susceptible to diease.
@@martinbudinsky8912 simply not true, follow the science.
@@samaustin6255 Ahhh... Okay two informations. I am from the country where "mushroom hunting" is most popular in the whole world (Czech Republic). So trust me that I have quite a bit of knowledge when it comes to this. And second information is that when it comes to cutting stem X tearing the mushroom out according to science (which you told me to follow) cutting is actually better. For several reasons. And when you tear the mushroom out what remains? You damage that micelium and there are still "open wounds" just as susceptible to disease on top of it being damaged... So sorry but you are simply not right about this.
You can casually get these by randomly attacking bushes in Teyvat
Never heard of the name of mushroom before until I played genshin impact 😅
those speech about firefood collecting are so intriguing n thought provoking, it is something u dont learn in school