*nom*

9/3/2009 8:53:42 AM

I really like these shrooms. What are they called in teh English?

9/3/2009 8:55:43 AM

i dunno...what are they called teh japanese?

9/3/2009 8:56:45 AM

Bunashimeji

9/3/2009 8:57:15 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimeji

9/3/2009 8:58:00 AM

aww that's a copout



tastes totally different from this:



but are both considered shimeji apparently?

9/3/2009 9:00:19 AM

^

but yeah, i think you want the white beech (white clamshell) variety

9/3/2009 9:05:07 AM

those in the lower picture are called "enokitake" or enoki or golden needle in english


they are grown in the dark and in a high CO2 environment to make them etiolated

9/3/2009 9:41:20 AM

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"i think you want the white beech (white clamshell) variety"

haha I had to look that up. I only know those by the name bunapi. I actually like the brown ones better.

It's sad, Japan sells a bajillion different mushrooms in the supermarket but I'll never know what to call them to find them for sale in America

9/3/2009 9:43:40 AM

i don't know my mushrooms very well...i thought the brown-topped ones were still white beech, but grown and/or treated a bit differently

*shrug*

9/3/2009 9:47:32 AM

I think they're a different crossbreed or something. I know the white ones



are only sold by that company in Japan, so I'm guessing they have rights to them. The brown ones are sold by a bunch of companies though.

9/3/2009 9:50:20 AM

do those have a tiny mushroom inside? i think those are straw mushrooms

9/3/2009 12:03:43 PM

Nope, they're just like the bunashimeji but white.

[Edited on September 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM. Reason : but sometimes on the outside of the clump base there's small mushrooms]

9/3/2009 6:16:34 PM

They double in size almost daily. And, in a totally un-gay way, they're really cute.

9/3/2009 10:37:35 PM

I want to do this too now, but Arab13 won't eat mushrooms and I don't know what kind to get.

9/3/2009 10:42:58 PM

Tell Arab13 to stop being a pussy and man up.

9/3/2009 10:57:13 PM

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"in a totally un-gay way, they're really cute"

why the fuck would that be gay? are you that insecure?

9/3/2009 11:00:39 PM

I bet you're a fun guy!

9/3/2009 11:08:35 PM

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" why the fuck would that be gay? are you that insecure?"

Well, for one,

Quote :

"The mushroom is an undoubted penis-symbol;there are mushrooms which owe their systematic name (phallus impudicus) to the unmistakable resemblance of the male organ"

So I was calling a penis symbol cute.

9/3/2009 11:19:50 PM

oh... how cute!

9/3/2009 11:21:39 PM

Mushrooms are sexy.

9/3/2009 11:22:56 PM

now THIS ...







... is cute.

9/3/2009 11:30:46 PM

hahahaha

9/5/2009 6:47:59 PM

mmmmm, kind of a plain flavor, but much better those button mushrooms

[Edited on September 6, 2009 at 4:45 PM. Reason : .]

9/6/2009 4:44:53 PM

if you let them mature more the flavor will develop some more.

9/6/2009 6:28:55 PM

how does it smell?

all i know is that all the mushroom farms near me in PA, you can smell from miles away

9/6/2009 6:30:56 PM

my mushroom sprouted earlier, but now it's wilted again

9/6/2009 9:49:21 PM

chanterelle season! I grabed these yesterday from under some brush. Its been really dry so the're aren't too many, and the ones that sprouted are pretty beat up. Hopefully we'll get some rain this week

9/13/2009 11:18:28 AM

I used to go mushroom hunting with my grandfather and uncles back in ohio

9/13/2009 11:20:53 AM

hey, do you think you could grow morels inside...or just never happening?

9/13/2009 12:26:39 PM

bump

5/15/2010 8:36:11 PM

ttt, B.

5/15/2010 8:36:22 PM

It's Morel Season!



Sooo good. thats like 50$ worth of Morels

5/15/2010 8:37:55 PM

http://www.morels.com/northcarolina/

5/15/2010 8:46:52 PM

I want to learn mushroom hunting. Is there a class or something you can do in the Triangle? I don't want to teach myself from the internet and then poison myself

5/15/2010 9:31:58 PM

You should talk To GREEN JAY, I live in oregon so I don't know much about NC mushrooms.

But morels and chanterelles are easy to identify, you could easily learn on your own without risk.

5/15/2010 9:57:05 PM

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"shitake"

Uh huh huh huh

5/15/2010 10:02:02 PM

wellll.... something went wrong because I was throwing up all night. Fuck you Morels

5/16/2010 10:21:00 AM

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"But morels and chanterelles are easy to identify, you could easily learn on your own without risk."

You were saying?

5/16/2010 10:25:12 AM

I like mushrooms, but I'd rather not see them/think about them/watch them grow.


They kinda freak me the fuck out.


But they are delicious.

5/16/2010 10:27:36 AM

I wanted to trip balls today, but I was planning on going to the park. Forecast says rain is likely. I am slightly bummed, but will stay the course.

5/16/2010 10:39:37 AM

5/16/2010 12:24:16 PM

1985 and GREEN JAY earn major points for this.

You should consider spreading the joy of mushrooms by preparing and selling mushroom growing kits.

5/16/2010 1:11:37 PM

Quote :

"I want to learn mushroom hunting. Is there a class or something you can do in the Triangle? I don't want to teach myself from the internet and then poison myself "

State used to have BO222 (the kingdom of fungi), but I'm not sure if it's still available since Dr. Van Dyke retired.

I actually TAed the class and led a mushroom hunting expedition at Lake Johnson.

5/16/2010 2:35:13 PM

lol wonder if I could get away with just sitting in the back of the class.

5/16/2010 8:14:22 PM

mushrooms are one of the few foods that I will not eat.

[Edited on May 16, 2010 at 8:19 PM. Reason : .]

5/16/2010 8:18:54 PM

looks like they don't have the class anymore.

PB775 is probably the closest: http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/crs_cat/PB.html#PB%20775

5/16/2010 8:20:56 PM

after working at a pizza place in high school

and sticking my hands into 5 gallon buckets of slimy mushroom pieces

i, too, will not eat mushrooms

[Edited on May 16, 2010 at 8:22 PM. Reason : ^^]

5/16/2010 8:21:46 PM

^
I absolutely love mushrooms, but those canned ones are fucking gross.

5/16/2010 8:31:05 PM

I went out again and found a field of them. hopefully I won't get sick this time (I suspect I didn't wash them well enough). My hens are laying tons of eggs too, I'll be eating morel omelettes for days on end

5/23/2010 10:46:49 PM