Mushroom Bill went to the ER twice last week because he ate the wrong mushrooms.

Nice haul!

Hahaha Grumps 😆

This is a part of my outdoor Ed I feel I’m sorely lacking. Love mushrooms but don’t know enough to forage. And they all over the place up here in the Adirondacks!

Great find! I wish we had those on our property, but I haven’t found any yet.

love mushroom hunting with the wife and now as the daughter gets older she can go along with us too. We don’t see as many chantrelles but other variety’s.

Beautiful. Few things beat the assorted wild mushrooms. I’ll be out at a wilderness area cabin next weekend and hope to find some Chicken of the Woods.

I love chantrelles. Unfortunately, I am allergic to them! The secret to chicken of the woods is to carefully trim off just the thin outer rim–no more than an inch and maybe less than that. The rest is tough and pulpy, but you can cook the trimmed edge just as you would any other mushroom. Don

I have been getting into mushrooms more lately. Have not found Chantrelles but just had Shaggy Mane for breakfast with scrambled eggs and Hen of the Woods last weekend with eggs once and with onions, red pepper, and garlic once. (Side dish for the last of the venison backstrap from last season.)

Be careful with the identifying… I have several books and when convenient also do some confirming online. Then I ‘test’ to see how my body will react by eating just a small amount first.

Mushrooms have added another really cool element to my ‘stalking and still hunting.’ 😀

Enjoy!! Todd Smith

Nice knife, Todd! I hope that for the sake of authenticity, it is a Victorinox and not the much debated (In Switzerland) copycat Wenger!!:D

alexbugnon wrote: Nice knife, Todd! I hope that for the sake of authenticity, it is a Victorinox and not the much debated (In Switzerland) copycat Wenger!!:D

Alex, I have to admit – you made me look. 🙂

I am relieved to say it is a Victorinox. 🙂 Todd

The trick in gathering wild mushrooms is not to exceed your confidence level. A good place to start is with the “Foolproof Four”: puffballs, chicken of the woods, chantrelles, and morels. Branch out from there, hopefully with the knowledge of mentors. Almost all boletes are fine as are orange delicious and a number of other readily identifiable species. Remember that there is really only one mushroom in North America that will flat out kill you (without a liver transplant): Amanita phalloides. Know what it looks like and beware. (it’s not hard.) Don

Don’t tell Bill, but I saw a big chicken of the woods near a deer trail yesterday. Not going to harvest it for him, or tell him about it, because if it is harvested it will scare the deer. 😕

Preston–I certainly agree with your advice about testing any new mushroom in small amounts because of the wide range of individual intolerance of perfectly good species. Like your friend, I just can’t eat chantrelles, which was a heart-breaker when I was growing up in Washington State, where they were everywhere. To the best of my knowledge there is only one toxic bolete–the aptly named “Devil’s Bolete”. It’s pretty easy to recognize, and your tip about bruising blue is a good one. There are actually several species of scaly hedgehog mushrooms, so you need to know the ones in your area. Where you are, all indeed may be fine, but others can lead to nausea and vomiting.That’s about the worst thing that can happen with most of the “bad” mushrooms, except amanita phalloides. Everyone needs to be able to recognize that one and steer clear! Don