Oyster Mushrooms

Fergienewbee · Aug 25, 2014

I've been taking the tractor back in the woods to cut and haul wood. On one of the logs I found a patch of oyster mushrooms. Does anyone have a way to cook them besides sauteed in butter? I'm going to try a couple tonight.

Larry

Determined · Aug 25, 2014

Fry them up with a mess of onions then throw in 1/4 cup of sour cream and some white pepper.
Goes good with a slice of bread and butter.

Not a mushroom expert by any means, but if they are the same as the ones grown in our parts I will give you a warning.
If you enjoy a cold beer or a glass of wine or any alcohol with your meal, chances are good the Oyster mushrooms will want to come back up on you a few hours later.
Even one beer with Oyster mushrooms will do it to me.
Without I can eat a pound of them and be fine.

Dave H (MI) · Aug 25, 2014

Make sure they are the real deal.

Fergienewbee · Aug 25, 2014

Dave H;

I looked them up and did a spore print too. They don't have any look-alikes that are harmful, at least not in the USA. I tried two small ones and so far so good.

Larry

wilson ind · Aug 25, 2014

what do they look like?

Tom Bond · Aug 25, 2014

The ones I've found that you guys call oyster mushrooms are what we call "hen of the woods". Don't ask me why. I'm surprised they're up this early, but if they are, the button mushrooms will be close behind. Now you just shot my holiday weekend because you know where I'll be now! In the timber! Here's a few pictures of what we call button mushrooms in Illinois and Indiana. I'm off to get the buckets down!

Determined · Aug 25, 2014

This is what the Oyster mushrooms look like growing on a dead Aspen tree in Saskatchewan.
Probably a pound on this tree.

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HillsofTn · Aug 25, 2014

To my recollection, the old woodsman Rancid Crabtree once observed, "Mushrooms is them little wrinkled pointy thangs. Everthang else is jest poisonous toadstools!"

That's my belief also and I am stickin' to it!

Fergienewbee · Aug 25, 2014

We used to pick some we called "stumpers." Looked a lot like those buttons. I also pick shaggy manes, Hen-of-the-woods, beartooth, and keep an eye out for chantrelles.

Larry

SweetFeet · Aug 26, 2014

Holy cow... that is the mother-lode of mushrooms!

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