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Anyone harvest wild mushrooms? It's been one of my favorite outdoor activities and a great application for knives, especially H1.

I've been planning for a while.... ut here, it is very hazardous... You need a guide if you don't want to eat bad Moushrooms...

I although have several places to buy fresh and dried ...

You're lucky...

If I could, I would go with the Arend Spyderco Karambit :cool:

Simon

best advice is to educate yourself on the poisonous mushrooms first before hunting the edibles. it's a very interesting hobby and if you live in an area that permits it, you'll find that it is extremely fun.

i live in northern california and have been hunting mushrooms for years. the fungi world is fascinating and a great place to use knives!

I tried growing Shiitake mushrooms last year... it was a disaster, mould destroyed crop after crop no matter how clean I thought I was being. I have no idea how mushrooms survive in the wild!

I used to pick Chantrelles and Morels all the time when I lived in BC, however I could head out behind the house and usually find enough in 15 mins to fill a large frying pan. They taste amazing fried in butter, nothing you buy in the store even comes close.

Chanterelles and Morels are as far as I go. I have a friend who checks anything I collect first. I bought him an Opinel mushroom knife. In this area those 2 are unique enough that its hard to confuse anything else with them.

Unfortunately, we've got weird mushies here in Australia. Two mushroom can look identical...only a spore print will distingush the highly toxic from the less so :)

i love morels. i found about 1000 specimens last year after a severe forest fire burned through the area. they are indeed delicious in butter and the texture of morels are very reminiscent of meat.

my favorites here are boletes, chanterelles, matsutake, morels, hedgehogs, lion's mane, coccora, and oyster mushrooms. my brother has tried growing mushrooms using a kit but no luck.

going out today to see if i can find more. it's very remote and i will take my pacific salt and rock salt (it gives me a sense of security :) )

i like mushrooooooms :D

LOTS of mushrooms on my island. as has been said, it's oftentimes very difficult to tell the poison from the delicious. a little too intimidating for me to get into... although there are two types of edible mushrooms here that cannot be mistaken for anything else... :D

also, lots of mushrooms here that can be used for dyes, tea... even as a "canvas" for painting on. :eek:

How do you get into this hobby, I know it can be very dangerous if not practiced properly.

tkdlaxer wrote:How do you get into this hobby, I know it can be very dangerous if not practiced properly.

Good question...there only ever seem to be successful mushroom pickers around. What happened to all the bad ones? I mean, I'm sure they only ever eat the bad ones once :p .

I'v always loved the idea of mushroom picking, it looked like a great outdoor activity, but i'v never done it before this winter, i thought it was dangerous
a good friend of mine bought a mushroom ID guid, and we went out a few times already, it's really fun and we have quite a variety here in israel.

so what?
no pics? :D

You live in Israel and you think MUSHROOM PICKING is Dangerous?! :eek: :D

:D LOL

well you know, it's not like i wake up every mornning to the sound of gunfire and bombs, only a few days a year,
you get used to it. :D

nice pics lerman! some of those mushrooms are in the agaricus family. i went out the day before yesterday and found some chanterelles and matsutake. unfortunately i don't have any pics. this morning for breakfast i made eggs benedict with chanterelle, smoked salmon, fresh parsley with hollandaise sauce. it was delicious!

All I got for breakfast this morning was a chocolate chip biscuit and a serving of 'cold-shoulder' from the girlfriend.

Mushroom picking is probably the only other practical use for a Spyderco Civilian. The delicate blade, serrations and hawbill allow you to pull-cut the stems without tearing the mushroom apart.

P.S.
These are highly toxic in Australia! The 'Hippies' used to mistake the delirium of it's poison with a psychadelic 'trip'... but few of 'em did it a 2nd time!

Years ago I got poisoned by some susspect mushrooms. The colours, such beauty, the 1/2 out of body world view, I susspected that would happen.
Don't do this at home children. Some went away too many times & never completely came home again.
O.

I think it would be really fun to get a guide and go hunting for them, as I love any excuse to be in the woods, but I'm not sure I'd trust myself to actually eat the ones I harvested...

here is what we found this weekend,
lots of morels!, and some other stuff.
the morels are amazing, i'v never had them before.




happy hunting to all