Best Ways to Cook and Eat Mushrooms

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Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Now that you know how to forage and grow your own mushrooms, let’s learn how to use them in the kitchen! Connect With Dr. Gordon Walker: Dr. Gordon Walker is originally from Cambridge, MA but came to California to attend UC Santa Cruz, where he got a B.S. in Biochemistry and spent his free time sailing, scuba diving, and home brewing. Inspired to study fermentation, Gordon came to UC Davis and joined Dr. Linda Bisson's laboratory to focus on the biochemistry, genetics, and ecology of yeast in wine. After graduating with his Ph.D. in 2016, Gordon worked two harvests at Opus One helping to pioneer the use of novel fermentation control technology. He then returned to UC Davis to do post-doctorate work with Dr. Ron Runnebaum focused on how site specificity and elemental composition can affect fermentation behavior. Since he was a kid, Gordon has harbored a deep fascination with all things fungi; inspired by puffballs, chicken of the woods, truffles, and the microbial mishmash that produces sour beers. While living in New Zealand after finishing his PhD, Gordon took on the new hobby of mushroom foraging and started documenting his finds on Instagram. Through his social media (@FascinatedByFungi) he has reached millions around the globe, sharing the amazing diversity of colors, form, and function in the fungi kingdom. He is a renowned science communicator, published academic author, and award-winning speaker. His goal is to teach the world about mushrooms; inspiring others to take an active role in protecting nature and building a more sustainable future. Instagram Facebook YouTube TikTok Pinterest Patreon Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's talk eating mushrooms, my friends. We've talked a lot about understanding them
0:16.1	and cultivating them at home as well as foraging for them. So by now you should have the
0:21.6	knowledge at least to acquire mushrooms. But cooking them and eating them is a different
0:26.5	story. Certainly for me I know my cooking skills aren't as good as my gardening skills
0:29.9	so Dr. Roon Walker is back on the show. How do you like to do it? I mean this is a big question.
0:35.4	I'm sure it depends on the type of mushroom but perhaps we could start with just like a primer on
0:40.6	how to properly cook them. Sure. I mean a lot of people are confused about why I hunt mushrooms
0:46.9	in the first place and I sort of tell them well I'm primarily food motivated and I want to cook
0:51.0	and eat mushrooms. And that's another big thing is a lot of people think that mushrooms can be
0:55.3	eaten raw and I would very much discourage you from eating raw mushrooms. It's much safer, it's
1:00.6	much better to cook mushrooms especially wild mushrooms. There's a handful of ones I'll consume
1:05.6	raw but for the most part I always want to cook my mushrooms. And it's sort of a standard method
1:09.9	for cooking pretty much all mushrooms I like to do and start with what's called a dry fry. So I
1:16.0	get my mushrooms and I clean them pretty well especially if they're wild forage mushrooms I will
1:19.8	usually wash them off. If they're mushrooms from the store I'll usually use a wet towel
1:25.0	to kind of towel them off. If they're completely clean like a lion's mane they've been grown on
1:29.0	wood is not that big a deal but for pretty much all mushrooms I do this dry fry step where I basically
1:33.7	put them in a hot pan, no oil or butter nothing in there and just put the mushrooms in and let the water
1:40.5	cook out. As mushrooms are like little sponges they're full of water and what you want to do is
1:46.2	squeeze all that water out before you add fat because if you add the fat to start that water will
1:51.4	never get squeezed out and you're going to end up with these kind of like slimy and sifted
1:55.2	mushrooms and a lot of people don't like the texture of mushrooms I think because they never
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