Northern Boy
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The tastiest edible mushroom?I discovered, with some shock, that a fellow forager preferred boletes to chanterelles. Further research revealed he was not alone in holding this opinion. A ludicrous opinion in my, er, opinion.
Further still, I discovered others who put neither Ceps or Chanterelles at the top of their list.
I thought a poll was in order. Which is the tastiest. Imagine it's your last meal on earth; which would you pick?
If I've missed your favourite, I can always add it.
(Sorry if this has been done before; I couldn't find it!)
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dpack
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before i vote is this desert island disc rules for only one ?
what happened to velvet shanks ?
from that list blewits in good butter
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Penny Outskirts
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The only ones I've actually eaten are chantrelles and giant puffballs and I loved them both
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kyoto
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ooh parasols surely! I like the fact that they retain their texture and do not change colour on cooking.
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mochyn
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Parasols here, followed by cauliflower fungus.
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Went
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Yay for Parasol Shrooms....but I would say that given our local supply.
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Cathryn
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Have you all got recipes for parasols? I tend to use them dried when they give a good strong flavour to dishes.
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jamanda
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This may sound heretic, but I'm not mad keen on parasols just cooked in butter. I don't like the texture. I do like them dried in things though.
Just on their own, of the ones I've tried on that list, I like chantarelles. But I like plain old field mushrooms and horse mushrooms very much too.
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Blue Sky
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What happened to Tescos film-wrapped? Oh, ok.
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Cathryn
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| Jamanda wrote: | This may sound heretic, but I'm not mad keen on parasols just cooked in butter. I don't like the texture. I do like them dried in things though.
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I don't either, just too leathery which is why I was wondering about other recipes.
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Stewy
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No Field or Horse mushrooms?
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bubble
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| Cathryn wrote: | | Jamanda wrote: | This may sound heretic, but I'm not mad keen on parasols just cooked in butter. I don't like the texture. I do like them dried in things though.
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I don't either, just too leathery which is why I was wondering about other recipes. |
break cup into small triangles dip into seasoned beaten egg and deep fry for about 1-1 1/2 minutes until crispy-delicious; or go the whole way dip into milk , flour, egg ,breadcrumbs and deep fry ;you'll know they are yummy by how quickly they disappear!!! 
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Northern Boy
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So, errr, turns out I can't edit the poll. At least I can't work out how to!
I had no idea parasols were so popular. I've never bothered with them as I always forage in the woods. Will have to change that!
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jamanda
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| Northern Boy wrote: | So, errr, turns out I can't edit the poll. At least I can't work out how to!
I had no idea parasols were so popular. I've never bothered with them as I always forage in the woods. Will have to change that! |
I can edit the poll. Would you like me to add in field and horse mushrooms?
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Northern Boy
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| Jamanda wrote: | | Northern Boy wrote: | So, errr, turns out I can't edit the poll. At least I can't work out how to!
I had no idea parasols were so popular. I've never bothered with them as I always forage in the woods. Will have to change that! |
I can edit the poll. Would you like me to add in field and horse mushrooms? |
Sure! I think I saw a call for velvet shanks in there as well.
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Geoff
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Re: The tastiest edible mushroom? | Northern Boy wrote: | | I discovered, with some shock, that a fellow forager preferred boletes to chanterelles. |
Chanterelles are overrated. People get told they are amazing, so when they taste them they think they are amazing. In reality they don't taste of very much at all. Shop mushrooms are tastier. Seriously.
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Geoff
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| Northern Boy wrote: | So, errr, turns out I can't edit the poll. At least I can't work out how to!
I had no idea parasols were so popular. I've never bothered with them as I always forage in the woods. Will have to change that! |
I voted for parasols. I found several hundred earlier this week.
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Rowanlady
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I love Boletus edulis - which I've always known as Penny Buns
This year I've been enjoying shaggy ink cap - never seen so many
I even picked some going over and tried making ink from them - that was a disaster! 
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Shan
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Shaggy ink caps followed by wood blewits.
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bubble
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I've taken part and voted morels,but I've tasted all those mushrooms .Surely is'nt it aninaccurate result if everybody has'nt tried all those varieties of mushrooms.How is it possible to make a subjective choice otherwise???
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Northern Boy
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| bubble wrote: | | I've taken part and voted morels,but I've tasted all tose mushrooms .Surely is'nt it an unfair result if everybody has'nt tried all those varieties of mushrooms.How is it possible to make a subjective choice otherwise??? |
That is indeed a limitation and could be extended further; you would have to have tasted every edible mushroom, cooked in multiple ways, in order to say which is truly your favourite. However I thought entering a 3000-option poll as one of my first posts would not make me popular. 
| Geoff wrote: |
Chanterelles are overrated. People get told they are amazing, so when they taste them they think they are amazing. In reality they don't taste of very much at all. Shop mushrooms are tastier. Seriously. |
I disagree, absolutely and completely! All other wild mushrooms I've eaten taste, to me, like "good" mushrooms. Chanterelles taste like something else (and better) entirely. Maybe you're not cooking them right!
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bubble
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you have'nt made an enemy with me northen boy,what you did is good to keep the forum active;it's just my own opinion, it's not to the exclusion of others.
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Geoff
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| Northern Boy wrote: | | bubble wrote: | | I've taken part and voted morels,but I've tasted all tose mushrooms .Surely is'nt it an unfair result if everybody has'nt tried all those varieties of mushrooms.How is it possible to make a subjective choice otherwise??? |
That is indeed a limitation and could be extended further; you would have to have tasted every edible mushroom, cooked in multiple ways, in order to say which is truly your favourite. However I thought entering a 3000-option poll as one of my first posts would not make me popular.
| Geoff wrote: |
Chanterelles are overrated. People get told they are amazing, so when they taste them they think they are amazing. In reality they don't taste of very much at all. Shop mushrooms are tastier. Seriously. |
I disagree, absolutely and completely! All other wild mushrooms I've eaten taste, to me, like "good" mushrooms. Chanterelles taste like something else (and better) entirely. Maybe you're not cooking them right! |
Maybe. And maybe I just don't buy into the hype...
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tahir
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| Geoff wrote: | | Maybe. And maybe I just don't buy into the hype... |
Or maybe you've just got different tastes? My favourite beef is a well cooked bit of shin, for the missus it's almost raw fillet.
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jamanda
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| Northern Boy wrote: | | Jamanda wrote: | | Northern Boy wrote: | So, errr, turns out I can't edit the poll. At least I can't work out how to!
I had no idea parasols were so popular. I've never bothered with them as I always forage in the woods. Will have to change that! |
I can edit the poll. Would you like me to add in field and horse mushrooms? |
Sure! I think I saw a call for velvet shanks in there as well. |
Done. And voted now - for plain old field mushrooms. Chantarelles would probably be second. (But I haven't had all of them)
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Jenna
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Have never found a 'wild' chanterelle. So I purchased some from our pal Mr T*sco to see what all the fuss was about. They were OK, but I won't rush to buy any more
Like shaggy ink cap (far and away the most common 'find' here) and puffball (so have voted for that), have had a go of about a third of the others, and have never come across/can't reliably identify the rest!
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Geoff
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| tahir wrote: | | Geoff wrote: | | Maybe. And maybe I just don't buy into the hype... |
Or maybe you've just got different tastes? My favourite beef is a well cooked bit of shin, for the missus it's almost raw fillet. |
Maybe.
Although I would not stretch "different tastes" as far as people expecting me to believe that their choice of tastiest wild mushroom is a velvet shank. They'll do in the middle of winter when there's nothing else to be found, but tastiest wild mushroom? This cannot be serious.
Geoff
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PeteS
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For me it's horn of plenty and it's not even listed. Chanterelles are good too but I think that winter chanterelles are better.
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Treacodactyl
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| Geoff wrote: | | This cannot be serious. |
This is Downsizer.
Actually, I voted for chanterelles because the last time I picked some I remembered thinking how tasty they were and being a bit disappointed by the ceps I had. I bet fungi taste different depending on growing conditions such as how much rain they've had?
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bubble
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| Treacodactyl wrote: | | Geoff wrote: | | This cannot be serious. |
This is Downsizer.
Actually, I voted for chanterelles because the last time I picked some I remembered thinking how tasty they were and being a bit disappointed by the ceps I had. I bet fungi taste different depending on growing conditions such as how much rain they've had? |
you''ll also find that ceps early in the season[like this year mid-august] taste a lot better than at the end of the flush,chanterelles the same.
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PeteS
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Rain makes a big difference. Soaking wet mushrooms, whatever they maybe, are not nice. Size is a factor too. Yesterday I had a mixed mushroom side dish of chanterelles, horns, winter chanterelles, ceps, hedgehog fungus, and bay boletes. The best tasting out of the lot were the bay boletes. They were small, dry, button sized and I had them whole or cut in half. They tasted much better than anything else including the sliced ceps.
How you cook, or not cook, is important too. Beefsteak fungus is very underrated. If cooked I find it horrible, well so horrible that I can't eat it. However, raw (or almost raw) I find it excellent. If you slice it VERY thin and just warm it through with some warm olive oil, then serve it with game it's excellent - the sour note goes great with something like venison. Beafsteak fungus does not taste anything like a mushroom, more like a fruit, and if you treat it like other wild mushrooms you'll be disappointed.
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Geoff
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| PeteS wrote: | Rain makes a big difference. Soaking wet mushrooms, whatever they maybe, are not nice. Size is a factor too. Yesterday I had a mixed mushroom side dish of chanterelles, horns, winter chanterelles, ceps, hedgehog fungus, and bay boletes. The best tasting out of the lot were the bay boletes. They were small, dry, button sized and I had them whole or cut in half. They tasted much better than anything else including the sliced ceps.
How you cook, or not cook, is important too. Beefsteak fungus is very underrated. If cooked I find it horrible, well so horrible that I can't eat it. However, raw (or almost raw) I find it excellent. If you slice it VERY thin and just warm it through with some warm olive oil, then serve it with game it's excellent - the sour note goes great with something like venison. Beafsteak fungus does not taste anything like a mushroom, more like a fruit, and if you treat it like other wild mushrooms you'll be disappointed. |
Thanks for that. I have previously been disappointed...
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