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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Oct 27, 2014 - 02:49pm PT
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"I nibbled a bit"
This could drop you dead in your tracks with some plants and fungi. The Aminitas, Death Cap and Death Angel, are deadly. Water Hemlock and Yew are very quickly lethal. The Yew berry is edible but don't crunch into the seeds or any other part of the plant.
A very good book is Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Oct 28, 2014 - 06:53am PT
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whenever the bats eat that shite,
they hallucinate me.
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perswig
climber
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Oct 28, 2014 - 06:56am PT
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Where are the copycat threads?
Virologists of ST
Mixologists of ST
Gynec...
Um.........nevermind.
Dale
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thebravecowboy
climber
walking, resin-stained, towards the goal
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 1, 2014 - 07:56pm PT
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Just kidding folks, I didn't eat that random redcap last week, the one unfurling from 'neath the Ponderosa needles.
I saved it, and instead sauteed it with garlic, for minestrone.
I had a big bowl of minestrone today before I ran up and down the mountain. I cut 29 minutes off my time!
Oh yeah, I got the sh#t bit out of my leg by a tree branch in the rush up to the slabs. That continues to suck, actually.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Jun 12, 2015 - 11:20am PT
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Innoculated wood chips about a year ago and finally seeing some real action!
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jun 12, 2015 - 12:37pm PT
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There are OLD mushroom hunters,
and there are BOLD mushroom hunters,
but there are no OLD, BOLD mushroom hunters.
I've been involved in only one mushroom poisoning case. I was staffing the ER at Lake Elsinore, and the ambulance brought in this middle aged hispanic lady. The story was that her family had gone out mushroom picking, and she had cooked up a nice dish with them, then she started vomiting uncontrollably, and came to me. Pumped her stomach, had a hell of a time managing her blood pressure (through the roof, then plummeted). Took hours to get her relatively stable and to the ICU. I think it took her 2 days to die, of massive liver failure.
I'd just gotten her stabilized, when the question occurred to me: Where was the rest of her family? Sent the cops/EMS out to her address, where they found everybody unconscious. It was a long night. I think they all died, children too.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 11, 2015 - 06:57pm PT
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Oct 11, 2015 - 07:55pm PT
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I think they all died, children too.
I think I remember seeing a news article about that BITD
About what year was that?
Shroom poisoning cases may be rarer in So Cal versus farther north just because the climate is more hostile to fungi.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 16, 2017 - 06:41pm PT
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atchafalaya
Boulder climber
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Aug 16, 2017 - 07:40pm PT
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Boletus edulis going off all over Lyell fork last week. The summer thunderstorms really help.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 16, 2017 - 07:49pm PT
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 16, 2017 - 08:30pm PT
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I was kinda on top of it back in my 20's, morels, oyster mushrooms, & boletes. Simple rules to follow if you learned them;
Big boletes in the Wind River Range, 1970. Raw, they tasted like cheese, kinda.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 16, 2017 - 08:39pm PT
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I hate to roach your buzz Ray but those Boletes are way past their prime. You should get them before they open up like that, Unless you want some protein from the maggots. The flavor profile is quite different. When they get that big it is good to slice and dry them and use them in soups and sauces. Yum.
Edit- now that I look at that last pic some more I see a couple of choice buttons there. I would cook those fresh in a heart beat.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 16, 2017 - 08:56pm PT
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Wayno! The Bolete rules were:
Avoid red, orange, or pink boletes.
then:
1. Cut them off the stalk & wait a minute to see if the flesh turned greenish or blueish. If that happened, they were discarded as maybe poisonous, but certainly not good.
2. Look for worm holes, & cut up to reveal the worms or beetles.
3. Eat the rest.
I know those Wind River boletes should have been full of bugs, but they were not.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Aug 18, 2017 - 11:21am PT
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Another first time species eating for me. Dinner & breakfast. Bit woody at the inside edge.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Aug 18, 2017 - 03:09pm PT
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Comes with toothpick.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Aug 18, 2017 - 09:38pm PT
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I usually just trim off the soft outer edges of Laetiporous (chicken of the woods). Only delicious when very soft and moist.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Aug 19, 2017 - 11:38am PT
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My mother was a distinguished mycologist, having earned her PhD at Cornell under the mentor-ship of the late Dr. Richard Korf. She specialized in the classification of Pezizales, a type of cup fungus's.
She flatly refused to eat any mushroom in the wild. Being one of the very best people out there at identifying fungus's and mushrooms, she said there are variables (growth medium for one) and that if you make a habit out eating wild mushrooms, sooner or later... She also said that some apparently benign mushrooms have low levels of unusual toxins which, if eaten occasionally are harmless but if you eat the regularly they can damage your liver and/or other organs.
Fortunately she never got wind of the mushrooms I liked to eat, best taken with oranges.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Aug 23, 2017 - 10:33am PT
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These grew in the front yard a few days ago.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Aug 23, 2017 - 10:46am PT
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This story is about what happened to my dad several years ago, and we almost lost him. I'm skeptical about eating anything wild, especially after that happened.
Eating a mushroom almost turned deadly for a Nipomo man
March 10, 2010 - newtimesslo.com
A local man is lucky to be alive after eating what turned out to be a toxic mushroom. In recent history, two people on the Central Coast have had this kind of mushroom poisoning. Last year, a man died in Santa Barbara. This time, a Nipomo man went through the same thing but survived. A clinical drug and the quick thinking of a local doctor saved his life.
The mushroom is referred to as "the death angel." Lee Sorenson is now recovering, but eating that poisonous mushroom almost took his life. Fortunately, he got the care he needed quick at Arroyo Grande Community Hospital. "They saved my life really. They saved my life," Sorenson said. He attributes his wellness to one physician in particular, Dr. Tammie Arnold.
Now both have found humor in the situation. Dr. Arnold bought Sorenson a cake in the shape of an edible mushroom. "I was trying to be somewhat creative and I wanted to reward him with a mushroom that he can eat," Arnold said.
Humor aside, Dr. Arnold had to work fast to get a trial drug to save Sorenson. "It was disheartening to me when he came in because I was presented with a person who was basically coming into the hospital to die and I'm a person who loves a challenge," Dr. Arnold said. She decided to try a trial drug from Europe that hasn't been approved to be used in the U.S by the Federal Drug Administration. "Early treatment will save their life. But delayed treatment could be fatal," Dr. Arnold added. Sorenson is only the sixth person in the United States to be given the trial that saved his life.
Sorenson plans to stay away from eating wild mushrooms. "I think I'll be slow to eat another one and it'll be one that I've bought from a grocery store," Sorenson said. Sorenson warns the public to be careful. There are about 100 poisonous mushrooms, of which 10 are deadly. Treatment has to take place immediately after eating a toxic mushroom. A patient usually only has about six days before it turns dangerous or possibly fatal.
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