Is it possible to dry wormy mushrooms? What to do if the mushroom turns out to be wormy? Is it possible to eat wormy mushrooms?

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Fresh mushrooms, collected in the forest or purchased at the market, need to be quickly prepared for culinary processing. Only then will they retain their taste and be elastic and aromatic.

Dishes made from properly peeled and chopped mushrooms turn out beautiful and appetizing.

The main rule is that cleaning mushrooms cannot be put off for too long. Cut mushrooms in a warm room deteriorate and quickly become flabby. They easily lose their unique forest spirit. After a trip to the forest, you need to get down to business as soon as possible.

If this is not possible, you can store your prey until the morning in the refrigerator or other cool place, for example, in a cellar.

What tool should I use to quickly clean?

To do this you will need a small sharp knife. The thin tip is convenient for removing damaged areas and cleaning out debris. A sharp blade will cut fragile flesh easily and will not crumble it.

A damp cloth or paper towels are useful for wiping off dried-on dirt.

Mushroom juice contains substances that turn your fingertips black. Use gloves to protect your hands while working.

Prepare an empty container for clean mushrooms and water for washing.

Is it necessary to wash?

When washed, mushrooms absorb a lot of moisture and lose their taste. Therefore, it is better to limit yourself to dry cleaning where possible. Mushrooms that you are going to dry for the winter should not be wet under any circumstances; they can only be wiped with a damp cloth. Before frying, it is also better to do without washing, but if necessary, you can quickly rinse with water.

• cooking;
• pickling;
• marinating.

Mushrooms for pickling, which have a bitter taste, are soaked in water for one or two days. cold water, regularly replacing it with a fresh one.

Preliminary processing

The first stage of cleaning takes place in the forest. Large debris is removed from the found mushroom: twigs, leaves, pine needles. The root is cleaned with a knife from soil and sand or simply cut off to check for worms inside.

Under no circumstances should you take unfamiliar varieties. Even alone inedible mushroom in the basket can lead to poisoning.

Also leave very wormy, moldy and very old specimens in the forest. They will spoil the taste of food and can be harmful to health.

Mushrooms purchased in a store or market have already undergone primary purification. Only small debris or traces of soil remain on them. At home, such mushrooms should be sorted again, damaged areas should be trimmed and, if necessary, washed. After this, you can cook and eat them.

White

Porcini mushrooms are not only the most delicious, they are also easy to clean. They usually grow in light, dry places or in moss. For these noble beauties, the soil is only cut around the circumference of the root. It is enough to wipe the hat or fan it with a brush. Carefully cut off areas damaged by forest inhabitants.

White ones, which are only slightly affected by worms, can be used for harvesting for the winter. During the drying process, the worms do not eat the mushroom from the inside, but crawl out.

boletus

Boletus mushrooms are often wormy; to check, the tip of their stem is immediately cut off. For large specimens, for the same purpose, the cap is separated and cut in half. There may be worms at the bottom of the cap, even if the rest of the mushroom is not affected by them. Then the spongy layer is completely removed. The leg is cleaned with a knife, removing upper layer peel, although some mushroom pickers believe that this is not necessary.

Older boletuses have legs that become hard and fibrous. In cooking, it is better not to use such parts at all.

The video shows how to properly clean boletus mushrooms.

Boletus

Boletus mushrooms are processed in the same way as boletus mushrooms. The top layer is scraped off the stem. There is no need to remove the skin from the cap; just wipe off the dirt with a cloth. The spongy bottom of the cap should be checked for the presence of worms and fungus gnat larvae. Boletuses are distinguished by the fact that they turn blue and then turn black when cut. To prevent this from happening, it is recommended to immediately throw the pieces into water after cutting.

Cute mushrooms growing large families, and it’s not easy to cope with a whole mountain of butter. Difficulties arise due to the slippery film that covers the heads of the oil.

When cooked, it becomes rough and slightly bitter. Hats must be cleaned. To prevent the film from sticking to your hands, the butter is dried. Another folk way- pour boiling water over them.

You can lubricate your hands with oil or wear gloves, otherwise the sticky skin will darken your fingertips.

Otherwise, young butterflies only have their legs trimmed. In older ones, you can lightly scrape the stem and remove the remnants of the collar under the cap.

Chanterelles

Red aromatic fungi are remarkable because they contain a substance that repels worms. They do not need to be peeled or any parts separated. For cleaning, only cut off the lower third of the stem with traces of soil. Chanterelles have a rather bizarre shape. Earth or needles get stuck between the plates, which are not easy to remove.

Fortunately, chanterelles can be washed in large quantities water. To make them more elastic and not break, they are doused with boiling water. This simplifies subsequent processing.

For large champignons, remove the skin from the caps. This is done by simply moving the knife, from the edge to the center. You can leave the top layer on the caps of young mushrooms. If the legs of the champignons are too harsh, cut them shorter or remove them completely. The collar is edible and does not need to be peeled off.

When washed, champignons absorb water strongly and lose their taste. Try to do it dry and shake off all the debris with a cloth.

If that doesn’t work, you can quickly rinse and drain the champignons in a colander.

Oyster mushrooms

Oyster mushrooms are very convenient to clean. They grow on tree trunks, so grass and needles practically do not stick to them. These mushrooms are good only when they are young; when sorting, old specimens are immediately removed and put aside. Select for food those whose cap is no more than 10 cm. Cut off the bottom of the stem, damaged edges and dried places on the fruiting body. It is convenient to wash oyster mushrooms in a sieve under running water, but you can also soak them in a basin.

Honey mushrooms

Honey mushrooms with long thin legs grow on stumps and practically do not get dirty. You just need to collect leaves and needles from them and trim the tips of the legs. If the lower part of the leg is too harsh, it is also cut off. The skin is not removed from the cap. However, rotten and darkened areas must be removed.

It is believed that saffron milk caps are the cleanest mushrooms, but they still need to be processed. Sticky blades of grass, twigs and needles are cleaned off with a brush or knife.

Saffron milk caps are often found on sandy soils, sand sticks to the roots and on the underside of the caps. It can be easily washed off along with other foreign particles by briefly soaking the saffron milk caps in a basin. When collecting in the forest, they are not pulled out of the ground by the roots, but immediately cut off with a knife. If you brought them home whole, then the roots will have to be cut off.

Milk mushrooms

The milk mushrooms are first simply washed and cleared of sand and other debris. They are then soaked in cold water for three days to remove the bitter taste. The water needs to be changed several times a day. Place the container with mushrooms in a cool place so that they do not sour. Using a brush, knife or hard sponge, scrape the soaked milk mushrooms until white. Then the damaged areas are finally washed and removed.

First of all, the raincoats are washed, carefully rubbing off the dirt with your fingertips. The outer layer, similar to a soft shell, is separated from the pulp. U large mushrooms This skin can be easily removed with a knife. For control, spherical fruiting bodies are cut in half. If the flesh is white and elastic, it can be eaten.

Raincoats with a yellowish center should be thrown away. They are either old or damaged. Puffballs are not poisonous, but a mushroom with a bad taste will ruin the dish.

After dry cleaning, mushrooms can be stored in the refrigerator for a short time, but after washing, they must be cooked immediately. For soup, solyanka or preparations (except for drying), you can boil them for future use with a small amount of salt and then use them for several days.

To ensure that the culinary masterpiece subsequently looks beautiful, the mushrooms are carefully cut into pieces of equal size. The fibrous stems are cut crosswise, and the caps into triangular segments. Small mushrooms can be eaten whole; they look especially beautiful in jars with marinade. The goal of careful and proper processing is to preserve the valuable qualities of mushrooms in order to fully reveal them when preparing delicious dishes.

Mushrooms are useful product, rich in microelements and vitamins. However, mushrooms often contain worms that eat the mushroom, carrying the spores into the ground, thus spreading the mycelium.

When eating mushrooms, you should be aware of the dangers this product poses to human health, given the high prevalence of worms.

Worms are insect larvae that hatch from eggs laid by fungus gnats and flies. Mushrooms may contain worms larger size, they are called wireworms, they are the larvae of click beetles. Most insects become active in dry and sunny weather, so most often wormy mushrooms occur precisely during such periods.

Most people believe that mushroom worms are not dangerous to humans. The idea that a worm will not eat a bad mushroom is true to a certain extent. There are quite a few mushrooms in the forest that are not damaged, therefore, products that are half or less damaged by insects are most often collected and eaten by people. When it comes to industrial preparations, wormy mushrooms are preliminarily subjected to special treatment.

Is there a danger of poisoning from mushrooms with worms?

Additional treatment is also used:

1. Sorbents: Enterosgel, Activated carbon. Medicines remove toxic waste products of worms that are in the body,
2. Symptomatic remedies: painkillers and antiallergics. Necessary to eliminate associated symptoms,
3. The use of probiotics is indicated to restore intestinal microflora.

These drugs are well tolerated by people of any age. They are also recommended for preventive purposes. Lactation and pregnancy are special indications for therapy exclusively under medical supervision.

Attention should be paid to eliminating the possibility of re-infection. In the human body, worms and eggs that are present will constantly come out, so underwear and bed linen must be constantly changed.

Currently, medicine offers some belekarsten methods of treatment, for example, therapy based on bioresonance vibrations of organisms.

Preventive measures

The white ones have been in the refrigerator since Sunday, unprocessed)) I took them out now, and there were white worms in them.. brrr..

1. Lots, lots, lots of meat in mushroom sauce. To rid mushrooms of worms, you need to soak them (mushrooms) in salt water. The worms will come out and float to the surface. They will leave the mushrooms.
2. There will be mushrooms with meat.

No one has died yet.

3. nothing means edible
4. Place in salted water, but in general mushrooms are a delicate product. they need to be processed immediately.
5. You'll probably get poisoned. But it can also be like in fruits - wormy means good, tasty)))))
6. You should be afraid of worms, not which you eat, but which will eat you :)))))))))
7. Nothing will happen...)))

They sell no better in stores!

Pavel Sokolovsky: notes for mushroom pickers, part 3

How to take mushrooms correctly: cut or twist?
This is a sore point. There are mushroom pickers here, so many opinions. Here's what the doctor writes about this: biological sciences L.V. Garibova: “Mushroom pickers are often concerned with the question: how to properly collect mushrooms - cut or twist? The answer is simple: mushrooms should be collected, whichever is more convenient. Tubular mushrooms are easier to twist, they have a dense stem, and lamellar mushrooms should be cut off, since their stem is hollow it is very fragile and will crumble if you try to unscrew it. The main thing is not to dig it out forest floor so as not to damage the delicate thin mycelium located in it. The hole formed after the mushroom has been removed should be covered with earth or bedding. With such precautions, the mycelium in this place will bear fruit repeatedly."
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What to do if the mushroom turns out to be wormy?
If, after cutting a mushroom, you see that it is wormy, you can proceed in three ways.
Firstly, you don’t have to take it at all. In this case, leaving the mushroom on the ground, and even turning the cap upside down, as is sometimes done, is not worth it. Experienced mushroom pickers advise placing the cap of a wormy mushroom on spruce branch, or prick it dry, “spores down.” At the same time, the cap does not rot, but dries, ripens and spreads dust over a large area (you'll see that several new foci of mycelium will appear). In addition, the mushroom dries and in winter, at the most hungry time, it may please some hare, squirrel or bird. Your work is 5 seconds, but the benefits are great. If each mushroom picker gets at least 20-30 “pricks” per trip, then there will be more and more mushrooms.
Secondly, you can cut it into two halves along the entire length from the top of the cap to the end of the stem and see if the entire mushroom has become wormy. If it turns out that the cap is clean, you can cut off the stem and take only two halves of the cap.
Thirdly, you can take the whole wormy mushroom if it is not completely flabby and old. At home, you need to cut it and put it in highly salted water for several hours (1-2 tablespoons of salt per medium-sized pan). After such a “bath”, all the larvae will crawl out of the mushroom. Then the salt water should be drained and the mushrooms should be washed thoroughly. The disadvantage of this method is that although the larvae crawl out, their waste products may remain in the mushroom.
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How to “reliably” distinguish poisonous mushroom from poisonous?
There is only one correct way - to examine the mushroom and determine its type by characteristic features. There are no other reliable methods. However, to reduce risks, it is advisable to remember the following tips:
1. Never collect or eat those mushrooms that have a tuberous thickening at the base of the stem, surrounded by a shell (pale toadstool, fly agaric). Attention: collect mushrooms only with a whole stem, so as not to lose sight of this important sign!
2. Never taste mushrooms or lick them. So you still won’t be able to determine anything, and poison (even in microscopic doses) can cause significant harm to the body.
3. If you have even the slightest doubt about the “edibility” of a mushroom, it is better to throw it away.
4. Try not to pick mushrooms after a long period and hot weather - during drought they lose water, their metabolism changes, which leads to the formation of unpleasant toxins even in noble mushrooms.
5. Do not collect old, spoiled, rotten, soft, overripe mushrooms. The balance of substances in them is disturbed.
6. Don’t trust drawn pictures of mushrooms in books - as a rule, they are far from reality.
(See also the question about external toxins and radiation below.)
There are very dangerous, but, unfortunately, deeply rooted misconceptions about supposedly “reliable” methods of identifying poisonous mushrooms. You need to know them, never use them, and warn your friends and neighbors about the danger.
Attention: the methods below are dangerous to life! They must not be used under any circumstances!
Misconception 1. “Poisonous mushrooms can be identified using a silver spoon or onion.”
Grief experts say that if you put in a saucepan with soaked silver spoon, then, if there are poisonous mushrooms, the spoon will turn black, and if you put an onion, it will turn brown. This is wrong. This testing method is similar to checking a gas leak with a burning match - it works until the first (and last) explosion.
Misconception 2. “Insects do not eat poisonous mushrooms”
Allegedly, if a mushroom is thoroughly gnawed by a snail, this indicates its suitability for food. This is wrong. The human body is very different from the insect body, and what is suitable for snail food can be deadly for humans.
Misconception 3. “Poisonous mushrooms become edible after salting or pickling.”
This is completely untrue. Pale toadstool can send you to the next world both in salted and pickled form.
Misconception 4. “The poison from mushrooms can be removed by boiling them for several hours.”
This is a dangerous mistake. The poisons of most mushrooms are heat-resistant and it is impossible to turn a toadstool into a honey fungus by boiling.
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Wormy white mushroom

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It also happens: you see a beautiful White mushroom, you will get it out of the earth, and its beauty and taste qualities our competitors have already appreciated the worms. It's a shame, the mushroom is young and strong and has already been completely eaten away. In such cases, I unscrew the stem and (if the cap is not very touched by worms) I take the mushroom. For drying, it’s even okay. The photo shows the side of the mushroom stalk eaten away by worms.

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Rpu6o4ku: why don't most people eat wormy mushrooms?

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  Ducky

  ")">1- 08.06.2012 - 11:05

  It all depends on how wormy the mushroom is. If the old one is wormy, then definitely throw it away. But if they are strong, then it’s not worth it. I cut them up and let them dry, the worms fall out on their own and I get beautiful dried mushrooms. In warm weather, mushrooms are often worm-eaten. So there may not be any protein at all.)

  ")">2- 08.06.2012 - 11:40

  1-Ducky >and so do we. Only for drying it is better to lay them out on some kind of hole-lattice surface. Most of the worms (uncut) will fall out. You can probably try the method - on the way back from Mezmay we collected some and put them in bags. It was hot in the car, and when I looked into the bag of mushrooms, all the worms had come out and were sticking out from the bottom of the cap, like cloves that were steamed in the bag. It would be very easy to remove them at this point. Aquarium fish love them very much. If they are mushrooms, it is very unpleasant when missed worms swim along with the mushrooms. Most can be eliminated by rinsing in a colander with large holes. So don't throw it away next time

  Dr_Nick_Riviera

  ")">3- 08.06.2012 - 12:17

  Thanks for answers.

  Yes, in principle, to hell with them and worms (I’m not squeamish).. can you get poisoned from such mushrooms (if you don’t dry them, or boil them)?

  Ducky

  ")">4- 08.06.2012 - 12:59

  2-opal >And I’m over the gas stove, drying, stringing. So they fall out on the stove, I then sweep them up and... throw them away, there are no fish.)

  3-Dr_Nick_Riviera >Yes, there seem to be no consequences. People joke “mushrooms with protein, delicious”) But I don’t really like floating ones. When frying, you really can’t see them :) But the very fact that I know that they are there stops me :))) So, only if I’m very hungry then I forget and eat.)

  Mitusov Evgeniy RZ6AVM

  ")">5- 08.06.2012 - 13:10

  Not the worms that we eat, but the ones that eat us!!!

  viktorovic

  ")">6- 08.06.2012 - 20:16

  5-Mitusov Evgeniy RZ6AVM > Don’t be too creepy, otherwise the question will follow: “Won’t mushroom worms eat someone from the inside...?”

  I think that everything depends on the degree of damage to the fungus by larvae, and on the method of processing. And depending on what kind of mushroom it is. I don’t need a wormy one at all, but if the white one is slightly touched by a wormhole, it will go for drying....

  ")">7- 09.06.2012 - 08:14

  3-Dr_Nick_Riviera >if the mushroom is not old and not eaten away like a sieve, it smells nice, then it’s okay. For me too, you’ll pick mushrooms, and even before you bring them home (the worms eat them with incredible speed, it seems like when I cut them, there was nothing, until I brought them in - some kind of bad thing, and the smell was spoiled). out of 10, one or two remain. You can cook it, not necessarily just for drying

  Panda

  ")">8- 09.06.2012 - 13:11

  Dip the mushrooms into salt water, after a while the worms will appear at the bottom of the basin.

  Mirror

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  ")">9- 10.06.2012 - 13:04

  Summary: of course it’s better without worms because... You can also be seriously poisoned by a wormy mushroom - the waste products of the worm. BUT(!!!) I, like everyone else, sometimes take wormy ones. There are only two rules for collection and processing:

  1 already said by Irisha Opal: smell. If a wormy mushroom smells good, it means it hasn’t gone bad yet. You can take it. At home you will still have to smell it to see if it has spoiled on the road.

  2 already said by Panda. If the mushroom is not to be dried, it is filled with very salty water. All the worms run away :) Then you can fry, boil, preserve: there are no worms in such mushrooms anymore :)

  Pekubo

  ")">10- 10.06.2012 - 21:46

  8-Panda > Thanks for the advice, today I filled the entire catch with salt water, it really helped!)) The mushrooms are almost clean, but there were some larvae, they all settled in the basin.

  ")">11- 25.08.2012 - 15:38

  I adopted salt water. But drying mushrooms without preliminary heat treatment is a risky thing. After the mushrooms have turned to dust several times without having time to dry, I preheat them until boiling bubbles appear in the oven.

  ")">12- 27.08.2012 - 12:56

  11-Remake >they dried out for me literally within a day under a fan directed strictly at them (which I did not turn off)

  Mirror

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  ")">13- 27.08.2012 - 16:32

  If wormy mushrooms are dried, then they will still spoil, no matter how quickly and at what temperature they are dried: in winter, larvae come to life in them and midges hatch. I have lost so many dry preparations, now I don’t risk drying the wormy ones. It’s better to freeze such mushrooms.

  ")">14- 27.08.2012 - 22:13

  Wormy mushrooms should not be consumed, because it does not contain protein worms, which the natives eat on both cheeks, but more toxins, their waste products (toilet, etc.), so you decide what to eat - a house for worms or mushrooms.

  Ducky

  ")">15- 29.08.2012 - 09:53

  Yesterday everything disappeared again.

  It’s not worth eating heavily wormy ones, that’s one hundred percent.

  But since there are few pure mushrooms in the summer, it is natural that slightly wormy mushrooms are taken by almost all mushroom pickers.

  May the mushroom gurus forgive me, but when hot dried in mushrooms, the larvae will not be able to come to life, they will bake.

  I only freeze mushrooms that are not wormy, I don’t like to eat with worms, and then salty water will not help. And the slightly wormy ones go to drying. The worms all fall out. BUT I dry it with hot air, over a gas stove and in an electric dryer. During the time I dried the mushrooms, they never rotted and there were no insects of any kind. Dried mushrooms I store it in glass jars, closed with a nylon lid. They are stored for two years. Once I had a 1.5 liter jar sitting there for three years and forgot about it. Everything is fine, no rotten parts and no insects.

  Panda

  ")">16- 29.08.2012 - 18:20

  15-Ducky. I agree, the larvae are unlikely to come to life, then the moth will start if it is not in a jar.

  Wormy mushrooms. To eat or not to eat - that is the question...

  We are not the only ones who appreciate mushrooms. Every creature loves them, both running, flying and crawling. And living in the mushroom itself. Today we’ll talk about them, who take away our spoils. Insects, by the way, benefit mushrooms more than people - worms eat the mushroom and carry the spores into the ground, thereby helping the mycelium spread.

  But what to do with wormy mushrooms? Throwing it away is a pity, leaving it is scary, in case we get poisoned... Let's figure it out.

  Where do worms come from in mushrooms?

  Worms, that is, insect larvae, hatch from eggs laid different types flies and fungus gnats. Some live in an apple, some in a raspberry, and some mushrooms I like it better. Thicker and tougher worms are found in mushrooms - wireworms (larvae of click beetles). Insects prefer to fly when it is dry and sunny, so the likelihood of encountering a wormy mushroom is higher in good weather.

  Is it possible to get poisoned by wormy mushrooms?

  Yes, if this mushroom is poisonous. There is a myth that worms do not grow in poisonous mushrooms. This is a dangerous misconception. Very and completely safe chanterelles and hedgehogs are not wormy. On the other hand, pigs easily worm, which cannot be eaten without boiling.

  Themselves worms do not make the mushroom poisonous. Speculation that one can be poisoned by “worm waste products” has no basis. Do you know what propolis is? — That’s right, also a product of the vital activity of an insect (bee).

  What to do with wormy mushrooms

  Three options for your choice:

  1. Leave the mushroom for the worms to finish eating. At least let them be happy. This is what I do with heavily wormy, already rotten mushrooms. You can throw their caps under the trees at the dacha, maybe a mycelium will start.
  2. Pretend we didn't notice them.
  3. Drive out of the mushroom. There are two ways to expel it: soak the coarsely chopped mushroom for 1-2 hours in salt water. Or dry the mushroom. As soon as the mushroom begins to wilt, the worms will fall out of it. Don’t forget to sweep the floor in time, otherwise you won’t scare someone...

  What not to do with wormy mushrooms

  Do not under any circumstances talk about what you saw at the table. inside mushroom. Suddenly, there are vegetarians next to you... Seriously, worms in mushrooms are invisible in appearance, and even less so in taste. Problems are possible with mushroom noodles or soup. A worm can emerge from the broth at the most inopportune moment - on the plate of a respected guest, for example. To avoid unpleasant surprises, it is better to filter the broth.

  And for dessert, I offer you an excerpt from Vladimir Soloukhin’s wonderful book “The Third Hunt,” which I read a lot as a child.

  You admire your find, but your soul is restless. He is beautiful, but he can be eaten by a worm. You cut it, and inside there is rot, or if not rot, then everything is filled with countless holes and tiny white worms. You will be in your last hope to cut off the white wheels from the root: maybe there are no worms closer to the cap. This is the last cut, close to the cap, but even here there are wormhole holes. All that remains is to cut the cap itself. You cut it and throw it on the ground. The prey, it turns out, is not yours. Even earlier, nasty forest flies found that mushroom and made it their prey, laying eggs, from which even more nasty forest worms now hatched.
  But when you cut the mushroom close to the ground and see that the root meat is as white and pure as sour cream or lard, then your heart will skip a beat for the second time. And it turns out that you found one mushroom, as it were, twice, and experienced double the joy of hunting from it.
  

  The second most important mushroom is nigella, or milk mushroom. This mushroom is not particularly suitable for frying, only as an additive, due to its pungent taste. But, soaked and salted, it is a rare delicacy with extraordinary deliciousness. This fungus is especially good with potatoes, and you can pour a glass with such a snack! Black milk mushrooms are collected in the fall - during this period the forest is especially magnificent - there is no summer stuffiness, the air is filled with the smell of flying leaves. behind black mushroom- pleasure. You just need to take a stick. Fruit bodies mushrooms are hidden under fallen leaves, often near the very trunk of birch trees (nigella has a symbiosis with birch); they are dark, earthy in color. It can be quite difficult to notice them. Main -

  take a closer look - and collect as much as you need for salting. And how pleasant this mushroom is to the touch - cool, with a rough cap, with reverse side covered with droplets of milky juice, tart smell.

  The third most important mushroom is boletus. It is good because it can be found in the forest from the end of May to November. It happens that you go into the forest, and it’s dry there, there’s no smell of mushrooms - and suddenly you come across a clearing with boletus mushrooms. You'll get some for frying, good! Boletus mushrooms can be frozen and dried; they are nutritious and well digestible due to their relatively low fiber content. Boletuses are found not only under birch trees - they are also found under aspens and oaks. The downside of boletus is that it is very often wormy. In autumn, boletus mushrooms are denser than in summer.

  Group of boletuses:

  

  

  Large photo: http://floralworld.ru/gallery/albums/userpics/10003/Podberezovik1.jpg

  You can often find beautiful huge slugs on boletus trees:

  

  Large photo: http://floralworld.ru/gallery/albums/userpics/10003/Podberezovik3.jpg

  About wormy mushrooms

  Hello, we went mushroom picking, I picked up a whole bag of all sorts of boletus, baby goats, boletus, I’m not a serious mushroom picker, I took what I know for sure is not poisonous.
  At home, my wife began to cut my mushrooms into pieces and threw out more than half, complaining that they were wormy, I almost killed her, honestly... are they really not wormy? and even if they are wormy, then why should the worms that fed on this mushroom be thrown away along with the mushroom?
  Explain what's wrong with wormy mushrooms? Apart from personal dislike, does this make mushrooms taste different?
  Thank you.

Is it possible to dry wormy mushrooms?

The question is cool and ridiculously attractive...) And since it was asked by an experienced, seasoned consultant, it may well turn out to be a rating question...) That’s why I’ll answer.

Of course, this question could sound something like this: “How to dry wormy mushrooms so that they become suitable for eating?”, or like this: “Is it harmful to eat wormy mushrooms?” But still, it’s better to leave the question as it is - in its original form...

Firstly. It’s clear that you can dry anything you like: mushrooms together with worms - and even worms from mushrooms separately. Especially if the eater is a kind of gourmet and his fermentation is adjusted in accordance with his gastronomic preferences. In this case, such a gourmet is not threatened with any unpleasant consequences, and dried wormy mushrooms are the most familiar delicacy for him...)

Secondly. Speaking seriously, it is quite possible to consider such life situation, when there is simply nothing to eat, and civilization is a long way from the dense forest. There is nothing around except abundance wormy mushrooms... Then you will have to use these mushrooms for food. Only with wormy mushrooms you will need to do some manipulations before hanging them to dry. You need to dissolve a good handful of coarse table salt in a pot of cold water and place the wormy mushrooms, cut in half, there for at least half an hour. Worms cannot tolerate salt and will quickly leave their feeder. And then you can dry the mushrooms in the shade in the breeze, and then cook them and eat them. Some worms will still remain in the mushrooms, but this is not dangerous to health. Besides, hunger, as you know, is not a problem...)

And thirdly. I am sure that today from the collection of Moscow region forest mushrooms It's better to refuse altogether. Even if they are intact and not at all affected by the worm. Over the past decades, myceliums have managed not only to incorporate the periodic table, but have also mutated significantly. Sometimes you can’t distinguish an ordinary white russula from a pale toadstool, which has lost its traditional skirt in the foliage. And a dangerous poisonous mushroom successfully passes itself off as a sturdy boletus. I suggest Muscovites focus their attention on greenhouse mushrooms (champignons, chanterelles or oyster mushrooms), there are now plenty of them on the capital’s shelves. And you can dry them as much as you want. I insist on my opinion as an amateur mushroom hunting with serious experience. I now refrain from picking mushrooms in the Moscow region. Ban on Forest mushrooms I set myself from that tragic moment when the insidious toadstool killed my close friend, and the famous Moscow professors could not help her. It was too late to save...

Is it possible to eat wormy mushrooms? This is not an idle question. Every lover of quiet hunting has to look for an answer to this from time to time. It just so happens in nature that the gifts of the forest are loved not only by people, but also by all kinds of insects and other unpleasant but voracious creatures. It’s a pity when they get ahead of us and manage to leave behind us. It's a shame to see holes in a strong boletus or boletus, pigweed or saffron milk cap. What to do? Is there really no escape from this scourge, and will you have to throw away your find? Is it possible to remove all pests from mushrooms, is it possible to clean them? Let's try to find the answer to this question.

Why does a mushroom become wormy?

First, let's find out where worms come from and on what basis they choose their victims. Do they eat all mushrooms? Why do they spoil our fun? Worms are very unpleasant creatures. It is believed that they are especially voracious in rainy summers. In fact, this observation is not entirely correct. Wormy mushrooms can be in any weather. The degree of activity of these animals does not depend on air humidity and temperature.

Mushroom worms are the larvae of various flies and mosquitoes; under the cap they find shelter and food for themselves. But unlike people, the forest beauty itself does not suffer at all from the presence of worms in its pulp. On the contrary, these larvae perform a very significant role - they facilitate the transport of spores into the soil, which subsequently increases the amount of grown crop.

Processing such specimens only involves removing adhered leaves and blades of grass, washing and cooking - boiling or frying. These include cute little foxes. They are very tasty; some experts in quiet hunting and gourmets prefer to eat them only. Being very cute, they delight the eye both in the forest in a clearing and on a plate at the table. Chanterelle is a very popular mushroom.

Is it possible to save a wormy mushroom?

What to do if the mushroom is wormy, but it’s a pity to throw it away? Especially when he looks so strong and young. How joyful it is to meet a boletus, saffron milk cap, and boletus in a clearing! But often joy gives way to disappointment. It is very disappointing to see holes in the cut, indicating the presence of unpleasant guests. Of course, you don’t want to see worms in mushrooms. Is it possible to save your loot? Should you put your find in a basket and bring it home? Or is it better to throw it away immediately? It often happens that there are a lot of slightly damaged finds. Is it possible to eat them?

In general, you can eat them; the presence of worms in mushrooms does not make them poisonous. This has been tested by many years of experiments, confirmed scientific research. You cannot get poisoned by wormy mushrooms; they are quite edible, but not everyone will like it if a worm gets into their plate. This creates a difficult situation - it’s a pity to throw it away, and it’s impossible to offer it to guests. Over the course of several decades, especially compassionate lovers of forest gifts have experimentally found how to special effort you can get rid of the presence of anyone in the mushroom pulp. And after appropriate processing, they ate them with gusto. So, if the mushroom is not rotten, it makes sense to fight for it.

Processing mushrooms in this case involves the following steps. You need to cut them into large pieces, then soak them in cold, highly salted water and leave for 3-4 hours. It is assumed that the worms will begin to flee, the cause of which is the salt. This is, of course, an unpleasant sight, but the desired result will be achieved. In this way you can easily clean the mushroom from unpleasant creatures. All that remains is to rinse everything thoroughly after the time has elapsed. When the worms are removed from the mushrooms, forest beauties saved, you can send them to the kitchen and start preparing your favorite dishes that will decorate your table.

Another popular method is drying mushrooms. It is also very easy to clean them of worms this way. The sun will help you cope with them. They will leave their habitat on their own in a hurry during the drying process. Processing mushrooms from unpleasant creatures in this way is not difficult.

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So that everyone is happy

You can save wormy mushrooms. But to do this or not, everyone decides for themselves. Not everyone can calmly eat forest delicacies, bearing in mind that quite recently worms lived in them. For such capricious mushroom pickers, there is only one way out - to put only whole mushrooms in the basket without a hint that someone has had time to taste them.

Already cut worm finds can be hung on a twig. They will dry out and become a treat for some bird or animal. Some nature lovers do just that. In this way they do a good deed for the forest inhabitants. And for yourself and your loved ones, if you wish, you can always pick up clean, unbitten, worm-free mushrooms. There may not be so many of them, but it will be more pleasant to eat. You can pamper your guests with your favorite delicacies.

But we must not forget one thing important rule— you need to be very careful with mushrooms, this is a difficult food for the stomach; small children and people with poor health are not recommended to eat mushroom dishes. And you can collect forest gifts only in environmentally friendly places, away from roads. Then, even if they are a little wormy, they will not cause harm to health. Follow these simple requirements to silent hunt brought only joy and pleasure to you and your loved ones.

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Reviews and comments

(5 ratings, average: 4,60 out of 5)

Daniil 11/28/2017

No matter what anyone says, I won’t eat wormy mushrooms and never have, they’ll be thrown away straight away. This is really dangerous food, and if it is also eaten by worms, how the stomach will react to this will be a big surprise.