Even when mass declare they know nothing about mushroom , there ’s one they almost always postulate about in the next breath : “ Have you ever observe any chanterelles ? ”
A charming name , an ballock - egg yolk color , the fragrancy of salmon pink ( sometimes ) and a nip key out as savoury or nutty conspire to make chantarelle among the most sought - after wild mushrooms . forager in the Pacific Northwest ship 5 million pounding a year to Germany alone .
Chanterelles ( Cantharellus cibarius ) can be served sautéed , in a soup or casserole , or , most commonly , in omelets . ( Even store - bought mushroom should not be eaten tender . ) Chanterelles can be dry out , but they don’trehydrate well . If you have a surplus , sauté them in butter or bacon fat for a few transactions , scoop them into a gem tin ( so they do n’t suspend in a big clump ) and in short freeze them before tossing into moldable Deepfreeze bags .
Chanterelles — or “ chants ” as foragers call them — show up between May and September in the East , September to November in the Northwest , and in wintertime in California . They collaborate with tree roots , so you ’ll find them on the forest floor . That also entail they ca n’t be grown as a crop .
At full stature , they are no with child than a day - sure-enough bird ( and are almost as cunning ! ) .
Forager, Beware
They are also the mushroom cloud most likely to get novice forager into trouble . Twenty eld ago a friend of mine , relying only on a foraging ledger , was sure he had found a patch of chanterelles . A chef of his acquaintance was equally certain and offered to buy them . He decline , having charge himself to cook them as part of a wild-eyed dinner for his wife .
The mushroom were delicious , the dinner party was romantic and , in fact , it led to a bonding experience for them both : the share wretchedness of three hr spent hugging the privy . They were n’t Cantharellus cibarius , butJack O’Lantern(Omphalotus olearius ) mushrooms .
This narration points up three things .
Frank Hyman
So how do you secernate the departure between chant and the vaguley standardised Jack O’Lanterns ? It ’s really comfortable , and you only need to know two things to keep them straight .
First , slice the mushroom open . chant will be white on the inside . Jacks will be as orangish inside as out .
Second , there ’s a dispute in the gills . A Jack ’s gills will all be absolutely parallel and deep , but the gills of a chant ( they are really “ false gills ” but no motive to go into that now ) will be shallow and have several forks and crossings .
Frank Hyman
So if the gills cross and the interior is livid , you’re able to indeed fudge them , enjoying a wild-eyed dinner with your cooperator .
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Chanterelle Picker
What if there was a tool for harvesting Cantharellus cibarius and other mushrooms without bending over ? And what if that tool also had other uses : a walk stick , snagging mushroom up on a tree , ripping through spider webs in the woods instead of using your fount , raking back leaves that cover short mushroom cloud , and quash being face - to - case with the occasional snake ?
Woody Collins has make up a DIY mushroom selector that solves all those problems . He is what the youthful folk might call a “ God Almighty . ”
Before he became a mushroom cloud hunter in the Lowcountry of Beaufort County , South Carolina , he spent 30 eld on shrimp sauceboat as mate and police chief . As those who work in farming and sportfishing know , sometimes the budget is n’t there to buy some dandy tool so you have to make one yourself . And sometimes those tools are concocted with stunning creativity , especially when you ’re several mile at sea .
retire from shrimping , Collins now gathers many pounds of Cantharellus cibarius that he finds in the Lowcountry ’s Gothic forests of lively oaks drape with Spanish moss . He ’s still plenty spry , but when he wanted a quicker agency to get those mushrooms into his basket , he put his maker attainment to put to work . That ’s how he invented this DIY mushroom picker .
Here ’s what you need to make a DIY mushroom picker of your own . Frank Hyman
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Finally, Forager…
concede , not everyone has the skills or the interest in stimulate even a low - tech tool like this DIY mushroom picker . It may be a good opportunity for the handiest members of a mushroom cloud club to make and sell them as a fundraiser for the golf-club . Or a self - employed mushroom-shaped cloud huntsman may require to offer them for sale to the public as I do at my foraging classes .
And , of course , in my mind , I ’ll give thanks Capt . Woody every time I practice my own DIY mushroom selector !
This clause in the first place appeared in the July / August 2020 issue ofHobby Farmsmagazine .
