SC - Mushrooms

[Bethany Public Library]

I'd like to try this. Can one get sufficient spores from store-bought
'shrooms to start one' sown mushroom factory, or do we have to go to the
expense of getting one of those kits?

Enquiring minds with dark basements need to know!

Aoife


Jehann penned;
I have to disagree with this. I cook mushrooms on a weekly basis, and have
never had any problems with button mushrooms soaking up liquid when they
were washed. Call me lazy, but if I'm cleaning several pounds of mushrooms,
I'm not going to wipe them one by one with a cloth.

IIRC, Gourmet magazine also did a study on this by weighing out a pound of
mushrooms and a pound of broccoli. They then washed them both, and
reweighed them. The mushrooms had gained the same amount of weight as the
broccoli, a ounce or two, most likely due to not being dried off. No one
accuses broccoli of soaking up water when washed!

On the other hand, I've never had to wash my shitake mushrooms as I grow
them myself and they are spotless when they come off the log, so I have no
idea how mushrooms other than buttons take to being washed.

Yours in Service,

Jehanne

p.s. Anyone in florida know if we can grow morels down here? I'm tempted to
start a patch...