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The one thats favourite colour is red likes to eat the mushrooms that they dont talk about for legal reasons and thinks he is saving a princess(his ex) from a big turtle(her bf)
Ran across a mushroom farm in South Korea. They had green houses full of pine logs leaned against wooden supports and each log was bursting with shiitake mushrooms. Talked to the farmer there and they create inoculated plugs that they then place into holes drilled into the logs. I had only seen the method of growing mushrooms shown here so I was blown away to see this large scale mushroom farming on my trip there.
@@Rhalmarius Can you feel your heart burning? Can you feel the struggle within? The fear within me is more than anything your soul can make. As said before, you cannot kill me in a way that matters
I have a feeling he doesn't only grow gourmet mushrooms. He has to have a secret room with some magic going on in there. I mean, if I had all this apparatus, I would.
As a biochemist who frequently works with bacteria and mammalian cell cultures, its remarkable how similar everything about this operation is to my day-to-day work. When the job requires growing something artificially, you've got to deal with the same problems, and Hunter is using almost the exact same set of solutions we do. It really is more lab than farm.
Same here! I would beg my parents to take a stroll in the forest after a heavy rain, so that I could take pictures of mushrooms and then try to identify them. I still have the massive mycology encyclopedia with a bunch of notes and pictures I drew, and checkmarks on the mushrooms I found. Good times.
@@FakeMaker aw man!! i wish i still had my childhood mycology book 😭😭 i remember being so excited when i first spotted mushrooms growing out of a tree! good times indeed! i still get super happy seeing shelf fungi on dead wood
Keep it up, kids! I discovered mycology at fifty, when I retired in France. It's been a great occupation for nearly thirty years. I love leading mushroom and wild salad walks.
I love that magnet spinner. I had one in chemistry class back at university. I wish I could get one for my stove top. It would be great for cooking soups that need to really really not burn.
For boiling a pure liquid, like milk, there used to be a noisy old timey solution of a thick round flat glass that covers a lot of the bottom, and keeps clattering (moving the milk in the bottom a lot) to prevent burning. How effective it was in practice i don't know, as i have never used it
I've often considered getting a hotplate with magnetic stirring functionality for culinary purposes. I'm kinda surprised there's not more overlap between chemistry tools / apparatus & kitchen gadgets, since there's a huge amount of similarities between the the two practices. Another thing with great kitchen potential are the ultrasonic cleaners (not just for cleaning, extractions & infusions).
I didn't realize how incredibly complicated it was to grow mushrooms. I have a new appreciation for one of my favorite ingredients that I love to cook with. Great video, Adam. Thanks!
Number one, rude. Number two, a lot people who use substances are usually pretty knowledgeable when it comes to their substance of choice, since it’s a matter of safety. If you know how your mushrooms are grown, what your weed should smell like, etc., you can choose better and safer products. Making your own can sometimes be safer if you don’t live in an area with access to good quality stuff.
Since your videos are practically scientific food journals sometimes, it should then be worthwhile to point out that the steaming at 95 C and atmospheric presure *disinfects* the substrate, not sterilize. Sterilization involves killing of spores too which need an autoclave, that achieves a temperature of 121 C at 15 psi. Superheated steam in a pressure cooker basically.
@@GirthyNuts Yes. The key to sterilization is time, pressure, and heat. Using an autoclave drastically reduces time since it's pressurized, but that doesn't mean you can't sterilize without it. Large tubs like their steam sterilizer are typically used because you can store a lot more of it than in an autoclave
@@nope110 In order for the temperature of steam to reach 121C it has to be pressurized, steam is only 100C (boiling point of water) in an open environment (IE pot with no lid on a stove). To get to 121C it has to reach 1.1 BAR or about 15 PSI in a sealed vessel.
Ngl, Hunter is 100% the dude you picture "growing mushrooms" but I was honestly surprised and impressed by the whole process and the clinical professionalism of it all.
Mushrooms are a great option for vertical farming. No light needed, and they can grow very close together and yield delicious and nutritious food. One of my favorite foods of all time is simply just oyster mushrooms sauteed in butter until they're a little golden brown, and sprinkled with salt and pepper. They're delicious.
@@MaxS535 This is just factually wrong. Mushrooms are a great source of vitamins, antioxidants and can promote heart-health. They are known to be a useful source for folate.
@@honuaCJS some do contain quite a bit of certain proteins and minerals and stuff like that but most are not. Ik there are medicinal ones like turkey tail and lions mane but most mushrooms are not very nutritious, and if they are, they are not dense enough for it to become a reasonable alternative to a vegetable or meat
@@MaxS535 if you do a simple Google search you'll learn mushrooms, in most cases, are quite literally "extremely nutritional". They are the definitive best plant source of vitamin D. Saying other things are better does not take away the obvious fact that mushrooms are very healthy and low in calorie. This is my final comment as any Google search would make this information obvious.
Also faux tempeh (not soy beans), and natto, and faux natto (not soybeans). I want to know what makes a soy bean substitute suitable for tempeh, and for natto culture.
Us Slovaks love our mushrooms, but we generally forage them. Mushroom foraging is passed from generation to generation, like which mushrooms you can eat, which are poisonous, which grow where and when etc. I learned mushroom foraging from my grand grandma, she was 87, we grabbed handmade baskets and strolled around the forest the day after a heavy rain. We got back with our baskets and pockets full of mushrooms of at least a dozen edible species. We spent the whole evening cutting them into thin strips to dry and store them. Every time I make a creamy mushroom soup from dried mushrooms, all I think about is my time I spent with her. If I ever have any descendands, mushroom foraging is one of the things I want to teach them. I really don't know why, but it just feels magical, everything from strolling through the forests, the smell of the fresh mushrooms, the time spent with family. My eyes are getting wet, someone's cutting onions in here.
@@FakeMaker I guess it is a slav thing, we also forage a lot of mushrooms here, I remember every weekend going in the forest with babushka and dedushka.
@@TheSlavChef Yeah, it feels like it's the norm in Slavic countries, but not so much elsewhere. I was dating a Chinese girl a few years ago, and when I told her the mushrooms in the soup were handpicked from a forest by me, she thought I was trying to poison her. She made me eat the soup first to make sure lol. Btw really nice channel, you got yourself a new subscriber.😄
I started this video thinking “I should start a fungi ranch” and ended thinking “I can’t believe I can usually find oyster mushrooms for $15/lb and I never have to worry that they won’t be there.”
@@darkhelmet12e47 fungi are surprisingly sensitive at times. Also, the fruiting bodies of fungi (mushrooms) decay at insane rates. You have mere days to harvest, distribute, and sell these mushrooms, and they essentially decompose by the second. In some truffle species, I believe they literally lose value by the hour as well and even start tasting worse in that time (and truffles cannot be cultivated like this). Any mushrooms which aren’t sold in that time are losses these small homegrown farmers have to cut. Some species like the aforementioned truffle and the matsutake ONLY grow under the most perfect of conditions as mycorrhizal fungi with plants, and some ONLY symbiosis with one type of plant in particular. Its really impossible for us randos in the youtube comment section to understand just how difficult it is to grow these strange, complex organisms in our homes, and in my opinion its a bit brash to jump to conclusions about the craft without first doing it ourselves with the same species.
14:10 mushrooms are great bioaccumulators. They sequester heavy metals in specific proteins, which renders them completely harmless and allows mushrooms to survive even in very polluted areas. Of course this also means you have to be careful where you go foraging, since the heavy metals are released again once you eat the mushrooms ^^
This is why certain wild animals like pigs are radioactive in cherenobyl and surrounding regions, they eat the mushrooms that bioaccumulate the radioactive metals like cesium 137 and strontium 90.
me, who has been growing for years now: these things are commonly sold by local growers to pizza shops, but i like to dehydrate and store mine to use in (mostly beef based) dishes.
Videos like this make me want to grow my own mushrooms at home! I'm not vegetarian or vegan or anything, but I like mushrooms and the way that they can be given a lot of unique food textures based on preparation, so it seems like an easy, low-maintenance "home-grown" option for food sustainability. That and greens/herbs. Having a greens wall garden just seems pleasant. Of course, you'd need to keep the two farms separate, lol
Psilocybin, LSD, shrooms and ketamine are absolutely life changing substances that have so much potential to help people with mental health issues. 0:13
I'm trying to farm mushrooms myself currently. Dont have any of the lab equipment, but it works relatively well with just a bucket with holes for lion's mane and a big planter with straw for oyster mushrooms. To sterilise my substrate i just poor some boiling water over it in an airtight bucket and leave it until its nice and cool again. Also, sometimes you can break up your successful mycelium block and inoculate a new batch of substrate, as long as no mold or similar took root in it. One of my first batches started to grow green mold since i unknowingly used pine woodchips as the substrate
You should cover seitan, not sure if I spelled it right, but it's basically the entire gluten structure of a dough washed and strained out of the starches, that being flour.
I used to hate mushrooms. Now these vids and the mushroom tagliatelle one convinced me to start eating them! I made the tagliatelle yesterday. Thank you Adam and Middle Georgia!
They DEFINITELY have a special chamber separately from the one showed in the video where they grow the "real" good sh...strong mushrooms they were referring to
As an undergrad, I was a researcher in a biochemistry lab, using yeast as a model organism. Yeast is a single-celled fungus, but multicellular yeast like these mushroom-makers love all the same stuff, so all these "good things" he's looking for in this video were *my* nightmare contaminations!
I've watched quite a few mushroom videos but this explanation for some reason has made things seem much clearer for me. I want to grow mushrooms as a hobby and this video has been great in helping me understand how mushroom growing works without completely losing my attentention by making things seem too difficult or by under-explaining how things work.
I really got to give it to you Adam the last few months I have had a notification come up on my phone at 1:00 central time on the DOT every time you upload a video. So satisfying in man you really know how to hold a schedule! Appreciate the amazing content so many amazing recipes you've given us all!
Adam, I just want to say I’ve really been enjoying your content recently. These informational videos are so interesting to watch and you explain things so well I’ve just been binge watching your videos. The wheat mini series has been my favorite so far. Seeing this side of fungi has opened my eyes and inspired me to grow some of my own. I can’t thank you enough for doing what you do.
Hey, Adam. I just came in here to thank you for putting closed captions in every video. My hearing and attention span aren't the greatest and the subtitles really let me enjoy the video without straining to understand what someone's saying. Thank you!!
You'll probably be in luck! Usually Adam's cooking video is related to that weeks previous science video. I'd wager he's gonna cook some mushrooms in a few days!
I actually bought a huge grow kit in Vermont and had caps in 10 days. I had so much mushroom that I dried the mushrooms and have tried all sorts of new stuff because of all the dried mushrooms we got
Thank you Sir Ragusea, Hunter, and folks in middle Georgia mushroom, I work in a comparative industry but the work being done here is inspiring to the wellbeing of potentially, all life here on Earth, keep doin what you’re doing, I love it
Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety and illicit pill addiction. Imagine carrying heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not in a couple years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.
Please does anyone know where I can get them? I put so much on my plate and it really affects my stress and anxiety levels, I would love to try shrooms
I've recently gotten into mushroom growing! It's a SUPER fun hobby and you can get some impressive results relatively easily. Probably the biggest hurdle for home growers is the pressure sterilization for the grainspawn jars. There's some methods to do it via regular stovetop pots, but you're going to still lose a lot of stuff to contamination. There's the PF Tek method, but it's much smaller quantities and overall just not as monetarily efficient.
lmfao this reminds me of that old meme or story or whatever about the pizza place that was a front for the mob but actually got the family out of crime bc the pizza place was so much more profitable. doubt u stopped the magic ones tho lol
This guy has such a consistent, thoroughly scientific approach but you wouldn't know it from how casual and approachable his speech is. I kind of love how this is thoroughly a home business built by believers.
I had a friend in college who farmed mushrooms under his bed in his dorm room. I know he would sell and eat them sometimes, but I don't recall him ever cooking them...
I intuitively knew we grew mushrooms for food, but I never really thought about it until I saw Jeremy Clarkson try to grow them on Clarkson's Farm Season 3. It's really cool, and this is great insight into how the grow bags are made. I just hope they don't get too expensive.
I feel like mushrooms are taking off in the United States lately. I've been seeing a lot of little start-ups like Hunter's. And it is fantastic. I want to start one of my own someday.
Sci show etc al kinda fall into the realm of pop science. I'd recommend Applied Science, thought emporium. Applied Science has some good recommendations under his following tab
That’s easy. Just wait until nighttime, get some bonemeal, and then the mushroom will become giant! After that, tear down the giant mushroom, and keep repeating until you have enough mushrooms. (Use mycelium to be able to do this during the day.) You can also wait for them to spread in the dark, but I don’t see how that method’s effective.
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sus
Woohoo
I’ll know when to skip :)
How did u comment 3 day ago when this video was uploaded 5 minutes ago?
@@babababruh5818 He probably had it unlisted and had the comment on it 3 days ago and made it public now.
They are farmed in Italy by 2 retired plumbers. As livestock.
*I got that reference*
I heard they had a turtle infestation
Trust the fungus.
The one thats favourite colour is red likes to eat the mushrooms that they dont talk about for legal reasons and thinks he is saving a princess(his ex) from a big turtle(her bf)
itsa me mushroom gatherio.
Hunter: "I call this the Atmospheric Steam Sterilizer"
Also Hunter when no cameras are rolling: "I'm just gonna put these blocks of wood in my A.S.S"
Underrated comment, bro.
7:55 I could just FEEL the willpower that was exuded to stop himself from saying "that good shiiit"
"wait, no, we don't talk about *those* mushrooms openly."
He sounds like he's about to say that "slit that fucker right open" at 10:27 as well
Damn you're both right haha.
Relatable
Sailer mouth.... It bites me sometimes
7:58 he was definitely about to say "that good shit"
Tried his best to stay professional 🤣
You're right lmao
He grows mushrooms for something other than food 😳
Sh-trong
He almost gave away he grew magic mushrooms
Ran across a mushroom farm in South Korea. They had green houses full of pine logs leaned against wooden supports and each log was bursting with shiitake mushrooms. Talked to the farmer there and they create inoculated plugs that they then place into holes drilled into the logs. I had only seen the method of growing mushrooms shown here so I was blown away to see this large scale mushroom farming on my trip there.
Ah yes, the atmospheric steam sterilizer
A-S-S
It’s pretty hot and steamy in the A.S.S 🥵
give that hardened wood a nice rest in the ASS
A.S.S. Machine.
lol
@@person9854 you had to put that god damn emote there didn't ya?!
"So we can grow that good shhhh-strong..."
I caught that as well. I was waiting for it.
OH NOOOOOO!!! Most people agree that my vids are the worst on RUclips. I agree to disagree. Please agree to disagree with the haters, dear cam
@@AxxLAfriku Oh shit. You've been lurking in youtube comments for literally years. I have 0 interest, but keep doing you, ya freak.
@@cameronphenix2096 you're in every comment section, aren't you, you rare lad
Time stamp?
"You cannot kill me in any way that matters"
-mushrooms or some shit idk
*me cocking the gun, tears in my eyes*:
I'M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
@@Rhalmarius Can you feel your heart burning? Can you feel the struggle within? The fear within me is more than anything your soul can make. As said before, you cannot kill me in a way that matters
Ahh yess tumblr
🎶fungus exists as an extant form of life🎵
@@Rhalmarius s a d n e s s
"When Hunter is also gatherer"
😳😳😳
oh no
sus
Somewhere out there is a slaughterhouse worker named Gatherer.
Nice
7:57 Mans tried not to say "that good shit" lmao.
Mans not hot
"atmospheric steam sterilizer"
So they call it the a.s.s
😭
Get it in the ass
Or
It's in the ass
The a.s.s sterilizes everything with steam
Sum gud SteamAss
LMAO
It was the middle of the night, I was hearing the mushrooms screaming from the nearby farm. Since then I do not eat mushrooms.
So is that considered to be meatan
@@Hamox non-fungiterian.
The silence of the fungi
@@evanjohnson1299 slurps in Dr. Hannibal Lecter manner.
That... wasn't the mushrooms
I have a feeling he doesn't only grow gourmet mushrooms. He has to have a secret room with some magic going on in there. I mean, if I had all this apparatus, I would.
I wasn't sure until I paid attention to his girlfriend's vibe, then yeah.
dude's eyes are red as hell, prolly smoked a bowl before this... good shit
the stuff on his walls too lmao, he knows
@@pendalink 8:13 that piece on the wall clearly took inspiration from shroom visuals. Beautiful stuff.
Yeah, that "Don't Tread On Me" flag was a dead giveaway, this man doesn't just grow gourmet mushrooms.
As a biochemist who frequently works with bacteria and mammalian cell cultures, its remarkable how similar everything about this operation is to my day-to-day work. When the job requires growing something artificially, you've got to deal with the same problems, and Hunter is using almost the exact same set of solutions we do. It really is more lab than farm.
The guy looks like a Hunter, is actually called Hunter, is a gatherer.
And has the “don’t tread on me” flag
100% sure this Hunter guy isn't just growing mushrooms for food...
Psychedelics saved me.thanks to trip_bank on I G for being genuine.he sells the best psychy products he got shrooms,LSD,dmt,choco bars,mdma &others🍄❤️
He's clearly a farmer
@Mahmood Syed Well the military isn't exactly "small government" and "libertarian" so that doesn't mean shit
mycology was my biggest interest as a little kid. having a room full of mushrooms like that is a childhood dream!
Your name wouldn't be Egon, would it?
Same! all I would talk about is fungi and everything I know about them. To this day I still study mycology
Same here! I would beg my parents to take a stroll in the forest after a heavy rain, so that I could take pictures of mushrooms and then try to identify them. I still have the massive mycology encyclopedia with a bunch of notes and pictures I drew, and checkmarks on the mushrooms I found. Good times.
@@FakeMaker aw man!! i wish i still had my childhood mycology book 😭😭 i remember being so excited when i first spotted mushrooms growing out of a tree! good times indeed! i still get super happy seeing shelf fungi on dead wood
Keep it up, kids! I discovered mycology at fifty, when I retired in France. It's been a great occupation for nearly thirty years. I love leading mushroom and wild salad walks.
I love that magnet spinner. I had one in chemistry class back at university. I wish I could get one for my stove top. It would be great for cooking soups that need to really really not burn.
Thats a million quid idea, and not impossible either
Breaking bad
Biggest challenge I could see is if your soup contains solids, it might get stuck.
For boiling a pure liquid, like milk, there used to be a noisy old timey solution of a thick round flat glass that covers a lot of the bottom, and keeps clattering (moving the milk in the bottom a lot) to prevent burning. How effective it was in practice i don't know, as i have never used it
I've often considered getting a hotplate with magnetic stirring functionality for culinary purposes. I'm kinda surprised there's not more overlap between chemistry tools / apparatus & kitchen gadgets, since there's a huge amount of similarities between the the two practices.
Another thing with great kitchen potential are the ultrasonic cleaners (not just for cleaning, extractions & infusions).
The long awaited epic return of Macon, Georgia 😌
Wait what happened
@@VEV-cu6no He moved to Knoxville , Tennessee
This guy is a real passionate professional farmer, I like him.
Chill man, he already have wife
@@reindfield5253 Ahaha
That don't tread on me flag is a huge turn off.
@@Zerklass Judging someone off a singular flag is also a turn off and really cringe as well so, you win some you lose some I guess.
@@W.u.B the Sargon watcher's opinion does not pass go, straight to the trash.
I didn't realize how incredibly complicated it was to grow mushrooms. I have a new appreciation for one of my favorite ingredients that I love to cook with. Great video, Adam. Thanks!
not that complicated if a couple of drug addicts can do it
@@SkankHunt42isback start one yourself then nerd
Number one, rude.
Number two, a lot people who use substances are usually pretty knowledgeable when it comes to their substance of choice, since it’s a matter of safety. If you know how your mushrooms are grown, what your weed should smell like, etc., you can choose better and safer products. Making your own can sometimes be safer if you don’t live in an area with access to good quality stuff.
@@lindenshepherd6085 lol... don't feed the trolls, Linden. They're inane, vapid individuals trying to get a rise out of people.
@@lindenshepherd6085 number three this is the most pretentious way to form your confession
As someone who does microbiology and cell culture work, this was a trip. Love the methodology.
Was there a ,Pun intended ??? Some shrooms can be a , Trip ...
Psychedelics saved me.thanks to trip_bank on I G for being genuine.he sells the best psychy products he got shrooms,LSD,dmt,choco bars,mdma &others🍄
I work in an iso 7 clean room I cringe a little when the words sterile and clean are interchanged
Regardless amazing video and love Adam and his food journalist view on everything
Is this a confession or a pun?
Since your videos are practically scientific food journals sometimes, it should then be worthwhile to point out that the steaming at 95 C and atmospheric presure *disinfects* the substrate, not sterilize. Sterilization involves killing of spores too which need an autoclave, that achieves a temperature of 121 C at 15 psi. Superheated steam in a pressure cooker basically.
You can 100 percent sterilize equipment below 121C. They do it for such a long time (18 hours) that the low temperature of 95C is enough.
@@GirthyNuts Yes. The key to sterilization is time, pressure, and heat. Using an autoclave drastically reduces time since it's pressurized, but that doesn't mean you can't sterilize without it. Large tubs like their steam sterilizer are typically used because you can store a lot more of it than in an autoclave
@@nope110 In order for the temperature of steam to reach 121C it has to be pressurized, steam is only 100C (boiling point of water) in an open environment (IE pot with no lid on a stove). To get to 121C it has to reach 1.1 BAR or about 15 PSI in a sealed vessel.
@@silverfur11 Yeah i know that, i just didnt read the comment original comment correctly lol
I first read that as, "How mushrooms are framed".
Thousands of mushrooms are serving time for crimes they didn't commit!
the sus fungus amongus
@@tronche2cake I laughed at this shit and I hate myself for it.
I read the thumbnail as freaking mushrooms
No fungus among us
I read it as "how is mushroom formed," due to the permanent neural damage that I suffered a couple of decades ago from the Yahoo Answers 'babby' meme.
Ngl, Hunter is 100% the dude you picture "growing mushrooms" but I was honestly surprised and impressed by the whole process and the clinical professionalism of it all.
Mushrooms are a great option for vertical farming. No light needed, and they can grow very close together and yield delicious and nutritious food.
One of my favorite foods of all time is simply just oyster mushrooms sauteed in butter until they're a little golden brown, and sprinkled with salt and pepper. They're delicious.
Mushrooms are not very nutritious. At least not oysters, buttons, or common ones like that
@@MaxS535 This is just factually wrong. Mushrooms are a great source of vitamins, antioxidants and can promote heart-health. They are known to be a useful source for folate.
@@honuaCJS some do contain quite a bit of certain proteins and minerals and stuff like that but most are not. Ik there are medicinal ones like turkey tail and lions mane but most mushrooms are not very nutritious, and if they are, they are not dense enough for it to become a reasonable alternative to a vegetable or meat
@@MaxS535 if you do a simple Google search you'll learn mushrooms, in most cases, are quite literally "extremely nutritional". They are the definitive best plant source of vitamin D. Saying other things are better does not take away the obvious fact that mushrooms are very healthy and low in calorie. This is my final comment as any Google search would make this information obvious.
I like the oyster mushrooms being turned into chips! tasty!
Hey, Adam, can you cover tempeh making? Seems like a good follow up to this video
not gonna lie, i hate fried tempeh. its so hard to chew 😂
I was thinking of that when I saw the whole grain jar
Also faux tempeh (not soy beans), and natto, and faux natto (not soybeans). I want to know what makes a soy bean substitute suitable for tempeh, and for natto culture.
@@jonnathan1869 meanwhile we have sort of tempeh-chips, they are real crispy good
@@Call-me-Al
would be interesting
My grandmother in Slovakia cultivates mushrooms at times, and then she dries them.
I ate mushroom soup made from my Slovak grandma's dried mushrooms just today...! Though she doesn't grown her own, she's just really into foraging.
@@NexusAkayuki My grandmother picks the mushrooms from the forest.
Us Slovaks love our mushrooms, but we generally forage them. Mushroom foraging is passed from generation to generation, like which mushrooms you can eat, which are poisonous, which grow where and when etc. I learned mushroom foraging from my grand grandma, she was 87, we grabbed handmade baskets and strolled around the forest the day after a heavy rain. We got back with our baskets and pockets full of mushrooms of at least a dozen edible species. We spent the whole evening cutting them into thin strips to dry and store them. Every time I make a creamy mushroom soup from dried mushrooms, all I think about is my time I spent with her. If I ever have any descendands, mushroom foraging is one of the things I want to teach them. I really don't know why, but it just feels magical, everything from strolling through the forests, the smell of the fresh mushrooms, the time spent with family. My eyes are getting wet, someone's cutting onions in here.
@@FakeMaker I guess it is a slav thing, we also forage a lot of mushrooms here, I remember every weekend going in the forest with babushka and dedushka.
@@TheSlavChef Yeah, it feels like it's the norm in Slavic countries, but not so much elsewhere. I was dating a Chinese girl a few years ago, and when I told her the mushrooms in the soup were handpicked from a forest by me, she thought I was trying to poison her. She made me eat the soup first to make sure lol. Btw really nice channel, you got yourself a new subscriber.😄
I started this video thinking “I should start a fungi ranch” and ended thinking “I can’t believe I can usually find oyster mushrooms for $15/lb and I never have to worry that they won’t be there.”
Wdym? You stick some farming or lumber waste in a bag with some inoculated media for cheap and easy food. If anything they should be cheaper.
@@darkhelmet12e47 fungi are surprisingly sensitive at times. Also, the fruiting bodies of fungi (mushrooms) decay at insane rates. You have mere days to harvest, distribute, and sell these mushrooms, and they essentially decompose by the second. In some truffle species, I believe they literally lose value by the hour as well and even start tasting worse in that time (and truffles cannot be cultivated like this). Any mushrooms which aren’t sold in that time are losses these small homegrown farmers have to cut. Some species like the aforementioned truffle and the matsutake ONLY grow under the most perfect of conditions as mycorrhizal fungi with plants, and some ONLY symbiosis with one type of plant in particular. Its really impossible for us randos in the youtube comment section to understand just how difficult it is to grow these strange, complex organisms in our homes, and in my opinion its a bit brash to jump to conclusions about the craft without first doing it ourselves with the same species.
@@maddiesmenagerie8853 I am doing it right now...
14:10 mushrooms are great bioaccumulators. They sequester heavy metals in specific proteins, which renders them completely harmless and allows mushrooms to survive even in very polluted areas. Of course this also means you have to be careful where you go foraging, since the heavy metals are released again once you eat the mushrooms ^^
Could be good for cleaning up former industrial areas that have been contaminated without stripping all the topsoil out.
you would still kind of need to strip all the topsoil out once it's been dominated by all those mycelium though
This is why certain wild animals like pigs are radioactive in cherenobyl and surrounding regions, they eat the mushrooms that bioaccumulate the radioactive metals like cesium 137 and strontium 90.
so no mushroom foraging in old military test sites or abandoned factories?
@@billyd7628Chernobyl mushrooms will give you a bad trip, that's for sure.
Adam's always a joy to learn from, and Hunter is such a patient and passionate teacher. Was sad the video ended
me, who has been growing for years now: these things are commonly sold by local growers to pizza shops, but i like to dehydrate and store mine to use in (mostly beef based) dishes.
I love how knowledgeable and passionate Hunter is!
Videos like this make me want to grow my own mushrooms at home! I'm not vegetarian or vegan or anything, but I like mushrooms and the way that they can be given a lot of unique food textures based on preparation, so it seems like an easy, low-maintenance "home-grown" option for food sustainability. That and greens/herbs. Having a greens wall garden just seems pleasant. Of course, you'd need to keep the two farms separate, lol
Psilocybin, LSD, shrooms and ketamine are absolutely life changing substances that have so much potential to help people with mental health issues. 0:13
0:12 Does anyone know where I can source them?
@@ObinnaHarrisYes, dr.johnsonshroom 0:05
@@marshalpeters Is he on Instagram? 0:07
0:12 @Fernando Lucas Psychedelics definitely have potential to deal with mental health , they really helped me .
0:22 Can dr.johnsonshroom send to the NYC?
I'm trying to farm mushrooms myself currently. Dont have any of the lab equipment, but it works relatively well with just a bucket with holes for lion's mane and a big planter with straw for oyster mushrooms. To sterilise my substrate i just poor some boiling water over it in an airtight bucket and leave it until its nice and cool again.
Also, sometimes you can break up your successful mycelium block and inoculate a new batch of substrate, as long as no mold or similar took root in it. One of my first batches started to grow green mold since i unknowingly used pine woodchips as the substrate
You should cover seitan, not sure if I spelled it right, but it's basically the entire gluten structure of a dough washed and strained out of the starches, that being flour.
Can also be made much easier from vital wheat gluten
oh that would be a good video
"Call me agar" love the little tomodatchi life easter egg thingy 🤣🤣🤣
The sponsor transition was very unexpected, good job
Welcome to Adam Ragusea!
This is beautiful. The "growing shrooms" stereotype is officially a compliment in my eyes now.
Hunter seems like the most nice chill guy
I used to hate mushrooms. Now these vids and the mushroom tagliatelle one convinced me to start eating them! I made the tagliatelle yesterday. Thank you Adam and Middle Georgia!
They DEFINITELY have a special chamber separately from the one showed in the video where they grow the "real" good sh...strong mushrooms they were referring to
"Im nobody and you cannot kill a person with no body"
-oblivion npc when asked whos his name is
"you cannot kill me in a way that matters"
-Fungus
@@tronche2cake dont underestimate me young man
very kind of Adam’s dealer to give him a tour!
Man I don’t even like mushrooms but this guy can make anything fun to watch
A year ago I wouldn't have thought I'd watch cooking videos especially yours and here I am today
As an undergrad, I was a researcher in a biochemistry lab, using yeast as a model organism. Yeast is a single-celled fungus, but multicellular yeast like these mushroom-makers love all the same stuff, so all these "good things" he's looking for in this video were *my* nightmare contaminations!
one man's bane is another man's medicine.
I gotta say, I was wholly unsurprised that Hunter had a Gadsden flag lol
Based
I bet he grows mushrooms of the magic variety too. He is incredibly based.
Live free or woah is this purple tasting kinda F#?
@@frogdeity That "beyond the veil" sticker basically proves it...
Yeah it's not my bag. I was surprised that Adam included it in the shot though.
Hunter guy is looks/feels/sounds really chill ngl
I've watched quite a few mushroom videos but this explanation for some reason has made things seem much clearer for me. I want to grow mushrooms as a hobby and this video has been great in helping me understand how mushroom growing works without completely losing my attentention by making things seem too difficult or by under-explaining how things work.
I really got to give it to you Adam the last few months I have had a notification come up on my phone at 1:00 central time on the DOT every time you upload a video. So satisfying in man you really know how to hold a schedule! Appreciate the amazing content so many amazing recipes you've given us all!
he uploads before and lets youtube automatically set the video to public.
@@jac1011 Everyone does that, the video has to be checked by the AI before it can be monetized and posted.
Adam, I just want to say I’ve really been enjoying your content recently. These informational videos are so interesting to watch and you explain things so well I’ve just been binge watching your videos. The wheat mini series has been my favorite so far. Seeing this side of fungi has opened my eyes and inspired me to grow some of my own. I can’t thank you enough for doing what you do.
I've been waiting for this video so I can finally become a drug manufacturer. Thank you, Adam.
gotta love shroom kits
Oh no
r/unclebens
Unironically this
Blue mushrooms
Hey, Adam. I just came in here to thank you for putting closed captions in every video. My hearing and attention span aren't the greatest and the subtitles really let me enjoy the video without straining to understand what someone's saying. Thank you!!
As a person with a plant garden this is legitimate advice for expanding my portfolio in expensive hobbies.
Would love to see how certain mushrooms are prepared and cooked!
I second this. Ideas for dishes to make with less common types of mushrooms would be very useful.
You'll probably be in luck! Usually Adam's cooking video is related to that weeks previous science video. I'd wager he's gonna cook some mushrooms in a few days!
I actually bought a huge grow kit in Vermont and had caps in 10 days. I had so much mushroom that I dried the mushrooms and have tried all sorts of new stuff because of all the dried mushrooms we got
Love your work, you've helped me a lot, watching from Ghana 🇬🇭
Adam is the king at finding sponsors. He gets the best mix I’ve ever seen.
Thank you Sir Ragusea, Hunter, and folks in middle Georgia mushroom, I work in a comparative industry but the work being done here is inspiring to the wellbeing of potentially, all life here on Earth, keep doin what you’re doing, I love it
This is amazing. You can tell how much passion Hunter has for the process.
I adore when you make videos like this the science of food is so compelling
You looking for a plug 🔌 Check out @trippy_high25 on Instagram he got psychedelic product and they also grow shrooms and sell and ship 🍄
Love the mushroom guy, great guest with lots of knowledge
Adam please make more mushroom content, mushroom is so wholesome and it cures my depression. I wish I can integrate myself with a mushroom.
Man, the mushroom growing terminology gave me strong flashbacks to college days...
I absolutely adore these long-form videos. Fascinating stuff and extraordinarily well-produced.
Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety and illicit pill addiction. Imagine carrying heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not in a couple years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.
Please does anyone know where I can get them? I put so much on my plate and it really affects my stress and anxiety levels, I would love to try shrooms
Yes, dr.raymyco
Is he on instagrm?
Sure, dr.raymyco
Psychedelic definitely have potential to deal with mental health, they really helped me.
I've recently gotten into mushroom growing! It's a SUPER fun hobby and you can get some impressive results relatively easily.
Probably the biggest hurdle for home growers is the pressure sterilization for the grainspawn jars. There's some methods to do it via regular stovetop pots, but you're going to still lose a lot of stuff to contamination. There's the PF Tek method, but it's much smaller quantities and overall just not as monetarily efficient.
Most relaxing activity ever.
14:33 Lions Mane actually is used in medicines! more accurately in nootropics, it helps with focus and generally given to people with adhd
7:58 When I realised that this mushroom growing operation was a front.
that gooood sh-
..strong
When the front becomes a great source of income, it becomes a cover. Sweet sweet cover.
I've got one of their grow kits coming soon. Can't wait!
Hey John! We don’t grow kids 😛
@@middlegeorgiamushroom7167 Well then I want my money back lol
@@jizquierdo89 😂 thanks for your support brotha
@@middlegeorgiamushroom7167 👍👍👍
that dude's growing more than just cooking mushrooms.
Guarenteed
This guy knows so much about this stuff. Farmers know their craft well.
I started with magic mushrooms they were so easy to grow that i moved on to non magical edibles, easy as f
lmfao this reminds me of that old meme or story or whatever about the pizza place that was a front for the mob but actually got the family out of crime bc the pizza place was so much more profitable. doubt u stopped the magic ones tho lol
@@user-ze7sj4qy6q never, but a single grow gave me more mushrooms that I will eat in years so I haven't grown them again lol
Proper sterilization is really the only thing you can fuck up as long as you follow the instructions.
Psychedelics saved me.thanks to trip_bank on I G for being genuine.he sells the best psychy products he got shrooms,LSD,dmt,choco bars,mdma &others🍄❤️
Nederland be like
There is no mush room left for improvement on this channel!
You can tell that guy does mushrooms
And starts spitting fire balls
not mush?
Not one mention of ready-made microwave rice. This guy is a pro!
I love the mushroom farmer. Seems like a great guy.
This guy has such a consistent, thoroughly scientific approach but you wouldn't know it from how casual and approachable his speech is.
I kind of love how this is thoroughly a home business built by believers.
This guy has the single best ad transitions
I love mushrooms!
They're my favorite vegetables!
Was that intentional?
Fungus...
SUS!
you didnt watch the video lol
@@shinyramen r/woooosh
@@MasterOfWarLordOfPeace stop, please.
that dude has way too many mushroom stickers to not be growing some "spaceships" in his house.
the best video regarding mushroom farming I have watched, very nice!
I had a friend in college who farmed mushrooms under his bed in his dorm room. I know he would sell and eat them sometimes, but I don't recall him ever cooking them...
love the research you do on these, all the jargon is spot on coming from someone who dabbles in growing mushrooms
I've never been this early to a Ragusea video before
The power I hold
My aunt is a mushroom farmer!
It was a weird sight when I first looked at the setup, but it's pretty cool
I bought one of his kits a few months ago was awesome to watch it grow
How many mushrooms did it yield? Pretty interested in these kits!
I work in a mycology focused lab -- I really appreciate the research that goes into your videos.
I intuitively knew we grew mushrooms for food, but I never really thought about it until I saw Jeremy Clarkson try to grow them on Clarkson's Farm Season 3. It's really cool, and this is great insight into how the grow bags are made. I just hope they don't get too expensive.
Love this video! Already been growing lion's mane for 27 days in a grow bag in my room at university!
Disclaimer: DO NOT make another “fun-guy” joke. There are already 40 of them. Scroll down at your peril.
I am gonna have cancer.
U are right
He's a fun-gi 😁😁😁
No more sh-room for the fun-guy jokes. Any more and they’d be crushed into mush.
there's one right below this
As a mycologist and forager this is pretty well explained and doesn't get much wrong at all
I feel like mushrooms are taking off in the United States lately. I've been seeing a lot of little start-ups like Hunter's. And it is fantastic. I want to start one of my own someday.
We must appreciate the smooth ad transitions :)
This channel will be the closest I can get to being educated on VARIOUS subjects.
Have you tried SciShow? They're great at various subjects
@@turdferguson3400
Science all over youtube
scishow, minute physics, kurzgesagt, science asylum, cody's lab, electroboom
Sci show etc al kinda fall into the realm of pop science. I'd recommend Applied Science, thought emporium. Applied Science has some good recommendations under his following tab
I was watching a lot of mckenna and about to start mushroom growing 😉 and this just make me want to do it more
That’s easy.
Just wait until nighttime, get some bonemeal, and then the mushroom will become giant!
After that, tear down the giant mushroom, and keep repeating until you have enough mushrooms.
(Use mycelium to be able to do this during the day.)
You can also wait for them to spread in the dark, but I don’t see how that method’s effective.
Even easier when you have a bonemeal farm, composting all that moss. Don't ask why the moss has bonemeal in it though
Damn, Adam - I've seen you do a lot of slippery smooth sponser transitions on this channel but you've outdone yourself on this one. Bravo.