I usually associate Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) with the colder months in Alabama so I was surprised when I came across a beautiful specimen on a very hot and humid day here! I can’t wait to cook this one. Have you found Lion’s Mane before? What months do you usually look for them? When I’m looking for a good Lion’s mane for eating, I want one with “hairs” that haven’t yellow that much, for meat that is firm and bouncy, not wet and waterlogged, and for it to have a pleasant aroma. This one checked all of those! Check out this video where I cook it! - ruclips.net/user/shorts2sOHdeguheA
@andresdubon2608 OOH, these are just lovely. I like to slice, dry sear them, and finish with a bit of butter, maybe a lil herbs or something, taste before you salt if you use salted butter.
Lions mane mushroom supplement tablets are a daily booster for me. Actually just got a bottle today. For me its brain food and an anti inflamatory substance. Thanks for sharing, Ive never seen it up close.
My Grandfather knew stuff like this. He grew up poor but richly blessed in the mountains. The oldest in his family. His father died young due to a fall from their roof. He taught me to live off of our land. From crabbing with a chicken back, frying up a mess of bream after a day of fishing, to helping him and my own Dad gut and skin a buck. Mushrooms are fantastic to eat. Chiefs pay big money for one called chicken or hen of the woods. I only wish my Dad would have let my Grandpa teach me about mushrooms. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts on this video and content. Men who are excited over deer butt mushrooms are an inspiration for me. Keep on finding those fungi.
It's becoming a popular meat substitute here in the States for us vegans as well. Just now picking up speed. One of my favorite Asian vegan spots cooks it up almost like chicken(fried)it's SOOOOOOOOOO insanely good & what turned me on to it. They put in in a GIANT bowl of Pho... so good.
BRO, I can’t imagine finding that, literal gold! Imagine finding some Reishi or Chaga, health freaks pay up to a 100 for supplements with those in them
@@tobiramasenju6290 well I hadn't even seen the comment before but thanks for pointing it out When there are billions of people alive, some of them might have the same thought cross their minds 😅 If its any comfort, I've seen comments like yours before on other sites so you're definitely not original yourself 😘
Lions mane has changed my life in such a short time i dont shake anymore my memorys back concentration best has been ever really thankful and amazed of this magical mushroom
I know you probably know more about mushrooms than I do, but Make sure you really know your stuff, Mushrooms growing out of season could mean they're not the species you think they are and could be poisonous
We find the big puffy one's my mother in law usually collects them all. I'll have to look into the different types because that looks like a puff ball mushroom to me just smaller.
@@FeralForaging I put my glasses on and can see it now, I've never seen that before. I'm in Delaware Ohio and we get a few different ones growing in the yard. I don't really know much but I have Google and Nana lol. Appreciate the content and response.
@@FeralForaging ok, so... this isn't related to the lionsmane... and please don't shame me, bc idk the answer to this question. I've only been to Alabama twice, and it wasn't to hunt mushrooms. 😂😂😂. But anyways........ do yall have morels down there???
Always a treat to find! Here in Northern California im usually seeing them in December and January after some good rains. One day I found so much on an oak log i couldn't carry it all home. Was actually a bears head (hericium abietis) but very similar
Sometimes the perfect mushroom will pop out of nowhere. In california when on a walk, we found a lone mushroom and decided to take it home and identify it. We successfully identified without a doubt that it was safe to eat, so we made a soup out of it! (we also used wild onion, wild rosemary, and the meat of some tiny mussels from the ocean) and it was delicious!
@@FeralForaging Amazing! Thank you! I love mushrooms, so I'm always curious about different species and their edibility (texture, and flavor). Can I assume the smell and taste are proportionate to each other? If that makes sense?
When picking mushrooms(and foraging anything in general) its good to leave it if there won't be any left after you take some. In this case it would have been better to leave this alone as there was only the one. Someone also mentioned that mushrooms found near roads can also potentially contaminated with exhaust fumes and heavy metals.
Do you try to practice honorable harvest? Like not harvesting the first you see or making sure there’s more before harvesting? Love your educational content just curious.
This rule is often erroneously applied to fungi which have completely different reproductive biology. Additionally, I think what a lot of people quote from that idea falls short of what I personally practice for plant foraging which really depends on each specie’s reproduction. Good question and important topic. 🙂
I know it's tempting but never consume a mushroom Next to a busy road, mushrooms are sponges that absorb everything around them. Here in texas the city does mosquito foggers in the morning.
Just sautéed it with some butter and garlic and it was…AW….. *cough*…SOME…*wheeze*….and what made…*hack*….it even better was ….*gasp*…I picked it….*aghhh*…myself!…..(thud)….
I usually associate Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) with the colder months in Alabama so I was surprised when I came across a beautiful specimen on a very hot and humid day here! I can’t wait to cook this one. Have you found Lion’s Mane before? What months do you usually look for them?
When I’m looking for a good Lion’s mane for eating, I want one with “hairs” that haven’t yellow that much, for meat that is firm and bouncy, not wet and waterlogged, and for it to have a pleasant aroma. This one checked all of those!
Check out this video where I cook it! - ruclips.net/user/shorts2sOHdeguheA
Do you shake your mushrooms before leaving to spread their spores?
@@raithneachdavisson6156 it's already spreading its spores whether I shake it or not
How is one supposed to eat these?
I would love to see a quick vid showing how you preper mushrooms and other things you may collect.
@andresdubon2608 OOH, these are just lovely. I like to slice, dry sear them, and finish with a bit of butter, maybe a lil herbs or something, taste before you salt if you use salted butter.
It seems like a good candidate for cloning because you found it in an unusual temperature range... Just saying...
That particular fungus is called "deer butt mushroom" in Korea. This is not a joke.
😅 🦌
@@FeralForaging Yeeee....deer booty...😏
@@EnjoysScritches 😮😂
Also "monkey head mushroom" in Chinese, why.....
So much cuter.
That’s not lion’s mane, that’s lion’s balls
Smells sweet, looks perfect 😏
Lol, a delicacy!
😂😂😂😂😂
I was thinking the same thing 🤣
@@MaoWRLD plump & firm 🥵🥵
As soon as I heard “oooohhhhhh” I was expecting him to start singing “ I have all my fingers, knife goes Cho chop chop”😭😭😂
Lions mane mushroom supplement tablets are a daily booster for me. Actually just got a bottle today. For me its brain food and an anti inflamatory substance. Thanks for sharing, Ive never seen it up close.
From Amazon?
It helps with memory for seniors a few caps in my protein drink and I'm good to go
Thank you for the information
I thought it was hallucinogenic lol
Careful, i took too much and remembered what i was always supposed to forget. Some doors dont close once they open
Just neutered that poor tree
😅😅😅😅
*I am groots in pain*
Ain’t no wayy💀💀💀
Omg lol😂
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ😂😂😂
Nature’s ballsack
Nature’s ballsack is every teste bag on every animal, including yours
no no no no noooooooo
Nope... not looking to add a bit of Ballsack to any of my future meals I'll pass on that one.
💀
why is there a translation 💀
“It’s too hot for lions mane this time of year”
That’s why I shave mine in the spring
this could mean many things
@@tonybalongnaBalls
😂
I love guys like this, knowledgeable of things that seem so unimportant to most people but knowledge like this may help you one day
Laughs in NC accent
My Grandfather knew stuff like this. He grew up poor but richly blessed in the mountains. The oldest in his family. His father died young due to a fall from their roof. He taught me to live off of our land. From crabbing with a chicken back, frying up a mess of bream after a day of fishing, to helping him and my own Dad gut and skin a buck. Mushrooms are fantastic to eat. Chiefs pay big money for one called chicken or hen of the woods. I only wish my Dad would have let my Grandpa teach me about mushrooms. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts on this video and content. Men who are excited over deer butt mushrooms are an inspiration for me. Keep on finding those fungi.
@@bellaessencerainee1005 I just came across your comment and thanks for sharing your story! Now you've got me googling Hen mushrooms!👍
All childish kidding aside, if you had to use a supplement which brand would you use?
This type of mushroom is a delicacy for vegans in Taiwan. We call it “猴頭菇”, which means “monkey’s head mushroom”.
It's becoming a popular meat substitute here in the States for us vegans as well. Just now picking up speed. One of my favorite Asian vegan spots cooks it up almost like chicken(fried)it's SOOOOOOOOOO insanely good & what turned me on to it. They put in in a GIANT bowl of Pho... so good.
Lion: where's my balls at?😭
😂😂😂😂
Nah you didnt said that 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
😂
BRO GOT THEM BALLS
Looks like someone's family jewels
😂😂😂😂😂
A deformed family jewel
You mean balls?
is that a reference from one piece☠️?
@@stylisticsguy3746lol
BRO, I can’t imagine finding that, literal gold! Imagine finding some Reishi or Chaga, health freaks pay up to a 100 for supplements with those in them
Nature's bounty :)
Not that rare go for a hike 😂
Reishi is extremly common. I find them everytime I hunt. Still no Morels though 😢
No proven benefits
It's very easy to grow fyi
Bro was more excited than Mario finding a 1up mushroom when he was on his last life
I love that this man knows this stuff
"Lions mane"
I'd call that lion ballsack
Lion's ballsack is also covered in mane
We all saw top comment you're not original.
@@tobiramasenju6290 well I hadn't even seen the comment before but thanks for pointing it out
When there are billions of people alive, some of them might have the same thought cross their minds 😅
If its any comfort, I've seen comments like yours before on other sites so you're definitely not original yourself 😘
@@thijsbergman2424 welp, thats good to know
I'm hoping there's gonna be a weird scenario where I can mention that
Honestly wish I was content enough in life to be this happy about finding a mushroom😂
😂
Prolly like a 200 dollar mushroom
He's calm compared to me finding that. Even my 73yo father would be dancing in the woods if we found that while out foraging here in new England.
@@garythompson8545not too far. Most in restaurants are farmed and not the same
I can give a loud amen to that!!
Careful of eating anything found close to roads, they usually have a ton of heavy metals from exhaust fumes
❤
Id prob risk it with hard to find shrooms but thanks.
@@coverup7428 Hey sometimes you take a little damage in the name of good flavor I get it
😂
Mushrooms grow super fast that mushroom has probably only been there for a week.
"Oh look the fungus clapper"
You should do a video on foraging for truffles. They are used in Authentic Italian cuisine.
That looks like something you see in a what not to eat book 😂
It’s so fuzzy
Legend has it this guy is still out in those woods looking for something plump and firm🤣🤣
Thank you...... 🤔 I'm still laughing
A pair of tree balls
I actually grew my own lionsmane last year, didn't know how to cook it well but it was great fun. It was interesting to watch how it grew.
I love how the dude just grabs a sniffs natures balls like it's nothing
What an amazing find! Just hanging out right there waiting for someone or something that truly appreciated it.
Awesome find brother!
I was very excited!
mushrooms are amazing,
And delicious
“It smells sweet, it’s really plump and firm.” BRO? 💀
Lions mane has changed my life in such a short time i dont shake anymore my memorys back concentration best has been ever really thankful and amazed of this magical mushroom
That fungus is THICC
u know
@@FeralForaging 🤣
They can actually get much larger, like Lizzo sized
dried up tree nut
Don't bite it...don't bite it...don't-
I can't stand mushrooms, but I'm glad this guy is happy he found it.
I know you probably know more about mushrooms than I do, but Make sure you really know your stuff, Mushrooms growing out of season could mean they're not the species you think they are and could be poisonous
We find the big puffy one's my mother in law usually collects them all. I'll have to look into the different types because that looks like a puff ball mushroom to me just smaller.
Yes, this one has the "pom-pom" like hairs which puffballs won't have present.
@@FeralForaging I put my glasses on and can see it now, I've never seen that before. I'm in Delaware Ohio and we get a few different ones growing in the yard. I don't really know much but I have Google and Nana lol. Appreciate the content and response.
@@FeralForaging ok, so... this isn't related to the lionsmane... and please don't shame me, bc idk the answer to this question. I've only been to Alabama twice, and it wasn't to hunt mushrooms. 😂😂😂. But anyways........ do yall have morels down there???
@@andreaknisley154- Dude, look at an ag map
Can you imagine if it was one of those spore cloud ones... *Picks the wrong cluster*... Instantly wake up in the ER
Always a treat to find! Here in Northern California im usually seeing them in December and January after some good rains. One day I found so much on an oak log i couldn't carry it all home. Was actually a bears head (hericium abietis) but very similar
What is that kind of mushroom is it to eat?? Is it like a shrooms and fuk's u up? Scuse my potty mouth!
I’m literally not even hating when I say this: I wish I had the ability to get so enthralled and excited about something as mundane as a mushroom
Everyone gangsta until u pick out the wrong mushroom
Sometimes the perfect mushroom will pop out of nowhere.
In california when on a walk, we found a lone mushroom and decided to take it home and identify it. We successfully identified without a doubt that it was safe to eat, so we made a soup out of it! (we also used wild onion, wild rosemary, and the meat of some tiny mussels from the ocean) and it was delicious!
That's awesome man a couple days ago I found a chicken of the woods on my property right out right outside where my goat pen is
I want some!!
That sounds like a true forager meal!
The butt mushroom! Love it!
Mushroom: BRO WHAT U DOING BUD YOU PULLING OFF ME
I'm not hating. I just find it odd how into that mushroom you are. Good for you though finding a good one.
If I remember correctly, lion's mane can be made into delicious mock crab cakes, and be completely vegan, too.
Absolutely. I take it in capsule form for enhanced memory and cognitivity; absolute god-send.
Edible?
@@marilynbaer4310
Yes, they’re safe for consumption. Please don’t just go around eating wild mushrooms, though.
So like.... Is it edible? How would you prepare it???
I cut it up, "dry sautee" to let the water escape and then finish with oil to crisp up!
@@FeralForaging Amazing! Thank you! I love mushrooms, so I'm always curious about different species and their edibility (texture, and flavor). Can I assume the smell and taste are proportionate to each other? If that makes sense?
@@ressamarieg to a degree, yes in this case!
Wow great find, man!!
"Wow this Lion's mane is growing in hot weather and is remarkably hardy!"
*Plucks it*
Hell the way he said it. I was like shi what big foot 😂😂 😂😂 it's a damn mushroom
I love Lionsmane.I ingest some of it along with a little of 6 other wildcrafted mushrooms every day.🎉
Man finally got the chance to grow and was immedietly yoinked
Very nice harvest
lions mane are INCREDIBLY good for you, it rebuilds nerve connections
That mushroom has a whole bakery back there 💀💀💀
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂u like bakery or cake
Beautiful mushroom!
Hairy fluffster :3
Beautiful
Damn, I was almost sure he would take a bite out of the mushroom at the end there.
I ate it later! 😄
Not me thinking the guy found the squirrel's "nuts"
When picking mushrooms(and foraging anything in general) its good to leave it if there won't be any left after you take some. In this case it would have been better to leave this alone as there was only the one.
Someone also mentioned that mushrooms found near roads can also potentially contaminated with exhaust fumes and heavy metals.
"Surprise lion mane" is coincidentally what 1970s male, adult actors said upon first meeting their female colleagues on set.
This year is insane with preseason mushrooms. I'm seeing fall mushrooms 🍄 right now
It's going to be a cold winter...
A mushroom has absolutely zero business being that caked up
At first glance I thought it was a sleeping eagle that got beheaded by this man 😅
balls
Super cool that you’re in north Alabama! Where at? I live in the Northeast part of Alabama so I probably know where it’s at!
"Plump and firm".......I could have a good time with that remark
I was fully prepared for dawg to take a bite
The urge to take a huge bite out of it is unreal😭😭😭
“Why they call it lions mane?”
*starts seeing lions*
Fuzzy butt mushroom 😂😂
lol people are saying its balls😂😂 got me laughing hard
Ahhh yes!! The world famous "Ballsack Fungi!"
I was not expecting that either. Nor was I prepared
Imagine ur a tree chilling in the forest and all a sudden some guy violates u like this
Lion’s mane has a ton of medicinal values. Back in the Salem witch trials. Alchemists (witches) used lions mane to heal people
Do you try to practice honorable harvest? Like not harvesting the first you see or making sure there’s more before harvesting? Love your educational content just curious.
This rule is often erroneously applied to fungi which have completely different reproductive biology. Additionally, I think what a lot of people quote from that idea falls short of what I personally practice for plant foraging which really depends on each specie’s reproduction. Good question and important topic. 🙂
he held them like a solid pair of balls
How to feel about consuming items directly off roadways. I was always taught to be concerned of heavy metals that the plants have absorbed
this guy just inhaled thousands of spores from sniffing it.
5 days later the CDC and UN declares a global pandemic of an unknown fungus that takes over the human body spreading all over the world 💀💀
For a second I thought that's lion balls stuck in a tree lol
That 1 is lions balls bud. Common mistake. 😂
He can’t stop looking at it😂
I know it's tempting but never consume a mushroom Next to a busy road, mushrooms are sponges that absorb everything around them. Here in texas the city does mosquito foggers in the morning.
I was expecting him to bite it like it was an apple
Lucky you ,i keep checking my spot ,not yet 😢
I was half expecting him to take a bite out of it.
This is illegal in the UK to pick because of its rarity
That's silly, they spread more spores after being picked and they have a chance to spread further while being carried by the picker
@@joshpiotrowski3487 exactly. Why do they think mushrooms are carried in a net or a basket
@@SylverScourge carrying them in a net or basket helps them sporulate
That's not the lion's mane, that's where he keeps his coin's. 😂
Literally thought, that's an animal stuck in the tree 💀
That tree: MA BAAAAALLS
Looks more like a “lions” sack
“This one is looking perfect”
Look at that soft hand, he had never done any work in his life
"we're gonna trip on this all week, later. Come on!"
Lions main is so pretty I love those but usually we don't find those in Michigan sadly they are kinda hard to find
Completely unrelated, but I love all the moss on the tree behind the mushroom lol.
Just sautéed it with some butter and garlic and it was…AW….. *cough*…SOME…*wheeze*….and what made…*hack*….it even better was ….*gasp*…I picked it….*aghhh*…myself!…..(thud)….
Me Seeing the the mushroom: ill buy the WHOLE STOCK!!!!!!