I’m a mycologist. Please please please anyone interested in foraging don’t just look at the mushroom to tell if it’s poison. The amount of people I know who have been poisoned due to chemicals in the area or stagnant stink water being in them. Worked with a council recently on stopping the use of harsh pesticides along the sides of roads on the mountain showing it was being picked up by the fungi and other plants in the area down hill and the animals eating them were having pregnancy complications and showed signs of renal failure. You do not want renal failure or pregnancy complications
I'm a guy, so I really don't want pregnancy complications. But yeah. kinda like insects that die to pesticides gets eaten by small animals gets eaten by bigger predators, and you get sick predators.
Thor is the reason I'm on my 4th round of oyster mushrooms growing in buckets and sawdust this year. If they start popping out of my walls, I will also be blaming Thor.
a great additive to your substrate would be soy husks. They're cheap as they're a byproduct of soy farmers, and it works well cut 50/50 with hardwood sawdust/hydrated-pelts. Personally, I've had much better yeilds - happy farming!
@@zacksmith9305 I've actually been using alfalfa rabbit food to get some nitrogen in the HWFP. You don't need to add quite as much, and it works out to be a bit cheaper. At least by me. If I were doing more than a couple 5-lb blocks at a time, I'd probably do just pure pasteurized straw instead.
I kinda wanna learn too cos we have a small plot on the side of the house where our caretaker grows veggies for food, and I want to learn how to grow mushrooms, and by grow mushrooms I mean teach the caretaker how to grow them so they can sustain themselves better and get the occasional mushroom for us too.
Being as that is a real possibility and having recently discovered a patch of lingering moisture (cold wall, low airflow), I hope that turns out alright.
Huh. Never knew they were all the same thing. Yet another example of "Thor can talk about basically anything and still be interesting and entertaining" :D
Just to re-state, get a local expert. Some poisonous mushrooms locally look like edible mushrooms from different locations, and vice versa. This has led to several waves in the past of East Asian immigrants getting poisoned bc they thought wild, poisonous mushrooms in US were ones they harvested back home that were edible. Also, soil can affect the edibility of mushroom or fungi. Mushrooms and fungi tend to concentrate toxins in their environment, and sometime local expert will know that x is not edible here but edible there
Indeed, many mushrooms have deadly look-alikes, since alot of people know about button mushrooms they may assume similar looking mushrooms to be edible when in actuality they just harvested destroying angels, or death caps. False morels are so poisonous they can give people chemical burns by touching them, but some places in Europe double cook them in order to render them edible. Likewise what you said about the edibility of mushrooms also depends on their location is very much correct and needs to be heeded, fungi are biological sponges. Some mushrooms prefer certain species of trees such as hen of the woods( maitake) which can be found under apple trees but since these trees are also found in agricultural areas such as orchards which tend to treated with rather nasty and stubornly lingering pesticides, especialy abandoned orchards that are decades old.
Yes. Learn from someone knowledgable. Sometimes it's not that easy to tell the difference. If you are even 1% unsure, don't eat it. Few examples: boletus crataegi, Satan's bolete (poisonous) often mistaken with edible boletus eduli, penny bun. Or macrolepiota procera, parasol mushroom, mistaken with death cap. Death cap is so easy to mess yourself up with that a few people I know just flat out avoid picking anything that even looks remotely similar.
Bro does Game Development, Cybersecurity, RUclips, Streaming, Ferrets, and now he does Mushrooms Someone stop this man before he becomes the leading expert in Nuclear Fusion
3:31 took me wayyy to long to realize in my adult life. Most people just see "Mushroom" as a singular thing like a tomato or corn, but there's sooo many different types of shrooms that all have different textures and flavor profiles. Also that thumbnail will haunt my nightmares now, thank you
@@HienLeGiaMultiple as in hundreds if not thousands. 😅 All the hundreds of weird and wonderful mushrooms are mostly nature-provided varieties-- corn and tomatoes and whatnot are _cultivated._ Hello selective breeding, the anyone-can-do-it science, and a mere handful of centuries in we're all drowning in options. Corn is crazy once you delve into flint corns (hard, dry kernels for popcorn and decoration - glass gem varieties are wild!), dent corns (corn meal, corn syrup, corn starch, animal feed, plastics, fuels) vs sweet corns (the kind you see in supermarkets). And there's nothing quite like winter seed catalog overwhelm to remind you that grocery stores are like...the tiniest, most generic sliver of a vast array of what nature and a bit of hands-on biology tinkering can offer. I get a 50 page catalog from a seed company called Totally Tomatoes!
@@HienLeGia True, crude examples in the moment, but there so many different flavor profiles mushrooms provide compared to tomato's which generally speaking have a similar texture and flavor profile
2:00 Hydrazine isn’t just a component of rocket fuel It IS rocket fuel, its used in the reaction control thrusters that allow the ship to rotate and make minor MINOR course corrections during flight out of atmosphere
@0:35 this is some of the best advice I have ever heard someone give on mushrooms, the variety is so large, and changes so much between area this is so important!
Most people who say "yuck" probably do so because they've only ever had badly cooked champignon/portobello mushrooms. The gross texture comes from them being badly cooked. Mushrooms need to be cooked for a pretty long time to get the water out of them. If you don't cook them for long enough, they're slimy. And by "long enough", I mean about 30-40 minutes, depending on the mushrooms. If there's steam coming out of them, they're not done.
I dont know about the most part, I'm certainly one of those who just didn't like the texture of champignons. The taste could be ok, but basically no matter how small and how they're cooked the texture would be obvious to me. Tasted it in different countries, home cooked and at restaurants. I'm fine with them today, but it took me about 22 years before I became ok with them.
One of the things I've done is you can slice them and soak them in soy sauce for a bit which helps get the water out and then you sauté them and add garlic. Very strong flavor
I wonder if this could be a simple fix of just using dried mushrooms instead of fresh ones so you don't need to cook them for so long. Flavour is supposed to be stronger with dried ones too
@@axis8396Yep. I prefer to sear them to get the moisture out and then add any liquids to them like soy sauce, soup stock, Watchyersister sauce or whatever.
The monster boletes are so cool to find but Holy Moses Do Not Bring Them Home. Horribly vivid memory of seeing a pile of huge ones sitting on top of my boyfriend's fridge (his grandparents were visiting from another country and had been very excited to go foraging, but whole family were very much Not From Around Here) and casually thinking "oh wow those are all so big I hope they checked them for fly eggs" and then watching someone go to grab a drink and a full on _waterfall_ of tiny maggots spilling over the fridge as the door swung open. 🤢
Mushroom hunting is so much part of the culture here that nobody ever goes to a professional, and you are taught about the ones you can find in our country in grade school
Chanterelle are the best mushrooms ever, there's a spot in the woods near my parents' house I'm Scotland that's reliable every year. White wine, butter, crusty brown bread toast, glorious
I am from Poland and mushroom forging is a full on a national sport in the fall. Everybody I know has someone in the family who just likes to walk around the forest with a knife. Glad to see the hobby spreading to other countries
Morels are also mycoryzal meaning they have a symbiotic relationship with trees and plantroots, they tend to pop up where there is fire because those place tend to be prime places to grow fruiting bodies and release spores, many mushroom species are triggered to fruit by wildfires and you can find alot mushrooms sprouting in clearings made by them. Morels also like popping up in recently burned areas because they help funnel the minerals left behind to their plant host in return for sugars. Unlike most mushrooms we eat that have a cap and gills known as club spore fungi (basidiomycete), morels are sac mushrooms (ascomycetes), and are more related to single cell yeasts than other fungi we call mushrooms.
Lion's Mane is also incredibly helpful if you have neurological issues. I have multiple tbi type injuries that affect memory, speech, and headaches. Lion's mane ABSOLUTELY has helped me function instead of it being instantly obvious ive had numerous head injuries
@Meanpeter1 technically all the above, but different sources and methods have different levels of the specific chemicals in Lion's Mane that help the brain. Some doctors will swear by one and curse all the others. Ultimately, i would say first, see if it's something you can have, then figure out what methods you can easily have regularly. Then pick which method(s) you want. Some people aren't able to get fresh mushrooms regularly..so they just get the tinctures, some people only eat the mushrooms because they love the taste, some can't have some of the non active ingredients in the tinctures(allergies) so they use capsules. Like i said, ultimately they all can work. Some might be more effective/tastier/affordable.
@Meanpeter1 the order i prefer is Fresh, dried, frozen, tincture, capsule. The tincture/capsules are sold as a supplement, everything else you can find as culinary ingredients.
Lionsmane mushrooms have genuine medicinal application that have thorough scientific backing on its effects. It contain compounds that greatly encourage neuron growth and is being used to treat many different neurological conditions. It has been proven to reduce the neuron degradation caused by alzheimers, and have genuine effects on improving cognition and memory in both young and elderly test groups. What really gets me is the way they extract the compounds, in which they steep both the dried and fresh mushroom in hot water to extract the water soluable compounds, filter it then steep it again in high proof alcohol which extracts the alcohol soluble compounds, then you combine the mixture so that its shelf stable in the form of tinctures. It genuinely sounds like homepathic snakeoil crap except it isn't you can brew a genuine working potion at home using the same methods they use in labs especially since the compounds are very temperature stable. All species of lionsmane mushrooms are medically significant and they grow everywhere but can be hard to find in the wild. It also not very hard to grow yourself and it is recomended to do so as they can be grown like any other wood mushroom.
Chanterelles are absolutely delicious. Everyone in my area talks up Morels like they're the best thing ever but I prefer the slightly fruity and savory flavor of chanterelles. Try making chicken marsala with them some time!
On Clarkson's Farm Season 3 he remodelled a bunker into a mushroom shed and it was the biggest money maker ever. They just grew new stems every day. Eventually the mushrooms were done they would get mouldy and he would have to get new spore packs. But it was fun.
Great advice Thor - there are deadly look-a-likes for many of the tastiest mushrooms - find a local mycological group with true trained and experienced experts to go on a mushroom hunt - you'll learn a lot, get exercise and fresh air, make new friends, and get food! All wins.
I remember when i was young, and visited an old lady's home by the woods, and when she saw myself and my brother bored in the yard listening to the radio, she just handed us an old, almost papyrus feeling, wetted and dryed, and aged book, with drawings, and sometimes polaroids of random mushrooms, and she said "go fetch some dinner" xD we came back with half a basket of poison xD
up here in Michigan, there's a festival called "Humongous Fungus Among Us" where we celebrate one of the largest single organisms in the world, a single fungus that is miles wide as far as the mycelium. All genetically identical. It's super interesting and fun!
I absolutely love your content. I am naturally interested in like, zero of the things that you talk about or are interested, but I love hearing about what you enjoy doing, it's so fun, and it's inspiring and makes me want to learn more about stuff! Like, I would never naturally be interested in coding, or ferret rescues, or mushroom hunting, but now I have one channel where I can learn all about all of those things! You're interests are cool as shit, I love hearing about them
In Europe we learn it from our Grandparents just wondering in the woods during summer / autumn holidays. The best recipe is to cook them on a pan with butter, salt & pepper, onion and sour cream and throw them on top of freshly boiled(peeled) potatoes ❤😊 That's how we do it in the North, mostly in deep Pine forrests, might be around Birch trees as well.
The thumbnail is some cryptid shit. I decree it, the elusive "Toad Goblin". It screams hello when you come within sight of it and upon capture will inform you that whatever your looking for is somewhere else.
I loved collecting mushrooms in Oblivion. And all the damn alchemy ingredients. Half my game was spent grabbing stuff ill never use. Fallout 4 let's you make recipes, and New Vegas. Loved that mechanic.
You ever try Chicken of the Woods? It grows around where I live, and is nearly impossible to mistake for something poisonous. It tastes vaguely of chicken.
@@Cool-Vest hen of the woods is indeed a different mushroom and is also known as maitake, they are rarer than chicken of the woods as they prefer certain live host trees over others and have medical significance. Chicken of the woods meanwhile are a bright orange shelf fungus that grows on decaying logs, meaning they can be found on dead trees. They can be hard to miss compared to maitake which grows at the base of live trees, they are called dancing mushrooms due to their rararity as people would dance upon finding a clump.
My dad and I used to collect some type of milk excreting mushrooms that grow here in PA that taste just like beef. I can't remember what they were called but I remember him getting so excited when he found a really huge one behind a tree in the yard
Chantrelles are called "gold of the forest". They have a very distinctive peach aroma and one of the few edible mushrooms that dont get worm infestations. But theres false-chantrelles that are slightly poisonous. Usually, real chantrelles are a nice yellow colour. Think of an egg yolk yellow, while false chantrelles tend to be carrot orange. And since chantrelles are so sought after, local people know most of the spots where they grow.
In eastern europe everyone picks mushrooms during the season. I mean like I don't think I know a single person who has never picked mushrooms. I was surprised to learn that it's not that popular elsewhere, and because of it you can even find mushrooms in public parks because nobody takes them.
So, have all of these mushrooms in Europe and I can confirm that it is good to consult with someone who knows what they are doing, because some mushrooms look similar if you do not know what to look for. The yellow ones are in fact one of the best ones
My dad and grandpa used to go mushroom foraging every year around the same time of year when I was younger. They would go around their property and into the woods behind it. I remember going with them a few times, but my grandpa had been doing it with his father since he was young and they knew what to look for. I always thought it was pretty cool that they could just go on a "treasure hunt" to find food lol
I used to forage mushrooms and berries since 10 y.o. In autumn we drove about 20 km and then walked another 10 in the wilderness. 4-5 hours about 80 kg of boletuses, milky caps, ceps. 2-3 trips about a day of cooking and you have all the mushrooms you need till next autumn. Now it's so wild to me that many countries have no mushroom foraging tradition.
In Europe from medieval times onwards, much of the land was owned by royalty or rich landowners. The idea of public routes or right of way did not exist. Trespassing would be heavily punished, with the assumption you were poaching. Land owners would recruit cruel violent guards to patrol their lands, to make an example of trespassers (often children). People disappearing was the norm, so everyone learned to stay far away from gentrified land.
I thought that the morel looked familiar, after a bit of googling it turned out that we used to have some mushrooms growing behind the garage that belongs to the same class as morels, called Gyromitra esculenta. There used to be a pile of brick junk (I remember it was mostly old red roof tiles) back there and it used to be riddled with them, grandma loved to cook them and warned me as a kid to never touch them for their poisonous nature.
the bit about shiitakes and tricking them into thinking theyve been through winter is a similar concept to planting tulips,, you can stick the bulbs in the ground in like october-november and let them sit there through an actual winter, or stick the bulbs in the fridge then plant them to make them think theyve gone through winter
This is a regional pastime in the baltics, in my country these are called "sviesta bekas" which translated would be "butter boletus", we also have a ton of chanterelle mushrooms that are insanely delicious if you know how to cook them. If you ever visit the region, and can get a guide to go mushroom foraging, I highly suggest it. There's also fly amanitas just growing in all forests for all the sketchy psychonauts out there.
I hunt for Boletes, Chanterelle, St Georges Mushrooms, and Oyster Mushrooms (but we also grow the oyster mushrooms as well). Mushrooms are awesome and super versatile.
My wish (for more mushroom content) had been granted! Great video 😊 Grew up/live in the PNW and it's an absolute mecca for coveted fungi, which I've only just started to appreciate recently. You are an inspiration, good sir, and I surely hope to bump into you out in the field some day.
we used to gather morels and fiddleheads where I grew up. It was in a valley and there was a lot of edible mushrooms, and we also would go berry picking.
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I’m a mycologist. Please please please anyone interested in foraging don’t just look at the mushroom to tell if it’s poison. The amount of people I know who have been poisoned due to chemicals in the area or stagnant stink water being in them. Worked with a council recently on stopping the use of harsh pesticides along the sides of roads on the mountain showing it was being picked up by the fungi and other plants in the area down hill and the animals eating them were having pregnancy complications and showed signs of renal failure. You do not want renal failure or pregnancy complications
I'm a psychonaut, I'm only looking for the hallucinogenic ones
@@Y3ntiLS0uPIf you are foraging to avoid the pretty pictures are you a myco-naut?
woof that's rough
I've never heard this kind of warning and mushrooms absorbing their surroundings was so obvious I never really though of it. Great looking out!
I'm a guy, so I really don't want pregnancy complications.
But yeah. kinda like insects that die to pesticides gets eaten by small animals gets eaten by bigger predators, and you get sick predators.
That thumbnail is beyond cursed.
Beyond cursed is a stretch
Beyond cursed is an understatement.
But he's farming are coments
Its perfect
smash
Thor is the reason I'm on my 4th round of oyster mushrooms growing in buckets and sawdust this year. If they start popping out of my walls, I will also be blaming Thor.
a great additive to your substrate would be soy husks. They're cheap as they're a byproduct of soy farmers, and it works well cut 50/50 with hardwood sawdust/hydrated-pelts.
Personally, I've had much better yeilds - happy farming!
@@zacksmith9305 I've actually been using alfalfa rabbit food to get some nitrogen in the HWFP. You don't need to add quite as much, and it works out to be a bit cheaper. At least by me. If I were doing more than a couple 5-lb blocks at a time, I'd probably do just pure pasteurized straw instead.
I kinda wanna learn too cos we have a small plot on the side of the house where our caretaker grows veggies for food, and I want to learn how to grow mushrooms, and by grow mushrooms I mean teach the caretaker how to grow them so they can sustain themselves better and get the occasional mushroom for us too.
Being as that is a real possibility and having recently discovered a patch of lingering moisture (cold wall, low airflow), I hope that turns out alright.
Saw the thumbnail and said "Why Thor, why?" out loud. And then clicked on the video. 10/10 would mushroom again.
there is mushroom for improvement for this thumbnail
I think that's the work of Sunder, the long-form video (aka pants) editor, and it's so cursed😂
Huh. Never knew they were all the same thing.
Yet another example of "Thor can talk about basically anything and still be interesting and entertaining" :D
bruh mushrooms and information about produce is interesting.
Just to re-state, get a local expert. Some poisonous mushrooms locally look like edible mushrooms from different locations, and vice versa. This has led to several waves in the past of East Asian immigrants getting poisoned bc they thought wild, poisonous mushrooms in US were ones they harvested back home that were edible. Also, soil can affect the edibility of mushroom or fungi. Mushrooms and fungi tend to concentrate toxins in their environment, and sometime local expert will know that x is not edible here but edible there
Indeed, many mushrooms have deadly look-alikes, since alot of people know about button mushrooms they may assume similar looking mushrooms to be edible when in actuality they just harvested destroying angels, or death caps. False morels are so poisonous they can give people chemical burns by touching them, but some places in Europe double cook them in order to render them edible.
Likewise what you said about the edibility of mushrooms also depends on their location is very much correct and needs to be heeded, fungi are biological sponges. Some mushrooms prefer certain species of trees such as hen of the woods( maitake) which can be found under apple trees but since these trees are also found in agricultural areas such as orchards which tend to treated with rather nasty and stubornly lingering pesticides, especialy abandoned orchards that are decades old.
Yes. Learn from someone knowledgable. Sometimes it's not that easy to tell the difference. If you are even 1% unsure, don't eat it. Few examples: boletus crataegi, Satan's bolete (poisonous) often mistaken with edible boletus eduli, penny bun. Or macrolepiota procera, parasol mushroom, mistaken with death cap. Death cap is so easy to mess yourself up with that a few people I know just flat out avoid picking anything that even looks remotely similar.
Bro does Game Development, Cybersecurity, RUclips, Streaming, Ferrets, and now he does Mushrooms
Someone stop this man before he becomes the leading expert in Nuclear Fusion
Uhh... oh no I think we're a bit late to stop him, one step from fission to fusion.
He mentioned hydrazine from the mushrooms; rocket scientist next?
why? there more people we have trying to figure out how to achieve nuclear fusion in a reactor the better
"POV": You just found out that people can have multiple skills and areas of interest(most being beneficial to oneself)
@@solomonheppner “POV”: The joke went right over your head
3:31 took me wayyy to long to realize in my adult life. Most people just see "Mushroom" as a singular thing like a tomato or corn, but there's sooo many different types of shrooms that all have different textures and flavor profiles. Also that thumbnail will haunt my nightmares now, thank you
There's also multiple breed of corn & tomato, btw
@@HienLeGiaMultiple as in hundreds if not thousands. 😅 All the hundreds of weird and wonderful mushrooms are mostly nature-provided varieties-- corn and tomatoes and whatnot are _cultivated._ Hello selective breeding, the anyone-can-do-it science, and a mere handful of centuries in we're all drowning in options. Corn is crazy once you delve into flint corns (hard, dry kernels for popcorn and decoration - glass gem varieties are wild!), dent corns (corn meal, corn syrup, corn starch, animal feed, plastics, fuels) vs sweet corns (the kind you see in supermarkets).
And there's nothing quite like winter seed catalog overwhelm to remind you that grocery stores are like...the tiniest, most generic sliver of a vast array of what nature and a bit of hands-on biology tinkering can offer. I get a 50 page catalog from a seed company called Totally Tomatoes!
@@HienLeGia True, crude examples in the moment, but there so many different flavor profiles mushrooms provide compared to tomato's which generally speaking have a similar texture and flavor profile
As the dwarves would say,
*MUSHROOM*
MUSHROOM
Mushrum
MUSHROOM
Goosack!!!
MUSHROOM
At least he is staying lore accurate to his name. Only instead of turning into a frog Thor has turned into a Toad.
5:41 "Trolling mushrooms, what a fun guy"
That....
That thumbnail is so amazing.
The ultimate shitpost
Stg that shit is modern art
That thumbnail deserves to be in a museum. Most of his do. Whoever he’s paying, I hope it’s a fat paycheck.
2:00 Hydrazine isn’t just a component of rocket fuel
It IS rocket fuel, its used in the reaction control thrusters that allow the ship to rotate and make minor MINOR course corrections during flight out of atmosphere
Everything is edible... once.
1:35 buddy just exposed his fingerprints to the whole world...
@0:35 this is some of the best advice I have ever heard someone give on mushrooms, the variety is so large, and changes so much between area this is so important!
Thanks for the thumbnail. Because I needed nightmares of Thoad later tonight. Absolutely.
The Goblin King needs to know what mushrooms to eat, for his tunnels
You're telling me I can naturally source hydrazine from mushrooms?
My amateur rocketry friends are gonna HATE me
"Learn this one weird trick that rocket scientists don't want you to know!"
I always knew the inventor of the Me 163 must have been on shrooms
Used to make lsd too
That moment when you realize a mushroom is making hypergolic propellant
Most people who say "yuck" probably do so because they've only ever had badly cooked champignon/portobello mushrooms. The gross texture comes from them being badly cooked. Mushrooms need to be cooked for a pretty long time to get the water out of them. If you don't cook them for long enough, they're slimy. And by "long enough", I mean about 30-40 minutes, depending on the mushrooms. If there's steam coming out of them, they're not done.
I dont know about the most part, I'm certainly one of those who just didn't like the texture of champignons.
The taste could be ok, but basically no matter how small and how they're cooked the texture would be obvious to me.
Tasted it in different countries, home cooked and at restaurants.
I'm fine with them today, but it took me about 22 years before I became ok with them.
One of the things I've done is you can slice them and soak them in soy sauce for a bit which helps get the water out and then you sauté them and add garlic. Very strong flavor
I wonder if this could be a simple fix of just using dried mushrooms instead of fresh ones so you don't need to cook them for so long. Flavour is supposed to be stronger with dried ones too
@@axis8396Yep. I prefer to sear them to get the moisture out and then add any liquids to them like soy sauce, soup stock, Watchyersister sauce or whatever.
@@GameCyborgCh True. But if you're going to rehydrate them, don't use water. Use stock, or soy sauce, or butter. Anything but water.
"All mushrooms are edible, but some are edible only once", Terry Pratchett I think...
Thor is just built different, other gamers touch grass, he’s touching fungi.
05:25 Thor out here straight gaslighting mushrooms into growing
Every single video makes me fall in love with this community more, thank you Thor for bringing all of us together and thank you all for being so cool
The monster boletes are so cool to find but Holy Moses Do Not Bring Them Home. Horribly vivid memory of seeing a pile of huge ones sitting on top of my boyfriend's fridge (his grandparents were visiting from another country and had been very excited to go foraging, but whole family were very much Not From Around Here) and casually thinking "oh wow those are all so big I hope they checked them for fly eggs" and then watching someone go to grab a drink and a full on _waterfall_ of tiny maggots spilling over the fridge as the door swung open. 🤢
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I was not ready for "mushroom gaslighting".
Of course Thor *grows mushrooms*. He's done *literally everything.*
2:32 “Little bit of butter, little bit of garlic, mushrooms are delicious” Buford probably
I'm convinced that mushrooms are either magical or alien, but also very very delicious
Came for the thumbnail, stayed because I came for the thumbnail.
Mushroom hunting is so much part of the culture here that nobody ever goes to a professional, and you are taught about the ones you can find in our country in grade school
where do you live?
As someone who has family in eastern Europe (and who tries to visit them often), I always did that in my childhood. It is just a vibe.
it is indeed a vibe
@Max_Eye mushrooms foraging was huge part of my childhood as well, and I was suprised it's not as common everywhere
"Time to get off this.... PIECE OF SHIITAKE PLANET!"
you need another type of mushroom for that
Chanterelle are the best mushrooms ever, there's a spot in the woods near my parents' house I'm Scotland that's reliable every year. White wine, butter, crusty brown bread toast, glorious
I think that title goes to anything in the psilocybe family 😅
random person: so thor ... what do you usually eat?
thor: invader parasitic fungus
Hell yeah, my mom and I go out mushroom foraging when we can. We live in the desert so things growing are limited. 😂
"Mushroom, mushroom!", SHUT IT! Get back to work!
I am from Poland and mushroom forging is a full on a national sport in the fall. Everybody I know has someone in the family who just likes to walk around the forest with a knife. Glad to see the hobby spreading to other countries
Morels are also mycoryzal meaning they have a symbiotic relationship with trees and plantroots, they tend to pop up where there is fire because those place tend to be prime places to grow fruiting bodies and release spores, many mushroom species are triggered to fruit by wildfires and you can find alot mushrooms sprouting in clearings made by them. Morels also like popping up in recently burned areas because they help funnel the minerals left behind to their plant host in return for sugars. Unlike most mushrooms we eat that have a cap and gills known as club spore fungi (basidiomycete), morels are sac mushrooms (ascomycetes), and are more related to single cell yeasts than other fungi we call mushrooms.
"_Mushroom! Mushroom!_ Shut it! Get Back to Work!"
"Enough about the Mushrooms. We all know it's a Mushroom. We get it!"
>see thumbnail
>click on video out of reflex
>didn't even read the title
Every muhroom is edible, at least once.
I love how your passion for mushrooms doesn't deviate from the safety of how life threatening mushrooms can be.
Thor: They generate Hydrazine.
All the space nerds: Excuse me what?
Lion's Mane is also incredibly helpful if you have neurological issues.
I have multiple tbi type injuries that affect memory, speech, and headaches.
Lion's mane ABSOLUTELY has helped me function instead of it being instantly obvious ive had numerous head injuries
Do you get these benefits just be cooking and eating the mushroom or do you take it as a powder supplement?
@Meanpeter1 technically all the above, but different sources and methods have different levels of the specific chemicals in Lion's Mane that help the brain.
Some doctors will swear by one and curse all the others.
Ultimately, i would say first, see if it's something you can have, then figure out what methods you can easily have regularly.
Then pick which method(s) you want.
Some people aren't able to get fresh mushrooms regularly..so they just get the tinctures, some people only eat the mushrooms because they love the taste, some can't have some of the non active ingredients in the tinctures(allergies) so they use capsules.
Like i said, ultimately they all can work. Some might be more effective/tastier/affordable.
@Meanpeter1 the order i prefer is Fresh, dried, frozen, tincture, capsule.
The tincture/capsules are sold as a supplement, everything else you can find as culinary ingredients.
@solomonheppner thank you very much for the help I appreciate it
Lionsmane mushrooms have genuine medicinal application that have thorough scientific backing on its effects. It contain compounds that greatly encourage neuron growth and is being used to treat many different neurological conditions. It has been proven to reduce the neuron degradation caused by alzheimers, and have genuine effects on improving cognition and memory in both young and elderly test groups. What really gets me is the way they extract the compounds, in which they steep both the dried and fresh mushroom in hot water to extract the water soluable compounds, filter it then steep it again in high proof alcohol which extracts the alcohol soluble compounds, then you combine the mixture so that its shelf stable in the form of tinctures. It genuinely sounds like homepathic snakeoil crap except it isn't you can brew a genuine working potion at home using the same methods they use in labs especially since the compounds are very temperature stable. All species of lionsmane mushrooms are medically significant and they grow everywhere but can be hard to find in the wild. It also not very hard to grow yourself and it is recomended to do so as they can be grown like any other wood mushroom.
Chanterelles are absolutely delicious. Everyone in my area talks up Morels like they're the best thing ever but I prefer the slightly fruity and savory flavor of chanterelles. Try making chicken marsala with them some time!
Somehow this man is the reigning goblin king who also actively touches grass (and mushrooms)
I swear, I learn more and more bizarrely wholesome things about you Thor
Mushroom foraging sounds like such a vibe
it is indeed a vibe
A lot of times when people don't like mushrooms, it's often because they've never had them cooked properly. You have to cook most of the moisture out.
Between the thumbnail, simple title and actual video content, I dunno what I was expecting but I'm not disappointed
Yooo!!! Those look so delicious! My dumbass would probably get the most poisonous one and just somehow eat it 🗿
On Clarkson's Farm Season 3 he remodelled a bunker into a mushroom shed and it was the biggest money maker ever. They just grew new stems every day. Eventually the mushrooms were done they would get mouldy and he would have to get new spore packs. But it was fun.
Great advice Thor - there are deadly look-a-likes for many of the tastiest mushrooms - find a local mycological group with true trained and experienced experts to go on a mushroom hunt - you'll learn a lot, get exercise and fresh air, make new friends, and get food! All wins.
Grows mushrooms at home. A true goblin lord.
Sunder absolutely cooked this thumbnail
I remember when i was young, and visited an old lady's home by the woods, and when she saw myself and my brother bored in the yard listening to the radio, she just handed us an old, almost papyrus feeling, wetted and dryed, and aged book, with drawings, and sometimes polaroids of random mushrooms, and she said "go fetch some dinner" xD we came back with half a basket of poison xD
Wifes family in Switzerland will go mushroom hunting and take a couple of bags to the local expert for identification.
Go to your local expert and take his book. Never trust heresay without anything in writing.
up here in Michigan, there's a festival called "Humongous Fungus Among Us" where we celebrate one of the largest single organisms in the world, a single fungus that is miles wide as far as the mycelium. All genetically identical. It's super interesting and fun!
Its only a matter of time before Nintendo patents mushrooms
I absolutely love your content. I am naturally interested in like, zero of the things that you talk about or are interested, but I love hearing about what you enjoy doing, it's so fun, and it's inspiring and makes me want to learn more about stuff! Like, I would never naturally be interested in coding, or ferret rescues, or mushroom hunting, but now I have one channel where I can learn all about all of those things! You're interests are cool as shit, I love hearing about them
i love seeing when thor has an actual new video instead of just shorts, algorithm starting to learn after watching 20 hours of him playing hogwarts
THE GREATEST THUMBNAIL I HAVE EVER SEEN XD I love it
In Europe we learn it from our Grandparents just wondering in the woods during summer / autumn holidays.
The best recipe is to cook them on a pan with butter, salt & pepper, onion and sour cream and throw them on top of freshly boiled(peeled) potatoes ❤😊
That's how we do it in the North, mostly in deep Pine forrests, might be around Birch trees as well.
The thumbnail is some cryptid shit.
I decree it, the elusive "Toad Goblin". It screams hello when you come within sight of it and upon capture will inform you that whatever your looking for is somewhere else.
i love that humans and mushrooms have a more recent common ancestor than mushrooms and leafy green plants. hence 'meaty'
I adore this, my family grows mushrooms for a living, so it's awesome to see my favorite content creator talking about it!!
Nice. You have a sting mycelium colony in your yard. You should start other burn pits so eventually you can try to clone it.
Hilarious that you gaslight a mushroom into growing 5:09
Mushrooms is nature's unknown unknowns 😂😂
Everything here is top tier. The thumbnail got me.. too good lol
I loved collecting mushrooms in Oblivion. And all the damn alchemy ingredients. Half my game was spent grabbing stuff ill never use. Fallout 4 let's you make recipes, and New Vegas. Loved that mechanic.
can relate, i do the same both in games and irl
Thor has a super power to be interesting no matter what, he could talk about paint drying and we’d all be entertained
With that thumbnail i thought he did mushrooms lol
You ever try Chicken of the Woods? It grows around where I live, and is nearly impossible to mistake for something poisonous. It tastes vaguely of chicken.
I wanna try hen of the woods. All I needed to read was “BBQ sauce and Grill” and it was a done deal 😂
@@User_1dashzero I just looked it up and apparently that's a different type of mush.
@@Cool-Vest hen of the woods is indeed a different mushroom and is also known as maitake, they are rarer than chicken of the woods as they prefer certain live host trees over others and have medical significance. Chicken of the woods meanwhile are a bright orange shelf fungus that grows on decaying logs, meaning they can be found on dead trees. They can be hard to miss compared to maitake which grows at the base of live trees, they are called dancing mushrooms due to their rararity as people would dance upon finding a clump.
My dad and I used to collect some type of milk excreting mushrooms that grow here in PA that taste just like beef. I can't remember what they were called but I remember him getting so excited when he found a really huge one behind a tree in the yard
Chantrelles are called "gold of the forest". They have a very distinctive peach aroma and one of the few edible mushrooms that dont get worm infestations. But theres false-chantrelles that are slightly poisonous. Usually, real chantrelles are a nice yellow colour. Think of an egg yolk yellow, while false chantrelles tend to be carrot orange. And since chantrelles are so sought after, local people know most of the spots where they grow.
In eastern europe everyone picks mushrooms during the season. I mean like I don't think I know a single person who has never picked mushrooms. I was surprised to learn that it's not that popular elsewhere, and because of it you can even find mushrooms in public parks because nobody takes them.
Yep, can confirm
Morals in Michigan grow in areas that haven't burned in about 25 years. I find them every spring in the Huron National Forest.
So, have all of these mushrooms in Europe and I can confirm that it is good to consult with someone who knows what they are doing, because some mushrooms look similar if you do not know what to look for. The yellow ones are in fact one of the best ones
My dad and grandpa used to go mushroom foraging every year around the same time of year when I was younger. They would go around their property and into the woods behind it. I remember going with them a few times, but my grandpa had been doing it with his father since he was young and they knew what to look for. I always thought it was pretty cool that they could just go on a "treasure hunt" to find food lol
He is Mr. Stardew Valley!
I used to forage mushrooms and berries since 10 y.o. In autumn we drove about 20 km and then walked another 10 in the wilderness. 4-5 hours about 80 kg of boletuses, milky caps, ceps. 2-3 trips about a day of cooking and you have all the mushrooms you need till next autumn.
Now it's so wild to me that many countries have no mushroom foraging tradition.
In Europe from medieval times onwards, much of the land was owned by royalty or rich landowners. The idea of public routes or right of way did not exist. Trespassing would be heavily punished, with the assumption you were poaching. Land owners would recruit cruel violent guards to patrol their lands, to make an example of trespassers (often children). People disappearing was the norm, so everyone learned to stay far away from gentrified land.
@@cattysplat doesn't make sense, since mushroom foraging is widely spread in Central and Northern Europe.
*mushroom casually produces rocket fuel*
me:"wtf?"
I love this!! Found a giant puffball today but was too far gone
make mushroom soy sauce, i'm trying that today, actually. haven't had it before, can get back to you in a few days with a review
I thought that the morel looked familiar, after a bit of googling it turned out that we used to have some mushrooms growing behind the garage that belongs to the same class as morels, called Gyromitra esculenta. There used to be a pile of brick junk (I remember it was mostly old red roof tiles) back there and it used to be riddled with them, grandma loved to cook them and warned me as a kid to never touch them for their poisonous nature.
the bit about shiitakes and tricking them into thinking theyve been through winter is a similar concept to planting tulips,, you can stick the bulbs in the ground in like october-november and let them sit there through an actual winter, or stick the bulbs in the fridge then plant them to make them think theyve gone through winter
Or a weaker light for plants, causing them to grow higher.
Around here we have a shelf mushroom called chicken of the woods - doesn't taste like much but the texture is just like chicken.
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This is a regional pastime in the baltics, in my country these are called "sviesta bekas" which translated would be "butter boletus", we also have a ton of chanterelle mushrooms that are insanely delicious if you know how to cook them. If you ever visit the region, and can get a guide to go mushroom foraging, I highly suggest it.
There's also fly amanitas just growing in all forests for all the sketchy psychonauts out there.
I'm surprised that Thor does mushroom foraging, and I'm surprised that I'm not more surprised Thor does mushroom foraging
Every day this dude just impresses me more and I feel like I know nothing of the world any more comparatively xD
I hunt for Boletes, Chanterelle, St Georges Mushrooms, and Oyster Mushrooms (but we also grow the oyster mushrooms as well). Mushrooms are awesome and super versatile.
My wish (for more mushroom content) had been granted! Great video 😊 Grew up/live in the PNW and it's an absolute mecca for coveted fungi, which I've only just started to appreciate recently.
You are an inspiration, good sir, and I surely hope to bump into you out in the field some day.
You ain't going for those, where are the real mushrooms 😂
Thor's Mushroom Lore and Spores Galore
we used to gather morels and fiddleheads where I grew up. It was in a valley and there was a lot of edible mushrooms, and we also would go berry picking.
Thor feels like the type of guy who thinks he knows a lot about things like mushrooms but he ends up dying from eating death mushroom