Chicken Of The Woods On Conifer - Toxic?

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[@grob420]

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[@chuckbailey6835]

Adam can you do some more videos on how you use or cook your edibles? Thanks

[@johntrevestal912]

Hey Adam, congrats on putting together what looks to be an awesome course. Well worth the money for some, but way too expensive for me. Perhaps, as a suggestion, offer the course in the future with the option to study by region...making it more affordable because it's maybe 30 trees or less... Peace man

[@Vastafari34]

Do you think you could find another animal to do a short story on like that time you documented the Pileated Woodpecker? That was a FANTASTIC experience.

[@timfrost9452]

RT

[@grob420]

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[@missshroom5512]

Hi guys! Michigan here🌎☀️💙….I’m so glad you uploaded this😁

[@zackk2640]

This is my current favorite channel.

[@notmyworld44]

The Cincinnatus variety of this fungus occurs in the area in which I live (northwest Arkansas), and I have encountered it several times. The common name of Chicken Mushroom is well deserved, because when battered and "chicken fried" (southern style) it tastes remarkably similar to chicken breast meat. It has nearly the same texture, and is remarkably filling and satisfying! I've never tried it prepared any other way, but I should have. Every time I have encountered this fungus it was growing on the ground near the base of an oak tree.

[@dougzirkle5951]

Actually, if you think about it, since both the sulphur-shelf & the hemlock aren’t poisonous singly, then it should follow that the fungi using the conifer as its growing medium would not be toxic either. It just comes down to whether an individual has an existing allergy to either to begin with. Thanks for covering this!

[@steezydan8543]

I cultivated what I thought was an orange coloured Oyster Mushroom. Cooked one tiny guy and ate it, tasted pretty good. About 5 minutes later I get this terrible taste in my mouth and start salivating uncontrollably. I had eaten a False Oyster that's FULL of sulfur and my mouth tasted like butt for a couple of hours and I kept burping. Got my sulfur supplement for the decade, TMDWU

[@fourshore502]

didnt you smell the sulphur when you cooked it?

[@lilyw.719]

LOLOL. Well, I'm glad you lived. I hope you will be more careful.

[@Sheepdog1314]

so you know what butt tastes like? LOL

[@weekendwarrior5303]

I concur with the sentiment that the problem may lay within people not fulling cooking COW. It's easy to cut it in large portions unlike most other mushrooms. And if you're not keen on thoroughly cooking your mushrooms to begin with, it's very easy to eat raw COW. My personal experience was that it ran right through me, but no other discomforts.

[@neonemptiness8152]

Apart from diorea it was great 🤷🏼

[@quitemountainwoman1592]

Thank you 🙏

[@fungoidal]

A good common name distinction for cincinnatus and sulphureus is to call cincinnatus "White-Pored Chicken of the Woods".

[@alana8567]

Thanks, Adam! Informative and concise as always. I find most of what you have to share is helpful over here in Michigan, so thanks for keeping these videos coming!

[@timsullivan4566]

I don't see how it would have been possible for you to have provided a clearer explanation. Thanks for the service you provide 😍

[@kbjerke]

Makes a lot of sense, Adam! Thanks! I hope to go foraging further than my back yard soon!

[@timothybrown7779]

You’ve been gone a long time!! Happy to see you back.

[@johntrevestal912]

Excellent video! Your proficiency and willingness to share knowledge is helpful and inspiring. Now we need to get you out here to Northern California to help us better understand the chicken of the woods out here and also the boletes! The chicken of the woods we found on Mount Shasta growing on a downed conifer of some type was edible for most of us in a group of about 12 but 2 or 3 people I think experienced stomach problems for a day.

[@francinebacone1455]

I always cherish your uploads! Thanks always! :)

[@monicamacneille3372]

Super helpful! I've passed up on some incredible chicken mushrooms on conifers in the past and wondered about this.

[@robbutler7281]

A brilliant video on a common topic (CotW). Adam, you are a treasure!

[@tactfulredneck3937]

This is my favorite KZbin channel I'm obsessed 😍

[@obiwanda]

This is so awesome to see, good information from a popular channel. This will go a long way towards dispelling the constant onslaught of folksy myths and misinformation in the foraging community

[@kathylincoln8917]

Thank you for all your knowledge 🙂

[@Vastafari34]

I love your videos dude!

[@manuelsousa5507]

Here in RI I love the Hen of the Woods. Yesterday I picked wild asparagus! I love your videos

[@nora-_-]

I get them growing on dead stumps

[@thecarlislehomestead]

As always, good information. Thank you from North Idaho.

[@chrisblevins5143]

This was a fantastic video Adam! I've heard from many, many people about conifer chicken of the woods being toxic. But I've always said exactly what you stated, it depends on the person!

[@SandiHooper]

Another great video-looking forward to following you this season. Happy hunting!

[@gigistrus490]

Respect and admire your sharing of information. Thank you for the education.

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

Thanks for clarifying Adam!

[@SusanAnnePowerOfTruth]

Helpful info from you *as always!* here in New Hampshire. Thank you!

[@Woodlandbill]

Excellent information as usual, I found it very helpful thank you

[@nora-_-]

Last year, we found over 50# of hen of the woods❤

[@katen1228]

WOW! 💕💕💕💕

[@donnacovel4460]

Adam,I've learned so much from your videos. Thank you for your knowledge.From NW Pa. Happy foraging☮️

[@RNG-999]

Love your videos, Adam. Always a treat when you upload.

[@barb8190]

Always enjoy watching and learning. Thanks for. your videos

[@Vastafari34]

What a treat, two videos so close to each other !

[@shannontaylor1849]

Excellent information presented, edited, and narrated especially well. World class. I greatly value your contribution to the cosmos friend.

[@AOKUrbanHomestead1]

You are amazing, have enjoyed learning from you for years

[@gyandevi3361]

Such sage advice and practical wisdom! So grateful for your videos, newsletters, and classes. Especially love your videos which have given me great joy during times of struggle. The pandemic and serious illness has kept me off the mountain or foraging in the fields. -- Vermont herbalist

[@jasonanders7003]

I just watched your garlic mustard video. Your content is excellent. Best of luck to your future endeavors.

[@rewildingus]

You’ve given what I believe to be a pretty accurate description of why some people may get gastric upset after eating chicken of the woods. I’ve experienced with chicken of the woods to see if the age of fungi has an impact and have eaten chicken of the woods at various stages of development and did have mild gastric upset after eating chicken of the woods when it had become slightly aged and crumbly..

[@ildiko1vt]

Excellent Adam! Thank you for the clarification that so many people misunderstand.

[@joshuarush5762]

Another Excellent opportunity to learn

[@flowercook3142]

So interesting as always! Especially finding out there are 3 varieties of chickens!

[@SuperCameronMan]

Thanks for informative and very useful video, Adam!

[@takashimono]

Great information, Dr. H.! You're a great teacher!

[@Silvertip1958]

I found Chicken of the woods growing on a princess tree on my land. It was delicious!

[@alexlovesfungi]

Another great video. Thanks Adam!

[@shineyrocks390]

Outstanding I just ate Giant puffball mushrooms today for the first time. No negative effects as of right now. They were delicious!

[@glynnphillips9703]

Thank you Adam ✨️ Your show is awesome

[@jizzaymz]

Another great video Adam! ✌🏼

[@OakGill]

Awesome! Thanks for the heads up!

[@Ragani108]

What a great video! (I hadn't realized COW came out of as early as May!) Thank you for all your awesome mushroom videos- I really appreciate your info and perspectives (and I now carry a bag for trash too when I forage for mushrooms 😊). Thank you!!

[@paulfollo8172]

Another great video! Thanks for sharing. 👍

[@gloriacoffey4651]

Appreciate the video and the beautiful mushrooms you found

[@danielknisell7018]

Awesome content! Glad I stumbled upon your channel.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

My first thought was, the hemlock tree itself is edible, specifically the inner bark is a common forage edible and the needles can be used to make tea. The chicken of the woods mushroom is edible. Therefore the chicken mushroom growing on it should still be edible, barring any allergies or attempts to eat it raw.

[@sapelesteve]

Excellent video & great info on those mushrooms Adam! Hope that all is well. 👍👍🍄🍄

[@southpark159753]

Came back after a not seeing your vids pop up in the algorithm for a bit, you got me into mushroom hunting again and love your work and energy. One note i have is your videos are looking a little compressed, id check video resolution settings on your camera and video compression settings in the video editing program you use.

[@shainekinson1751]

Excellent video! Thank you for making us smarter by sharing your knowledge. This was a great subject to cover!

[@tbonky]

Really great info Adam! We love Chicken of the Woods. Important to know some have reactions to them.

[@timfrost9452]

I'm excited to find my first Chicken of the Woods hopefully this year! Adam, have you done videos on how to cook mushrooms, make tinctures etc? Im getting more into foraging and would love to have some quality videos to learn from. You always do such a great job on yours that I think it would be very well received! Keep on with the great content!

[@DannaGesellchen]

His course on mushrooms covers all of this.

[@tarajoyce3598]

Love your channel!

[@arthadellaanderson4983]

Love your info. Long time subscriber

[@objective_psychology]

Thanks for clarifying!

[@wesh388]

Extremely helpful, thank you very much!

[@matthewmarron8757]

I think I found one of these at Todd Nature Reserve in western pa along the green trail.

[@lisahamm6225]

Hi Adam. I remember being with my mycology group In Ligonier and finding chicken of the woods on a cherry tree. The mushroom gurus in the group wouldn’t even harvest it from the cherry tree. I’ve eaten plenty of these guys too. I can eat a very few at a time. Too much doesn’t agree with me. As always thanks for the excellent video.

[@obiwanda]

you'd be surprised (or perhaps unsurprised) to find out how many "mushroom gurus" spread misinformation

[@pooter98]

Many years ago a friend gave me some chicken of the woods from NY. We sauted them in butter and they were ok but a little tougher than id like. My husband spent the next 7 or so hours in a state that i can only describe as screaming while violently vomiting. He now has trouble eating a lot of mushrooms and I dont blame him. Ive always wondered what that was about until i saw your video today. It was easy to spot them as your 3rd example!

[@SpaceMulva]

I just eat all the coral and chickens raw on my hikes. Still not dead. Zero fucks.

[@johnford7847]

Fascinating. Thank you.

[@patrickbelongea6896]

Thanks, I learn so much from you.

[@baharavi]

Very helpful and informative video. I foraged and cooked some chicken of the woods last year for the first time, of the first variety I believe. They were delicious and my stomach had no issues. I hope to return to the spot and find them again this year.

[@okopnik]

Ditto on the conifer CoW experience. I once found a dead one that had over 40 lbs (!) of L. conifericola on it; between me and my gf and picking only the most tender parts of it, we eventually got through the whole thing. Not a bellyache in the entire lot.

[@riverbender9898]

Thanks Adam.

[@LeafyK]

I found L. cincinattus and was so worried that I was misidentifying it because the whitish border didn’t match “chicken of the woods” photos online. Luckily, my optimistic parents had no negative effects after eating it against my advice.

[@CampingforCool41]

The good news is that there really aren’t any poisonous mushroom lookalikes to chicken of the woods that have its key characteristics like the pores and growth pattern.

[@MaxS535]

Great video!

[@eliserothman]

Hey thanks for this!

[@edmondndrecaj4377]

I found some today here in jersey went for hike with my dog and I plan on cooking some soon as I get home this would be a first

[@bwrightaway2877]

A fountain of knowledge!

[@MetatronsWing]

Thank you always love your videos😁💙💙

[@rancidcrawfish]

Glad you mentioned that common things like morels don't agree with everyone. I can only eat them in small amounts, otherwise I'll be nauseous for hours. Same with the conifer chicken of the woods

[@DavinStewart]

Hey Adam, loved the video and appreciate the clear, concise information as always! Well done and happy to see your subscriber list growing! Here's an idea ... for your 500K subscriber celebration, could you tell us how to grow morels? ;-)

[@jimketchum3169]

Thanks a million, bud! These videos are always excellent to the nth degree! Is there a hen of the woods video anywhere we can find? I know where there's hundreds of them on downed birch trees, but never dared to eat them, not knowing what to do once they're off the tree.

[@katen1228]

We only find one in the fall ( I am susceptible to poison ivy and oak so I do go much into the timber) but we’ve sauté with veggies but we’ve also dehydrated some of it to add to soups and other items if we want it later winter season.

[@jimketchum3169]

@@katen1228 Thanks, Kate. Never thought of dehydrating them. There may be thousands in this wood lot they cut over the last 5 years or so. Acres of 2"-4" trees just left to rot and they were COVERED with these things last I was there (yep, in the fall). Wonder if I could just put in food grade 5 gallon buckets or should I vacuum seal them? Guess the indians didn't have vacuum sealers back in the day and they preserved them for later, right? Guess now I need to watch a YT on how to saute, lol.

[@katen1228]

@@jimketchum3169 , we’ll dang lucky you. From what I’ve found they come up in the same area, year after year. (I’m in East central Iowa). And normally when I’ve dehydrate them, I put them in glass jars ( just because I think the seal a meal bag: if things are left too long have a funny after taste). Then I vacuum seal the jars. But I’m guessing that if they’re dried out enough they’d be fine. ( you don’t even need to rehydrate then if your adding them to soup or stews since they’ll soak up the water/stock, but we usually rehydrate them first. We’ve done oyster mushrooms also but I don’t care for the taste of those. We’re looking to find puff balls, but haven’t found any in the few years we’ve look.

[@shalacarter6658]

@@jimketchum3169 I have dehydrated Sulphur Shelf by cutting it into pieces and stringing them, than hanging them. You can also grind them when dried and put in food.

[@jimketchum3169]

@@katen1228 Thanks again, Kate. All good info. We have massive puffballs here too, but they're weird (obviously). They never seem to migrate on the wind far from the original after they dry and release about 3 trillion spores. Also weird that you can have, say, a dozen in the same 10 feet or so, and at the end of the season they can be as small as a pea or as big as a basketball, growing 3 feet away from the other. ??? And guess I'd have to watch a YT to see how cook those weirdo's too. I'm in Maine, btw.

[@WalkThePath]

Great video 👍

[@saner6888]

Useful info.👍

[@ragnoxten4158]

Great video.

[@springbooth3547]

Very informative.

[@summerbreeze1955]

Thank you love your vids. Haven't come across c. o. w . in ages I am in the UK, but it is a fave of mine. Luv n light x

[@davidanonymous5185]

Great video

[@hsqueen5907]

Long time no see, thanks for video.👍

[@frankmacleod2565]

Might I also recommend battering them with tempura batter and frying like a katsu cutlet, they come out wonderful.

[@jakefrechette3224]

Not sure if you're a fan of the High Republic Star Wars books but a lesson from Into the Dark came to mind when hearing this unfortunate news. A padawon is asked why nobody can cross the kyber bridge alone; the answer being that when you cross it you are following all the jedi who have crossed it before you and therefor you were never alone. It may sound like gibberish but that lesson I think applies to us all. You are not alone. Movie recommendation: The princess bride!

[@iasimov5960]

I harvested about five pounds of L. cincinnatus yesterday. It's in the freeze drier today.

[@aperry4313]

Very helpful thank you

[@SammeLagom]

Very good video! I look forward to next season here in Sweden I will go out and search for these and try them out.

[@claytonbarrett6067]

You rock brother. Thanks

[@KAFKUBA]

Thank you. I've eaten them without issue. And great tip about alcohol...i have issues with all mushrooms and alcohol intestinally speaking

[@frankmacleod2565]

I've been eating sulfureus for years, from whatever trees it grows from. Lots of ones sprout from eucalyptus in central and southern California, I find them mainly on oaks up north here but occasionally on pine trees. None have had any effect on me and I've fed them to a lot of other people with no effect.

[@violettracey]

Thanks!

[@bellador4]

love it, thanks!