Fall Mushroom Foraging in Ontario

[@OPAffiliateSPage]

I will be jumping up and down with a happy dance if I found a puff ball that huge 🤩💃

[@cordesmiley]

Great video as always Chef Steve! It was very educational. The editing has improved and you have a beautiful singing voice! Those indigos look very cool!

[@chefstevenallen6095]

Thank you Cordy! And I loved your story you shared with H BtW

[@Nikita-ui1nj]

Thank you for taking the time to do your video and share. I liked how you zoomed the underneath and top of mushrooms and your labels are so nice and clear. Nice idea on the puff lasagna.

[@chefstevenallen6095]

Thank you. I should be making another fall foraging one shortly as this year should be great for fall mushrooms

[@lungz9260]

Love this video, I’m gonna go foraging for giant puffball mushrooms when I can

[@chefstevenallen6095]

Thx

[@jonnychainwreath2869]

Thank you for the video this time of year in my area the mushrooms are popping up . I'd like to see a blewits foraging vid , I found my first in a long time . They are growing in a hay field along a deciduous tree line . Also found some giant puffballs and an old chicken mushroom 🍄 Happy hunting

[@chefstevenallen6095]

I will do a blewitt one next fall. This year I found so many blewitts I was shocked. The fall oysters will be popping here in SW Ontario in the next week or so and I plan on that as my next video. This year was more of a general forage video but I intend on make a few shorter ones targeting specific species Thx

[@eunjungkim4022]

I like your youtube its making me learn👍

[@nashamorrison3113]

Wonderful video. Thanks

[@chefstevenallen6095]

Thx

[@lloydtransom8525]

Awesome video! I am also a mushroom forager and I found your information to be great. I knew most of the mushrooms you talked about, but being in Northern Ontario (Elliot Lake) some are harder to find up here. But all the same, great video!

[@chefstevenallen6095]

Thanks so much

[@garrysanderson5793]

Hey that's cool I'm in Sault Ste marie

[@xthe_moonx]

i bleed blue....GO LEAFS GO!!!

[@joet81]

I have such an amazing season foraging in southern Ontario this year as well! And right now there are so many wood blewits out it's ridiculous!!! And strangely enough, I have been finding lactarius indigo up until about 2 weeks ago! I'm in the London area- how about you? Happy hunting and keep those great videos coming!

[@chefstevenallen6095]

Very nice! Indeed, Ive never seen this many indigos or blewits as there has been this year! The oyster mushroom season is typically end of October but is only just starting here now. I hope to have a short video out on collecting them in the next two weeks

[@joet81]

@@chefstevenallen6095 awesome! Can't wait to watch the video. Happy Hunting!

[@K.I.M.7777]

Amazing!

[@anuraksongsicharoey2018]

Top dog

[@sew_So_beautiful]

I live in Southern Ontario and have spent much of my life in the woods, but haven't seen about half of those varieties of mushrooms, such as the milky caps. Why did you trim the edges and gills from the blue ones? Was there a reason, or was it just to make them look nicer before cooking? We had lots of puffballs 3 years ago, a few 2 years ago, and none last year. The same went for morales. And before that we never saw morales. They were in our orchard by the house. We expected last year to have lots of mushrooms, but that wasnt the case.

[@chefstevenallen6095]

Yes, I trimmed the edges of the indigo mushrooms for aesthetics only. Every year is much different from one another. About 3 years ago was an incredible flush of numerous mushrooms but last year was void of most things due to the dryness we had. Hopefully this year is better. I had a spot that 10 years ago held about 200+ giant puffballs but have never seen a flush even close to that since.

[@richardethier8091]

Need to find some experts in New Jersey to go mushroom hunting

[@indigofamily1451]

Wow amazing video!, i live around scarborough currently and found some decent edibles! I never thought of the lasagna puffball recipe and i hope to find some indigos aswell.

[@chefstevenallen6095]

Thx. This year has been amazing for pretty near everything. This weekend there are honey mushrooms popping everywhere so keep an eye out for those!!

[@indigofamily1451]

@@chefstevenallen6095 thank you!

[@HiddenBlessingsHomestead]

What is your favourite edible mushroom guide book?

[@chefstevenallen6095]

I like the national audobon society mushroom guide and because I am in Ontario I like Mushrooms of Ontario and eastern Canada

[@TheBlackvielbrides]

Thank you for nice video of foraging mushrooms. Is Porcini mushroom ( King Boletes) avialble anywhere in Ontario?

[@chefstevenallen6095]

Thank you for the nice comment. Yes there are a number of porcini species here in Ontario. Mind you, I have yet to find very many close to me here I. Cambridge. I see lots found farther north and east of here (Algonquin and bordering Quebec area)

[@TheBlackvielbrides]

Thank you so much@@chefstevenallen6095

[@rudolfhorvat57]

I always thought that there will be much difference between european and american mushrooms. I was wrong. Almost the same specious with some local differences.

[@chefstevenallen6095]

There are indeed some that are the same, some that are similar, and some that look the exact same but are completely different. Some Europeans get in trouble here thinking that a particular mushroom is one that they recall from home……but isn’t

[@rudolfhorvat57]

Oh, didn't know that. Thank you. I would never take or eat mushroom that I'm not 100% sure which speaces it is, espeacially on the other continent.

[@xthe_moonx]

my dad used to bring me out mushroom hunting but he only knew of 1 edible mushroom. the way he taught me to find them are, they grow on birch stumps and are only edible after the first frost of the year. apparently they arnt edible before the frost, the frost kills w.e thats inside thats not good for u to eat. after watching some videos and research, i cant seem to verify the frost claim but i also dont know what kind of mushrooms they are. got any ideas? im in northern ontario.

[@chefstevenallen6095]

@@xthe_moonx were they black and looked and felt like a lump of charcoal or were the half moon shaped, white and smooth? The black one is Chaga and it is never poisonous but after the first frost and particularly, in the middle of winter, that’s the best time to harvest for the antioxidants to be at their best. The other white ones are birch polypore, but again are never poisonous and are typically used in tinctures as they are quite leathery to eat

[@shannonbecool101]

Ok was it just me or was there a tick on the chicken mushroom??!!

[@chefstevenallen6095]

I know the big you mean in the video (on the suillus americanus?) but it wasn’t a tick.

[@horatiohuffnagel7978]

Chicken fats come out in spring in Ontario not fall and in this video the leaves are all green. Are you trolling? Lol

[@chefstevenallen6095]

Sorry, but no they do not fruit in spring here. Typically you will find them as early as July but rarely earlier. As you can see from my video, I also foraged giant puffballs as well as lactarius on the same day (September 26ish hence the greenery) and of course neither of those mushrooms grow in spring either.

[@sew_So_beautiful]

What are chicken fats? ​@@chefstevenallen6095