FORAGING THE KING OF MUSHROOMS | Delicious Forage and Cook Matsutake

Hiking the woods in California to find Matsutake(Pine Mushrooms)
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[@LaserFliping]

“Smells like gym socks.” *takes big whiff* “mmmmm smells good.”

[@hypepotatoe]

Haha thought the same thing

[@harveyscottz]

@@hypepotatoe me too. lmao! He loves that sweaty socks

[@westtexdrew6249]

😂😬😬

[@morrobayfishing5515]

Now you know why some baker's bread taste better than others...

[@jayjones9108]

he might eat bats and think they are delicious

[@clipbaits7129]

jocelyn is so good at finding/catching foods. her greatest find is you though. cheeeeesy af 😂 taku you lucky bas... 😂😂😂

[@timduncan9372]

They're made perfectly for each other. One of my favorite YT couples for sure.

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Wait they are a couple???? I thought he was friend zoned this whole time....

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@@mariosandoval8435 you must not have seen the video titled, "my GIRLFRIEND did a catch and cook!" .... pretty sure it was even written just like that... lol ... you'd like it! Check it out! All their videos are amazing.

[@bigg5239]

Can u do a video on how you became you, like how u learned to cook and etc. And maybe talk about it while preparing food. Also love watching u cook and make videos.

[@OutdoorChefLife]

For sure

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@@OutdoorChefLife were you from Cobra Kai or Miyagi Do?

[@michaelganzorig1579]

@@josephcatalan3161 this dude…

[@kabukiwookie]

I remember making and eating something like that in Hiroshima and Fukuoka with my mom as a little kid using the same mushrooms but with chestnuts, green onion and garlic in the rice as well. Haven't eaten it in decades.

[@OutdoorChefLife]

Well the next time you have it, it'll bring you right back. Just as it did for me

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@@OutdoorChefLife Even in Bhutan, we consider is one of the best herbal mushroom with best price. Absolutely King!!

[@ryanlowry5409]

My goodness, you'd love the fungi in the woods of Oregon. Eg, Chanterelle, Hedgehog, Lobster, Chicken of the woods, etc., and the ones that make you feel funny👍

[@lollypokemon]

First fish,sushi and nature and now mushrooms!! I freaking love this. Mushroom and beautiful nature perf combo.

[@dankdegl612]

I've been wanting to forage in the woods myself for a while, so I'm pumped that my fave catch and cook channel got the same idea :D awesome video!

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Who's out here disliking your videos? This is quality content my dude🤟

[@alexsolomon1636]

I love how enthusiastic you are not only on finding the mushrooms and wanting to go out and explore more, but with your cooking and the outcome of it all. I really enjoy watching these videos and seeing how happy it makes you feel you can see it and feel those good vibes just vibrating on out. I love it man keep on doing you brotha!

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honestly can’t explain how much i love this channel, it provides me with a calming serenity i’ve never really felt before.

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To this day, still one of my favorite channels. It’s great to see the progress. Just so relaxing and enjoyable to watch, keep it up you two! 💖

[@nathangoodson7390]

Been trying for almost a decade to find a Matsutake! Have not found even a rotten one yet. A nice positive coincidence, though, is that I've seen lots of other really cool mushies. I'm jealous but very happy for you! Nice work, Jocelyn!

[@elroc1]

This episode was very calming. That dish looked delicious, as well.

[@Sakana_Ren]

OMG, Jocelyn is in beast mode, when clamming and finding the hyped matsutake mushroom. I love matsutake mushroom. Sauteed works best for me. *yum*

[@caprianajiang1076]

Taku! Thank you so much for your videos they are such a perfect escape from everyday life and remind me to appreciate nature in a way I hadn’t before. You and Jocelyn are such humble, genuine, insightful and inspiring people. I’m from the Bay Area and you completely opened my eyes to a completely new side of the bay’s environment that I had never seen before. Thank you for the awesome content!!

[@rodaxel7165]

Thank you more foraging videos in forest. This is what I've been waiting for. 😊

[@tiffinfish]

First 5 seconds of this video was already so calming/satisfying. THE LIGHTING AND BACKGROUND LOOK SO SERENE. the best videos!! you and jocelyn are such a tag team!!

[@annayang1667]

Omg... Salivated through this whole video. Thanks for making such great videos and thanks for reminding us all how to be kind to the earth ❤️

[@timduncan9372]

I really like your foraging videos. Your mom makes great quality knifebags and aprons. Mushroom rice makes me nostalgic of my childhood times too.

[@terranceanthon5182]

So awsome.Super happy for you guys that you found these.Not many people know how to cook them and still retain the nose.Hats off to your Japanese heritage.

[@raulrodriguezmtb]

Taku you’re the reason why I’ve decided to try cooking as a lifestyle! Your catch and cooks always look delicious

[@oneorangebraincell]

Yes!! I love watching your mushroom foraging and cooking videos!

[@davidshu12579]

Amazing uploads as usual! There is something quite profound and calming about your style of videos, no over exaggerated edits, just simple and quality content for viewers. I’m still a beginner myself in foraging, but your videos gives me a lot of insight and encouragement to continue foraging!

[@Logiwonk]

I really appreciate your calm, grateful attitude towards the natural world and your immese respect for the ingrediants.

[@marksaxon2468]

Love your work an your mothers work and Jocelyns work of course. Really good recipes.

[@jessethomas5473]

Great video man! As a mushroom forager, i appreciate videos like this. You're very fortunate to live in the region that you do. We don't have matsutake mushrooms where i live, but i do find morels, chanterelles, chickens, hens, and lion's mane. Mushroom hunting is a whole world unto itself. Never stop learning new things!

[@lengo1607]

Nice find!!!! I love 🍄🍄🍄 foraging! Matsutakes are my favorite mushroom to hunt for! Once my friends and I found about a hundred of them, it was incredible! You must go back to the same spot every year and try to understand their growth habits. I love them in soups too like miso... Good luck on finding more!

[@markmathews1640]

The firmness of the matsitake and the smell are the best identifiers to me. Spicy gym socks!

[@kosheragex80]

You guys are so great together. I really enjoy your channel and I learn stuff too.

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I love this channel. I'm not a professional chef, but I love cooking for my family and friends. Watching you cook and prepare food brings me Peace. 🤙🔥💜

[@shamdog123]

“Knife is life” Thanks for the quality content!

[@robbergstrom943]

Beautiful-what a find. That high pitch tinkling of the charcoal sounds like Binchotan. Way to do it right!

[@FishNGrillz]

She got the mushroom eye thats why! Cheee looks good. Man wish we had that kinda stuff. I dunno we might lol , I better go check so I can throw some in with fish! ALOHA!

[@thisismine1426]

Great forage show. Traditionally, Japanese cooking involved lots of tofu ingredients in its various forms; adds tecture & excitement as well as healthy protein. Local greens for the all important presentation can be added when available. Keep up the great work guys.

[@michelleblackburn255]

Yes! I love Your mushroom videos! Looks so scrumptious! I have not try that variety before, but I am a mushroom lover. Have a blessed day!

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They are a neat couple with cool stories to show and tell.

[@KitchenFoods]

Very nice mushroom in the fresh forest. I like fresh vegetables.

[@SomethingFishy707]

Awesome these are my favorite wild mushrooms to harvest, i cant help but smell each one as you put them in your basket.

[@iamdongle]

I really like your content. Like it when both of you are in front of the camera while enjoying the food ... keep it coming

[@akaneyokoyama684]

Just made some matsutake gohan and matsutake Chawanmushi last night. I’m blessed to have friends who are mushroom experts and share their harvest with me🍄 Hello from eastern Canada🇨🇦🇯🇵

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All that the rain promises and more is a great guide to mushrooming. It can fit in you're back pocket.

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Watching these videos is like therapy to me.

[@josephsanchez165]

I love that I can feel like I'm in Cali for 16 min of my day... Thank you!

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You get to enjoy it, without paying our tax rate

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Not sitting in traffic.....!

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Or homeless camps on every corner..

[@rayotsuji9016]

As a kid, matsutake hunting was a yearly event here in British Columbia for my family. Back then, it was so abundant! Your video brought back many good memories of my mom cooking this delicious mushroom in so many ways! I can still smell that unique aroma,….. Mmmmmmm

[@miguelalvarez1155]

Love to see more foraging and eat vids from here in California. Not to many vids from here. You just might be the pioneer we've been waiting for

[@genkiferal7178]

Pour the mushroom rinse water near your shrubs around the house and sometimes, depending on species and habitat, you may get mushrooms in a year or so.

[@alexmiller3349]

It's better to straight yp make a clean mushroom culture in a petri dish amd plant it instead. This at least will be reusable for a couple of years/

[@o0LARCenCiel]

@@alexmiller3349 its not possible to cultivate matsutake.

[@alexmiller3349]

@@o0LARCenCiel it's not impossible, it's more of that nobody succeded in that. If it's possible to grow them the way that the person above described, it would work too. I'm not talking about a fully cultivated mushroom, but more of cultivating the miccelium if this species.

[@genkiferal7178]

I didn't have the time, money, or patience for culturing mushrooms - I tried very briefly. The rinse water thing works for SOME mushrooms. You can also take mushroom which are a bit too old to scatter near places you might like them to grow. If placed at the top of a hill, the spores often wash downhill, too, which can be useful...you'll have them re-spore themselves when it rains heavily.

[@jamesbroderick5311]

@@alexmiller3349 Let me know how that works out for you 🙃 There's a reason people are literally killed over matsutake patches in North America and Japan.

[@RemoraTrading]

Taku I've been watching your videos for some time I am extraordinarily impressed by all of them! Keep up the good work! absolutely outstanding content!

[@themusicgirl01]

Wow! What a rare find! Awesome video

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Knife is life Been following you for a pretty long time now been hooked since I saw the first uni foraging video and since then ive been an aspiring sushi chef at home as a hobby to impress my family and friends with what's currently a hobby

[@andyk1276]

There's something about mushrooms, the foraging, being outside and literally just finding it sitting there in the middle of nowhere, a gift from the universe just for being there. They're so fragrant and diverse in the kind of flavor, there's so many kinds, and when you cook with them... damn. I will eventually get out to the pacific northwest and experience the mushroom jungle. Right now my favorite tasting mushroom is the morel, so tender and special. Much love and thanks for this fantastic vid

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Your videos just make me happy.

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I freaking LOVE MUSHROOMS and mushroom videos. I used to go “mushroom hunting” with my younger brother when we were little.

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I love how enthused you are about mushrooms ♡

[@SkyfallLotus]

Love this video! In the PNW, I love mushroom hunting but have yet to find my first matsutake mushroom. Hoping this year will be the year! Thanks for sharing how you prepare them - makes me want to try it over rice like that.

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Most unique KZbinr and you seem like a chill ass dude! Love your Channel bro sending respect from the Central Valley!!!

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Your camping cook pot is a star of its own. Its been with you since the beginning. A damn good pot.

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That pot has seen some action!

[@tiasmom6225]

I can't believe you found those this time of year! Here in the NW, Oregon, our Matsutake season is mid-late September into November after the rain begins. The Matsutake do have that very distinct smell, it's one of the ways I'm sure I have the right mushroom. Matsutake mushrooms are such a prize that everyone is secretive about their hunting spots. Our Asian market sold Matsutake for $115 a pound last year. Crazy!!

[@carlmann7980]

Yummm!! My mouth is watering as I watched your video!! We used to pick matsutake here In Canada years ago. I remember my Mother add sliced ageh (deep fried tofu bags) in the rice too. What an amazing find - I’m sooooo jealous!!

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Thank you for producing these high quality videos! Going out several times to try and make a video but nothing comes up must suck, but your hard work and passion is pretty inspiring! End of 2020 going to be 1 million subs!

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Great job, guys. Nothing better than that. Love the video. Thanks for sharing.

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I couldn’t click fast enough so excited for another one of your videos

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Knife is life! I love mushrooms. They're beautiful and tasty.

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Unparalleled quality appreciative of knowledge truth; the very essence and flavor of it. Taku with far reaching heights appears too subdue the petite and my appetite. Cheers.

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Love your videos and your relationship with each other ❤️

[@dwaynewladyka577]

My uncles and my dad were good at foraging for wild mushrooms. They tasted really good when they were prepared. Great video. Cheers!

[@asianyangster916]

I love mushroom and this looks SO good.

[@bassassassinnn7459]

I love mushrooms, and I love mushroom hunting even more!

[@ThydaCookingTV]

Here in Asia we find a lot of mushroom in the start of rainy season in the forest

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Vada Minot we are lucky in different ways friend

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Vada Minot Yeah friend

[@Witnessdomaining]

I love these foraging videos. Congratulations with your first matsutake!

[@musicblendsnature]

That mushroom ohh my🤩. I remember my mom used to coocked it when I was 8 years old, that mushroom grows near star fruit 🌲 tree. Bring back childhood memories 😭✌️👍

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That was cool. You guys are cool. Very knowledgeable and chill positive vibes.

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Been a while since I checked in. You were just going to do this full time. Y'all look real happy. Glad the journey is going well!

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Love from Denmark! You the real MVP

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Love your channel man. I'm all about the mushrooms, and I love to cook, but it's a lot of work to forage and cook and make video during all of it, although that's what everybody seems to ask for and you nailed it.🍄

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KNIFE IS LIFE!!! WHAT A GREAT FIND!!!

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Nice taku another educational and useful video. Like your humbleness and talent good job chef.

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Hands down you’re one of my favorite youtubers

[@winane]

Jocelyn finds all the best shellfish. Now she finds the best mushrooms!! You go gurl!! Love your videos!

[@margaux6339]

Thank you for sharing your idea of cooking rice with mushroom toppings.........I'm going to try it. I LOVE mushrooms❤

[@Willi4mTrinh]

Yes!! More mushrooms!!!! Can't believe Jocelyn found such a rare mushroom on her first foraging.

[@CouchCommander5000]

I use to pick Morals for cash after forest fires (British Columbia, Canada) Pines were like the holy grail of mushrooms everyone talked about. Super cool to see you guys find some and cook them. Thanks for the vid

[@allan9692]

Keep it up guys!! Foraging for mushrooms says super fun!! Hope you can find more next time! I'll also try making that rice too 😋😋

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This man so wholesome wow

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Just love this Video. Would love to see more wild food foraging videos from you. I am sure both of you will find more delicious wild edibles to cook up.

[@toddg.2638]

Knife is life. I love mushrooms! I really enjoy your videos.

[@jesselattin174]

The Forest foraging videos are pretty cool. Hope you keep going in the hills. Be safe 👊

[@twobears11]

Awesome video! Mushrooms are delicious gifts from Mother Earth

[@rogeliobravo4927]

This video was inspiring, i dont think foraging is an option here in so cal but if i ever visit a place where i can go foraging i will definetely do it, thanks for the videos Taku and Jocelyne

[@SoundsImportant]

AWESOME!! not enough mushroom foraging videos on youtube so please do more!!!

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Knife is life! Love your channel man, I’ll never forget when you made seafood paella

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Jocelyn you're not just a Film Crew/Celeb Guest... You're like a site manager/Co-Producer. You assessed the area and you found a source for good material!!

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YES! Love the foraging videos!

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Been having some bad times, but this is a huge pick me up. Mushrooms are my fave, keep up the good content!

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Oh my god that "hello friends" almost made me cry HIS VOICE IS SO SOF AN FLUFFEH

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"Knife is life" you are awesome. love to watch your channel!

[@Hook2Cook]

Awesome first find Jocelyn! 🙌

[@obentohouse3653]

Congrats on your find. We usually do matsutake tori here in Washington State in the fall before the snow. Great that you can get matsutake in the winter in California. The flavor is very "natsukashi" for me too.

[@e.t_fish8315]

Right on! Taku, with another epic video! Cheers man!!

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wow. you guys are so awesome. you are the best couple in entertainment. Your presentations make me feel like i'm there and the feelings of love come through. I'm hooked on your channel. Thanks for sharing.

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She is a keeper! Someone that is willing to try anything you cook is the best feeling ever.