Mountain Mushroom Hunting- Morels and Porcini Forage and cook!

[@daroldw4606]

Ok! You got me excited to go out again, I'll drive a couple hours, walk miles and not find anything. lol!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Hey it's worth a shot!

[@Nicole-ww4lg]

'you're either winning or you're learning' is probably good advice for anything

[@kimprocarione5473]

Ohhhhh! Squeaky morels! ♥️ The one was GIANT! I've never seen anything like it 😮 Your dinner is looking amazing! You're quite the cook, Aaron!

[@denaredford6701]

Great video , perfect mushrooms . You made every thing look so tasty .

[@yungestlegend]

me and my homies love and support mushroom wonderland. keep mushin

[@vladfreeman8461]

Best morels season for me ever last week

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Great!

[@Jahrikg]

Awesome finds! Thanks for taking us along with you and the bonus recipe!

[@chrisanderson1498]

Love your excitement so much, that I went out with a local Mycology group last weekend and plan to go out again this weekend! I had been going out by myself, but it's nice with a group and some knowledgeable folks. Learned so much from your channel !!! Thanks Aaron!!

[@natedizzy]

Lovely hike and harvest!

[@theboyfactory6]

I get mushroom envy for all of these places that have accessibility to so many edible varieties for much of the year.

[@Wolfcastmushrooms]

Love the beginning, coming in hot from the coffee and pre-hunt excitement! I know the feeling! Great video as always

[@DoubleADay]

Dang that risotto looked amazing

[@timhaywood1100]

Another awesome episode and wow what a chonker on the way back to the car! I look forward to every new episode.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@jaimeortega4940]

Risotto looked delicious!

[@jessicapatton7862]

That meal looked mind-blowingly delicious!

[@fungitye]

Where’s my buddy gunner, I hardly ever hunt with out my lab dog marble. Love your videos, thank you my fungal friend.

[@morgankruse4666]

Same, my lab is a mushroom hunting fool!😅

[@mushroomwonderland1]

He's getting a bit older and on some days his ankle bothers him, so he's not making it to the mountains too much anymore, unfortunately.

[@stevejonas6333]

Great video Aaron! Loved the foraging, and especially the meal you cooked at the end. Thank you!

[@cynthiahofer2903]

I was surprised by morels growing around my fire pit in my back yard this year! Amazing!

[@ASMRGRATITUDE]

Man made burn morels 😂

[@BirdVideoNature76pd]

Complimenti oottimi funghi, like !👍

[@outdoorloser4340]

I love your catch and cook videos the best 😊

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Great, I'll try to make more in the future!

[@vladfreeman8461]

I love the adventure! I found some white and black morels last week in North Idaho

[@Antler_addict]

I thought I would have found some near Hayden this year but it's been too dry & I haven't found anything edible this year & I have been looking every day while driving everywhere from 9 mile/north spokane to the valley, Haden, post falls & Cor de laine. Nothing but LBM's & old turkeytail.

[@vladfreeman8461]

@@Antler_addict need to head up to the CDA river. Up high I bet they are still popping up. I could show you if you want?

[@vladfreeman8461]

I was driving looking at the ground where I found them before and right underneath a fir 🌲 i saw a perfect morel!!!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

That's the best! Drive by foraging

[@katkatkat88888]

Very inspirational!

[@southpawscientific4122]

Monster morel! Just listen to how solid that thing sounded when you cut it

[@myrnasecretario1403]

Pumped up! I’m impulsive that way too!!

[@knittygirlone3391]

You need to mail some of those morels to those of us in other parts of the country. You've had too many this year! hahahaha!

[@WalkswithMoss]

Very cool!

[@grumpyredpandagotcha8070]

you are the reason i have been getting into this and thankyou so much for helping me along the way man i am very thankful to have people out there making content to help us and our knowledge im a new mushroom forager, and am tryin to study different mushrooms here in canada alberta !! found a few morels , found white oysters " i think they were" found some agaricus family.. dident taste that good . im trying to get to l;earn different species . its very fun to learn . i havent ate many of what i foraged.. just a few morels and 1 of the big buttons or whatever it is . agaricus /

[@spedkidbiggy1535]

I'm in Tri-Cities WA. Id love to go look for mushrooms with you guys.

[@DoubleADay]

Don't forget to check the slash piles that were burned in the fresh logging areas

[@jaimeortega4940]

That's the biggest Morel I've ever seen! It was so big it sounded like you were slicing through rubber.

[@goodun2974]

It sounds like you're sawing through Styrofoam when you cut those morel stems!

[@outdoorloser4340]

You are a really Fungi! I'll see myself out now....

[@tylerkrug7719]

❤

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Nice one!

[@vladfreeman8461]

First morel I found was 6 inch or more and I wasn't even sure if it was one. Been morel hunting ever since

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Heck of a way to start!

[@NateKnows]

I guess I'll be the annoying chef... Add a splash of white wine after you toast the rice, it helps release all of the starch from the rice and you get that really creamy risotto without any actual cream. Looks incredible either way🤙

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Solid advice. Thanks.

[@goodun2974]

I like the flavor of making rice/risotto with chicken stock, but the salt content of most commercial chicken stock, even the reduced salt types, is high; I save up leftover chicken carcasses and bones in the freezer and make my own chicken stock periodically, and freeze the broth in ice cube trsys or ziploc bags. (After two valve replacement surgeries,, and with a heart that doesn't pump efficiently, I am under cardiologists' orders to ingest as little salt as possible).

[@GuardianAngelWatcher]

I’m jealous!

[@JRC1588]

That looks very good and man where in Oregon did you find truffles yum 🤤 man I need to go hiking 🥾 like tomorrow

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Even though they're called Oregon truffles we found these in Washington on vashon Island with the help of a couple of truffle trains sniffing dogs! Probably the last of the season until next winter around here. They're very unique

[@bobbyroccz1]

I'm always running to burn areas. How do you go about finding those naturals? Is love to find some not in burn areas.

[@thebeautifulhobo1]

So jealous!

[@elenaropaloify]

What was the elevation where you found most of morels mushrooms?

[@rowanwilliams6392]

Was it important that it was the east side of Mt. Rainier? If we were to go this weekend to a different Mt. In Oregon, what side of the mountain would you go to or does it matter? Thank you 😊

[@mushroomwonderland1]

No the east side of Oregon or Washington or Northern California mountain forest are all going to be pretty similar, And if you're on the east side of Mount Hood or in the Eastern Montana Forest of the Cascades you'll be in luck.

[@rowanwilliams6392]

Thank you! Might try to get out today. This was my first year finding morels near cottonwoods in May so it would be great to find some naturals at a higher elevation. Thank you for taking us with you!!

[@rowanwilliams6392]

Saturday we could not find any naturals, but we found four Spring Kings at 4700ft! Sunday we looked on a southern facing slope around 4,500ft and found two dozen naturals past their prime and about ten that were okay. Are there better slopes to look on this late in the season? Might we have had better luck looking on a northern slope? Unfortunately we did not think to switch locations as we were were with kids. Thank you for your videos! This is our first year finding naturals and spring kings! :-)

[@syaknilemtv]

Just went chanterelle hunting this morning and found a lot, also found boletus but i dont know whats edible,, do you have video about edible boletus?

[@AngiePTee]

U r talking non stop! Good that we get a break once in a while, u know.

[@TViciousPhoto]

What elevation are you finding these ?

[@Nicole-ww4lg]

you lost me with the steamed broccoli but otherwise i wanna eat at your house! hehe

[@jaimeortega4940]

No problem with the chicken stock. You should wipe off your board and rinse any dirt (yeah I know that's a mushroom faux paux) your chopped morels in distilled water or blow them off with compressed air (not computer duster/cleaner) dry off mushrooms and use immediately. In this way you don't introduce much dirt to the your dish. Also you want to have the chicken stock in a pan heated to near boiling and add that instead of cold stock out of the box.

[@stevelawson104]

What is the salt water solution?

[@misterx3188]

44:46 - 😋

[@jdalkebmxgameplay9605]

I was just over there camping and riding dirt bikes.

[@jdalkebmxgameplay9605]

No luck finding any morels though. Found some gymnopilus but not sure what sub species.

[@jdalkebmxgameplay9605]

Oh I found a bunch of those false morels

[@lillith665]

You're dopa-mining ;) It's actually prolly dopamine and GABA You are making me miss the weird alpine areas near Lake Mowich.

[@brianjanku4549]

Those didn't look like the verpa I picked this year. I only found them under cottonwood. Could they be the smooth morel?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

There are multiple species of Verpa. You probably found "early morels," Verpa bohemica.

[@brianjanku4549]

@mushroomwonderland1 yes. This is what I thought that I had found. I found them to not be nearly as good as the blond or black morels.

[@dawnlitowski4880]

what is your elevation

[@Pakdarfishing]

Hadir mas brow salam kenal Sukses selalu mas brow Semoga selalu diberikan kesehatan keselamatan dan kesuksesan

[@PNW_bourbon_buds]

What elevation were you getting the morels?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

4000' ish

[@nevereverforever0010-uf9su]

o im early. f ya

[@tylerkrug7719]

What do you do with the morels you turn into powder?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Add them into vegetable stock or gravy, It gives everything a little savory umami touch.

[@tylerkrug7719]

@@mushroomwonderland1 that's a really good idea!

[@SecretCollage]

Please get a new non-stick if is got scratched bottom 🙏, and only use non-scratch cooking utensils. Just looking out for ya.

[@watsonrk1]

We've picked and eaten sows ears for years, suprised you said they were possibly toxic.

[@ronveach5117]

Love it!

[@martyparsons8395]

I've eaten many chanterelles raw. Should I not do that?

[@Kirbykibby]

Are tou washing them before hand?

[@licorice386]

Is this recent

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Yes, last weekend

[@Kirbykibby]

A person who is into Mycology, but doesnt even pat the fungi before taking so it can disperse spores. Some of these were in their adult stage, they were mature enough for spore dispersal. You picked it.. it was the only one in a 10 foot radius and you picked in instead of letting it grow, and do its thing naturally. You can get shots of the gils, partial veil/skirt, stipe by aiming your camera under and showing everything that way. Idc if they're common a true Mycologist encourages spore dispersal when ever possible, you want there to be more of them bc of people that come and take every one they see instead of leaving some behind. Bc our species of animal (humans) dont know how to not be greedy.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@Kirbykibby the Fact is, the sexual spores probably aren't even that important at all. All fungi reproduce asexually, as well as they can fragment and create new colonies simply by asexual fragmentation. Tapping mushrooms is little more than social media fodder for ASMR junkies. By the time a mushrooms gills are exposed to the environment It is already dropping spores, and especially large mature ones have dropped millions into the atmosphere. By picking the mushroom you're actually getting spores up into the wind stream more, not that it probably matters. They fall on your hands and you carry them with you, you wipe them on your clothes and they end up going into stream tributaries and in your car, covering long distances. There's a far bigger picture.🍄

[@Antler_addict]

These videos make me soo relaxed. Also, I think its time for some new windshield wipers bud. That was like nails on a chalkboard.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Ha! Sorry to harsh your chill! lol

[@misterx3188]

Snow, wtf.

[@masamunesword]

Good news on the pig's ear front: Seems like Gyromitra ancilis has little to no gyromitrin per the latest research. So that's neat! Citation: : Alden C. Dirks, Osama G. Mohamed, Pamela J. Schultz, Andrew N. Miller, Ashootosh Tripathi & Timothy Y. James (2023) Not all bad: Gyromitrin has a limited distribution in the false morels as determined by a new ultra high-performance liquid chromatography method, Mycologia, 115:1, 1-15, DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2022.2146473

[@steverobert7028]

Having a hard time finding morels in the Niagara region.

[@joeshome3047]

Reading alot about "problems" with morels. Not taking the chance.