This Is How We Preserve Our Wild Mushroom Harvest

[@debbiechambers3423]

I canned nine pints of chanterelle mushrooms and two quarts of dehydrated love them

[@Mike-mn8wy]

There's an awesome pickled "conserve" recipe that's worthy if interested! I did 11 half pints already this year and still have some from last year. Alan Bergo @ "Forager Chef" has a great "Chantrelle Conserve" recipe.. I guarantee you'll do these again and again once you've done it once and tasted them! Works well with others too..

[@daroldw4606]

I freeze dried my whole harvest last year. It was also my first mushroom hunt.

[@wcoastlaurie-7-2]

As a fellow Canuck food prices are absurd! I have been serious about food storage since 2009,I can’t tell you how many people have made negative comments to me about it,I don’t care but don’t come knocking when shit goes sideways and you’re hungry. Prepare today survive tomorrow! We love foraging and growing our own food! Every home needs a garden !

[@Condor1970]

I vacuum sealed my dried chanty's, and after a week they got soft. They also seemed to have kind of a funny smell.

[@SoulMedia1]

Wonderful production and thoughtful explanation. Your delivery is great too ! So much useful info. Just got our first forage of a great batch of golden Chanterelles, so thx for the tips !

[@MrBiloxifireman]

I just found 8+ Acres of Golden chantrell mushrooms, we just put a 1200 pound bull calf in our freezer so I guess it's dehydrating until they're gone. Thanks for the video it was very helpful. Im a new subscriber now 😊.

[@thefishfin-atic7106]

another awesome video! I have always dried my chanterelles and other mushrooms for long-term storage; had no idea you could pre-cook them and then freeze them like that! Thanks for sharing.

[@Wilderstead]

Give it a try! We find it a better tasting product than the dried ones. Both are good, but we do indeed prefer the sautéed and frozen ones.

[@wingnutbert9685]

@@Wilderstead I'll second the freezing! I saute in a bit of butter and salt until the liquid is drawn out, like in your pan. BUT...I stop sauteing them, drain them into a bowl, through a sieve. Put drained shrooms in a separate bowl. Once all are done, I prep vac bags, fill equally with shrooms, then add back the drained liquid evenly between the bags. Freeze then vac seal. You could also just keep the saute juices separate and freeze for a soup base. I like having the liquid in with the shrooms. I figure why waste the broth when it has flavour too. Your Chant's are a nice orange. Our's here on Van. Island are pale. We pick around our property. We get them anywhere from a teacup saucer size to a dinner plate! Hope this year is good. Last couple have been a bust. Same for Matsutake/Pine Mushrooms.

[@SpliffyMeister]

Nice chanterelles I am a harvestor of mushrooms, berries and medicinal herbs. Chanterelles you can eat straight up, but are great when fried with bacon onions and eggs. There are LOTS of mushrooms you can eat straight up! But you must be very well versed in which ones are dealy poisonus which there is NOT that many In North America (I harvest in the Boreal /Canadian Shield) Chanterelles you do not NEED to cook, all you have to do is let the sun dry them either whole or you can slice and dry them outside in the sun which will also give the mushrooms VIT C you do this for 3 days bring them in when dark outside. So if you want to infuse your mushrooms with Vitamin C let them get some sun!

[@Wilderstead]

The sun will potentially increase Vitamin D, bud, not vitamin C. They grow outside exposed to the sun and have already absorbed as much as they can for the most part. And yes, if you like, you can dehydrate outside. We harvest a very large amount of wild foods too.

[@PNWForager]

I tried this and it’s awesome.

[@Jeff-xe5mf]

Beautiful job! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@mynorthernfarm7324]

Awesome video Wildstead ,I wished I foraged little more.

[@taggmartin5426]

Hi great video, very informative! What brand dehydrator do you use in this video? Thanks

[@ericastier1646]

In which state do you live ?? this harvest is incredible. I barely get chanterelles in NC.

[@offgridwanabe]

More food for the challenge and next winter lol

[@Wilderstead]

Man, we still have to get our spring harvest video up. We’ve been so lazy with videos 😂

[@GardeningWarrior]

very helpful and informative...thank you for sharing all of this!

[@Wilderstead]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ericastier1646]

Good lord ! where do you live, i spend a whole afternoon and get 1/20 of what you got and much smaller chanterelles too.

[@ExitTheMatrixVR]

How for the butter cooking method how do you thaw them out once you take them out the freezer.

[@peggy-h2w]

How long and what temperature is good for dehydrator mushrooms

[@scottadams2901]

How do you reconstitute them. Are you just adding them to a male? Do you reconstitute them and then cook them?

[@COOPERSCICHILDS]

Awesome

[@carolkantner1770]

I'd like to find some of those

[@jasne2992]

Everybody talks about how healthy and vitamin rich mushrooms are. But what amount of vits and minerals is actually stays in them after cooking? For veggies and so its about 20%, but eating mushrooms raw and get those 100% isnt really a good idea like you said.

[@agratefuldread1949]

So many people say they don’t rehydrate well, but I read so many people say they dehydrate them. My question is, how do you prefer to rehydrate them? Thanks in advance

[@Wilderstead]

In warm water for about an hour.

[@islandlife7872]

Fan from NL...I have a few Chanterelles on my property, but have been trying to help them spread...do you guys have any tips?

[@Wilderstead]

Chanterelles are entirely dependant on the surroundings they live in. They’re a mycorrhizal fungi, the bulk of their being lives beneath the soil and is never seen. Let the area be itself and chanterelle fruits should continue.

[@islandlife7872]

@@Wilderstead I have been, but trees (fir mostly) and other plant species are taking over. It's a small area, a lot of moss but again there is no stream in the area...I know that's not always important...but the forest is taking over and the chanterelle population is declining. Thank you for responding! Always nice to know somebody is willing to share info to others

[@Mike-mn8wy]

Love Chantrelles! I pickle and water bath can them also along with cooking and freezing some. I love the pickled method. I just did 11 half pints and still have a couple pints from last year. The pickling or "Conserve" is super tasty!! Didn't think dehydrating was good with these though, so learned something off of your video! Thank you! What's your preferred use for the dehydrated Chantrelles?

[@Wilderstead]

Soups and stews. Recipes that allow them to entirely rehydrate and be delicious.

[@Mike-mn8wy]

@@Wilderstead awesome! Thanks!!

[@jmf1976jmf]

I like your editing

[@homesteader86]

Another awesome video! I am loving these. We are moving up to Zone 2 next month and hope to follow some of your tips. Can you please show us how you cook with the dehydrated mushrooms as well? Do you just stick them into stews etc. Or do you need to rehydrate first? Thank you and keep up the fantastic content!

[@Wilderstead]

Yup, just rehydrate them in some warm water, then cook them as you please. We’ll try to get a recipe video up soon with them 😉 cheers!

[@ericastier1646]

There is nothing wrong with soaking mushrooms to clean them for 1 min and repeat until the water is clean.

[@torepres]

Why add butter and spices before conserving/freezing the mushrooms? Adding butter/fat will only shorten the time they can be stored! I only boil them for some minutes and after cooling, I just Freezing them in their own juice/brine and they can bie stored for years in the freezer!

[@Wilderstead]

We’ve tried your method in the past and it wasn’t something we enjoyed eating. We prefer this method.

[@jamesdavis1821]

I think it's worth mentioning that there's a toxic look alike. Jack-o'-lantern

[@julynbaker1718]

What do those kind of mushrooms taste like?

[@Wilderstead]

They have a bit of a delicate fruity (apricot) aroma. Very tasty.

[@robertreed7963]

I describe it as peppery. BUT, the fact is I like them and I hate vegetables. ( I still don't think carrots are actually food for humans ). I eat them in the woods as I find them unless I have an occasional visitor I want to impress with my Bear Gryls imitation.

[@PatrickCoste]

Superbe!!! ❤

[@jmf1976jmf]

Mushrooms appear to be worth more than understood 50 years ago

[@MarikaMeos]

this is a wrong way to pick chantarelle mushrooms. You shouldn't cut at the stem.

[@mackigator]

And? How do you harvest them?

[@landonedwards7504]

Content OK. But you could have presented everything in about 2 minutes. Repetitions are not needed.

[@Wilderstead]

The soup was stirred and stirred until it was thickened.