Why don't normies clean/peel their fucking mushrooms? >Yes

>>9332568
If you don't want to eat shit, avoid mushrooms.

>liking mushy shrooms

>>9332568
The only mushrooms I've ever liked were tempura'd.

Mushroom pickers have for generations known that if you wash the dirt off of mushrooms with water after picking them, it will cause them to spoil much faster. That's why it's good to only brush the biggest clumps of dirt off and store them still slightly dirty, so they keep for a little longer. Right before preparation you should then wash the remaining dirt off before cooking them.

At some point someone with no good understanding of cooking or fungiculture assumed that this means that water is some kind of mushroom kryptonite that should never come in contact with them. So this piece of misinformation that you should never wash mushrooms got propagated by people that didn't know any better until it even made it into a few cookbooks and became dogma for poor cooks. This despite the fact that mushrooms grow outside, where it fucking rains all of the time.

>>9332762
This guy speaks truth. I'm from a family with long mushroom picking traditions.

If you pick in environmentally clean areas, preparing mushrooms for immediate eating (say, sautee in a pan) doesn't require washing, but doesn't hurt. If you prepare to pickle them, definitely wash. If you freeze them, don't wash before freezing, wash after unfreezing, before preparation. If you dry them, washing recommended, but not necessary.

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>>9332568
>>9332762

>>9332768
Fuck you

Cultivated mushrooms have been grown in sterile substrate for decades, gramps

>>9332768
Brushroom