Cremini (or Brown) Mushroom Guidelines

Published on Monday, October 6, 2008, by CHOW Video Team / Edit Post

Cremini (or Brown) Mushroom Guidelines

Far West Fungi manager Ian Garrone describes what you should be looking for when buying a brown mushroom, whether you should eat the stem, and what the underside “veil” of the mushroom means.

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  • The white button mushroom is exactly the same as a cremini. They are genetically identical. They are both agaricus bisporus. http://mycology.wikia.com/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus for more information on them.

  • Maxmillion:
    He owns a mushroom store, for crying out loud. "Baby portabellos" lends nothing to the picture since they taste nothing like them and they can't be "ripened off the vine"...

  • That was fantastic -- I learned a lot.

    I am, however, surprised that the expert neglected to mention that cremini mushrooms are baby portobellos.