Mushroom Tips

Published on Monday, November 3, 2008, by CHOW Video Team / Edit Post

Mushroom Tips

Go way beyond the white button

Far West Fungi manager Ian Garrone shares some of his expertise, including tips on common fungi like brown mushrooms and harder-to-find specimens like lobster mushrooms. He expounds on subjects such as how to know they’re fresh and how to keep them longer. There are nine tips in the playlist below with information on all sorts of mushrooms, ranging from king trumpet to portobello to shiitake and oyster. View the tips all in sequence, or click Menu, then Playlist, to pick and choose.


Don’t Eat Raw Mushrooms
Cremini (or Brown) Mushroom Guidelines
What Are King Trumpet Mushrooms?
Buying and Cooking Portobello Mushrooms
Shiitake Mushroom Guidelines
Make Mushrooms Last
What’s a Lobster Mushroom?
Oyster Mushroom Guidelines
How to Clean Mushrooms

CHOW Tips are the shared wisdom of our community. If you’ve figured out some piece of food, drink, or cooking wisdom that you’d like to share on video (and you can be in San Francisco), email Meredith Arthur and tell us what you’ve got in mind.

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  • Wish I had access to lobster shrooms.
    [Let's not be so harsh in the new year.]

  • I watched I think four or 5 of the videos by mushroom man before my computer crashed. Very interesting and informative. I sometimes do not buy exotic mushrooms because i am unsure how to clean them or what to eat with them. Glad to know the white dust is a sign of freshness! Love that!

  • make it one long video for gods sake.. it's so annoying to have to listen to that "chow tips" robot voice every 10 seconds.

  • Weak video. Barely enough there to justify the loading period.

    1) There's no need to taste mushrooms when you know what good quality mushrooms are supposed to look like.
    2) Tasting a raw mushroom gives you absolutely no sense of its taste in the most often prepared format: cooked.
    3) Mushroom really should be wiped off or cleaned to your liking since they grow in uncertain mediums. No need to...+READ

    Weak video. Barely enough there to justify the loading period.

    1) There's no need to taste mushrooms when you know what good quality mushrooms are supposed to look like.
    2) Tasting a raw mushroom gives you absolutely no sense of its taste in the most often prepared format: cooked.
    3) Mushroom really should be wiped off or cleaned to your liking since they grow in uncertain mediums. No need to eat dirt. Better that you don't considering the rich colonies of bacteria and parasites that permeate soil.
    4) Hey Mushroom Store Owner: cook up some dishes every once in a while to show off your wares...that way people are drawn to the types you give samples of by you showing how delicious that type is and then they get their eating-kick fulfilled instead chewing on the precious wares. It really is a waste to eat a mushroom raw. Perhaps walk around your store and elucidate the finer details of visually discerning the qualities of a best-pick mushroom to your customers; not everyone knows what they're doing. Maybe put up signs with color photos of each type so they learn the proper method.-COLLAPSE