Mushrooms

Keeping mushrooms or storing them longer than the usual period requires a bit of knowledge of what can contribute to their spoiling. Home cooks need to be familiar with the proper storage guidelines for edible mushrooms before buying larger quantities.

Who doesn’t love Italy’s most significant culinary contribution to the world (right next to pasta?) Discover if your home cook skills are up to par with the rest of the culinary world’s pizza standards and find out what type of mushroom is appropriate for making good home pizza.

Mushrooms are the sweet spot in so many recipes, and home cooks need to know how to keep these ingredients, so they don’t spoil or grow molds. But, yes, mushrooms can also grow molds if they’re poorly stored!

Oyster mushrooms are exceedingly popular in Asian countries, mainly when used for stews and stirfries. However, if you use oyster mushrooms frequently at home, it would be a good idea to know how to store oyster mushrooms for the long term.

Mushrooms are excellent sources of trace nutrients, and you can add them to your diet to help with weight loss goals. However, not all mushrooms are edible and edible mushrooms are also prepared in a certain way, with some parts being preferred by most consumers.

Shittake mushrooms are probably the most recognizable edible mushroom in the world. But there are persistent myths about shiitake mushrooms, such as poison in its stem. How accurate are these persistent myths? Find out more in today’s blog.

In some belief systems, consuming certain beverages or food items together is thought to be harmful. Such is the case for the pairing of mushrooms and fish. Find out today if you should avoid this tasty pairing or if it’s just one of those things that you can do despite what folk traditions state.

Mycology is interesting because fungi interact with one another in excellent and, quite frankly, unexpected ways. For example – did you know that mushrooms can invade other mushrooms? It’s standard in the Fungi Kingdom. Learn more about this phenomenon in today’s Mushroom Blog.

Despite their origins, indeed, mushrooms (being fungi) can also get moldy. Who would have known that other species of fungi could invade mushrooms? It’s essential to know about moldy mushrooms as mushroom poisoning is a health threat and can affect people.

We all know that penicillin was derived from fungi that grew on bread. But do all mushrooms contain this lifesaving chemical? Let’s find out in today’s exploration of mycology.