Good Eats S2E5P2: The Fungal Gourmet

Mushrooms are mysterious no longer, Alton makes them a kitchen staple.

Recipes featured in this episode: The Fungal Saute and That Ol' Cap Magic.

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[h1k3r99]

To start with, I support legalization though I personally do not take any drugs. However your statement that "natural drugs" are innocuous is well, lets just say, 'uneducated". Drug - Definition: Substances that are capable of altering natural biological processes Arsenic Belladonna Botulinum Cyanide Hemlock Ricin Strychnine Natural drugs, and deadly

[kuhlraum]

Looks like a pretty thin limb with some dead leaves at the end.

[oobtronik]

the mushroom stuffed mushrooms looked off the hook!

[DgzM67]

those dishes he made look good; you learn some things, you have a few hearty laughs; result: a nice show and a good host

[SavannahG14]

yo dawg, we herd you liek mushrooms, so we --

[knightsintodreams]

INCEPSHROOMS!!

[MsJup1ter]

Sheesh...death startled me.

[palaguin]

@niginai I think it was a combination of water drop on a moving camera that made it look like something's running. I had to look three times myself.

[palaguin]

Oh yeah, I remember the first time I ever saw this episode, and at 3:59 AM out pops Death. I had a HARD time getting to sleep that night. *shudders*

[true0illusions]

@true0illusions So, if you go mushroom hunting, carry a detailed and illustrated field guide, and make sure that the mushrooms you find have no doppelgangers that can't be easily discerned. Happy gathering!

[true0illusions]

@true0illusions Just open it up and look inside. If you can see the outline of the stem and the cap, it's deadly. So to recap, if you think you got a puffball, make sure the outside is smooth and white, cut it in half and make sure there are no outlines, and make sure it's white through and through with no brown or black on the inside. Some other mushrooms (such as the morel) are just too weird for deadly counterparts. However, there are many deadly identical twins of many an edible mushroom.

[true0illusions]

There ARE some mushrooms that don't have doppelgangers that can't be easily spotted. For instance, the puffball. There are only three bad things that it can be mistaken for. Mature puffballs are filled with powder that isn't very tasty, but, along with earthballs, they can be easily spotted if the top isn't smooth and white or the inside isn't pearly white. The deadliest doppelganger is baby deathcaps or angel of deaths or somesuch (I can't remember which), but even those can be thrawted.