 welcome to another video a lockdown video so I've just come out today for a little bit of a hike and just going to see what I can find and take you along with me so it's a bit like fishing when you're going for foraging you might not you might blank which I often do but I'll bring you along we'll have a little adventure see what we can find come on even a path this way the past that way come this come on right here we go again oysters what look like they look like olive oysterlings look at these some olive oysterlings which are an interesting mushroom I don't think they're in the same genus or family as your normal oysters your gray oysters and whatnot but that might be misremembering that and but yeah they're they look like it anyway olive oysterlings so we'll get them back to the fungerium and and have a little look at them you have to excuse the noise we're not a million miles away from a country road so there's occasional cars going past apologies for that but look found a lovely little flush of velvet shanks here the lovely specimens and these little ones I'm gonna leave so they can grow a little bit and I come back and harvest them soon look at that man now that is a bracket small stick we just loads of turkey tails on it but I've got loads of these at home so and they're all dried out now so I don't need these leave them there's some more oysterlings here but these are long gone man look at that RIP RIP to crouch you can see if I can entice Mike in Tyson this robbing down to me watch watch this see if I can do it turn the earth a little bit and then just stand up against his tree here's a little chubby chubby had a good Christmas mate right let's take these back to the fungerium and have a little closer look power and there we go back back in the fungerium with our olive oysterlings which are interesting and I shall tell you for why shortly but first of all let's just have a little look at them also commonly known as the late oyster and it'll just grow on dead wood doesn't matter what it is coniferous deciduous it doesn't really matter and the spores if you do a spore print they are disappointed well they come out white but I've had trouble getting spores off these I don't know if I've just not left it long enough left it overnight nothing they're very wet though we'll give that another night and see if I can interject them here now if I haven't interjected them it hasn't worked so I do apologize a saprotopic or recycler fungus which is breaking down dead wood and fungi are the only group of organisms that can break down lignin and without them we'd be buried under mountains of debris they also play a vital role in driving the carbon cycle releasing nutrients that they don't require back into the habitat can fruit so the mycelium the the the the body of the mushroom is under the ground and the mushrooms are just the fruits so if you imagine just an apple tree underground and then the apples grow out that's pretty much what this is it's just a fruiting body which is used to then send the spores off and reproduce and the gills are initially yellowish and then they get browner with age smells quite nice there's no real distinctive order many of the books and websites will say avoid eating because it is it can be bitter and contain carcinogens now bitter yeah it's bitter to the bite for at first but the carcinogens thing when I first read that I thought well that's that's interesting and I delved further because bear with me if we look here we look in the Roger Phillips Bible it actually says not edible and so you would maybe read that and think right well that's not edible I don't want to get cancer not worth it move on and a lot of the websites and forums say the same thing but when you do your research it all stems back to a German mycologist called Andres Gminder who reported it that's what everybody says in all these studies it reports back to this one German guys studies now I did a bit of research myself I found a YouTube video with a young lad emailed this German mycologist and asked him about it and the German mycologist that emailed him back saying no it's it's it's proven to be safe so there you go it actually has healing properties it's quite a there's a lot of health benefits to this mushroom as well again just research research research research when it comes to mushrooms don't take just because it's just because it's written down on paper or in a book don't take it as gospel cross-reference when it comes to mushrooms because where everybody's still always learning and putting their bit into the melting pot so now do your own research and then make an informed decision yourself and I've made an I've made an informed decision and I'm decided I want to go out and cook this up with some velvet shanks out into wood I'm going to go find somewhere a little bit remote up high so maybe we'll get some snow fingers crossed and now yeah we're going to see what this tastes like that classic georgia no look at that solid that is I mean I'm in a rush but there's all I've always got time to stop for a decent lecture look at that let's just watch effortless no creaking tight just nice this ghost tree is dark man look how dark it is here jeans know me trying to keep my voice down in case there's any any wildlife right it's too dense in here man I can't see anything ant lights fading so let's get to the outside outside of this pine and get some natural light so we can get cooking tell you what put some miles on this like put some timber through it for sure fair enough she's a sharpen as well pick ones on the outside and then as we come in less of an angle sort of glide along the top and get thinner and thinner I was creating a flat base as well so these last few are going to be as thin as you can get them and then because I'm on the outfit day I can afford to bring my bring stuff that's a little bit heavier but that I like a little that a lot more and you know handcrafted stuff love this it's a weapon like is a weapon but I love it and then the back of me silky pocket boy I'll do just nicely so let's get into it one stick wonder we've got flames how mushrooms few choice specimens look at them man they are good the Easterlings they have a this bit here where it attaches it treats quite spongy and they can just give it a drain out can you can have a lot of water in there see if you can see it see all that coming out a lot of water see a pair of green Falcon fly over top nice annual plan unscrew the lid and change out one of these pot handles these pot grabbers lightweight pot grabber nice little camping frying pan and then you're not governed by you don't have to stick to the older specifically camping ones that in my experience can be a bit sticky that's just cooking oil I always carry with me to keep replenishing it because it solidifies and it's good for all sorts of stuff let alone cooking testers on let's go in with the shroom that looks pretty pretty as a picture decent egg covered again in eggshit what don't worry about it don't worry about it little bit of salt and pepper quick egg just for a sec burst me yolk life that's life though pheasant where are you hey look someone's shot him right peasy okay let's get into it tell you what I'm thankful of my of my sit pad today the velvet shanks are lovely really nice really mushroomy earthy mushroomy you know like how an oyster you can't explain that an oyster tastes like the sea but a clean version well these mushrooms taste like the land but a clean version the olive oyster ling is isn't great slightly bitter slightly bitter and there's no real great after taste to it either so would I eat it again yeah I would but it's not over exciting it's not very exciting at all it's I can imagine a lot of people wouldn't like this because of that initial bitterness but I mean it's decent enough them velvets are just lovely mmm delicious have some steak eh oh man can't beat it mate steak mushrooms yay get on the mushrooms that I got they're never going to fill you up as a meal but to put them with other stuff it's just lovely it's really rewarding as well knowing that you've been out looking for them you know it gets you out the house it's a little adventure and I see it as like it's like a treasure hunt and you never know what you're going to find so all of them are grilled aren't they so all of them are faced oh well oh it's a shame I can't stay here tonight it's going to get into these dark woods and see if we can get out onto the side this is some sort of sunset go and watch that lovely and peaceful it's not it's not like take your breath away sort of transitioning tonight or what you call it sunset it's subtle but in that there is such beauty the cloud formations are just wonderful hehehehe good so for anyone new who's watching please forage responsibly don't take risks if you're not 100% sure because I know a lot of people watch my videos and then do the things I do as far as you know ale reviews, wild camping all that sort of stuff that's all good but this one don't just wing it because it could end your life it's that serious if you get the wrong mushroom that's it final curtain done night night night logged off no password gone so please just forage with caution invest in a few books I'll put links below to the foraging books that I use just watch videos take the mushrooms home with you and study them get to know them don't eat them, just forget if you're just new to mushroom foraging just forget about eating them just for the first season just learn stuff there are a few that you can get that you know what they are but there are also some sneaky ones in there some sneaky ones and not all books are correct as of earlier on today with the Roger Phillips mushroom bible we were saying that the the oysterlings were inedible I've just eaten them collapses because I did my research elsewhere and brought it all together and then made my own informed decision and you should do the same so just forage with caution I don't mind being responsible I don't need to get out and about but I don't want to have a you know don't have a list of you're all tapping out because you're getting a load of death caps or whatever I don't need that please forage responsibly I'll be back soon with some more lockdown content so just I've said it before man but just look after yourself treat yourself right be the best person that you can be and then anything that's thrown at you for the rest of your life your optimum you and best able to deal with it because if you've got hangover or if you're eating shit food or you're not looking after yourself and you're in that spiral and then someone gives you some bad news or you've got to deal with something you're not your best you to deal with that and things can get on top of you so if you just look after yourself as much as you can and I'll send you a lot of love take care and I'll see you soon