Mushroom trekking, or “silent hunting”, is a very popular pastime for lovers to treat themselves to some delicious dishes. Only those who have been on a “silent hunt” at least once in their life know that this business can rightly be called fascinating and entertaining: it’s a real delight from the next oiler or fox, it’s excitement, it’s pleasant fatigue that gives incredible pleasure from such a walk … However, each "barrel of honey" has its own "fly in the ointment." Today we will learn how to distinguish edible mushrooms from inedible mushrooms.
Instruction
Any trip for mushrooms is associated with a certain risk. To be able to distinguish edible mushrooms from inedible mushrooms is a skill that every one of us must have, who has decided to at least arrange a "silent hunt." Otherwise, the pleasure of this lesson and a delicious meal will turn into a tragedy …
How to distinguish edible mushrooms from inedible mushrooms?
Why do you need to know this?
For two simple reasons! The most important of them is your own safety, because among the edible and inedible mushrooms there are those whose use will lead to instant death. Another reason lies in the fact that ignorance will make you trail through the forest with a full and heavy basket of inedible rotten mushrooms. Question: do you need this?
Edible and Inedible Mushrooms
Both the names and appearance of such mushrooms are almost always the same. How then to distinguish between them? First of all, you need to know their classification! All mushrooms are divided into four groups according to their degree of edibility.
- Edible. Such mushrooms can be eaten without their preliminary processing. Collected, cleaned - and in the pan or in the pan!
- Conditionally edible. Raw, these are bitter and poisonous mushrooms. They must be boiled, because only in this case they will be suitable for eating.
- Inedible. These representatives of the mushroom kingdom are distinguished by an unpleasant taste, smell and rather hard pulp.
- Poisonous. These products are toxic. The poison is not removed from them even after pre-processing.
Now let's find out how to distinguish edible mushrooms from inedible mushrooms by the example of the most popular ones.
Learning to distinguish
- False chanterelle has a different inner color of its hat than edible. Her plate is much brighter than the mushroom itself, while the edible ones have a similar color.
- The edible russula has a hat of various yellow hues, while the false one has bright red!
- Real champignon differs from its double - false toadstool - in coloring of the lower side of the hat. In the first, it is pinkish or black and red, and in the second it is white, green or yellow.
- Real honey mushrooms have a brown-yellow hat, and false mushrooms have a bright yellow or reddish hat! Edible mushrooms have light brown plates, sometimes with rusty spots, while false ones have smoky black or greenish-gray shades!
- White fungus, unlike its double - bile, does not blush at the break!
And finally
So, friends, now we know how to distinguish edible mushrooms from inedible mushrooms. Be careful and do not pick those mushrooms in which you are not sure until the end! Good luck to you!
