My first experience of self-cooking mushrooms ended very sadly. When I got home, I threw three heaps of motley boletus and boletus boletus and boletus boletus bought from a granny in the market in the most barbaric way into a pot of water.
And left to lie there.
- What is this? - Asked a friend who looked at the light. - Mushrooms? What's in the water?
- I'm soaking the worms! - I replied, faintly imagining whether they will actually get wet or not, and suspecting that if they are, then most of them, drowning, will remain in the hat... and from it will move to the stomach.
My friend supported the idea, but when I started to cook these mushrooms, it turned out that there is only a name from the mushrooms. Neither taste nor aroma really remained, the caps were saturated with water like a sponge... In general, the fool himself, yes.
Moreover, I knew, from childhood I knew that mushrooms should be handled carefully. Many times I saw my grandmother fiddling with them, carefully polishing them, then hanging them on the ropes to dry... But I thought: this is for drying, and for me - for asp. As they say, live and learn.
Since then I have been trying to follow simple rules.
• Bought mushrooms - immediately sort them by size, by type of cap, by type. During this sorting, everything that arouses suspicion is sent to the furnace.
• Sorted - clean. Uh-huh, wipe the hats from the debris, clean the legs from the ground, remove everything bitten and eaten by the smaller brothers.
• Cleaned - can be washed. Wash only in running water and for a very short time - otherwise, instead of mushroom juice in a frying pan, you risk getting a tap. If the mushrooms are dried, then they are not washed, so a life hack - for the final cleaning of the mushrooms intended for drying, you need to take away the kabuki brush from your wife.
For those who do not know what kabuki is, I describe it. A densely packed cosmetic brush with a very short (almost like a stump) handle. Shaving brushes are made of this kind. But the brushes are still softer, they do not damage the mushrooms.
• Since I don't really bother with mushrooms that are bitter or like edible, I simply don't take them, I won't write a lot about boiling. The only thing I will note is that if you want to cook soup, then the mushrooms must be thrown into cold water. And if you boil it before frying, then hot. This will make them tastier.