Thread: What is it about mushrooms?

What is it about mushrooms that makes them so bland and crappy when raw, but so tasty when cooked?

The dirt they grow out of.

Shiitake's are the bomb in my curry

Originally Posted by The_Bear

What is it about mushrooms that makes them so bland and crappy when raw, but so tasty when cooked?

They're extremely porus, and much like eggplant and will soak up all that wonderful garlic, olive oil, balsamic, or whatever is so tasty you're saute'ing them in. Otherwise you're eating a piece of fungus with a lot of air pockets. And I gotta tell you, the first human to pick up a mushroom and say "I'm gonna eat this" had a lot of nerve

Especially if he picked a poisonous one. That's why people take pigs to go mushrooming...they won't eat poisonous mushrooms.

I find the best way to deal with mushrooms is to put them in tea, drink a few cups while chatting idley with friends, and once every thing seems really funny you can start eating handfulls.

Must be magic mushrooms...

my mom once told me that a mans penis is shaped like a mushroom, feels like a mushroom, and tastes like a mushroom.

Your mom sorta lied to you...they don't taste like mushrooms at all...

Originally Posted by Dubyas-Twin-Sister

Your mom sorta lied to you...they don't taste like mushrooms at all...

well they are kinda bland until they taste like brie.