Its of the family of Calvatia which are generally the more edible "True Puffball" variety (along with the Bovistas) so long as they are pure white and don't have a stalk. Dont eat the brown or red varieties or any of them when spores have begun to form. This one is Calvatia gigantea and is totally edible in this form. I am extremely jealous as its my favorite mushroom to eat and have never seen one so large i could make a mushroom steak out of it (my grandparents were big on foraging for mushrooms during my childhood).
Wow, thanks for all the info. I thought it was a Bovista (in Germany we call them "Bovisten" or "Riesenbovisten"). They are indeed delicious. And we found 2 of that size that day!
I had it once at a rural friend's place. They had found it like 3 or 4 days prior, and still had some left. It was so wild seeing them cut and cook a "steak" slab of it, and oh my god it was delicious. I feel your pain, I crave more!
How do they taste compared to other mushrooms? I absolutely love portobellos, but I find white mushrooms sort of boring and bland. I do like that they suck up the flavour of whatever they’re being cooked with, but they don’t really add anything more than texture to a dish, unlike portobellos which actually add flavour.
Is there anything poisonous or deadly that looks similar? I’ve gone shrooming before(different type of mushrooms) but my buddy is a mycologist and also happens to enjoy mushrooms. But there’s so many that look similar if you don’t know to look at gills or bruises or spore patterns etc.
If it wasn't uniform inside it would be inedible. Puffballs have to be picked when they are young, otherwise all that white inside will turn into spores!
They are called giant puffballs or something. I had them growing in my new houses' backyard this past summer and had to look them up. They are super light weight and if you don't pick them they turn brown and are filled with spores. I took a golf club to them and it was pretty satisfying
That's actually only the fruiting body! The mycelium of the fungi which is defined as all of the string-like fungi cells (known as hyphae) can get incredible big. The biggest known fungi is
I just made my first sourdough this Sunday and it was definitely dense. I had the bright idea of kneading it after the first rise and it really didn’t rise again well during the basket proof. It tasted good but was heavy.
We didn't like go foraging or anything otherwise really, but my family would grab puffballs when they popped up around our house and cook them up. They're not really like any other fungus that exists near where I grew up, and you just need to confirm its pure white without any patterns or anything in the flesh to confirm its edible, so doesn't really require special expertise.
Some mushrooms are easy to ID and look like nothing else, really. In other cases it's a bit of a disregard to human health, like I once had like two pounds of mushrooms that I was pretty sure would either be delicious, or be delicious and cause liver failure in like 2% of humans.
That was my very first foraged mushroom, over 40 years ago. I was camping in Colorado with my late father. I went into the woods to look for firewood when I spotted a nice, fresh puffball about the size of a cantaloupe. I had read before that they were an unmistakable edible so I brought it back to camp, where we grilled several slabs of it over the campfire in butter, then brought the rest home to eat with my wife and my mother.
Cut in slices, breading and then pan-fried. The next day we used it in some lasagna and on the third day we just put in in the oven with olive oil, garlic, thyme and rosemary!
General reminder, mushroom foraging is extremely dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. Find a local foraging expert to show you the ropes before you start on your own.
Once while high on mushrooms, my friend and I found one of these. I kicked it, and it landed in a stream, instantaneously exploding into ribbons of fungus. For some reason people don't believe our story, even though we both verify it. Prove us right, throw this at water, for science
Very edible, consistency of tofu and absorbs the flavors of whatever you're cooking it with. I made some egg fried rice and chopped it up into little bite sized pieces. Does get tough if you overcook it, so any dish with veggies or meat you'd put puffball in last.
Its of the family of Calvatia which are generally the more edible "True Puffball" variety (along with the Bovistas) so long as they are pure white and don't have a stalk. Dont eat the brown or red varieties or any of them when spores have begun to form. This one is Calvatia gigantea and is totally edible in this form. I am extremely jealous as its my favorite mushroom to eat and have never seen one so large i could make a mushroom steak out of it (my grandparents were big on foraging for mushrooms during my childhood).
Wow, thanks for all the info. I thought it was a Bovista (in Germany we call them "Bovisten" or "Riesenbovisten"). They are indeed delicious. And we found 2 of that size that day!
I had it once at a rural friend's place. They had found it like 3 or 4 days prior, and still had some left. It was so wild seeing them cut and cook a "steak" slab of it, and oh my god it was delicious. I feel your pain, I crave more!
How do they taste compared to other mushrooms? I absolutely love portobellos, but I find white mushrooms sort of boring and bland. I do like that they suck up the flavour of whatever they’re being cooked with, but they don’t really add anything more than texture to a dish, unlike portobellos which actually add flavour.
Can you explain why this is edible and one with spores is not? What changes?
Until I read the comments I was convinced it was actually a giant lump of clay or something
Thumbnail looked like mozzarella to me, haha
That's what I thought when I saw the picture!
I thought it was a Moomin being sliced and diced.
Right?! I did the same. Thought it looked like a giant clay ball and it being a mushroom was bs.
I read mushroom as marshmallow, and wondered
The title says it's a mushroom.
I thought it was a marshmallow
“What’s for dinner?”
H U M O N G O U S F U N G U S
Return the slab
My worst nightmare
Aww not again :\
surrealmemes
M • E • A • L • S
Imagine making a nice steak, then caramelizing some onion slices for the top, then slab.
Mushroom steaks
Oh so it's Minecraft.
Mushroom steak
Looks young and extremely edible. Nice find!
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hey how do you know which mushrooms are edible or not? plz help
You could tell just from her hands?
What about the Mushroom?
Right! I never find them this young! Very jealous!
Young and extremely edible, name of your sex tape
That's someone's sister man, relax.
Is there anything poisonous or deadly that looks similar? I’ve gone shrooming before(different type of mushrooms) but my buddy is a mycologist and also happens to enjoy mushrooms. But there’s so many that look similar if you don’t know to look at gills or bruises or spore patterns etc.
Paint some red circles and boom, you got your self a real life toad head.
Put some green food coloring on it and it becomes a 1up.
Toad is based on an actual mushroom, although idk if it can get this big.
The real mushrooms that look like that are very poisonous.
Before I read the title, I thought that was bufalo mozz. And I was so excited.
I wouldn't mind her bringing large chunks of buffalo mozzarella home!
Why buffalo specifically?
Where do you get buffalo mozzarella!
same :(
Nature’s styrofoam
For anyone interested
I don't trust how uniform the inside is
That's how you know it's still edible.
If it wasn't uniform inside it would be inedible. Puffballs have to be picked when they are young, otherwise all that white inside will turn into spores!
I no trust like that
It's definitely lying.
I found a similar sized one a couple of years ago. It weighed around 800 grams after I trimmed it.
You may cook that for me any time. Plus you’re European and I love visiting Europe.
I’ve had fried mushrooms many a times and it’s so hit and miss. I need to make some myself and figure it out.
How dafuq? Mushrooms get that big?
They are called giant puffballs or something. I had them growing in my new houses' backyard this past summer and had to look them up. They are super light weight and if you don't pick them they turn brown and are filled with spores. I took a golf club to them and it was pretty satisfying
That's actually only the fruiting body! The mycelium of the fungi which is defined as all of the string-like fungi cells (known as hyphae) can get incredible big. The biggest known fungi is
Apparently so, I had no idea either
Trust the Fungus.
It's called the Mario Effect. A mushroom will see a Mario strolling on by, acquire it, and then the mushroom gets bigger.
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They can get much bigger. From wiki-
Am I the only one that was really hoping for a GIF?
How bout the actual video with sound from OP:
Here you go:
The picture is nice, but i was really hoping morel.
No! I kept clicking it thinking wtf? Let's see the middle too.
Looks as dense as everyone's first attempt at sourdough.
I just made my first sourdough this Sunday and it was definitely dense. I had the bright idea of kneading it after the first rise and it really didn’t rise again well during the basket proof. It tasted good but was heavy.
f o r e s t c h e e s e
Wtf would be forest butter?
Use that as a pizza crust and load er up! Also awesome pan fried with eggs on the side for breakfast.
mushroom bun sandwiches.
keto
If I ever come across one this big, pizza crust for sure.
Can you farm these? I want a mushroom burger now.
Portobello's work reasonably well as burgers, and you can buy them anywhere. I prefer using them as individual mini pizza's instead though.
I don't believe you can farm them very effectively. However they tend to grow in residential yards after rain and a fresh mow.
giant veggie steak
We made a giant veggie "Schnitzel" actually
Giant fungal steak.
Jesus everyone here is so bold. I automatically assume mushrooms found in the woods = certain death if you consume them.
We didn't like go foraging or anything otherwise really, but my family would grab puffballs when they popped up around our house and cook them up. They're not really like any other fungus that exists near where I grew up, and you just need to confirm its pure white without any patterns or anything in the flesh to confirm its edible, so doesn't really require special expertise.
Go for the ones that are growing in a pile of shit. Those are the good ones.
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You can certainly eat any mushroom at least once!
Giant puffballs are like the number 1 easiest to identify
Some mushrooms are easy to ID and look like nothing else, really. In other cases it's a bit of a disregard to human health, like I once had like two pounds of mushrooms that I was pretty sure would either be delicious, or be delicious and cause liver failure in like 2% of humans.
I agree! Where do people get the knowledge and mushroom foraging skills?
mycology
foraging
Missed opportunity for mushroom helmet
Hi I'm toad!
damn I want the video version of this
i sat here for a few seconds waiting for a gif/video to start...
I had to search for it, so here you go:
Looks like it needed as mushroom as possible to grow.
I see what you did there.
Won’t be mushroom in the cupboard to store that
You just spored yourself an updoot
That safe to eat?
Puffballs are just about the safest mushrooms you can find, they're very easy to recognize and have no poisonous varieties or mimics.
yes
No video of it being cut? What kind of monster does that?!?!! Jk but you’d get some
Video is in one of the top comments, just edited it in ;)
absoluteunits
Duuuude.... cut yourself a steak and grill up a mushroom hamburger. SO GOOD.
I weirdly love the sensation of cutting mushrooms with a sharp knife. This would be a dream come true.
That was my very first foraged mushroom, over 40 years ago. I was camping in Colorado with my late father. I went into the woods to look for firewood when I spotted a nice, fresh puffball about the size of a cantaloupe. I had read before that they were an unmistakable edible so I brought it back to camp, where we grilled several slabs of it over the campfire in butter, then brought the rest home to eat with my wife and my mother.
So, are they good? Do they taste like white mushrooms? I need to know!
How did she cook it?
Cut in slices, breading and then pan-fried. The next day we used it in some lasagna and on the third day we just put in in the oven with olive oil, garlic, thyme and rosemary!
Omg! That’s huge
That’s what she said
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c0t63Myfa4&feature=youtu.be
For some reason I read mushroom as marshmallow.
Hey, give me a slice!
The fungus among us is humongous
When one of the Smurfs comes after you in the middle of the night for cutting down it’s house, you’ll have no one to blame but yourself.
Thought this was in
Giant mushroom! Maybe it’s friendly!
Your sister just stole some poor smurfs house
Forbidden mozzarella :0
Definitely not forbidden. They're delicious
Boof it
I had one of them on my lawn last year. At first I though it was a soccer ball.
Really wanted this to be a video
I got you covered:
She killed Toad!
You can’t fool me! That’s just tiny hands and a tiny knife!
So you. just went ahead and ate Toads head...
Not mush-room on that chopping board left!
Why would you pick that???? Now we'll never know how big it could get.
There is a humongous fungus among us
I’m sorry but mushrooms really disgust me for whatever reason. This is just crazy to me.
General reminder, mushroom foraging is extremely dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. Find a local foraging expert to show you the ropes before you start on your own.
looks like rubber shoes soles
Slice it thin and make a lasagna! it's my favorite way to cook those.
This makes me very uncomfortable.
TIL there exist naturally occurring giant mushroom balls.
That's some weird mozzarella
Ah, I see you're better than Ninja at slicing loaves.
The real question is, did she play with it like a bongo drum?
Looked like mozzarella for a second there and I was *super* excited but then I read it was a mushroom and I am still excited.
This is what keeps me up at night
picsthatshouldbegifs
Fun fact; in Spain these are called wolf farts xd
Damn I hope that thing dropped some spores somewhere before she picked it.
Don’t think there’s mushroom left on that chopping board
R/absoluteunit
foundthemobileuser
I’m a park ranger, I find these all the time.
That chopping board looks small.... not mushroom for cutting.
WE NEED A VIDEO
HERE YOU GO:
I would have cooked the whole thing like a Turkey.
"What's for dinner?"
I’m a member of
Welcome in fellow cheese lover - I hope you don't mind a giant mushroom :)
Me: what’s for dinner Mum: ENORMOUS [email protected][email protected] mushroom
So fairies are real?
Imagine if that was psychedelic lol
Not Mushroom on that chopping board
There isn’t mushroom on that chopping board
Looks like a giant ball of Mozzarella.
Plot twist the spores are poisonous
absoluteunit
Once while high on mushrooms, my friend and I found one of these. I kicked it, and it landed in a stream, instantaneously exploding into ribbons of fungus. For some reason people don't believe our story, even though we both verify it. Prove us right, throw this at water, for science
BIG FUNGUS
I want this to be a video so bad.
RIP my bro Toad
The mushroom here is impressive but the fellers who found it... well... they’re the real stars.
Forbidden Mozzarella?
Looks like a blursed loaf of bread
These saved my father’s life in WWII Nazi occupiers Holland. They were starving and my grandma found a field of these.
Don't be a pussy and take a bite
If only magic mushrooms were that size
doputyourdickinthat
At first i read it as “marshmallow” and i was like... please dont eat marshmallows you find in the woods...
She seem like Fungirl.
Is it edible? I wanna eat it so fucking bad
Very edible, consistency of tofu and absorbs the flavors of whatever you're cooking it with. I made some egg fried rice and chopped it up into little bite sized pieces. Does get tough if you overcook it, so any dish with veggies or meat you'd put puffball in last.
I got exited this was Mozzarella before I read the title
Ahhh, Nature's Styrofoam
oh look, a huge sphere of raw concentrated allergens
Dirt that got smart yeeeuch
absolute unit
How the hell could you not post a video?!
🤮
Best Puffball Recipe:
Im sorry buddy, this is more than mildly interesting.
Mmm fried in solve olive oil with a dab of lemon pepper ..oof