Science expert Dan Souza explains why mushrooms absorb so much oil.
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Well that was unhelpful!
BS I place a bit of oil in pan and wack on a lid cook low all good. Cheers from OZ.
Mushroom looks like a great way to mop up all the leftover butter after basting a steak!
the US military now focused on bringing freedom to mushrooms everywhere
I put them in a non stick fry pan, no oil, cover and cook until liquid appears, drain and reserve liquid, then add oil or butter and saute uncovered. Reserved liquid can then be added and reduced for more flavor or used in another dish. The advantage over the microwave is one less bowl to clean and more even cooking.
What is "cooked briefly in the microwave?" How long? what texture should I look for? When are the mushrooms ok to sauté in oil?
I love Dan, but what kind of monster wants their mushrooms to taste like neutral flavor canola?
All i was thinking is that he should be using flavorful fat like butter (and some aromatics and seasoning to make said fat even more flavorful). And then you have delicious little flavor sponges 🧽 🍄 🧈 🧂
I tested this on Crimini and white button, nuked them whole for 45 seconds in a 1200W microwave, let them cool for 30 seconds, sliced them and sauteed them in a bit of oil, they turned out perfect, no sogginess whatsoever either.
I didn't know Edward Snowden was such an excellent chef.
Mushrooms are actually complex, multidimensional organisms, and what we call "mushroom" is actually just a tiny part of the whole organism, a tip of the mushroomberg, so to speak. That's why some mushrooms can bring visions – they are doorways and portals to other parts of the multiverse. When you drench them with oil, the oil is channeled into another part of the multiverse, specifically into the lower hells inhabited by perpetually hungry spirits that immediately devour and triglycerides pouring down from our plane. That's why you can add more and more oil – it's not absorbed like by a sponge, but channeled away like through a pipeline. Peace, brothers!
This is basically the third time that Dan has made this video!
First time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0fHS8-l_NU
Second time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLPLCmwBLBY
Yeah, no,
I don't keep adding oil. I'm not stupid. I either stir them constantly, or I cook them with other veg, such as onion, first, with salt, so they sweat out their water. Please, don't talk down to us, as if we are morons. Thanks.
In Restaurant style. Throw them in Fryer. Very fast and easy. Fryer does the microwave thing but faster. The Hot oil can not enter the mushroom because the mushrooms have so much water and all that heat from the oil makes it turn to steam keeping oil out of the mushroom. And you can then throw them in a hot pan brown them.
Or
Just be patient, quit stirring, and just let'm cook.
Put a little water in the sauce pan with the Mushrooms. The water will steam and evaporate but what happens is the steam will close all the little air pockets in the Mushrooms. Add a little oil and cook the rest of the way. Enjoy zero oil filled Mushrooms!
This is the same video ATK posted a couple months ago. I noticed the same with another video a week or so ago. Is rerunning kosher? And is that going to be the pattern?
I learn something every time I watch a ATK video. Thanks Dan!
I usually cook them as usual, but then add the salt (to taste) and stir. What I found is that salt makes the mushrooms release their water, and usually the water will boil off in the pan and the mushrooms will caramelize.
So helpful thanks
so, i'm a little bit confused. i thought you weren't supposed to wash mushrooms because they would absorb all the water (instead, clean with damp towel). does this mean you can wash your mushrooms?
So you just microwave them until they shrink?
Camas. I certainly don’t want to get existential about Microwaving Mushrooms. Just saying that maybe replacing “briefly “ with one or two words that give an expected range of time, would not detract from the intended brevity of the video.
Thanks for leaving us hanging…
How long in the microwave?
the microwaved mushrooms still look raw.
I never sauteed mushrooms in oil. Butter is my preferred choice.
That is similar to your comments about cooking aubergines (eggplant) for one of your pasta recipes (alla Norma?), where you cube the aubergine and microwave it to collapse the air pockets before frying.
So … the best way to saute them is to microwave them?
Wow thank you!
Butter 🧈 then cover them and let them steam themselves while stirring occasionally. That’s what I do anyways lol
This is life changing. Thanks!
Don’t agree.
Thanks so much for the info, now I can stop drowning my sauteed mushrooms!
You answered how not to cook them. How do you properly cook ‘em?
Just skip the oil and go with butter , You can never go wrong with to much butter lol
Same goes for diced eggplant. I learned that from ATK!
Toss in a dry pan and cook with a bit of water (1/4 cup) on high heat.
When when they shrink you’ll know the pores are gone.
Pores will disappear then cook with a little oil to sauté. Then add butter.
Next add wine, ginger, salt n pepper .,.spices …etc
Dan is perfect.
what is it with all the shrooms videos lately?
Just like mushrooms, Dan is a Fun Guy.
Wait! HOW LONG DO YOU MICROWAVE THEM?! AT WHAT WATTAGE!?