Mushrooms are neither plant nor animal. So what’s the best way to cook them? Dan explains the science behind cooking this delicious fungus in this episode of What’s Eating Dan?.
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discovery! so great thanks so mush. I'm eating mushrooms today.
Just tried this tonight for homemade pizza, and it was so yummy. My toddler and I were popping them like chips 😋
Enoki mushrooms egst overcooked
Very interesting and very helpful! Thank you 🕊
My Ex is Japanese, I go out of my way to the Asian market to get Enoki, Shiitake and King Trumpet (the largest oyster mushroom). I only use white or portabellas when I'm in a pinch. I usually make a large medley of onion, garlic, red pepper, couple different mushrooms and turkey burger every week, a staple of my diet.
I always come back to this video to relearn the best way to cook mushrooms
awesome video
oki seen a video some weeks back in relation to eating bugs is toxic for ppl in relation to chitins.? what gives.
Craziest experience with mushrooms was in 1974 at an army recreation area in Georgia which happened to border a cow pasture. Growing from the cow pies were mushrooms with purple underbellies. Subsequent adding those mushrooms to a couple cans of Campbell's Cream of mushrooms soup cooked over a campfire for dinner, that cow pasture was over the next few hours invaded by dinosaurs, unicorns, giant mosquitos and countless governors named Jimmie Carter.
Hey. You asked.
I love your scientific approach. Marvelous
It is difficult to follow your words with the dustracting music that you’re plaing in the background
modda gudu
For my future reference:
4:43 wonderful nerd talk ends, How-To begins
Put 1 pound 🍄in skillet
Add 1/4 cup 💧
(or 1/2 pound 🍄 + 1 oz ?)
High Heat
Saute ~5 minutes until 🍄 have collapsed and skillet is dry
Add 1/2 tsp oil
Brown
Season
yeah noice i was taught to just sweat them dry on low before adding oil but that info on the chitin is top draw
Two years ago, I discovered Lion's Mane mushroom (hericium erinaceus) and now enjoy it regularly. It looks like a tennis ball and it has some nice nourishment for the nervous system.
Whenever I sautee mushrooms I toss them in oil and spices, then I cover them while cooking- the oil coats them in spices so well before cooking and the steam adds water while cooking. It works perfectly every time.
Love your videos, I do love mushrooms 🍄alot thanks for the info 😀👍
OMG!!! Mushrooms should be fried in a dry skillet! they produce their own moisture that they cook in then reabsorb. Stop putting water or oil on them!!!
🤭. I love muushrooms.
Can you just not use water? I totally forgot this concept and literally threw mushrooms into a pot or skillet and just let heat bring the moisture out. I let all the liquid evaporate and then add oil to cook them. Finally, I add condiments like soy sauce while it's still in the pan and once plated, I use Japanese mayo.
Why do they expel dark juice
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Bad news: Strange mushrooms!
Thank I was given some mushrooms & cooked while watching the video. Thank you Dan & Americas test kitchen
Mushrooms are so delicious when they're cooked right, but almost nobody knows how to cook them right.
"Let me know in the comments about your craziest experience with mushrooms." OK NICE TRY OFFICER.
You are awesome! Also very handsome!
Really interesting video! Cooking mushrooms in butter tonight. Will try again with water first tomorrow and compare.
Lions mane!! Mmmm
I don't know how but I think I managed to overcook them😅😅😅
craziest experience with mushrooms was with magic mushrooms
Wow. Mind blown. I will pre-cook mushrooms without oil from now on!
Also, my craziest experience with mushrooms was when my friend and I watched bubbles trapped under ice between a flowing stream and its frozen surface for *hours*, after eating some. Delicious!
Scroom brothers get him! He consumes our kind!
bro wdym you cant overcook mushrooms. theres always a way to overcook anything. just make sure they turn black and you can hear an ear piercing noise from across you kitchen
I think microwaving them is actually superior. Given you don't need to add oil/butter until the end, you might as well just microwave them down, and then add the fat/oil and seasoning. I cook them UNCOVERED in the microwave to help remove the excess water until the evolved water has gone. Adding water in a pan is a bit weird, you're adding water which you then have to immediately boil off again, whereas they're packed full of water anyway, so they microwave super well and you don't need to add anything except flavor.
Why add water in the first place just to drive it out again? The way I've been doing it all my life is to simply put the mushrooms in as is and evaporate all the water out before adding the butter with salt/pepper to finish them off. Pure deliciousness.
time to cook is 4:43
Juffo Wup achieved! 😀
your craziest story with mushrooms? well, ive been to amsterdam a few times but I once ate an entire box by myself and oh boy… did the world change….
my craziest time with mushrooms was the last time I ate mushrooms it was a king trumpet veggie taco and i fell out of my chair in an allergic reaction. i really liked other more common mushrooms before that quite a bit, but i was scared to eat them any more after that one bad time. this video makes me want to eat the ones i know are okay again. those looked so tasty. a nice button mushroom saute sounds delicious. also in the game Ark where you play a realistic survival game they have you harvest Chitin from 8 different kinds of creatures, to make armor with… this is only the second time I heard of Chitin in your video. I wonder if eating it makes you stronger apart from the obvious benefits of eating..
I had a bad trip once lol