eating honey fungus

[sean]

Anybody eaten honey fungus????? I've just been reading that it is highly sought after in italy where they use it as an antipasto or cooked in pasta!!!!

 

I'm all for foraging for free food so wondered what it was like.

[owain]

tough and not easily digested according to the book. but i think it depends on the specimen. never really bin tempted by it myself.

[Will Hinchliffe]

I ate a load. Just the caps fried in butter with garlic. Very rich very nice but didnt agree with me and made my poo runny!

[David oakman]

To much detail Will. I just dont fancy any i cant even bring myself to try chicken of the woods:lol:

[felixthelogchopper]

I ate a load. Just the caps fried in butter with garlic. Very rich very nice but didnt agree with me and made my poo runny!

 

Mate, do we really need to know that?

[Alex]

They are ok, depends which one as there are seveal flavors out there, Five distinct species in Europe our more common Mellea is ok when very young, the Italian have a differnt one I think but then again they lust after all sorts of odd things...

[Lee Winger]

I woldn't eat honey fungus, they can give you stomach cramps, the chits and the sqwits...did anyone watch Jimmys farm, when the 'clown'' discoverd his wood full of honey fungus he used his misses as a guinea pig, she got the sqwits pretty bad

[Saw-sick Steve]

I woldn't eat honey fungus, they can give you stomach cramps, the chits and the sqwits...

 

So can the local Chinese, and you have to pay for that.:biggrin

 

Didn't Winnie the Pooh like Honey (fungus)?

[felixthelogchopper]

So can the local Chinese, and you have to pay for that.:biggrin

 

Didn't Winnie the Pooh like Honey (fungus)?

 

Yes, but before he ate it he was just known as Winnie

[David oakman]

Hi Sean. I was talking to Jane mccall who is one of the contributors in the living woods magazine she writes on wild foods. I asked her about the honey fungus and she said it is good to eat but it is the same as chicken of the woods it wants to be young and fresh you do not want to be eating old ones:001_smile:

 

She also agreed with me about my Grifola frondosa she said you will find it starts to come out now we have had some rain:thumbup1: