Brad Forages for Porcini Mushrooms | It's Alive | Bon Appétit

hey guys today and it's alive we're out here in Washington the state and today we're gonna be doing a little mushroom foraging I got my fungus friends that joined me the wonderful Colin and Andrew and we're gonna be going for the high elevation porcini mushrooms this is not something you should just go do jump in to go find some mushrooms in the woods and just pop them in your mouth you can get really sick and possibly even die so please do your research make some friends let's have some fun Vinnie to the mushroom fields Vinnie well be Oh today only to live we're foraging for high elevation porcini that's a mushroom get in here Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right be get in here Andrew boys think we found one right oh yeah poor teeny looks like it all right so then logos we'll try to ask you date a little all right then we'll just do a little rock wiggle Oh deep Oh No almost yeah this one looks like it was pretty and it was under the room attached to the root yeah yeah so you can see how much meat was left on the bottom so still salvageable yeah now you notice on some mushrooms they have like those fluted what are we Gill no I noticed that the porcini does not yeah Bunji underside spongy undersized tubes there's like millions of little tiny tubes that the spores are gonna come out of the cap and drop down through those little tiny tubes the mushroom that we're harvesting is just that's not all of it right sure oh yeah that's just the fruit the whole rest of the organism is underground helium so this is like the flower of the plant right right the fruit but it's so essentially this is the fungus trying to reproduce exactly okay yep so the spores the spores are like seeds they're teeny tiny they drop and they're so light that they just fly everywhere all around us we're breathing them in right now that's how they reproduce in a much more distant place than the mycelium that will grow under the explain to us what the duct is the Duff is the layer of the forest floor between the soil and the surface so it's just that little bit of exactly pre decomposition stuff yep yeah for stuff everyone knows that and the mushrooms the mycelium are the primary decomposer between the living the trees they drop their needles and they fall down to the ground before they turn into nutrients the trees can take back up they're primarily consumed by the mycelium by the mushrooms and the mycelium that is the network underground yeah see you should be able to see in the route here where it was connecting to the mycelium I just can't get over the smell it's I mean a it's a little earthy and mushroomy but it's also like a little dry aged beef ewwww right it's got like a nutty funk to it and they could the best way possible yeah now where would you slice I would probably like cut off that kind of no more gnarly spot and get yourself a nice clean base oh yeah [Music] mushrooms are awesome beliefs tend to be one of the safest of the groups of mushrooms to eat but yes it's very true you want to know what you're looking for you want to have completely 100% sure identification that you're you're you're eating what you think you're eating and it's a good idea to go with someone who knows before and knows exactly that mushroom that you're looking for glad you guys are here let's go although I'm a completely self-taught forager and never really had anybody more experienced than me but the scariest yeah the one that took me the longest to be comfortable with was the matsutake there's a couple is it a avocado pit about foraging in yeah yeah oh man orange peels of the world zoom in on this one oh that's a good on this is that whether the green cap Wilson the green cap Wilson very poisonous known for its bounce no great bouncing spongy texture harmless quite fun actually hey Brad I got another one come check it out Oh big boy big so this is a little beyond where you want to find it all right ooh would you want to eat that no it's slimy it's nasty it's soft what does well we'll see here real quick that the the maggots love them Oh the maggots the squirrels love them oh look at that funk a now this is definitely far beyond where I would want to eat it there's maggots but a little bit of maggots doesn't it doesn't really bother me oh yeah but the other thing is is that with more mature ones like this you can just dry em the maggots just crawl right out that's a good point and sometimes the the sponge is the only thing that has the maggots and you can suck you can save the rest of it or maybe you can just salvage the stock but this is just done yeah she's fried all right well here we're back in well let the squirrels and maggots have that there we go oh you got one there too Oh Andrea what you got nice pluck oh that's what we like that's one nice little piggie let's throw her in the basket oh you got chanterelles Oh oh wow nice little cluster of them can throw those species chantrelle golden chantrelle give that thing away you get the apricot oh I get it they're so beautiful - yeah my friends - getting real chippy oh and this takes one little patch that's a nice little frigging yeah it's great the fruiting you can see the variety of age here from like full size down to you know these things are like just pop it out like this guy come back in two weeks and then you're gonna have that exactly yep look here some that probably went rotten no interested for you know we see the whole cycle you know that's like so I notice you know I'm kind you know looks like you're gonna have to get one but I knows you guys got these really cool little baskets you know is there a reason you guys carry baskets compared to like I mean other than it being super cute and all is there a beneficial to putting your mushrooms or whatever you're harvesting in there completely compared to like a plastic bag there's certainly seen people use plastic bags or paper bags but the idea with the basket is that you're dropping spores along the way Oh a little Johnny Appleseed there you go exactly keep your eyes open for shrimps mini oh I wish you guys could smell that I wish you could smell this whole area so quiet in the air oh mama my favorite artist you asked Vince you know I've been saying this for decades my favorite artist mother nature yeah good luck you paint that you sculpt that you make that you can she's got your beat every time you know and just like a fine Matisse painting it should be respected fair enough I like that hope Matt doesn't cut that probably well son of a whoo I don't think it's a good kind Vinny look at this I mean this is this is like it's on a pile of rotting wood chips you know it's just really really focusing in on what these creatures do so I don't know I don't know where our fungus friends went you know they aint got lost in the woods on us left is here to experiment I don't know what kind of mushroom this is oh no see huh see we did learn Vinny come on get in here but now how do we know Vincent that this isn't a porcini correct you nailed it Vince look so they have the the gills instead of the instead of the spongy spore droppers so this is not this is not a porcini this friend this my friends is not a high elevation porcini it's probably poisonous as hell all right Oh Vinnie little treat for you little huckleberry oh what a tease little tart little sweet just like us Vinnie you know then I got to tell you if getting bringing me back to our camping days it feels good to get back in the woods you know really ties you back into your food and I think our buddies are this way that's enough chitchat let's go where is he he's like I use like a grizzly bear we gotta get out of this ticket Minnie oh what a pretty little field oh there's the thing ate the wrong mushroom everything is really green Oh wood - I think that's messy I think those might be good to go nice oh you're just doing them both once double-fist in yes that's it beautiful as a primo these will gray David's number one great one number one number one you sell when you sell them commercially it's there's one through five those would actually be number twos not super bad but it's soft but it's soft as hell you could tell it's falling off seats falling apart it's saturated that would be one I would probably take that home and dry it and powder it really yep because the texture doesn't matter the flavor is still all there the flavor does not necessarily yeah exactly Oh little shrimp stands for a mushroom bump so look this is great good eye Brad let me let me brush off some of the Duff so yeah when you go to pick these as we learned you want to excavate around it a little bit just to expose the big nubby stem because the stem is not garbage so you want to get the oats soft Oh bummer and you would rock it this is a little rotten at the bottom that's one that's too bad Oh we tried you know not even gonna be perfect especially when you foraging just glad we found some stuff I don't I you Bandung but I'm pretty starving say we head back we'll get a little fire going all right we got plenty of mushrooms I know our fungus friends bought some really cool stuff where I think we're doing a little mushroom fried rice so let's get this fire going let's go check out our bounty so we just picked these mushrooms and then what so you notice I mean they grow in dirt they are covered in dirt Duff if you want to kind of clean them off is there like a trimming there's anything you need to do to them I always like to try to save as much the mushroom as possible so I basically just start whittling at it it's inevitable you're gonna eat a little bit of Duff surehand or bugs when you eat wild mushrooms are smaller than the quartz right alright so uh yeah we just went out got all of our mushrooms brought them back here we cleaned them up Andrew brought some ease and pause tell us what are we uh we're would have been cooking here um yes we're just gonna do like a wild mushroom fried rice so we'll kind of get some color on the mushrooms we'll saute some onion and pepper a little sausage we'll finish with the garlic and the cilantro root we'll do a little egg and then finish it off with some of the Collins chili sauce wasn't all right here Vince porcini first yeah what the hell you ever think of it a lot of other mushrooms but the stems are awesome mm-hmm [Music] not bad not bad at all well you know it's good and no one's talking Vince it's almost like cedar e to me a little bit yeah I can get that it's funny you say cedar e because we mentioned when we were looking for him they tend to grow in like pine forest coniferous forests you know I wonder if they're the product of their environmental yeah like most of its for sure alright ready put the camera down buddy get in here and eat all right guys thanks for joining there was a lot of fun from being out you know learn in the woods and then going back and cooking which it would friends it doesn't really get much better than that I don't know if you guys get out there please be careful you know the Portuguese and the chanterelles they're kind of pretty safe ones and pretty you know pretty easy but there's a lot of species out there make friends get in a community go out picking with people that know what they're doing and pass on the knowledge and just be careful out there you know if you're unsure don't eat it hope you guys have fun let me know things that you like to do with mushrooms or some other cool species that you like to eat or where you get them we'd love to hear let us know in the comments big thanks to Colin and Andrew for taking their time and sharing their spot with me I won't share it if you can figure out where this is well cats out of the Hat guys but cats out of the Hat is that no cats out of the bag why was the cat in the bag okay anyway thanks guys Bon Appetit oh look at this come on boy look at this stuff huh look at this place how cold is the water oh my god it's warmer than the air Vince you got to feel that get over here put the camera down we are going swimming oh oh we did stumble across a couple of those Alice in Wonderland mushrooms highly psychedelic make your stomach feel a little weird let's go to nibble on those maybe wasn't any of that mountain oh we're not telling anyone it's ours I feel like what was the lady you know there's an old song for kids over the river and through the woods she had about Goldilocks right Goldilocks she had a red shirt on then the wolf eat her ass or something Oh how's that story go what's David oh I gotta tell you bro I record this time we get out of these woods get back on the bikes brother time to hit the road ask the grass baby [Music]

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Id: sexYJ-J-AVo

Length: 17min 15sec (1035 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 18 2018

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[u/bamberoo]

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10/10 editing Vinny-bo-binny.

[u/quietly41]

That guy brought chopsticks to eat his mushrooms in the woods, that is dedication.

[u/TomBradysRingHand]

I am so glad Brad and the bon appetit crew are getting popular on Reddit. They make high quality content full of good information and Brad especially has a great personality for TV/youtube. Best editing around, right vincenzo?

[u/sonicssweakboner]

How does one learn or become an expert on mushroom foraging? I would love to get into that

[u/jmverlin]

The editing on these Bon Appetit videos is always top-notch. Brad is great, and they're informative, but the editing really takes it over the top. The bear noises, the transcriptions, the shaking Rock....all of that is great detail.

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When some tells me Brad made a video

[u/1800CALLATT]

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[u/Chaddcl0ps]

This just reinforces how grossed out I am with mushrooms

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Didn't the wolf eat her ass 😂

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