Giant Puffball Mushroom Harvesting & Grilling

hi I'm Chris and Cassie and today we're going to talk about our giant puffball mushroom that we found today is june 25th and this is our second one of the season we were on our way up to octonaut in michigan to do a little craft show and I found this along the way it was actually in a cemetery that's where I find most of my puffballs his open fields something like a ball fall Diamond Hill Cemetery people's yards equals yards folks parks someplace where it gets mode maybe once a week every two weeks and it gives a chance to grow this one here is about 16 inches wide there was another one growing with it that we left it was I don't know maybe five six inches they come in the cut you know they can be white to a tannish Brown anywhere from four inches up to two feet across when you cut these open you want to make sure that they're pure white if they're not just throw them away so that today we're going to cut this one up and I'm going to put some olive oil and salt pepper on it and throw it on the grill so let's hope that this is nice and white end on the inside and it actually ain't that bad so we're going to cut this in Oh three quarters of an inch or half inch slices make some nice big mushroom steaks the size of this I'll probably like it maybe three or four of these slabs on the grill there we go I know it's my love oil going on he's you know what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna slice off the bottom yeah well it's nice and nice and meaty yeah this was the part that was on the ground all right so hopefully we can do this without getting rained on can hear the Thunder we've got some big storms coming through the area today some books say that it isn't really preferred to dry these and something you can just freeze them the way they are put them in layers wax paper in between them I think or you can saute them a little bit and freeze in that way I think we're just yeah it does the ones you sauteed the other night are really good too so I think this is going to be super and my the grill when I when I cook on the grill I use real log wood chunks I don't use that for cats always started with paper that way in a chimney now get the charcoal lighter fluid and taste to anything yech alright let's take these bad boys over to the grill all right we're at the grill I got the grill grate brushed off and oil put these on here now I'll leave them on a few minutes on each side till I think they're done all right wow those are going here's a reishi mushroom that I picked the other day it's a little young usually a lot bigger I I just wanted to make some tea out of this one so I harvested at home wait for it to dry get some nice grill marks I suppose I'll turn it a quarter turn I got it impress everyone mmm I smell really good yep well it's it's like a vegetable and a meatball in one so I'll put that down to a couple minutes see what happens all right a couple minutes that one can be yours still thanks and tender a couple minutes and that's I didn't mean time here I'll show you a little project I'm going to work on iPhone this here maple town the woods the other day while we were walking around he's got a nice little notch in there and I thought I'll make a bird feeder out of this I got to find a bigger conch to put on top for a cover but I'll put that on there say maybe a 12-inch conic or so cover up the thing put some birdseed in there put a hook through the middle and then I'll put a few coats of exterior poly on there and when I get done with that I'll put a picture of it on our all things wild Facebook page which you should look for us on Facebook at all things wild look for the canoe at the top of the page and when you get done well take them off and give them a try okay spending a couple three more minutes take one here now I'm not going to do what they do one all the cooking shows and hmm nice and white on the inside my house I did it anyway haha he's so the people like by portobellos and button mushrooms only at a grocery store are really missing out fine excellent edible wild mushroom like a giant pool pump ball when I got here what that's excellent so select I won County oh yeah all right let's get the source of that puppy on here update for a few days I guess hmm all right I hope you liked the video hope you share it hope you join my youtube channel and remember to hook us up on Facebook too

Channel: Chris & Kathy

Views: 474,782

Keywords: Giant Puffball, Mushroom, Grilling, Foraging, Harvesting, Hunting, Mushroom Hunting

Id: g2YxzEV-Z6I

Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 26 2016