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you how to grow mushrooms. I adore mushrooms. My husband and I love
foraging for mushrooms. We go way back, way
before we had children, back when we lived in Montana,
we loved foraging for morels. We spent some time in
the Pacific Northwest, loved hunting for chanterelles. And just hunting for
mushrooms is just so much fun. Mushrooms are beautiful. They're amazing. They're fungi. And they're absolutely delicious. So I have grown mushrooms before from a kit that was gifted to me, but I've never actually grown them from mycelia spawn before. So I purchased a kit from
Fields & Forest Products, and I'm gonna show you
how to grow mushrooms from toilet paper. (Emmy screeching) Toilet paper is so great. This is a kit that
specifically teaches you how to grow mushrooms using toilet paper. Toilet paper, of course, is
made from plant or wood pulp and is very absorbent. And it is the perfect substrate for growing oyster mushrooms. When I saw this kit, I
knew I had to buy it. I knew I had to do it with my children. So let me walk you through the steps of the Oyster Mushroom T.P. Project. (Emmy laughing) So this project began about two months ago when I ordered my kit, and it came with three
different types of grains spawn. So this grain, I believe it might be wheat
berries that has been inoculated with a very specific
type of spawn or mycelia. So the mushroom itself
is just the fruiting body or how it disseminates the spores so it can reproduce. And there's a huge mycelia
network that's underground that is integral to so
many trees and plants because it's so efficient
in taking up water. So this kit is a large one. It comes with three
different types of mycelia, and you can inoculate up to
21 rolls of toilet paper. This would be great for
a classroom setting. I really want to try these
different varieties of mushrooms so I purchased this one. And it was great because I sent some leftover
spawn to my brother. So hopefully he and his kids were able to grow mushrooms as well. So, the first thing you're
gonna need is some toilet paper and a large pot of boiling water. Your toilet paper needs to be
unscented and free of dyes. So when you get your big pot
of boiling water boiling, you can use a pair of tongs, and quickly dip one side
of the toilet paper in and the other. Now, as you probably know,
toilet paper is very absorbent. So there's no need to put the toilet paper in there for very long. Just one second, one second, because it sucks up a ton of water and then it starts to disintegrate. And then place it on a rack to cool. And the instructions say, if you like, you can remove the core that will allow the mycelia to get into the toilet paper a lot faster. So dipping the toilet paper into the boiling water does two things. Number one, it hydrates it. Water is very important to mushrooms. And number two, it kills any
potential competing bacteria that might want to compete
with what we're trying to grow, which is a fungus. So we're gonna let the
toilet paper cool off. We don't want it to be too hot. Otherwise, it'll kill our mushrooms. So to avoid cross contamination, we're gonna handle the
toilet paper using the tongs and we're going to place it
into the bags that are provided. So I found rolling the
bags down very helpful. Try not to touch the inside of the bag. Transfer the wet toilet paper
into the middle of the bag. And make sure if you've got
different varieties of mycelia to label your bags, so you know what you've
inoculated your toilet paper with. So now we're gonna take our bag of mycelia and crush it up a little
bit to separate the grains. And then just cut the corner off. And then, we're gonna fill
the inside of the toilet paper with the mycelia grains
up to the very top. We're gonna draw up the plastic bag, and then take the rubber
bands that are provided and seal it at the top. And make sure you secure
it above the filter patch. It's important that the
mushrooms can still breathe. So now, we're going to take
our inoculated toilet paper and put them in an undisturbed spot at around 65 to 75 degrees. I just put them in the closet and place them in there
for four to six weeks. So what's happening here. We're encouraging the
mycelia from the grains to start growing into the toilet paper. So in the first week, I noticed that the entire toilet paper started getting covered
with this white mycelia, the grains too were covered. And I just let them sit. I was going there and
peek, take a look at them. And I also noticed this
really lovely smell. It almost smelled like an
extract, almost cinnamon-y, kind of sweet. People often think of like stinky shoes but this was very pleasant and sweet. And we're going to take the entire bag and place it in the
refrigerator for 48 hours. These cold temperatures
are simulating winter, a period of dormancy. So after 48 hours, we
remove the rubber band and opened the bag slightly, and allows warm air to enter the bag. I purchased this mister
and I really love it. It creates a really fine mist. And so, just check on your mushrooms. If they look like they're
getting a little dry, give them a mist. But don't let any water
collect at the bottom because too much water is not good either. So when you're waiting for
your mushrooms to fruit, you're gonna put them in a spot that gets some filtered sunlight. After just a couple of days,
I started to see mushrooms. It was so stinking cool. You can just see these little tiny, these strips of little baby
mushrooms start coming up. And it was so interesting to see the three different varieties because they had different
growing patterns. This is one of my Italian mushrooms. (Emmy sniffing) So beautiful. Isn't that incredible? It looks like antlers or something. Now the kit specifies, if you really want a
prolific amount of mushrooms, toilet paper is not the best substrate. But this is great for
demonstrating to children how mushrooms are such
wonderful decomposers. So now I'm gonna show you one of my favorite ways to eat mushrooms. And it's simply on a good piece of toast. Make this your own. Feel free to tailor this to
however you like your mushrooms. So now, we're gonna harvest
these beautiful mushrooms. These are the Italians, and I'm just gonna use my knife here and cut them right off. Ah, so beautiful. Look at that. That is huge. So the instructions
included in the kit say that we can get more mushrooms from this if we just repeat the
steps that we did prior. I'm gonna try some of these as well. These are the gray oyster mushrooms. My golden ones aren't quite ready yet. I'm gonna let them continue growing. So oyster mushrooms are so delicate, you don't even need a
knife to break them -- you can just tear them with
your fingers, like that. Did you ever see that faux
chicken sandwich I made with chicken-of-the-wood mushroom that my husband and my
son found on their walk? Amazing. I'll put a link down below to that video because so, so, so good. Mushrooms and onions are best friends. And I often saute my mushrooms with onion. But today I'm keeping it simple -- just gonna use a little bit of butter. So while that's melting up,
I'm going to slice some bread. (paper bag rattling) Durham loaf here. Love the sound of bread. (bread crunching) - That looks good. In go a handful of mushrooms. (pan sizzling) I'm just gonna sweat these up a bit. Don't disturb them.
Just let them sit there. (pan sizzling) And now I'm going to prepare my toast. So, add a little bit more butter. Uh-hum. Don't want the heat too high. Toast up that bread. (pan sizzling) Beautiful. Turn my toast over. Get crispy on the other side. So I'm gonna transfer my
mushrooms to up the plate. And I'm gonna add some sharp
cheddar cheese right on top. Just gonna cover it. Gonna steam it a little bit to allow the cheese to melt a bit. Alrighty. My toast should be ready. Okay. Look at that. Look at that. I am going to arrange, my mushroom is right on top. (classical music) So with my mushroom toast, I'm gonna have a glass of wine. I'm going to try the
Jumble Sale Chardonnay. (wine pouring) Cheers. (Emmy swallowing) Hm. Not tannic-y as most chardonnays are. Refreshing. Very full body. It has a very kind of
viscous texture to it. I think it's gonna go really nicely with my mushroom toast. Let's give my cheesy
mushroom toast a taste. Here we go. Itadakimasu. (Emmy chewing) (Emmy sighing) So, so delicious. Salty, nutty, golden, buttery, crisp. Delicious. So good. (Emmy chewing) (Emmy sighing) (Emmy giggling) The wine actually goes
really well with that because the acidity really compliments the sweet nuttiness of the mushrooms. Oyster mushrooms are some
of my favorite mushrooms. They caramelize deeply. They have lots of inherent sugars in them but they have a nice
wide range of flavors. The Golden mushrooms that I've tasted, those have a really complex, almost funky sea, brine-y,
ocean-y flavor to them. While these have a nice nuttiness. This is a combination of both
the Gray and the Italian. They're sweet. And they pair so nicely with
the cheese and the butter. I mean, butter goes with everything. But butter really goes well
with mushrooms, in my opinion. So delicious. And we have some beautiful textures here. We have the chew of the bread,
the crunch of the bread, with that kind of crisp, caramelization that happens on the thin oyster mushrooms. (Emmy sighing) (bread crunching) (Emmy chewing) Outstanding. It is so, so simple yet so, so good. It's so good. So I made this with a nice
sharp, dry cheddar cheese but I think this would also go really well with a nice aged Swiss style cheese, like an Emmentaler or a Gruyere. That nuttiness I think would
go so well with the mushrooms and the crunchy toast and butter. (Emmy chewing) (Emmy clapping) And to think I grew this beautiful, delicious, delectable
treat from toilet paper. Absolutely amazing. Thanks so much for joining me and big thanks to Bright Cellars
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her other videos have been posted before, i would love to think she secretly lurks here
I looove Emmy!!
Her toast looks so good 🤤
Watched this last night. Mushrooms really are amazing!
Awesome post the possibilities are endless