• spacesatan@lazysoci.al
    291·
    5 months ago

    Almost definitely puffballs, one of my favorite mushrooms to forage. Though I’ve never had ones this big and I hear they lose a bit of flavor if they’re giant.

    If you cut a *(vertical) cross section and it’s a uniform texture with nothing that looks like the structure of a classic capped mushroom that should rule out any lookalikes. Should still be good if the inside is white and not starting to turn brown.

    • Nurse_Robot
      432·
      5 months ago

      Trusting a stranger on a random web forum is not recommended when it comes to eating mushrooms you find outside. Even if they’re right

      • spacesatan@lazysoci.al
        21·
        5 months ago

        Easy to check against another source. This is one of the easiest to ID mushrooms that people eat.

        • Nurse_Robot
          143·
          5 months ago

          Yeah, but still. I don’t want to normalize casually taking recommendations about eating wild mushrooms online.

          • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
            13·
            5 months ago

            I also don’t know if I’d eat mushrooms growing in or around an urban environment. Fungi are known to pull all sorts of contaminants from their substrate into their fruit bodies. Then again, we’re already filled with contaminants from our food and water, so it may only be a drop in the bucket. 🤷‍♂️

            • Nurse_Robot
              31·
              5 months ago

              I heard it goes great with the micro plastics!

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    7·
    5 months ago

    We used to prepare and eat these back home. They’re a bit like eggplant. My dad would sometimes hop out of the car on his commute home from work and grab these off the side of the road.

  • Blaster MEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    I’m reminded of Clarkson’s Farm for some reasons

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I’d think that you could build some sort of temperature/light/humidity controlled terrarium, model mushroom growth, and then grow mushrooms at the maximum that they’re biologically able to grow.