she just scraped off half of the mushroom! Too expensive to be butchering the mushrooms like that.

Never seen portobello mushrooms 🍄 prep'd like this before

wow, you are removing all the flavor by doing that. These mushrooms are meaty & can take the place of meat. They also are expensive. I guess the white regular mushrooms might work better for you

Me thinks this lady just doesn't like "quite dark" things.

This is no longer a mushroom...sad!!

There's still some color at the end of the video. If you want pure WHITE mushrooms you can season them in mayonaisse/bleach overnight.

I just cleanse with water and sautee in my herb butter..why take the gills and skin off..i eat them at resteraunts, everything is in tact also...so freakn delicious

A lot of misinformed people in the comments, yes the Portobello is perfectly fine as it is to eat whole, and at home you probably should, but in every restaurant I've worked in we degill and destem them at the least (using the stem for a duxelle) and occasionally peel them depending on the dish. The skin and gills will impart a little bit of a muddy flavor to the dish, for most people that's fine but if the dish requires a cleaner taste and presentation then it's peeled.

This is a joke

If you’re stuffing them it’s better to take out the gills. If you are grilling you don’t need to. That also goes for skinning them. You can use the stems for the stuffing. Depends on how delicate you want the dish. So she’s not wrong, it simply depends upon how rustic or delicate you prefer your dish to be, sort of like straining sauces. Like if you’re making a shallot cream sauce for seafood and you want it rustic you would leave the chunks of shallot and herbs in in and you wanted it delicate and refined, you’d push it through a sieve. Or the same with if you wanted a delicate or chunky tomato sauce. Neither is “correct” Just different styles.

Thank you for this helpful video, I bought portabello mushrooms and didn’t have a clue how to clean and use them

Very helpful video & prep tips! Made panko-crusted portobello mushroom burger. 🙂

You just need to dampen a paper cloth and gently wipe them. That's all.

Does this method affect any of the nutritional value? I have not seen anyone else peel and scrape them. Thanks in advance for your reply!

First you get a banana. Peel off the topside. The soft mushy part in the middle needs throwing away .chop the peel and serve....mmmm

This just feels wrong

A little bit surprised at the care you are taking to remove any (potentially harmful and/or nutritious) bits from these mushrooms. I’ve never seen anyone scraping the gills like that. You stand a good chance of destroying the mushroom for stuffing. Anyway the dark liquid emanating from the mushroom on cooking just adds to the overall flavour of the dish and taste is the reason for choosing Portobellos in the first place. It all seems a bit like “throwing the baby out with the bathwater”. I apologise if that’s too extreme a description for your viewers. Perhaps, as someone has suggested you should be using another type of Mushroom, or perhaps the alternative could be that you handled the operation in a full Chemical Suit and required your guests to sign Indemnities prior to partaking. Sorry, my inner Gordon Ramsey got the better of me there.

Alton Brown once dedicated an entire episode of Good Eats to mushrooms. In it he scientifically disproved the notion that mushrooms will absorb an appreciable amount of water by washing them. Just saying. Anyway, thank you for your video.

Is taking off the skin of the mushroom just a preference of yours opposed to cleaning it

I don't peel them when I'm using them for the "crust" of my portobello pizza, but do remove the gills the same way you do. They end up being baked at 450 degrees with the filling for like 11 minutes.

save that 🍄

Haha!!! Crazy! You are taking all the goodness and nourishment away!! So wrong!

Lol holy shit, this is a vid on how to destroy a mushroom, not clean it

Asesinaste al portobello!!! Lo pelaste como una banana. Estamos todos locos

Just while I'm watching this video i'm enjoying a portobello´s soup. It is the second time in life that I cook it. I would never have thought of peeling the mushroom or removing the gills. Even so, I prefer to think that the woman in the video is not crazy, but innovative (by the way, I must confess that the "dark liquid" made me nervous. I thought I hadn't cleaned the mushrooms properly).

I almost thought I'm the only one who peal mushrooms. 🙄 I peal all🍄! I soak them in a lil vinegar and salt water after cleaning just to be sure of 💯% ready to eat.🤔😁 Thanks for this video.

I WASHED A DIFFERENT IT SAID TO GET A DAMP PAPER TOWEL AND WIPE IT TO GET THE RESIDUE OFF

Hallelulah.. I found someone who peels em! I always peel button mushrooms cos I cant stand eating the slimy skin! Wasn't sure whether to do that with these. Think i'll leave one with the gills so i can taste the difference and see for myself what i prefer tastewise.

Thank you so much. It's been really helpful

Thanks.🍄

in that case just buy the cheap mushrooms :(

THIS VIDEO IS INCORRECT. you are removing all the flavour lady.

SHE'S CRAZY! Obviously she doesn't purchase many mushrooms! LMAO

thx saved my recipe did not know they had a skin to them lol

I take off the gills for better texture, but I didn't know I had to peel it.

Dark ??? Sooooo it’s favor you silly

Im purchasing Portobello mushrooms at Aldis. Great store. Yes. The portobello doesnt have the stem and its wrap in plastic amd refrigerated. Whats wrong with this picture. Can you help me?

Wow I had these last night and didn't know you have to peel it or scrape the gills out.

That can be done with white mushrooms too, but they don't tell people to do that. Why is it only done with portobello?

That poor mushroom was a shell of itself.

This helps me a lot. I hate mushrooms, but I'm trying to get used to the taste as i transition my diet. Thanks!

I’ve never unliked something so fast

Thank you son much I’m about to make vegan taco for the great fast/lent

STOP THIS CRAZY WOMAN!!!

I peel the skin off, then cook. Your butchering it.

When I started taking the gills out my mushroom started to fall apart. Any advice for this mishap?

Great tutorial!! I watched several before this one and this was ready to follow 😁

Can you use portobello in place of shiitake for a stir fry

What der heck?! O_o She just hack all the mushrooms to nothingness.... All I do is cut off a small part of the stem if it's too hard. Slice. Cook. That's it!

Can I eat gills of mushroom

as we said What did I left in it 😂😂😂

What....😂

Hi.. This the old portobello mushroom, if you want the skin white you can buy the young portobello we call it champignon mushroom, please search in google.. Wkwkwkwk

There's nothing left! No. Just no.

This is bs

WHAT IN THE FRESH HELL IS THIS?!

Why does this lady sound like CAROL FUCKING BASKIN!!?!?!?!?

I just cook and eat whole entire mushroom

Lol. Who is she? Not from this planet I swear!

The only thing is she said i don't agree with is the cleaning y'all gonna get ecoli fucking with her

"How to ruin a Portobello Mushroom" .... This is why black ppl think we don't season anything

She should stick to gardening instead

Wait I’m meant to clean them

You are wrong you should watch those dirty mushrooms some of them have so much dirt on it

🙈🙊🙈🙊🙈🙉

Strange 😂

What the fuck have you done to that mushroom? Never in my life have I seen someone PEEL a mushroom

So you don't like color?

i dont think you know how to eat mushrooms te proper way.

Whatever clean with water chop and cook bye

lol

Shes wasting time, food and flavor....

lol wasteful af

Why on earth do you take all of this off? I make portobello pizza all the time, and only wipe it off, with a damp towel and take out the stem. Don't 1> waste your time with all of this crap shes doing and 2> remove all the extra quality of a mushroom from it. What a waste.

Those mushrooms are DIRTY!

Mejor entonces, no compres Portobellos, pues.. ¡no te queda nada!

I swear to god... that narrator for this video is my old boss. I’m genuinely curious if this is what she started doing after she stopped working in the industry.

ridiculous to peel these

What a waste!

She sounds prejudice

Dont peel. Lightly fill. And add BACON! or any animal fat. Load up with cheese and rice. Bake till warm and top with MORE Cheese

The worst advise EVER !

racist

You’re not cleaning an amanita mushroom 🍄, what a waste...