It's true, it's nuts to see how many families and hipsters and punks are all out foraging for mushrooms here. Loads more than in the US, but we have many healthy forests in Germany and great bioremediation programs for formerly polluted forests too.

​@@jesipohl6717Most of them are every day normal guys. Only some hipsters.

Exactly and of course they didn't mention whether those tested were taking those drugs or not. There are all sorts of ways the test could have been skewed to make the results come out as they did and to make Nature's creation look scary and dangerous. [They did that with the Comfrey Plant too after hundreds if not thousands of years of it being safely consumed by humans.] I was told by my local extension service that honey mushrooms were "not edible" and I sent them videos of people saying they ate them and that they were delicious. They then told me that making determinations about the edibility of something wasn't in their purview.

What is the taste like?

Dokładnie :)

My grandparents who came from Poland taught me to find these when I was a child (I am currently 73 years old) and I have eaten many many of them as well as a coulpe of others they taught me to gather. If I am correct, these yellow nights were called prosnianki, and there were 2 varieties, the yellow as shown here and the grey topped ones, called shive (grey) prosnianki. There was (is) a look alike version which had white gills and stalk, and I was told not to take them, only the ones with yellow stalks and gills, The look alikes grew in with the yellow ones, and after some experience, you can recognize the difference because the good yellow ones had a brighter yellow cap than the look alikes whose cap was a brownish yellow in the center. Also, the good ones had a thinner stalk than the ones in the video and the stalk was also definitely yellow, as opposed to white in the video. The others I learned was pempki, brown slimy topped cap with a sponge-like underside to the cap that also grew under pine trees and also osikowe which grew near hradwoods, mostly in old unused fields. Am I correct according to your experiences? Boy this brings back memories!

@@walterwenger931 I also learned to pick these mushrooms (yellow Prośnianki) when I was a kid, I am 63 now. My grandparents taught my mother and my siblings to pick these, the grey (szara) Prośnianki, the yellow ones, and I have also found ones that were grey and with slight yellow coloring. I live in New England and have always found them here, usually under red pine trees. The yellow typically were in the green moss. Unfortunately all the areas I used to pick are now covered with houses. In addition the the insect that has infected all of the red pines here has destroyed many habitats. I still am trying to find new places, but its getting harder and harder. Nice to know other people have learned this skill and practiced it.

Please, Adam, shed some light on grey knight (tricholoma myomyces or tricholoma terreum) which has also grown so controversial these years. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

@@feitang4746 I am not a professional mycologist, I can only speak from personal experience. My grandparents took me mushroom hunting as a child and into my teens and 20's. They were from Poland, initially; I live and lived in central New York. Normally, we picked and enjoyed (ate) the yellow prosnianki, but once we found a large number of shive (grey) prosnianki and my grandparents instructed me that they grew exactly as the yellow variety, only the cap was gray rather than yellow. They were under pine (white and red pines) and we waited for the first frost for them to appear. We went into the woods a day or two after a rain to find them, growing under the pine needles on the forest floor, in pines that were not yet mature, but getting there. The important things to notice is that the stalk, the gills and the cap tops are all bright yellow; the ones with yellow caps but white gills and stalks were not to be harvested, as they were allegedly poisonous. (I never tested this to be true) In the photos of the video, the stalks are much thicker than I remenber. The gray ones were identical except the cap top was medium gray, but the gills under the cap and the stalks were all the yellow, just like the yellow variety. I only remember finding them once, but in great quantity. Another way to locate the mushrooms in the forest is to look for lumps in the needles on the ground that didn't appear to be there as expected -- you then uncover the "lump" to find a bunch of the mushrooms underneath the pine needles. I hope this helps. It is my experiences from over 50 years ago or so. Good luck.

Granny horse training , I have come to the conclusion, that the less I know about the foods I eat, the better, and let the chips fall where they may.

Yes and I'm thinking...they must be particularly good if their reputation has been besmirched so badly 😏

I am in europe too, I wonder if it could be related to radioactive isotope accumulation like with bolete's in south eastern europe and some other places. I take the red skin off my bolete's just to be safe in my zone if I eat them more than once a week.

@@jesipohl6717 Excellent friggin point, my friend. Very good. Yes, perhaps because we know that fungi and bacteria absorb radioactive stuff. Wowee. Very smart man, Jared.

1 mushroom a week haha sad dish i ate and eat kind of a lot of them

Donna MARIE , I only eat supermarket mushrooms, but I always peel the caps as well. I think that it makes them less slimy and helps them absorb flavor.

i am polish (born in usa, my parents born there). my father and i pick these every year. these were popping up in new jersey about a month ago. theyre in full bloom right now. we JUST had boletes start popping up, really weird year for mushrooms

I have the same question.

Considered edible where I'm from at least (Norway).

That's perfect enough English to not have to apologize

English is my native language and you spoke very well my friend👍

@@pennyfarthing7991 Same with gyromitra esculenta. The neurotoxin builds over time. It doesn't stop people from eating it (using the same boiling/discarding the first water method). Still... so many good mushrooms exist, why risk it?

@@johnweishaar5639 It sure is! It is better than what a lot of native English speakers can manage.

Your English is fine(perfect even). I never would have noticed that you were not a native speaker.

I think you mean the morel of the story.

@@stefflcus LOL

If they aren't too loaded with worms, a soak in salt water will chase them out. But, they are more protein (the worms.)