So while the story spends half its time blaming the mushroom the real reason is the sushi restaurant decided to not cook them and this has never been recommended even for the standard white button mushroom. Mushrooms are grown often in sawdust, soil, or manure or a mixture of all three. Anything that’s popping up from this material is going to have bacteria and other pathogens on it. Cook mushrooms. Period dot. It’s pretty simple. Morels are great since they are so easily identified and recognized. Even the false morel is easily identified. True morels are hollow. False morels are not. It’s the one mushroom that even a novice can safely gather with little risk.

Restaurant owner = 100 percent responsible.

Cooked thoroughly that's the key. It's on the restaurant not cooking thoroughly

Eat wild mushrooms at my own risk!? What risk is there if you know what you're picking and you're cooking it thoroughly. I don't like the scare tactics

I agree it's a scare tactic! If you know to cook them well like has been instructed from people that has ate them for years. And with all food refrigerated when needed. Also I would never want to eat these at a restaurant! You have no idea how they have been prepared. If you choose to eat wild mushrooms cook and prepare yourself!

The general rule is to cook all edible mushrooms, it brings out the flavor and I believe makes the nutrients more bioavailable, plus it kills any unwanted bugs, bacteria, etc. Eating any mushrooms raw can be risky and dangerous

The issue is only that they didn't cook them. It's not even likely that they had the wrong mushroom, as the morel look-alikes are notably different, especially when cutting them in a kitchen. But raw? No. Don't do that.

I have ate morels for 70 years and never got sick and I eat the first ones I find raw

They said cultivated, imported, not cooked properly.!!! Sad that there was such a problem.😢

Dave’s needs to own the facts 2 people DIED! And the city restaurant inspectors aren’t doing their job!

When I eat in a restaurant I never get any dish that has mushrooms in it. I read that this restaurant cooked the mushrooms by pouring how water on them. This will not neutralize the poison in the mushroom.

Interesting it was a sushi restaurant, I've eaten morels for many years no issues..

Everyone named dave must be held accountable

Whoever made the mistake belongs in jail and the restaurant should lose it's license. How many loved ones are now missing those two people?

wtf would they serve them raw? any chef would know better than that! so careless

So you get sick on 20- 30 minutes, but yet the restaurant made people sick for TWO MONTHS? Great sleuthing and Dept of Health! SMH!

Maybe bad substrate, but if you boil and drain, no problem. And we talk about cultivated mushrooms, my point- substrate is problem.

Truth is you have no control over what may have been harvested along with other edible wild mushrooms when you get them at a restaurant or even a market. Odd story, most serious mushroom poisonings take a lot longer than 20 minutes to have any really serious effects.

Infuriating; just like many other non-mushroom items one has to know how to treat and cook food to serve it :-/

I have always ate t Morel mushrooms first I soak them with salt water to clean them then I mix a flour batter I mix flour egg milk salt pepper I get my oil hot in pan deep fly them when done I put them on paper towel then the dip I mix sour cream and horseradish together so good!

I'm looking towards who the supplier was to the restaurant and if the they were tainted by someone or unsafe handling. It's not the mushrooms ,I've ate them all my life and never gotten sick.

Eating Sushi (fish or fungi) in Montana?? Isn't that a Bit like ordering a Sirloin steak in Mumbia??

SMH it took too long for this to be the story

Cultivated !?

This guy is amazing.They served raw MOREL mushrooms.If I'm correct, don't be amazed.You've had a lot of people sick then

Don't eat at a place called Dave's sushi

CLEARLY stated "propagated imported morel Mushrooms" uncooked & the mycology

God only knows what may have been in with the morels. It's too common that some people include false morels with true. Pine mushrooms are harvested in large numbers and shipped often to Japan. Not at all hard to mistake them for an amaniita and that happens. It's also impossible to say if the mushrooms, though undercooked apparently, were to blame at all..while it's advised to always cook wild edibles well, it's also almost unheard of that anyone dies if they eat undercooked wild mushrooms.

You have to cook morels for 8 to 10 minutes.

Kentuckians have been eating these forever I've never heard of this bull hockey 😂😂

Cook them

Ugh the “morel” of this story of avoid this delicacy at all cost.

Sounds to me like bacteria in the substrate probably only used the pasteurization tek and didn’t kill off all the bacteria

More people are sickened from eating mushrooms that have gone bad than from eating poisonous varieties. 🤷‍♂️ Probably should avoid eating spoiled food though, right ? Cultivated , is likely due to contamination . I cook ALL wild mushrooms except Amanita Jacksonii 😋 Definitely 1 of my favorites I have never had a problem with raw american Slender Ceasers. You do you 👋🙂

Here’s a thought; with all the mushroom species that are safe why not just leave morels alone, are they that good that they’re worth the risk of death?

This shed no effing light

They making a huge hype…, but don’t desiccate the fact that it was “cultivated morels” whom a heck knew how did they grew them, with what chemicals (even if allowed chemicals, which they are using with every cultivated mushrooms, regardless of medicinal or other kinds)…, they also used (and ate) raw…, which is a no-no …, or at least was back in old country. Then they mention only wild mushrooms can make You sick…, but these people died from cultivated mushrooms 🤦‍♀ in my opinion this video has to do something with the industry whom cultivates mushrooms, they may feel the Lois of sales because of the wild mushrooms got popular over the decade… It’s a business trick….

So if we don't know the toxin, could it have been undercooked/raw fish, instead that made people sick? 😂 Or anything else in sushi?

Folks need a foraging license to sell mushrooms to restaurants. This is the restaurants fault not understanding proper way to cook.

Cross contamination,,from sushi cooking.

Morels are not mushrooms yall, They are actually sac fungi!!!! Chillax

Wasn’t the raw fish purchased from farm fed it’s own shit ?

Imports, Sushi & Raw. Here's your sign!

Sooooo........knock offs from Chyna

Lol... let's talk about deaths from FDA approved things.

YOU CANT CULTIVATE A MOREL!!!

Too much sockie 😂

I do not eat mushrooms! EVER! Never have! Never will. Yep, I eat apples and watermelons.