Twice Cooked Mushrooms.

[sandyRoe]

Listening this morning to Amanda Palmer reading The Mushroom Hunters on Radio 4 I was intrigued by the mention of twice cooked mushrooms.
Boil them once and theyre still poisonous. They need cooked a second time before they're safe to eat.
How could someone have discovered that?

[dannyk13]

Painfully, I would imagine.

[TonyV]

Sandy Probably someone died after boiling once?

[dannyk13]

I don't think boiled mushrooms would be very palatable.

[sandyRoe]

Imagine some caveman, or woman, boiling a pot of mushrooms only to see the dinner guests dropping like flies when they'd eaten them.
'I know', the cook thinks, 'what these need is boiling again'.
Maybe there are no such mushrooms.

[TonyV]

danny if you boil them to get rid of poison, you could dry them off then fry them?

[aelmpvw]

caveman's menu, boiled mushrooms starter followed by fugu for a main course ...

[dannyk13]

Tony, if you boil mushrooms I would imagine that they would be absolutely saturated and soggy.

[TonyV]

yes Danny but you can let them dry wrapped in some kitchen towel then fry them.

[dannyk13]

Tony, no ta, prefer mine from Tesco. :-)

[ummmm]

Danny...it's depends what you cook the with. I put whole, raw, mushrooms in Chinese style soups...they are really nice.

[Old_Geezer]

Mushrooms, poisonous ?
Why am I still here then ?

[Lie-in King]

O_G - luck of the Gods, my friend ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Popular way to cook wild mushrooms in Eastern Europe.

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/02/from-a-polish-country-house-kitchens-twice-co.html

[sunny-dave]

A quote from a very wise man :

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cc/b6/8c/ccb68c3dbbf2fb764c6047ab31996857.png

[lankeela]

I wonder who decided that mushrooms were edible but toadstools were poisonous?

[ichkeria]

I think it was the Lapps who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of the fly agaric because they noticed that their reindeer were behaving strangely after grazing on them.
Most so called poisonous mushrooms are not nearly as harmful as supposed. But many are simply inedible unless you boil them well :-)