Why You Can't Overcook Mushrooms and The Science Behind Them | Mushrooms | What's Eating Dan?

Mushrooms are neither plant nor animal. So what's the best way to cook them? Dan explains the science behind cooking this delicious fungus in this episode of What's Eating Dan?.

Tell us about your experience with mushrooms in the comments below!

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[OYWOldMusics]

...At the "Use Water to Sautee" part, my mind exploded and i realized i've cooked mushrooms wrong and oily since day once. I also realized my assumption mushrooms broke down was wrong, and am now a little less frightened to toss them in a soup and them breaking down.

Changed the Mushroom game.

[matstaley]

My dad is a mushroom nerd and once when I was a child he picked some skunk mushrooms. They didn’t smell like skunk or taste bad so we figured they were fine since they are classified as edible. What we discovered the next day is that the “skunk” came from the wind produced by the unfortunate soul brave enough to eat them...

[forevergogo]

He doesn't leave mushroom for debate.

[joec.]

When I was a kid, we had an elderly neighbor who was from Russia. One of Jacob's many talents was being an accomplished mushroomer. He would go out for walks and come back with loads of mushrooms, and marinate them. He used to bring jars of them to as, as we lived right next door to him. My parents were very skeptical about eating them, at first, but my oldest brother pointed out that Jacob had been doing this all his life - and he was still very much alive and well. They were the best marinated mushrooms I have ever had. I love mushrooms, but I have to say I've never had any that came even close to the ones Jacob made. Thank you, Jacob! RIP.

[door-to-doorhentaisalesman]

You forgot red mushrooms.

A certain Italian plumber ate a red mushroom and he became 6'8" tall.

[yakovgolyadkin]

I watched this video about a month ago, then yesterday made mushrooms. I made them from what I vaguely remembered from this video - water first, then oil later. And damned if it wasn't the best batch of mushrooms I've ever made. Thank you for this one.

[TrueHero]

In the early 90s when I was young and growing up in Poland, I would wake up in the wee hours of the morning and go mushroom picking with my father. There was something about walking through a damp forest in autumn collecting nature's bounty.

[OhRaez]

Fuuuuck man. Those greek taste testers must have been tripping balls with some of those fungi.

[Gurrehable]

How to chanterelle:


1: Put a bunch of them in a frying pan with a lid on medium heat
2: When they are sweating so much they are soaking, remove lid and turn the heat to high
3: Fry away all the water (ALL of it)
4: Add lots of butter and some salt and keep frying for a while


Great on crisp flatbread

[hwang]

I only understand measurements in football fields

[siggylev]

I tried sautéing mushrooms in water before adding oil and other veggies. It came out wonderfully. I used a fraction of the oil I usually have to use. Thank you ATK

[vtrauma]

You learn something new every day. Today I learned I've been accidentally cooking mushrooms properly all this time.

[victorbenner]

I believe that this is you're best video so far. I use mushrooms alot. The water before oil is new to me, however, I don't normally use oil but use unsalted butter instead. How about you folks do a entire special edition of mushrooms. How to saute, make soups, sauces, salads, well you get the idea.

[kap]

Grew up in Ukraine, and I still remember, 30 years later, picking mushrooms in the forests with my grandparents. I was just a kid so I didn't know the difference between the good and poisonous ones, so behind my back, they threw out the bad ones. ;)

Besides being delicious, they are incredibly sustainable. Based on some quick googling, you can grow 25 pounds of oyster mushrooms in a single square foot of area! (I can confirm that with my own oyster experiments.) That's before you start stacking!

[moneymaker]

Craziest experience with mushrooms? You ain't slick on me undercover cop bro

[en]

Now this is a REAL food science *cooking* series...not the blasphemy on the Everyday Food channel. Hope this gets more popular!

[mi]

My husband doesn’t like mushrooms. But one time I cooked some King Trumpet (or King Oyster) mushroom slices and he thought it was scallops. He ate it. He couldn’t tell the difference.

[DimT]

Add salt when you saute mushrooms for the water to release faster, that way they have less time to absorb the oil and you can saute them as you do with most other foods. Cutting them small also helps in that

[Hayden_Cat]

OMG STORY TIME:


Me and my mom were making alfredo. She told me to sauté the mushrooms in a separate pan so I put so oil and the mushrooms and boom all the oils gone. Just like this video said I kept adding and gone. I told my mom “every time I add some oil it evaporates or something” and she told me I just didn’t add enough oil I was like “I added oil like 5 times and it keeps disappearing”. The she added it herself and witnessed it vanish and she shrugged it off as nothing. Now I finally know why. Great video lol

[razorhighflyer]

"You cant overcook mushrooms"

My cooking skills: *Are you challenging me?*