Aaron Hartman and his son Khalil forage for lion's mane mushrooms, which taste like scallops when cooked right. They spot poisonous earth puff mushrooms nearby and show how to identify and harvest the edible ones.
Questions this video answers
Yes — speaker states lion's mane is edible and can be cooked; tastes like scallops when washed and seasoned.
Earth puff (puffball) mushrooms — speaker describes them as poisonous and says not to eat them.
Do not breathe in the puff when squeezing them (avoid inhaling spores).
Chapters
Hey, Today my dad and me are going mushroom foraging. We've done mushrooms foraging before. It's like we've had a little bit of trouble looking, like, seeing lion's mane. It's been rainy, cold, or like, basically the perfect weather for lion mane to, like, form and come out. But we haven't seen it. So, like, basically just doing this video so you can see, like, the different kind of mushrooms, sort of. And like, what. Like, to tell you what you should do if you see lion's mane. Lion's mane, you can eat, you can cook it. And it tastes really good. What's it taste like? Basically, if you wash it really well and put spices that will taste really good with it. Really good. But if I don't Scallops, right? It tastes like scallops. Yeah. But if you don't wash it really well, it'll taste sort of like dirt and scallop. So don't do that. Wash very well and also have a great time. We just found a different kind of mushroom, but this mushroom is very bad. Like, basically it's poisonous. This is the earth puff mushroom, and they're poisonous, basically. And how you can tell is before you try and pick them and eat them, don't breathe this in when you do it, but you squeeze them, basically, don't breathe it. So the earth puff balls and all earth puff balls are poisonous. So we don't eat it. Yep. So no eat. Yep. And we found dry lion's mane. So, yeah, basically this is what happens. When it's dried out, all this happens. So I think we're gonna be taking you guys with us. We're gonna see if you guys spot it still. Yeah, all over it. We're gonna see. Actually, where were we? Oh, yeah. I think it was, like, over there somewhere over here. Actually. We'll just go over here. The most tea in parking. Oh, yeah. Teapot booking. Or on this front. See that? That's lion mates. Lion snakes that we find on something. Grab it, pull it out. So let's almost grab it. Be careful of snakes. Also, it's a little too cold for snakes, but there's also spiders left. I'm still grabbing it. It's a little hard. I think I have to twist it or something. Yep, Gotta twist it. Pull out. And this is what lion's mane looks like. Got all this tasty lion's mane. Basically, nothing looks like this. This is very unique. Yeah, it's made all from just being hanging. And, like, you can see that that stuff is from the lion's mane. So if you see this or that, there might be dried lines made or this waiting for you.
