Food

[skywatch]

I started teaching myself mycology about 22 years ago, and many hundreds of mushroom dinners since then, I have not yet made anyone sick. It's true you need to do your homework, and it's true you can kill yourself if you make a stupid mistake, but it really isn't that hard to be careful. It's a basic skill our ancestors all knew. Just be alert and teach yourself the antidotes of "confirmation bias" (which is a useful skill in other fields of life, for sure.)

[Raza]

Bear Grylls says not to pick mushrooms in a survival situation because it's safer that way, and I trust him.

[CanadianStraps]

But what if you chase them with your own piss?

[Seriously]

I have a source.

Yeah I like lentils in a source too

[Henry Krinkle]

Yeah I like lentils in a source too

You like your lentils in a souse?

[Henry Krinkle]

I started teaching myself mycology about 22 years ago, and many hundreds of mushroom dinners since then, I have not yet made anyone sick. It's true you need to do your homework, and it's true you can kill yourself if you make a stupid mistake, but it really isn't that hard to be careful. It's a basic skill our ancestors all knew. Just be alert and teach yourself the antidotes of "confirmation bias" (which is a useful skill in other fields of life, for sure.)

This pertains to curing meats and fish too. I have never made anyone sick. While one can kill people, a little common sense and a little science and no one gets hurt. Lets face it- it is theoretically possible to kill people canning tomatoes too.

[skywatch]

Bear Grylls says not to pick mushrooms in a survival situation because it's safer that way, and I trust him.

That's because he's guiding novices and home TV viewers who won't have time to learn basic identification skills. It's true that one should always cook a mushroom (that actually applies to store-bought agaricus bosporus as well) so if you are in a survival situation without fire, best not to eat them raw.

[geoffbot]

Paella time! Never made one before

Fu, tapatalk!

[geoffbot]

Turned out epic.

[meijlinder]

Bad pic, but the steamed buns with braised chuck, pickled onions, scallions and red cabbage slaw (not pictured) turned out awesome..



Peanut butter and chocolate cheesecake equally scrumptious