Morels, morels, and yes, more morels

[slag]

Friends have been finding them all around Topeka and Lawrence. Tomorrow I'm heading up to my parents house to scout their 20 acres. I love this season as morels are so delicious and fetch a premium. They are selling for about 40 bucks a pound normally, but since they are so abundant this year, people are seeing 25 bucks a pound for them.

Anyone else like finding and eating morels?

 

[keird]

I don't know what they are but I think you should give some to me. Morel equivalency.

 

[keird]

I just looked it up on Google. How do these things even have a sporting chance? Is it bow season?

 

[FoBoT]

there is a guy that sets up his truck along 50 highway between lone jack and lee's summit and sells them every year. i had no idea how much $ he is making, that is pretty good $$$

 

[highland145]

Thought this was an immigration thread.

 

[skyking]

too cold here yet. Love me some morels!

 

[ElFenix]

i don't know the first thing about mushroom hunting other than many of them will kill you.

 

[skyking]

morels are so safe, totally unmistakable for anything else out there.

 

[sactoking]

The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was the Yobogoya episode of The League and Andre's urban foraging.

 

[drum]

I figured i'd be out too late with the early warmth this year and I'd miss them

 

[slag]

My friend from work went out this morning and found these in an hour. After 90 minutes he had found 50.

 

[slag]

Still none this year as it's been too cold and not enough rain. Well, we got the rain the past few days, but still temps are too cold. I'm guessing another couple weeks or so.

 

[Fritzo]

I'm a fan, but they're so delicate that I like them dried first. Otherwise they seem to just break apart. I have a few dishes I came up with that uses them (my favorite being linquini w/morel cream sauce and asparagus)

Gross story:

Several years ago a buddy of mine had a basement flood. He got most of the water out, but didn't really pick things up to properly dry. One day I was over and helped him carry some stuff out of the basement, and of the items was a 20' roll of unused carpet. The carpet was still wet after 4 weeks or so, and two dozen or so perfect morels grew on the side of it.

We did not eat them

 

[Instan00dles]

I have a few 1L mason jars full of dehydrated morels that my buddy picked, love these things so much!

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

morels are so safe, totally unmistakable for anything else out there.

This is true. I lived in Vermont for some years and there was an apple stump outside the house. Every year a crop of morels grew around it and I harvested them but left at least a third so they would spread their spored. We moved three years after that, but they had almost tripled. Sad thing is that it's almost certain that whoever moved there would destroy them, not knowing what they are.

 

[Instan00dles]

morels are so safe, totally unmistakable for anything else out there.

If you are not careful and dont do you reseach you could end up picking a false morel which would make you very very sick if eaten.

 

[Ichinisan]

The morel of this story is...?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

morels are so safe, totally unmistakable for anything else out there.

I actually can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

 

[lozina]

Be careful

http://thegreatmorel.com/falsemorel.html

 

[NuclearNed]

Every spring I find a few here and there on my property, but I think its still a little too early for them right now

 

[slag]

Be careful

http://thegreatmorel.com/falsemorel.html

Very very difficult to get the two confused. Morels are hollow, false morels are not. False morels are more flat on top and have a small "head".

 

[NetWareHead]

Very very difficult to get the two confused. Morels are hollow, false morels are not. False morels are more flat on top and have a small "head".

fsle morels are also brainy/wrinkled looking vs morels honeycomb exterior.

 

[Oyeve]

I never saw the point in shrooms.

 

[CPA]

Mushrooms are disgusting. If I find any, I stomp them.

 

[Eug]

There were a ton of morels growing on my sister's property. So, one year we gathered up something like two pounds of them (in less than half an hour) and made a couple of stir fry dishes with various ingredients. Absolutely delicious.

I think if we had bought them in town it would have cost us upwards of a hundred bucks for the mushrooms alone at the time.

But yeah, they are harder to confuse with poisonous mushrooms than others, but since I'm not a mycologist, for safety reasons I'm not sure I'd do that again.