Great find

Mostly saying "Hi!" Always fun to see your work, and this was an impressive find! 😎✌️

@WesternEclectic

9 ай бұрын

Always great to hear from you, and it never quite feels like a new video is really uploaded until you check in! 😁 I hope everything is going well for you and you're enjoying the fall. Keep in touch and thanks for taking the time to say hello.

No Garlic??? My Gramps and I used to pick shaggy manes at his old cabin. He would fry them up in garlic butter and put them on our steaks. So good! Memories from when I was a kid that I will never forget.

@WesternEclectic

3 ай бұрын

Cooking them with garlic sounds great!

That looks delicious!!

@WesternEclectic

9 ай бұрын

Hey Noah great to hear from you and I hope all is well.

Hello again everyone 👋

u don’t see them selling these in the market!

I'm gonna harvest me some. Thanks!

@WesternEclectic

7 ай бұрын

Good luck!

How does one get to be 100PCT CERTAIN that they're Shaggy Manes? There are scores of mushrooms on the lawns around here that certainly look very, very similar to the ones in this video. But what's the secret to identifying them with Cartesian certainty?

@WesternEclectic

8 ай бұрын

That's a very good point. Of course one can never be exactly 100% certain of anything. But I meant it more colloquially, not scientifically/literally. For example, if you saw people in the grocery store buying regular old white button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) and asked, "Are you 100% certain those are safe to eat?", I suspect most people would just say yes. In other words, one's certainty should be close enough to 100% such that the small amount of uncertainty always present is inconsequential. And your comment reminded me of a story from my past: The church I got married in had my wife and I do a pre-marriage quiz. There was one item, "I am 100% certain this is the person I want to marry." My wife, a very loving person and not a scientist by training, answered "I agree." I answered "I disagree" for the reasons we're discussing. Nobody could imagine I would answer that way, and they assumed I just made a mistake on the quiz. I explained it to my wife later, we had a good laugh, and are still married today.

@lane99

8 ай бұрын

@@WesternEclectic There were hundreds of them around my neighbourhood a few weeks ago. Now they've all liquified into ink. Are they liable to come back again anytime soon? Or do they only sprout once a year or something?

@WesternEclectic

8 ай бұрын

@@lane99 A good question. I'm not certain, but I think there's a chance that additional shaggy manes may still come up this season. If nothing else, you'll know what to look out for next season; I've noticed they tend to come up in the same areas every year. And the fact they liquified is a nice confirmation that they were indeed shaggy manes.

When they get slightly inky, are they still edible?

@WesternEclectic

Ай бұрын

Good question! My family and I have often eaten them when the bottom of the caps are just starting to turn black. I just cut that part off and it has never been an issue. If, however, a lot of the cap has already turned to black goo, then I pass. One of the challenges with shaggy makes is that they're so ephemeral: They seem to spring up overnight, and deliquesce in a short time. At any rate, please remember the golden rule of mushroom hunting: If in doubt, throw it out! Good luck and happy hunting.