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Mushroom experts....is this chicken of the woods ? Edible?


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I'm down deep in the hills and hollers of West Virginia pursuing deer and turkey, for rained on this AM, and came across these mushrooms.....is it edible?  Is it the famous chicken of the woods!?!?  If so, how long do I have to pick it, because I heading to the next ridge top. 

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The chickens are best served in soups and work from the 'tree' side, i.e. the youngest part of the mushroom will be the least woody.

If too old they are a bit to much like eating cardboard.

The hens are just one of the best mushrooms out there in the woods - really killing me that I cannot lift very much with my hands right now.  After the wet and warm summer we had mushrooms are going bananas right now.

  • 1 year later...
Posted

I found a fresh clump of chicken of the woods today - super tender, the most tender that I have ever found them.

Really, really good when super young - no longer will I wait until they are bigger and tougher.

Posted
1 hour ago, Kype said:

glad you found the answers your looking for. but asking about wild mushrooms on an internet forum? :shock:

Lol

That was a few yrs ago....i have since become very familiar w all kinds of shrooms!!  Lol

Posted

Nice haul Adam! You need to wear your dead shirts if they are not Hen Of the Woods shrooms! 

You can freeze them just make sure you get all the water out of the bag before freezing  them. :up:

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8 minutes ago, LPJR said:

Nice haul Adam! You need to wear your dead shirts if they are not Hen Of the Woods shrooms! 

You can freeze them just make sure you get all the water out of the bag before freezing  them. :up:

Thanks pal!

That was 2018 WV fall turkey hunt/deer bowhunt trip when I popped my cherry foraging for shrooms cuz turkey n deer were scarce.  Made $100 bucks on that haul at the farmers market!

I have been getting into it since!!

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