are mushrooms with fuzzy white hair ok to eat?

[Citizen420]

Cooking with these standard mushies, they are just your run of the mill standard shrooms you always see in the supermarket, the white ones with black bit underneath the head.

Anyway, took them out the fridge and they have some white, fuzzy fluff on them.

Are they safe to eat? I know shrooms are a fungus so maybe this is normal?

 

[Marine Iguana]

Eat them and if you don't post back we know not to eat mushrooms with fluff on them.

 

[Marky]

Eat them and if you don't post back we know not to eat mushrooms with fluff on them.

Live and Learn!


Well... we will

 

[J1234]

They're fine.

 

[Tefal]

peel them if it really puts you off.

 

[Jokester]

Sounds like they have a fungal infection.

 

[lunarwolf]

when in doubt ... throw em out

 

[Dr.EM]

they are just your run of the mill standard shrooms you always see in the supermarket

 

[Jokester]

Actually, don't eat them, that stuff is straight out of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They will eat you and grow a new version of "you"!

 

[Camoe]

shrooms. from the supermarket? Bloody Hell!!

 

[Dark_Angel]

Sounds like they have a fungal infection.

 

[Cybermyk]

I'd go ahead and bin them. This is why mushrooms shouldn't be stored in plastic. They last much longer in paper bags.

 

[Cosimo]

Sounds as if they are cooking themselves. Chef beware.

 

[HAz]

mold?

 

[Oxide™]

be sure to post about your trip

 

[The Funktopus]

That's when mushrooms are at their best! You could even go so far as to say they're magic!

 

[footman]

mold?

is a place in Wales

 

[pooley]

chuck 'em in the bin.

 

[SlyReaper]

Just cut the hairy bit off if you're feeling uneasy. Don't waste good mushrooms.

Edit: yes I have eaten hairy mushrooms before with no ill effect.

 

[Marine Iguana]

Just cut the hairy bit off if you're feeling uneasy. Don't waste good mushrooms.

Or give it a comb-over