Giant puffball mushroom?

BUDFORCE · 5 Oct 2023 at 13:32

Would you eat this? Found it next to one of the fields.

I heard they are good if you marinate, breadcrumb and fry?

godinman · 5 Oct 2023 at 13:43

My other half loves these, she reckons it looks like a good one from the picture.

She tends to slice them thick and fry them in garlic butter, the top half it better for the steaks, the nearer you get to the bottom the spongier it gets.

BUDFORCE · 5 Oct 2023 at 14:13

Well I ate a slice of it, tastes like mushroom.

I'll slice up the rest into steak sized portions and marinate them for 24 hours in fresh garlic, rosemary olive oil salt and pepper, I'll crush that'll up in a pestle and mortar.

If I'm still alive tomorrow that be dinner.

brendy · 5 Oct 2023 at 14:18

Gav_r26 · 5 Oct 2023 at 14:41

lol had loads of these from the farm. They are lovely! Different texture to a mushroom but taste of mushroom.

something daft already!! · 5 Oct 2023 at 14:51

It's quite large, there's not mushroom for that in a pan. Looks a bit like a giant testicle.

Oh Ed not again. · 5 Oct 2023 at 14:57

something daft already!! said:
It's quite large, there's not mushroom for that in a pan. Looks a bit like a giant testicle.

Man, you're a real fungi with those puns.

bjorkiii · 5 Oct 2023 at 14:59

Live and learn i always got told not to pick these when i was mushrooming. All that wasted eating.

throwaway4372 · 5 Oct 2023 at 14:59

Wonder if that could be used as edible packing foam, instead of the plasticky stuff.

wesimmo · 5 Oct 2023 at 15:06

Can't believe as kids we used to kick dozens of these around like footballs. Could have made a fortune in fancy restaurants these days!

drakulton · 5 Oct 2023 at 15:09

throwaway4372 said:
Wonder if that could be used as edible packing foam, instead of the plasticky stuff.

Mmmmmm, I love the plasticky stuff.

ArcticHeron · 5 Oct 2023 at 15:53

Might be worth doing a soy and garlic marinade as well!

gingergundog · 5 Oct 2023 at 21:11

BUDFORCE said:
Well I ate a slice of it, tastes like mushroom.

Philtor · 5 Oct 2023 at 23:38

BUDFORCE said:
Well I ate a slice of it, tastes like mushroom.

I'll slice up the rest into steak sized portions and marinate them for 24 hours in fresh garlic, rosemary olive oil salt and pepper, I'll crush that'll up in a pestle and mortar.

If I'm still alive tomorrow that be dinner.

Im no shroom expert, but mushrooms contain a lot of water.

I would leave the salt to the very end as it will dehydrate it.

Hotwired · 5 Oct 2023 at 23:58

Dang that's a chunky mushroom. Wonder why they aren't farmed.

Blackjack Davy · 6 Oct 2023 at 00:05

Yep so long as they're solid and white inside they're good to eat but almost no-one does

Hotwired said:
Dang that's a chunky mushroom. Wonder why they aren't farmed.

Probably don't farm well

BUDFORCE · 6 Oct 2023 at 07:39

brendy said:
RIP

Mr_Orange · 30 Oct 2023 at 09:37

I got rid of a few of what looked like these off a dead stump in my front garden. I didn't trust my fungi identification skills and the neighbours dog was getting too interested in them.

Avathar77 · 30 Oct 2023 at 09:42

Need an after image on how you cooked it!

413x · 30 Oct 2023 at 13:48

randal said:
Man, you're a real fungi with those puns.

Out with thee!