How To Find and Eat Golden Oysters
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2021
- Golden Oysters (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) are a delicious wild edible mushroom. This video will help you find and ID them! Always ID using multiple sources so you can be 100% sure of what you're harvesting. Golden Oysters are native to Russia and Asia, and were cultivated in the United States before they escaped. Now they are displacing native decomposers here in Wisconsin and are a common sight on trees throughout the summer.
In addition to the preparation methods in this video, remember that you can dry these mushrooms for later use. If you dry them in direct sunlight, they will synthesize and store Vitamin D which will benefit you during the winter when you eat them.
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I found Golden Oysters today for the first time walking my dog along a trail! I am so eager to go back and look for more, but I found a whole sack full the first trip!
That's awesome! Great find! Let us know how you like them =)
I absolutely love oyster mushrooms. My wife sautés them in butter and I am in heaven! You always inspire us to get out and search in the forest. We will be searching for the oysters because it’s been raining pretty good over the last month. I have also been doing the cold showers on and off for a few weeks now and they really wake me up! Lol. Thanks again Kenton!!
Yes! Loving those cold showers!! And nice to know we share a love of these incredible mushrooms =)
Thanks for going over the multiple attributes you can use to confirm their identity. Always appreciate peace of mind in mushroom ID
Me too, Ewan. With two young daughters eating at our table, I like to be really safe with things and get to know my mushrooms in the most foolproof way possible =)
Golden oysters are absolutely delicious! They are very tasty when pan-fried with butter, a little salt, and pepper. After the morels are done these are a very nice one to find.
Totally agree --what a great mushroom =)
Yesterday i hiked for a few hours in the woods and when I was leaving I found a tree loaded with these. Tastes great on pizza, dehydrated the rest.
I found Golden Oysters today on my Elm tree stump here in center Wisconsin. Its been a good producer of Morels and Pleasant back fungi. I looked up and surprise my first Golden's, lots in varying stages. I sauteed up some in bacon grease with a fried egg, so good. Thanks for great info
Oh those look so good! I've found a few oysters on my travels and I love the wide range that many mushrooms have. Thank you for sharing this with us! With love my friend
So yummy! I wonder of their full range in the US. Sometimes I'm surprised by how a species can have surprising abilities to live in different ranges. During our drive through Wyoming, in the flats with the cottonwood streams, we came across a roadkilled porcupine. I had to stop and turn around to see if that was what it really was. Until then, I thought them only a creature of the northwoods! =)
Thanks so much for this video. I had been seeing a lot of beautiful golden mushrooms along trails that I hike in Iowa and wanted to know what they were. This video gave me the confidence to collect some and sauté up to try. Very great texture.
Woohooo! So glad you are getting to enjoy them, Tanner! What treasures =)
Also in WI and just found some of these. Thank you!
Joel, I hope you love them! Delicious!
I found a stump that had a massive amount of oyster mushrooms we didn't take all over them but must have harvested about 5 pounds. We dehydrated 10 trays and still have a bunch that I will sauté tomorrow.
Yes!! So happy for you! What a great find! =)
Nice video, thanks for helping me identify these mushrooms. Found young ones some in my woods in Dane county in mid May.
Dane county! You're right next door =) They are so abundant around here, and so delicious. So glad you found some!
Looks delicious !
Definitely a scrumptious mushroom!! =)
My husband got some firewood/logs from a friend. We had some rain and hot days afterward and I found a beautiful bunch of golden oyster mushrooms growing off of one! I wasn't sure what type of mushroom it was. I did some research and found out they were indeed golden oyster. So then I watched this video and it helped alot, thank you!
What a great surprise gift! Really delicious, aren't they? =)
Amazing video
Stumbled upon 3 large plots today in my woods wish i could share a picture the gold color stood out so much its a wonder how I’ve missed them. So gold its like hitting a jackpot🤩
Joseph, congratulations! What finds! Yes indeed, it's like finding gold -- only much more delicious and healthy, lol!!! =)
It's SO green there!💚
Those mushrooms look delish! I like to saute them with butter & garlic or olive oil, garlic & green onions. Scallions are nice with them and you can splash a little red wine in there too🍄🧄🍷
Woohoo! Sounds delicious! And yes, we've been loving the lushness of the land here =)
I just found some yesterday in Wisconsin as well! I cooked some up to add to my breakfast. I sautéed onions and the golden oysters in bacon grease, added salt and pepper then mixed them in with shredded hashbrowns. I topped with an egg.
Thanks for the video!
Sounds delicious!!! Wow! So glad you found them =)
Cool channel! So much great info you're sharing!!!
@@ReWildUniversity Thank you very much!!
Very nice find!
Thanks!! =)
@@ReWildUniversity your welcome much love xoxox
My husband just found a bunch here in MI today. We've never had them so I'm excited to try.
Jealous! We've been looking for the first bloom. Let us know how you like them! =)
Just found them yesterday, Pennsylvania, Wow!!! 👍👍👍
So glad! They are delicious!!! =)
great video! I just found some and wasn’t sure if they are edible. So thanks for helping me with that!!
So glad you found some! What a find! I hope you love them =)
Stir-fryed in butter or olive oil, often times with garlic and onions, topped with a bit of sea salt, always a great way to eat oysters! Also, I have recently been dehydrating them, and then rather than reconstituing them in water or broth, simply cooking them in a pan, sometimes putting a lid over the top of them to emulate a sort of baking process... Makes great Oyster chips that you can top with some sea salt or garlic powder, and even dab a bit of vinegar on as well.
Oyster chips! We never thought of that! Wow! Sounds like something we need to try =)
@@ReWildUniversityThey're really good! Perfect for taking on a hike in the woods or a foray out on the water. They can be a bit dry sometimes, though, but a little bit of vinegar or something to dip them in might offset that.
Definitely sounds good -- we love "adventuring food" =)
@@ReWildUniversity Call it a hunch, but I thought you might ;) Happy adventuring my friend!
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I found some while walking my dog, and fried them up in cracker crumbs. They were so good, I thought they tasted like morels!
Jessica, that's awesome! I LOVE the flavor of these, and they tend to be so abundant! Sounds like a great recipe you have there! =)
I found some earlier today and sauteed them in butter. I think I cooked them too long because they shriveled up a little. I mixed them with tender beef strips, potatoes, green beans, and a chimichurri sauce. Very delicious!
Aren't they delicious? And the foods you served them with . . . delicious indeed!!! I'm a chimichurri addict =)
looking good Kenton
Thank you =)
Good video! I found some today, and I’m gonna try them!
Wooohooo! Let me know how you like them!!
@@ReWildUniversity YUM! I just ate them. Fried in butter! Got them in the Kettle Moraine state forest by Whitewater lake😃👍
Way to go! Aren't they delicious? Remember that log -- it should give you more throughout the summer! =)
@@ReWildUniversity That’s awesome! Thank you😃✌️
I've been taking photos of these mushrooms in our woods because the color and shape are so amazing. I'm nervous to eat them because I've only ever picked and eaten morels. just want to be they have been correctly identified. What's the best way to harvest from the tree?
Just found my first ones today. Buggy, so I rinsed them. I plan to dry most of them, now that I know where to find them.🤗
Woohooo! Congrats!!
Those look delicious, hope all is well, best wishes from Florida
Thanks my friend! Do you ever see these down there?
@@ReWildUniversity I'll have to see if we have this particular fungi down here, I don't remember if we have or not
@@ReWildUniversity Apparently people have written about it; I have not come across them to my knowledge, lots of people grow them indoors apparently, I'm not a mushroom fan although grew up in Washington state and everybody would search for chanterelle mushrooms and others all the time in the woods, apparently we have chanterelles here in Florida as well
We just found some in growing in northeast Iowa mid-late May.
Right on! Enjoy! Incredibly delicious mushrooms! =) Kenton
I found them today in Western PA!
Woohooo! Delicious! And thanks for your subscription, Aubrey! I hope to see more of you here!!
=) Kenton
Went for a walk today to check on mulberries and was surprised to see a nice cluster of golden oysters about 9-10 feet up a deed elm tree, I've never found them this late in the season in Michigan plus it's been very dry here the last 6 week's, anyway one of my favorite way's to cook is just deep fry till golden brown - salt, pepper to taste, almost like potato chips.
Sounds so good!!! Such delicious mushrooms =)
Thank You GOD Bless. Im goin to start Reishi and Golden oyster if I can I D them
Awesome! Good luck on your search -- the golden oysters are definitely out right now, and we usually look for reishi late summer. =)
I was so mindful I forgot what was going on
Been steering clear of mushrooms for the most part due to my ignorance. Aloha!
They definitely can be intimidating. It's taken me a long time to feel comfortable with some of them, and I still feel uncomfortable with most of them! Ha!! =) Aloha, my friend!!
I have 63 acres and have seen probably over 100 lbs of these and never ate them ,just morels , last I saw they were all still dried out on the trees, I will have to go look for them now !!
We're SUPER excited for you my friend! These are a super delicious mushroom, and it sounds like you're going to have a great harvest coming up!
@@ReWildUniversity Thanks, my land don't seem to produce Morels and I have been an avid hunter with good luck my whole life, My land has allot of walnuts and oaks , Osage orange and Locust
@@ReWildUniversity I already found several batches, but I don't know how to put up a pic of them, pretty fresh, I didn't know if there was a too small or too big
Found some in the Hudson Valley of NY.
Way to go! I hope you love them!!!
I'm still a mycophobe.This is cool though.Thanks for sharing ! !
I can relate! I still can be tentative about them -- learning, but still cautious. I guess I heard too many times how dangerous they were, so now I'm having to counter that with additional learning. But it takes me time =)
west Michigan I've been going out and finding 100's of pounds. so many I keep giving them away. I never pick them all though. 6/3/22
Robert, awesome! You're finding more than us! So glad you're giving them away, sharing that mushroom goodness with others. Healthy, delicious, WILD =)
Just found some. Taking them home for eatin
Woohooo! So glad you found some!
Found some today in west central WI.😬
Sautéing them in local sunflower oil now
Woohoo! Yes, they are becoming common in our beautiful state! Let me know how they come out!
=) Kenton
I have recently found them in my backyard in Delaware, Ohio.
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Just found some up in Michigan. They’re larger and a bit more wrinkly than what you’ve shown so I’m not sure if they’re too mature to eat. I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled for another flush!
Awesome! Yes, those sound like they are probably past their prime. I'm doing a video that's coming out Saturday that shows something you can do with older ones, but in general you'll probably be happier with younger ones. That tree will flush again, I'm almost 100% sure! Maybe within a couple of weeks! =)
@@ReWildUniversity I still ended up harvesting and dehydrating them. Didn’t want to just leave it. Thank you!!
Nice! 😃 Do you know if we can find them in (Central) Europe?
Guy, I believe you should have Pleurotus cornucopiae, a very similar species (though not golden yellow in color).
@@ReWildUniversity Oh ok, seems like the botanical/scientific name for what we commonly call in French “pleurote”. Indeed, it looks very similar and also grows on trees (from what I just read)! 🙂
I just found 30 lbs of this type of shroom. Cooked 2 caps they were absolutely amazing taste wise what are the health benefits?
What a find! Congratulations! Aren't they delicious? Impressive health benefits -- they've been researched in heart health, seem to have anti-cancer properties, and function as an immunomodulator. Great thing to add to your diet!
@@ReWildUniversity found about 50 or 60 morels too
Woohooo! What a joy to find those mushrooms -- so happy for you and anyone you're sharing with! =)
What is the best size to harvest?
Hi Courtney! Apologies for this late reply! Different sizes are good in different ways. The small ones have a firmer texture, while the large ones have wide gills that fry up crisp in butter. If they get too big, they will tend to be more bug-eaten and take on a more "mushroomy" flavor, but some actually prefer them that way.
=) Kenton
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Found some in upstate New York! I’ve had them in the fridge for about a week. They lost their yellow color, are they still good to sauté?
Julia, they will probably still be okay, (they won't be toxic or anything -- they just will have lost much of the taste and texture that make them so exquisite). So you could make them, but don't judge the species by what you experience until you find some really fresh ones and cook them up that day. I think you'll love them!! =)
@@ReWildUniversity Thank you!!!
If you do try them, I'd love to hear how they taste (usually for us they taste more "mushroomy" if they aren't really fresh). You might also notice, if you still have them in the fridge, that they've released a lot of white spore powder -- kind of cool to see how they reproduce!
@@ReWildUniversity They tasted quite good actually! Looking forward to when I find another cluster and will try them sooner. They released a lot of white spores when I had them wrapped in my scarf. Super cool!
Definitely tasted more mushroomy, which I like!
Do you know if these are ok to eat during pregnancy? I just found some and want to eat them while 8 months pregnant.
Unfortunately I don't know. In general, it seems like almost everything is contraindicated during pregnancy, on the grounds of not having been studied. I'm exaggerating, of course, but the best route is to ask your health care practitioner -- they should have an idea of whether you can eat them or not. I'd love to hear what you find out if you dig into this more! =)
I think they gave me an allergic reaction or intolerance, i felt light body, like "out of it", rapid heart palpitations, hand tingling, low blood pressure, drank lots of water, I was fine 1 hr later, will try again tmrw, little amounts
I read the oyster mushrooms as well as shiitake has a type of compound that some ppl can tolerate, its funny how I never had an issue with supermarket mushrooms, I dont want to give up,
Maybe tomorrow will sit better with me,
Aaagh. Sadly, all foods have the potential to give us a reaction. What happened to you sounds like what happens when I tried a quercetin supplement once. Really weird =) I don't want to say to skip this one, but do be careful if you're having a reaction -- just try the tiniest bit of a mushroom if you want to try it again. Another option is to seek out some other wild edibles. Dryad's saddle is growing right now in the woods, as is "chicken of the woods" and "shrimp of the woods", and all of those are great mushrooms that might work better for you. Thanks for your subscription, by the way!!! =)
@@ReWildUniversity I wish I lived closed to a wood, these were found right next to my house, there is a creek with fallen logs, I decided to walk by the water to recharge a little bit, for some reason running water gives a burst of energy, thats when I saw them, is my very first time finding edible mushrooms, I also found Bull Thirstle and learned they are edible too, thanks for your vids, I love your soothing energy
Jessenia, I'm so excited that you're venturing into wild edibles! I'm not sure where you live, but Sam Thayer's books on wild edibles are the best field guides I've found. You'll find more wild edible vids in one of my playlists, and of course tons of other great UA-camrs talking about what you can eat out there. Keep me updated on what you find and try!
With love,
Kenton =)