Autumn is mushroom season. If you like mushrooms, and you like a walk in the autumn forest, go for mushrooms on your own. Mushrooms picked with your own hands always seem extremely tasty, and you will also spend time usefully - even if the amount of mushrooms you have collected is not very large, a walk in the fresh air will benefit you in any case.
It is necessary to pick mushrooms in the early morning - it is believed that the optimal time for picking mushrooms comes at six to seven in the morning, not later. Remember that the most favorable weather for the rapid appearance and growth of mushrooms is the sun combined with a light warm rain. If you go to pick mushrooms a day or two after a fine warm rain has passed, you will almost certainly not return empty-handed. Inexperienced mushroom pickers should be guided by the golden rule: "If you don't know, don't cut the mushroom." If you doubt that the mushroom you have discovered is edible, do not risk it, just leave it in the forest. Baskets or baskets are traditionally considered the best containers for transporting mushrooms, since in buckets or plastic bags, mushrooms can quickly deteriorate, crumble and lose their shape due to overly dense, airtight container walls. It is best to look for mushrooms on light edges, near tree trunks. But if the mushroom you found is slightly rotten, do not take it, since even removing the rotten part of the mushroom will not save its taste. You should also not take wormy, soft and overripe mushrooms. In the process of collecting mushrooms, try not to tear the moss or needles too hard, and in no case break the leg of the mushroom along with the mycelium. The torn and damaged mycelium dries up and dies under the rays of the sun, which means that there will be no mushrooms in this place for a few more years. Before heading out into the forest, study and memorize all the types of poisonous mushrooms that can be found in your area. The most poisonous mushrooms are pale toadstools, all types of fly agaric, false mushrooms, satanic mushroom. There are also inedible mushrooms - they do not belong to the category of poisonous, but it is not recommended to eat them. Inedible mushrooms include false chanterelle, gall mushroom, inedible boletus and fibrous ryadovka. Edible mushrooms can also be fraught with danger - they are usually called conditionally edible, since they are suitable for food only after appropriate processing. The pulp of such mushrooms contains poisonous or very unpleasant-tasting substances, therefore, before cooking, they must be boiled for at least ten minutes, the resulting broth must be poured, and the mushrooms themselves must be rinsed. Conditionally edible are considered to be a pink wave, a slender pig and some types of russula. When collecting mushrooms, first of all, it is necessary to take mushrooms with a high nutritional value - milk mushrooms, mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, boletus, boletus, boletus. Less valuable are mushrooms, honey agarics, russula, pigs, volushki and chanterelles.
