Truffels and mushrooms

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

I'm really wanting to try some truffels not the candy type, but I can't afford $100+ a oz for food lol. So I'm wondering if anybody has found any truffels in Colorado if so where? Do you use dogs or is there a technique I can use without them? I've went mushrooming with my uncle before in South Dakota and we got a couple pounds of morel mushrooms and they were some of the best food I've ever had but later learned we ate a couple of grand worth of mushrooms. So I would love to know a bit more about mushrooming in Colorado and what types are common and when to look for them and maybe witch ones will kill me.

[Rooskibar03]

Don't eat fungus.

That is all the help I can offer on the topic.

[skullybones]

I'll keep an eye out, but I have yet to see anything like that where I am. Found some dung loving psilocybin the other day. Had to make sure the dogs didn't take a trip...

[fitz19d]

Yeah, don't care how good it tastes. If I find stuff that valuable it's being sold.

[JMBD2112]

You need a bear, grow a gnarly beard, and a guy that looks like Elvis to find them......

http://m.discovery.com/video/monroe-county-black-truffles

[KS63]

From what I understand, the climate in CO is not conducive for truffles. Our climate is too hot in the summer, and frozen soils in the winter prevent them from growing. They like mild climates. Seared foie gras with white truffle shavings..yum!

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

Don't eat fungus.

That is all the help I can offer on the topic.
you are truly missing out I just had a portebella samich today

[theGinsue]

Morels especially, and other mushrooms were huge in MO (truffels were still very rare). Since they prefer moisture, much of CO is out for chances of finding shrooms. I used to find an occasional cap along the foothills near Manitou Springs when I first got to CO in 95, but never enough for even 1 person so I quit trying. I will say that my best luck was always under canopies of trees.

Good luck with your hunt, and keep us informed if you find any good areas.

[Great-Kazoo]

there's a place west of I-25 on hwy 392 / windsor exit. bring your check book
http://hazeldellmushrooms.com/

[earplug]

Google is your friend. At or about 9K look for Bolote's This is prime time.

[hatidua]

Not truffels but I was on a mountain road above Rollinsville last year and could not figure why there were nearly 100 cars parked bumper-to-bumper out in the middle of nowhere. I slowed down and asked one of the people who was returning to their vehicle what was up and they showed me a large bag of mushrooms they'd collected. The mushrooms were about 5" in diameter and kind of orange in color.

[WETWRKS]

You need to be REALLY careful with this. My aunt knows someone who recently touched a wild mushroom then about an hour later smoked a cigerette and promptly went into convulsions and passed out. Seems the spores just from touching it were transfered onto the cigerette and from there to the mouth. Fortunately she is fine but it would have probably killed her had she eaten the thing.

[Bailey Guns]

I don't know anything about mushrooms or hunting them. But I do have friends here in Bailey that are HUGE into the hobby and apparently have really good success in various areas of the state, including the local area around here. They've been doing it for years and are very knowledgeable about the different varieties and where best to find them. They're constantly warning others to be very careful when first starting.

[twitchyfinger]

^^^^^^This^^^^

When I lived up in Leadville every year those in the know would have a mushroom harvest festival. While I loved pigging out on them every year I would NEVER attempt to pick them myself and only would of I was with someone in the know!

[sniper7]

I see shrooms all the time hunting. I think eating fungus is disgusting so I kick them into pieces. Now I know there is money in it I might do some research and sell them if they are worth anything.
they grow in my yard too sometimes when we actually get some rain although that was last year when I didn't spray.

[Sawin]

Wow, I've seen them all the time hiking, camping, and hunting too... of course I have no idea what kind they are, and if they're even a remotely valuable type, but to think of all the $ I might have stomped on and kicked, kind of makes me sick to my stomach.

[sniper7]

Wow, I've seen them all the time hiking, camping, and hunting too... of course I have no idea what kind they are, and if they're even a remotely valuable type, but to think of all the $ I might have stomped on and kicked, kind of makes me sick to my stomach.

Yeah but eating them would probably make you sick to your stomach as well!

[Sawin]

Yeah but eating them would probably make you sick to your stomach as well!
Yeah, but I'd rather have the extra $ burn a hole in my pocket.

[Justin]

If you want the flavor of truffles but can't afford to buy them, pick up a bottle of truffle oil from a fancy food store.

Using it to make an aoli or in cooking is amazing.

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[Hummer]

I'm really wanting to try some truffels not the candy type, but I can't afford $100+ a oz for food lol. So I'm wondering if anybody has found any truffels in Colorado if so where? Do you use dogs or is there a technique I can use without them? I've went mushrooming with my uncle before in South Dakota and we got a couple pounds of morel mushrooms and they were some of the best food I've ever had but later learned we ate a couple of grand worth of mushrooms. So I would love to know a bit more about mushrooming in Colorado and what types are common and when to look for them and maybe witch ones will kill me.

Truffles don't naturally occur in North America. Morels are not truffles and while a choice edible they aren't worth $$$thousands. Morels are uncommon in most of CO.

May and September are good times for mushroom hunting, usually a week or two after regular rains. In some years one can collect grocery sacks full of orange cap or Boletus edulus in the mountains. The shaggy mane or Coprinus comatus is excellent when dredged in egg batter, coated with parmesan cheese and fried in butter. Meadow mushrooms or Agaricus campestris can also be found in large quantities in fields and grassy areas. It's closely related to the hybrid mushroom Agaricus bisporus commonly sold in grocery stores, but the native is usually larger and more flavorful.

Get a couple good books on CO mushrooms and go hunting. It's a fun pursuit and a good way to build your woods savvy prior to the big game seasons.

[sniper7]

So how much are the common ones worth to someone?

[hatidua]

So how much are the common ones worth to someone?

I've never seen a farmers market, anywhere, that doesn't have at least several mushroom vendors that specialize in mushrooms alone. Each vendor has had many varieties and the prices vary widely from species to species. I think you might need to be more specific in terms of species when considering pricing.

In light of the downside of eating the 'wrong' mushroom, there's no way I'd give someone $1 for a 75# bag of mushrooms if I wasn't 110% convinced they knew exactly what they were picking/selling.

Unfortunately, some of the safe mushrooms look nearly identical to some of the deadly ones. When I lived in NC, there would be a dozen or more people die every single year because they picked/ate mushrooms that looked 'just like' the ones they used to eat where they formerly lived. This is also an unfortunate problem among the SE Asian community in Northern California: they go out and collect mushrooms that appear to be exactly like those they ate in Vietnam/Laos/Etc. and it makes the news every year: another three generations of one family wiped out over dinner due to eating mushrooms that were innocently mistaken to be a species they weren't.

When I lived in Asia we collected mushrooms and I knew what was what over there. The only mushrooms I eat here are ones I buy as I don't really know what I'm looking at in the woods here in terms of edibility.

[sniper7]

Guess I'll just keep kicking for now

[RonMexico]

I was just camping by tincup pass, I must of ran into 10 different types of shrooms up there. I didn't pick any bc I didn't know what we're good to eat and which ones might kill you.

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

Truffles don't naturally occur in North America. Morels are not truffles and while a choice edible they aren't worth $$$thousands. Morels are uncommon in most of CO.

May and September are good times for mushroom hunting, usually a week or two after regular rains. In some years one can collect grocery sacks full of orange cap or Boletus edulus in the mountains. The shaggy mane or Coprinus comatus is excellent when dredged in egg batter, coated with parmesan cheese and fried in butter. Meadow mushrooms or Agaricus campestris can also be found in large quantities in fields and grassy areas. It's closely related to the hybrid mushroom Agaricus bisporus commonly sold in grocery stores, but the native is usually larger and more flavorful.

Get a couple good books on CO mushrooms and go hunting. It's a fun pursuit and a good way to build your woods savvy prior to the big game seasons.


Acutually truffels are "common" in the Pacific Northwest and the east coast forest but it seems Colorado is not a conducive climate for them. But like I said we harvested over 2lb of morels witch is worth $1600 at $50 a ounce but we ate all of them at a family fish fry with 30 lb of walleye and 30lb of elk back strap so it was a good day to say the least.

[hatidua]

I don't have a basement (sadly!) but I'm told that you can grow mushrooms in a dark semi-humid place fairly easily. Some companies sell "logs" that already have the necessary spores and such to get the ball rolling.

If I could figure out a way to grow portobello mushrooms here, I'd grow as many as I could possibly fit in my back yard.

[skullybones]

I don't have a basement (sadly!) but I'm told that you can grow mushrooms in a dark semi-humid place fairly easily. Some companies sell "logs" that already have the necessary spores and such to get the ball rolling.

If I could figure out a way to grow portobello mushrooms here, I'd grow as many as I could possibly fit in my back yard.

It is really pretty easy. Though I have no experience with portabella mushrooms.[Punker]
A fish tank with a heat lamp works quite well. Need to spritz with water to keep the humidity up though.

[Irving]

Here is Wranglerstar picking some mushrooms. An estimated 10lbs in 4 hours.
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[Myssa]

Well, you could just get on food stamps and then you could afford truffles...

[Sarcasm2]

[BigNick73]

We get a lot of "ink caps" over here, but the season has already passed. I can't tell the difference between them and the white ones you buy at the grocery store by taste, but then I'm not a far of mushrooms.

[PSS]

Acutually truffels are "common" in the Pacific Northwest and the east coast forest but it seems Colorado is not a conducive climate for them. But like I said we harvested over 2lb of morels witch is worth $1600 at $50 a ounce but we ate all of them at a family fish fry with 30 lb of walleye and 30lb of elk back strap so it was a good day to say the least.

Who pays $1600 a lb for morels? They are common in many parts of the country. We used to sell them at 12-15$ a lb to restaurants. I picked 5 brown grocery bags full under one tree in southeast Kansas.

[J]

No truffles here. But when people do look for them they use pigs to sniff them out, not dogs. Go figure.

[Mtn.man]

Elk like mushrooms.