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swampyAppleseed
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White Truffles in Montana?!

#21869215 - 06/28/15 04:07 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

Im out hiking and enjoying southwestern MT this summer, & while enjoying seeing Kings and Morels I came across a Tuber!!!! what is it?! about 7000ft up along a glacial stream under matts of moss.

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

[Re: swampyAppleseed]
#21869259 - 06/28/15 04:20 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

What the heck are you doin way up there man?!?! :wink:

:wink:

Did ya cut it open?? What did it smell like?

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21869275 - 06/28/15 04:25 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

art2312 said:

What the heck are you doin way up there man?!?!
Did ya cut it open?? What did it smell like?

i love comin here!
it is marbled and stinky

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21870502 - 06/28/15 08:48 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

Perhaps an Oregon spring-white truffle?

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TimmiT

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

[Re: swampyAppleseed]
#21870771 - 06/28/15 09:50 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

Could you post a photo of the cross section?

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o8u
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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

[Re: TimmiT]
#21871002 - 06/28/15 10:30 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

:whathesaid:

Sure looks like a Tuber species... How'd you find it?

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21871152 - 06/28/15 11:07 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

TimmiT said:

Could you post a photo of the cross section?

I got too damn excited and didnt get a clear photo of the cross section. Fuck. You can bet i'll be back tomorrow for at LEAST another ounce. The marbling was very pale, the skin was very thin.

o8u said:

Sure looks like a Tuber species... How'd you find it?

I agree. In southeast GA, I've gotten fairly familiar with Tuber lyonii, the Pecan Truffle. Sssssoooo my lovely girl came up to me with a ruined, crumbly fungal mass & the ol' familiar "What's this one?" I smelled it! I said it looked like a truffle (!) and to take me to where she found it. It had been partially submerged. None of the others had surfaced at all. In fact, one of the bigger ones was almost 5" deep. We just lucked out.

I took 'em to a schmancy chef in town and he freaked about the "aroma profile" & bought the lot (1.4oz). I think truffles smell like horrible poisonous stinky feet, but let the foodies celebrate them with money!

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

[Re: swampyAppleseed]
#21871199 - 06/28/15 11:16 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

Nice dude

:super:

Southwest Montana is really a special part of this country, enjoy your time there!

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21872322 - 06/29/15 08:11 AM (11 years, 3 months ago)

How much $ did he give you for em? Very curious...lol

Thx, ganjaburger

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21872422 - 06/29/15 08:47 AM (11 years, 3 months ago)

swampyAppleseed said:

I took 'em to a schmancy chef in town and he freaked about the "aroma profile" & bought the lot (1.4oz). I think truffles smell like horrible poisonous stinky feet, but let the foodies celebrate them with money!

He bought them without knowing exactly what it was? :uhoh:

:uhoh:

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doctorghosty
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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21872440 - 06/29/15 08:55 AM (11 years, 3 months ago)

Anglerfish said:

swampyAppleseed said:

I took 'em to a schmancy chef in town and he freaked about the "aroma profile" & bought the lot (1.4oz). I think truffles smell like horrible poisonous stinky feet, but let the foodies celebrate them with money!

He bought them without knowing exactly what it was?

(totally not doubting the tentative swampyA ID or anything) but that is exactly what the skeptic in me is thinking, someone might be getting a scleroderma risotto sometime soon...

:derpyum:

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21872462 - 06/29/15 09:06 AM (11 years, 3 months ago)

doctorghosty said:

(totally not doubting the tentative swampyA ID or anything) but that is exactly what the skeptic in me is thinking, someone might be getting a scleroderma risotto sometime soon...

Exactly - even strong suspicion shouldn't pass as conclusive. One thing is if this chef was only cooking for himself, but
serving it to other people on such a basis. Just no. No way.

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21873270 - 06/29/15 11:47 AM (11 years, 3 months ago)

When I first saw Swampy's post, I thought he had a Rhizopogon, or maybe one of the secotoid Russula species. But neither of those have an aroma that could be mistaken for truffles.

Doc and Angler, you guys both have a valid point. Seems horribly irresponsible to serve unidentified mushrooms. But this feels a little different. I guess it just doesn't seem that unusual that a chef would be able to recognize the distinctive aroma of a truffle.

Swampy: did you post this on MO? By the way, my wife follows you on instagram. If you get around Mt Shasta this fall, you should come mushroom hunting with us.

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21873300 - 06/29/15 11:53 AM (11 years, 3 months ago)

Chefs buy what they think is Chilean Seabass all the time and when it is examined it is quite often something else, I realize it has a certain smell but that doesn't make for 100% certainty

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doctorghosty
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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21873318 - 06/29/15 11:57 AM (11 years, 3 months ago)

That said, it probably is a truffle of some variety.

but probably and definitely are wholly different concepts. Not Swampy's problem any way you slice it, that burden lays on the chef at this point.

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#21873409 - 06/29/15 12:15 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

mountainplayer said:

I guess it just doesn't seem that unusual that a chef would be able to recognize the distinctive aroma of a truffle.

If edible truffles are commonly picked for the table in Montana, I'd look at it from a slightly different angle.

I can't speak for myself though, having only smelled fresh white truffles in Italy.

I can't recall it smelling of horrible poisonous stinky feet, though. :lol:

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21873755 - 06/29/15 01:59 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

Doc and Angler:

I should probably have made my comments in a PM, because this forum is not the place to advocate consumption prior to positive identification.

I've never smelled a real truffle, just the crap that they sell as truffle oil. A couple months after opening, that shit smells pretty horrible and nothing at all like food. I do like it when it's fresh, though. :smile:

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21873863 - 06/29/15 02:29 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

girlfriend took a haul shot yesterday:

cross section from the single find today:

Today's find was on it's way out. The others had a much whiter marble.

I understand why a chef should know EXACTLY what he's feeding his customers, but isnt it a little more understandable in this case? Very pungeant truffles. Clearly not Rhizopogon or anything... I like Doc Ghosty's "probably," but I couldnt help but tell the man it was definitely a truffle... cause it is :tongue:

:tongue:

The kitchen was thick with truffle stank the second i opened the bag. Hell, I ate one the moment i found it! I like to eat my first little truffle finds, i heard they can make me wanna have sex :laugh:

:laugh:

Species ideas? Tuber gibbosom? I guess that again only because the skin was incredibly thin. Thanks, yall.

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21873881 - 06/29/15 02:34 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

sorry, I have to play devil's advocate sometimes, I don't like it anymore than you do!

nice finds.

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Re: White Truffles in Montana?!

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#21874013 - 06/29/15 03:12 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

doctorghosty said:

sorry, I have to play devil's advocate sometimes, I don't like it anymore than you do!

nice finds.

Haha don't you dare apologize for saying what needs to be said. You're a T.I with an English degree for fuck's sake :wink:

:wink:

& I personally enjoy playing devil. I'm a real ass in the classroom

PS do we have Gyromitra in north GA? There are the craziest Gyro-cup fungi and malse morels here.

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