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trippindad82
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A question.
#7595368 - 11/04/07 05:02 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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My wife and her family are from Kiev, Ukraine. As most Eastern Euros are, they are avid mushroom hunters. The other day, when I asked him how he knows which are poisonous and which are edible, being that mushrooms that grow there are not the same that grow here, and there are a lot that look alike.
His answer was that they boil mushrooms that they are unsure of with an onion. If the onion changes color, then the mushroom is poisonous and if the onion stays the same, the mushroom is edible. I guess it must work well, or they are damn lucky.
I was wondering if anyone else has heard of this technique? I find it strange, but then again, as Eastern Europeaners, they probably know their shit as they started mushroom hunting at a young age.
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GGreatOne234
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Naw man, that onion shpeel is a myth. One I have never heard of before, but a myth.
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If there was a sure fire way to tell if a mushroom was poisonous that was so simple, i'm pretty sure everyone would know about it.
However, maybe they did it for a certain kind of mushroom to make sure it wasnt a look-a-like. Its possible that it applies for a certain type of mushroom that has certain properties that might turn an onion a different color. I say this because a lot of people around Ukraine hunt for mushrooms, and it is much more common over there than it is in my area.
I'm guessing since they've done it since childhood, they know what they are doing. I dunno though.
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may work but i will not give my life to it , that is the most common myth on mushrooms since some poisonous can pass that test i bet, but maybe is some true there , however the only Way to know mushrooms is to understand many characteristic that can be over look when you consider yourself a pro and only hunt one type of mushrooms, if you are interest in more species ,you will gain more knowledge and by the end it will be impossible to fail when looking at the distance, but what if you change the area , since maybe in the area are not many poisonous , and as you say they are lucky , but they move to other place , this is the case in many deaths of foreigner that go to other places and eat what they consider the same mushrooms , well they die latter , i mean the experience right there in the field with the years is good , but does not hurt to read lot of mycology book to understand way more,is like here in Mexico the tradition of the Indians make then eat many amanita that in USA they may be very caution to eat they eat a lot , amanita caesarea, a. vaginata, a. rubescens, amanita tuza this one is a white amanita and they eat it, well only because they have hundred of years of tradition, but instead never try for example the delicious tricholoma magnivelare , or boletus edulis too much , so if you can have common knowledge and scientific knowledge all together is better , i guess. the only way to understand mushroom is to observe then with the eyes of a mycologist....and the mind of a lover...
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Edited by cactu (11/04/07 08:22 PM)
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trippindad82
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Re: A question. [Re: cactu]
#7595512 - 11/04/07 05:36 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I didn't think there would be such a simple way to identify mushrooms as that. I decided to do a search on it and every mushroom hunting club out there says it doesn't work and a few even show the examples of how that does not work and can kill you. I feel like I might want to pass this info onto them. I guess they have just been lucky so far.
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ToxicMan
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Boiling an onion will tell you nothing about some deadly mushrooms.
As far as knowing what they're doing there, they have months where they have more mushroom poisoning deaths than the US has had in the entire past century. Partially that's because *everybody* there picks and eats wild mushrooms, and partially it's because they rely on methods like onions changing color to determine if their finds are edible or not. Once in a long while some deadly mushroom that isn't often common has a huge fruiting and they end up with a couple hundred people dead.
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Re: A question. [Re: ToxicMan]
#7596162 - 11/04/07 08:13 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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