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snoot
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Gourmet Prices.
#8042750 - 02/19/08 12:50 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I was at this market today, talking to the produce manager about selling them morel's this spring and other gourmet deliciousness. I'm just curious how much gourmet fungus ranges in price around the nation.
Right now morel's are priced at 15.99$ an ounce dried. Bolet's/Lobster/Oyster mushroom's dried are usually between 2.99/4.99 dried for an ounce. Woodear dried usually go for around 4.99.
Fresh fungus especially hand harvested from local forest's usually are priced alil more, last fall lewit's were going for 16$ a pound fresh. Morel's were 20$ a pound fresh.
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: snoot]
#8042758 - 02/19/08 12:51 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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you might wanna repost this in Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms also http://www.shroomery.org/forums/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/13
Unless your asking how much hunters get for selling theirs
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: implee]
#8042767 - 02/19/08 12:54 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah for sure,. I'm not interested in how much cultivated fungus goes for. But that's usually what you find in most market's. Especially during the off season. Once spring hit's you'll see more and more of some hand foraged fungus. I'm just curious what the prices are like elsewhere in the world.
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: snoot]
#8042937 - 02/19/08 01:50 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I took these pics a couple months ago at a local mushroom store. Their stock comes from a local farm and local gatherers.

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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: scout24]
#8043111 - 02/19/08 02:35 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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sweetness, so I'd say wholesale would be about 75% of that.
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: snoot]
#8043377 - 02/19/08 03:44 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've seen fresh morels go for as high as 40 per pound in Atlanta. That was towards the end of the season, or local season anyway. So there must have been some shipping cost associated with that price.
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: snoot]
#8043492 - 02/19/08 04:26 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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If you sell directly to a grocer, you will make more than wholesale. Mushrooms are in the top 10 most profitable vegetables for produce departments. The produce manager expects to make around 42-45%. When computing a retail price, they will take into account freight in.
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: YidakiMan]
#8043862 - 02/19/08 06:03 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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YidakiMan said: If you sell directly to a grocer, you will make more than wholesale. Mushrooms are in the top 10 most profitable vegetables for produce departments. The produce manager expects to make around 42-45%. When computing a retail price, they will take into account freight in.
oo thats good stuff. Should they take in account the fact that there hand picked?
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: snoot]
#8043879 - 02/19/08 06:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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20-25 a lb fresh morels in iowa, but I had a fella tell me that he went to a gathering and sold a few pounds for $50 per last year, so I'm thinking it might be worth a little road trip if you can find one that isn't terribly far away *eyeballs wisconsin*
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: snoot]
#8044316 - 02/19/08 07:27 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
snoot said:
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YidakiMan said: If you sell directly to a grocer, you will make more than wholesale. Mushrooms are in the top 10 most profitable vegetables for produce departments. The produce manager expects to make around 42-45%. When computing a retail price, they will take into account freight in.
oo thats good stuff. Should they take in account the fact that there hand picked?
They're all hand-picked. No one has invented/produced a successful picking machine.
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: YidakiMan]
#8044796 - 02/19/08 08:59 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have invented a successful picking machine. It's my dog pooper scooper, keeps the trails clean and picks me up a tasty treat too
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: xmush]
#8045052 - 02/19/08 09:45 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I hope you dont use the same one to pick up poop that you do your treats. Quote:
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: snoot]
#8045068 - 02/19/08 09:49 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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im looking into growing some gourmet mushrooms, what would you guys say are the tastiest? other then portobellas and shitakes...
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to be honest porto's are nice and meaty but besides that, once you've had some other delicious shrooms porto's aren't even that appetizing after awhile. For good commercial shroom's I'd do some oyster's of a couple shades. And some hericium. :O
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Re: Gourmet Prices. [Re: snoot]
#8045476 - 02/19/08 11:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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do different 'shades' of oysters have different flavors? thanks for the info
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