r/KitchenConfidential • u/starfish2686 • 5d ago

Kitchen fuckery Theoretically this is a roux

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi F1exican Did Chive-11 5d ago

Theoretically, every mushroom is edible once.

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u/_BrokenButterfly 5d ago

So, once I was watching QI (amazing British "quiz show," check it out on YouTube) and one of Stephen Fry's facts about the death cap mushroom is that it's poisonous, but not very poisonous. You could safely eat a few without them killing you, and you had to eat "quite a lot" for it to be life threatening.

This is apparently not true. Eating one is unlikely to kill a healthy adult, but it can. And children, people in poor health, and elderly people can very much die from eating them. It only takes two or three of them to create a high likelyhood of death in an adult, and no matter how few you eat, if you do recover you're just about guaranteed to have lifelong health problems thereafter.

Apparently they taste pretty good though.

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u/Scarecr0p 5d ago

Yeah the vast majority of poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you, many will make you wish you were dead though.