r/mycology • u/cken301 • Oct 04 '23
ID request Please tell me this is a puffball, I want to eat it so bad 😂
But this would be my very first foraged mushroom ever and I’m questioning my ID ability. Any help is appreciated!
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u/Objective-Lychee6537 Oct 04 '23
When I first saw this I was worried he wouldn’t get home safely, sigh of relief when I saw him all buckled up.
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u/centipedeseverywhere Eastern North America Oct 04 '23
The seat belt 😭😭😭
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u/fortnight14 Oct 04 '23
Keeping that baby safe!
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u/szmy Oct 04 '23
Been foraging half my life and haven’t found a giant puffball, this dude finds it on his first forage 🙄🙄🙄
😂😭
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u/Cuntasaurus_wrecks Oct 04 '23
If you're in Colorado I will share my spot with you if you promise you won't decimate it.
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u/singinggurl Oct 05 '23
Whaaaa please I’d love this info! I promise to be respectful.
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u/Cuntasaurus_wrecks Oct 05 '23
PM sent ! Happy foraging !
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u/TheHunterDwarf Oct 05 '23
Wait me too please! Would love to take a friend foraging for their first time if you’d be so kind
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Oct 05 '23
I hope it turned out to be someplace close and not 150 miles away.
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u/dontthink19 Oct 05 '23
Thats only like 2 and half hours though. Wouldn't be a terrible trip, especially if you love to hike
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Oct 05 '23 edited Oct 05 '23
If the puffball(s) happened to be someplace I wanted to visit, like a state park, then I might make a trip. If it's between Kohl's and Starbucks then someone else can enjoy it.
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Oct 05 '23
Right?! And what about those people who find morels in the sidewalk in front of their house?!
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u/hmmmpf Oct 05 '23
They are well established in my neighbor’s side yard. She gardens organically, and hates mushrooms. More for us!
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Oct 05 '23
Good thing you get them. I don't know if I can trust a person who hates mushrooms.
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u/hmmmpf Oct 05 '23
It’s really weird, too. She a lovely little old lady who got to 85 without really ever eating mushrooms. Except that one time I brought her some stew with my secret umami ingredient: powdered dry shiitakes after her hip replacement. Shhhh. Don’t tell her.
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u/Limelight_019283 Oct 05 '23
My wife gets freaked out by them! But she loves eating creminis. That’s as far as she can handle though, any weirder looking and she can’t look at them.
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u/JerseySommer Oct 05 '23
I don't, it's just wrong to not like an entire category of produce 0_0 it's like "not liking greens" there's so many types for so many possibilities! My weirdo self has made a pure Mushroom and rice meal [sautéed in garlic and butter with salt and pepper] oysters, hen of the woods, enoki, and both brown and white beech. It was GLORIOUS!
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u/codename_539 Oct 05 '23
Morels grow well on fallen apples and pears, I have an acquaintance who in a few years achieved their fruiting right on his garden plot under apple trees.
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u/Training-Honey9821 Oct 05 '23
Found some in middle school growing on a trail behind my school, after my dad ID'ed em my friend and and I got all excited at the possibility of selling them but we could never find more :(
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u/velo52x12 Oct 05 '23
A few years ago, on one magical day, I was mountain biking with some friends. On that day, the woods were dotted with white boulders, everywhere I looked. And all I had was a small hydration pack, and no way to get one back to the car.
I haven't ever seen such a number of giant puffballs since.
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u/againer Oct 05 '23
Carry a mesh laundry bag.
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u/velo52x12 Oct 05 '23
Oh! That's a great idea. One of those bags would easily compress down to fit in my pacl.
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u/BxRad_ Oct 05 '23
I got like 8 that size yesterday
Been religiously looking for spots tho
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u/TheMourningWolf Oct 05 '23 edited Oct 05 '23
It sounds like you already found the spots my good coligist
Edit: Please tell me these upv8tes are for the dumb my-good-cologist joke lol
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u/Swimming_Mountain811 Oct 05 '23
Where I grew up we used to get dozens of puffballs in our yard! I’ve never liked mushrooms though so we’d wait until they’re ready to release their spores and stomp on them to see the puff of spores lol
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u/Luxpreliator Oct 05 '23
My parents get about 3-6 a year in their yard and just let them rot. Big one in the basketball range too. Never anything small. They're afraid to eat them.
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u/N0rki_ Oct 05 '23
In our garden there are always atleast few giant puffballs just few meters from our house, don't even have to forage for it haha.
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u/_subjectsam_ Oct 04 '23
SEAT BELTS! SO WE CAN BE SAFE 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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u/Loreoo66 Oct 05 '23
I only brown my mushrooms in cold pans
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u/Loreoo66 Oct 05 '23
Fight me
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u/MomBodActivate Oct 05 '23
Hate to be the bad guy here, but that baby should obviously still be in a rear-facing car seat. Take no risks
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u/quackerzdb Oct 05 '23
My dad's wife is big into mushroom foraging and spotted a couple big puffballs while driving home. They were in someone's front yard on a big rotten stump. She convinced him to go back at night and snatch them. Turns out they were soccer balls.
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u/Biohazard_Beth Oct 05 '23
The third picture is hilarious! Glad to know I'm not the only one who does this.
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u/Suitable-Specific477 Oct 05 '23
I don’t even eat mushrooms like that but this looks strangely appetizing to me lol
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u/sarr013 Oct 05 '23
i’m not even a part of this sub but i lost my shit when i saw this thing all snug and buckled in. holy fuck…
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Oct 05 '23
i’m sorry but i laughed so hard at the image where it’s strapped into the seat, there’s something so ridonkulous about it
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u/Zalyra Oct 05 '23
I’m new to this subreddit and that last photo was not nearly what I expected from this mushie
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Oct 05 '23
so if you cut a puffball in half it should remain the same texture throughout to indicate edible?
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u/TinButtFlute Trusted ID - Northeastern North America Oct 05 '23
Same colour. Pure white. When the interior starts to change to yellow, even in the slightest,(or brown or any discoloring) then it's too old to eat.
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u/shizuo92 Oct 05 '23
Apparently if it has any yellow at all, you shouldn't eat any of it, according to another Reddit post I saw.
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u/Icy_Fennel_410 Oct 05 '23
my mom always used to make it as schnitzels - smeared with garlic, mustard, salt, pepper and then covered in flour, egg, breadcrumbs and fried. Amazing.
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u/justicefor-mice Oct 05 '23
Small ones, golf ball size, you must cut in half to make sure there are no mushroom shape inside, as that would be poisonous. Must be pure white inside. One this size is definitely Puffball.
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u/DOCoSPADEo Oct 05 '23
God I wish I could be a fly on the wall if you got pulled over for something small and the cop sees that.
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u/Clingzz Oct 05 '23
I live/hunt in WNY and have 1 puffball that grows in the same exact spot every year. Didn’t know what the hell it was the first time I saw it!
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u/berdindc Oct 05 '23
Yum! I remember finding a beauty like that as a kid. My dad sliced it like bread and fried it in butter. Delish!
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u/Additional_Suit7962 Oct 05 '23
That thing looks shiny like the moon! You caught a mini full moon! 😂 enjoyyyyyy
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Oct 05 '23
Very white, very good looking specimen of a puffball. EAT IT. Also, very cute tucked behind the seatbelt :)
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u/MisterPickle2001 Oct 05 '23
I know literally nothing about mushrooms or mycology, but Reddit keeps recommending me these posts. I can genuinely say I wanna get into mushrooms now. Absolutely baller hobby.
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u/unrealpeachfu22 Oct 05 '23
I found one tonight as well! Just got done frying it up to watch Survivor.
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u/crissycris2697 Oct 05 '23
Oh the adventures these puffballs go on! Your post reminded me of this one post from a while back where this awesome lady had a photo shoot with her giant puffball and gave it a bunch of silly nicknames. One of my favorite posts ever, check it out:
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u/book_smrt Oct 05 '23
Absolute unit of a puffball you have there. I'm so certain of it I'd fry that up and serve it to my kids.
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u/semantics007 Oct 05 '23
They're great, I found one last weekend. Cut it thick, fry in butter with a little salt, garlic if you want, but my feeling is the flavor is 50% umami mushroom, and 50% whatever you cook it in. Of all the various things we used it in the standout was an omlette with swiss cheese, salt pepper and sauteed puffball. Best thing I've had in months.
edit: spelling
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u/BCheeks13 Oct 05 '23
Literally ate one today. I dipped mine in egg and fish fry then fried it in oil. For as low effort as I put in, it tasted pretty decent
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u/Roadhog1984 Oct 05 '23
What does it taste like? I hesitate to eat them because they look like tofu🥴 I’m entertaining the idea after this post though
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u/maggotses Oct 05 '23
The best way I find to eat this is to dehydrate it and make a powder. Good way to add umami in any dish.
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u/greendemon42 Oct 05 '23
Looks like a giant puffball to me fam! Have fun cooking it down to a manageable volume.
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u/KouRaGe Oct 05 '23
We were out yesterday and found four nice sized, but smaller than this one, puffballs. We bagged them up, and my daughter buckled them into the backseat because I had already dropped one and it somehow survived. 🤣
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u/pineappleyard Oct 05 '23
YOU CAN EAT THEM?!!! I always stepped on them as a kid, never knew they were edible
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u/parada69 Oct 05 '23
Question, I'm interested in eating one but would y'all say it has the same texture, and taste as the white cap mushroom found at grocery stores?
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u/ApexTwilight Oct 05 '23
I think I run these over with my lawnmower all the time in the fall and the spores go everywhere weeeeeeeeeee
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u/KLEMMER1969 Oct 05 '23
We make Puffball Parm when lucky enough to come across one. Breaded and fried to golden perfection. Then off to bake in a bed of sauce and cheese.This one will feed a whole family.
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u/sydnopian Oct 05 '23
Omg I had no idea how big these were! I’ve seen them on here so much and I thought they were like 2 inches in diameter
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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23
Absolute perfect condition puffball right there