It's wonderful. It does taste like chicken. It does not have any sort of typical "fungus" taste. Totally not the same as button mushrooms or portabella or oyster. It can take the heat, so don't be shy about cooking it well. Plus it gives off a lot of moisture when cooking, like all mushrooms do. Although we ate quite a bit the evening we picked it, we still had several pounds left over. So we freeze dried the rest and will enjoy it over the next year. We've harvested morel mushrooms on our land in the past several years, but this is the first time we've ever seen one of these. What a treat!