What do you do with those? Just eat it?
cut into strips and cook em up. there are recipes and stuff online
Does it taste like wood?
Tastes like chicken. Many cut them into strips, batter and fry just like chicken strips
You need a pat of butter and some maple syrup.
How can you tell what is poisonous or not?
i’m not a stellar mycologist, but i’m confident in identifying C.O.W. they look like this and grow on oak trees in late summer in the northeast
I'm just joking around. They look like pancakes. I don't eat wild mushrooms.
You can also get an app where you take a picture of it and it will identify it for you. If it's not 100% sure it'll show you multiple pictures of multiple possibilities. Luckily, it's not like playing Russian roulette - there are a few absolutely unmistakable varieties of muchrooms that are safe to eat.
If you're unsure, don't eat it.
If it's a survival situation and you might NEED to eat it, take a bite and then wait a few hours and see if you have any negative side effects.
One rule of thumb some fun guy told me was don’t eat white gills, white veils or red anywhere on it.
I’m not sure how accurate those rules are though, I only eat shrooms I pick in the woods I know for sure are safe like morels.
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