Collecting mushrooms has long ceased to be a hobby. Mushroom picker is a way of life, if you want. Often picking up mushrooms grows into a family tradition, becomes an annual ritual. And recipes for the preparation of mushrooms are passed down from generation to generation. Mushrooms are salted, fried, boiled, dried, even frozen. But the collection and preparation of mushrooms require a lot of attention. Little to know how to collect mushrooms. No less difficult and painstaking work is to clean and cook them. The most laborious and diligent is the procedure for cleaning mushrooms. All secrets and ways, as a rule, are passed from parents to children together with recipes. If you are just starting to learn this complex but incredibly interesting science, you should familiarize yourself with the basic rules of cleaning mushrooms.
How to clean mushrooms during harvesting?
Cleaning mushrooms will be much easier if you learn how to properly collect them. To begin to clean mushrooms correctly still at their gathering, deleting all wormy places and places, artificially insects. It is necessary to remove all needles, leaves and other debris. If the skin of the mushroom cap is cleaned easily enough, clean it at the collection site. Mucous cap, like oil, clean it is necessary in place, removing it from the mushroom cap. Thus, you avoid contamination of other mushrooms in the basket. This will make the collection of mushrooms a little slower, but will significantly shorten the cleaning time in the kitchen. In addition, it is much more pleasant to spend more time in the fresh air than at the kitchen table. And you will bring less dirt home.
How to clean mushrooms at home?
It is most convenient to sort out the fungi by types. This will simplify the task of processing them, in addition, the types of preparation for each type of fungus vary. Immediately determine the mushrooms, which will be cooked in the near future fresh, from those intended for heat treatment.
Keep in mind that mushrooms will not lie for a long time. You only have 4-5 hours to prepare or prepare them. Some species of fungi contain substances that promote very rapid oxidation. This almost instantly gives the mushroom an unattractive appearance. To avoid the appearance of darkening, it is better to immediately lower the mushroom into the water. Preliminary add a little salt or citric acid to the water.
To clean such mushrooms, as oily, follows from the edges of the cap, removing the mucous membrane. For tubular mushrooms, the tubular part of the cap should be cut out. For example, clean mushrooms, like mushrooms, followed by a brush. If the fungus is young, the "mahru" should be cut, there may be worms. Especially carefully rinse the mushroom under the cap. These mushrooms are suitable for salting, so they need not only to wash, but also to soak. Clean black mushrooms should be as carefully as possible, carving black peel and all specks. Before cleaning the white mushrooms, they can be soaked for a while. Next, thoroughly rub with a brush and cut off all the dark ones
You can clean rozhiki as under a stream of water, and at all without the use of water. These mushrooms grow in well-ventilated places and clean grass. It is enough to remove the long legs and rinse a little. In some recipes (for example, dry salting) cleaning the redheads and does not involve the use of water.
Lastly, you need to rinse the mushrooms properly under running water. There is an opinion that too long contact with water spoils the taste of mushrooms. To some extent this is so. If you are going to dry mushrooms, they do not need to wash under water. If mushrooms are amenable to heat treatment, just rinse them under a running water in a colander.