Winter oysters.

The ones pictures are really prime to eat. Rain and cold spell in mid fall like this right now is the number one seasonal oyster mushroom producer IMO

 

Didn't see any deer on my farm one morning and wound up looking for shrooms instead. Found a stick about as big as my wrist covered in oysters. It looked weird. Found a bunch of dry puffballs and two old chickens. Should be good next fall.

 

What are you guys cooking with them? I finally procured a dear heart from my fathers doe

 

I wish the weathermen were as good at predicting weather as recurve77 is at predicting oyster flushes.

 

1. Are these oysters??

 

Yeah looks like it, but they look a bit old. Pull the fresh looking ones and take a pic of the gills. Youll Need to wash the beetles and larvae out as well. The fresh ones will usually have minimal or no beetles. the ones i processed above were loaded with beetles and took awhile to clean up.
Side note: I dont suggest eating them based on a few internet posts and pic identification. Also anyone can have an intolerance for various species of mushrooms, and edible ones can make some people sick. Inedible will kill you.

 

Some were more brown and dry some were moist and fresh feeling, I left the dry ones. I’ll take pics of gills when I get home.

 

Those are definitely oysters but there is alot of bad to cut out. appears pretty far gone probably toss around half (maybe more) of it when processing them. Hard to tell from pics. Most would wait on the next fresh batch but when they get scarce i might fool with them to get a little taste lol. Look close for small clear larvea. Harmless but not very appealing.

 

Philly cheesesteak sliders with oyster shrooms.

 

It’s a shame I didn’t find them earlier, found 5 or 6 stumps plum
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