Mushroom Monday - Taste Testing New Mushrooms

Here are a couple new mushrooms I've found for #mushroommonday

I suspect this is Aureoboletus auriporus.

I spotted its orange tan cap from many feet away.

As they get older they turn more orange.

I flipped one over and saw yellow pores. The general rule of thumb for edible boletes is to avoid orange or red pored boletes.

Next I pinched some flesh off the cap to see if it stained blue. It didn't thus I did a tiny taste test to see if it was bitter. Turns out it tasted very mild and good. So it passed a few tests for determining edibility.

This next guy appears to be Gyroporus castaneus aka chestnut bolete.

I flipped it over to see the pores and they were nice and tan. Generally tan boletes like this tend to be bitter.

I checked for blue or green bruising and there was none. I took a taste test for bitterness and this one tasted even better than the orange one.

I took them both home and cleaned them. The orange one's stem was way too tough to eat and the chestnut one finally stained slowly to a dark brick red.

I like to just pan fry them in olive oild to get a sense for their base flavor. The orange one had a great texture but almost no flavor. The chestnut bolete tasted amazing. It had an even richer taste than a porcini. Bolete poisoning usually hits two hours after eating and I only ate a tiny piece of each for testing. Nothing happened after two hours i.e. stomache ache, gas or vomiting. Eating only a tiny portion is key to avoiding drastic symptoms if you happen to get a toxic one. Now that I know these two mushrooms I'll try and collect more for a meal.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)