MetaFilter posts tagged with Mushrooms

How to grow mushrooms in bulk

Deathalicious — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:12:05 -0800

Mushroom sorting on an industrial scale (Havatec company video)

Listener — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:11:51 -0800

Mushroom production line (Youtube) Not part of the Science/Discovery Channel's 18-year series, "How it's made" which has neat features like this one on hot dogs (Youtube again).

How to eat a full English breakfast

Trurl — Sat, 05 May 2012 10:12:00 -0800

How to eat a full English breakfast (previously)

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lemuring — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:31:56 -0800

The Fungarium & The Millenium Seed Bank Partnership:

A Pair of 5-minute Documentaries on the Research Institutions at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. (Previously 1 , Previously 2)

The First Word

homunculus — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:25:26 -0800

The First Word. A new Electric Sheep comic by Patrick Farley on the psychedelic origins of language. [NSFW, Via]

Fungus of the Month by Tom Volk

LobsterMitten — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:41:52 -0800

Fungus of the month , since 1997. Discover the bright aqua green stain fungus, which turns wood green, and was used by woodworkers in the Renaissance to add natural greens to inlaid wood work. Stinky and obscene dog stinkhorn fungus (maybe NSFW), like pink wieners growing out of your mulch. And many more, poisonous, infectious (warning: gross), hallucinogenic, with interesting photos and stories, for what he calls "the myco-curious". Bonus: I survived the destroying angel, an account of what happens if you eat a poisonous Amanita mushroom and are really, really lucky. A few more I liked: -The evocatively named dog vomit slime mold, dead man's fingers, wolf fart puffball,... -The common plate-shaped mushrooms that grow on the sides of trees are the artist's conk - because you can scrape them to make art (see pic). -The fungus that infects houseflies and controls them like robots

Patmos on my mind

chaff — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:09:55 -0800

Who's that writing? [MLYT] In belated honor of Jean Baptiste Day, I give you several versions of a song about an interesting fellow: Blind Willie Johnson Son House Nick Cave Depeche Mode Gov't Mule + Dirty Dozen Brass Band White Stripes Freeport High School Concert Choir Phil Kline (nytimes article) Curtis Stigers & The Forest Rangers Beck John Mellencamp (last.fm preview only) Billy Childish Lee Roy Parnell (ilike preview only)

Bangers and Beans and Toast, Oh My!

Secret Life of Gravy — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:41:41 -0800

The Full English: "[...]a mad, bad, salt-soaked road trip from culinary heaven to hell and back"

Industrial Strength Fungus

(Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:23:43 -0800

Industrial Strength Fungus. At an organic farm just outside Monterey, Calif., a super-eco building material is growing in dozens of darkened shipping containers. The farm is named Far West Fungi, and its rusting containers are full of all sorts of mushrooms--shiitake, reishi and pom-pom, to name a few. This new application of mushrooms is sometimes referred to as "mycotecture", but the idea of mycorestoration [TED talk: "6 ways mushrooms can save the world"] is not new. Mycelium (the thin, white rootlike fibers of fungi) doesn't taste very good, but once it's dried, it has some remarkable properties. It's nontoxic, fireproof and mold- and water-resistant, and it traps more heat than fiberglass insulation. It's also stronger, pound for pound, than concrete. One artist, Phil Ross, has begun experimenting with building bricks made of mycelium. And a new company, Ecovative Design, is trying to create a biodegradable mushroom-based styrofoam that, when finished, can be used as garden compost. They have a blog and were highlighted in this NPR story.

Bio-luminescent Shrooms!

Burhanistan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:59:57 -0800

Bio-luminescent Shrooms! That is all.

I, for one, welcome our new mycological overlords

kliuless — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:54:27 -0800

Mushrooms Save the World (long form) -- Paul Stamets on mycelia. Previously: 1 2 3 [bonus: slime molds]

Higher State of Consciousness

gman — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:17:27 -0800

Drawing on drugs by Jeremy Eaton. All but one drawing can be enlarged. Previously.

Watch What You Eat!

Miko — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:17:03 -0800

Poisonous and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms, including Alice's [Amanita muscaria].

Aphrodisiology

nickyskye — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:54:22 -0800

Video of Dictyophora Indusiata. "When they find it, they sniff it. The scent of this mushroom causes sexual arousal, often to the point of orgasm." ^ Other interesting articles available from Aphrodisiology: List of Aphrodisiacs l Visual Stimuli l Pheromones & Perfumes. The Dictyophora Indusiata is a type of morel. (This site has great pics of mushrooms) This mushroom is also known as "Basket stinkhorn (Dictyophora Indusiata), a tropical stinkhorn fungus with a lacy, netlike veil (indusium) that hangs down from the cap (head)." It's also known as Phallus indusiatus or bamboo pith. A recipe for cooking Dictyophora Indusiata from the Institute for the Advancement of the Science and Art of Chinese Cooking. Information about the Dictyophora Indusiata from the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

The Sacred Mushroom

homunculus — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:35:32 -0800

One Step Beyond - The Sacred Mushroom. A 1961 episode of One Step Beyond investigates whether or not psilocybin mushrooms can give you extra-sensory perception. Part 2, Part 3. [Via Neurophilosophy]

Trip Reports

augustweed — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:38:59 -0800

People's written reports of their psychedelic experiences based on the level of their trips after ingesting "magic" mushrooms. (level one, two, three, four, or five) The site includes a dosage calculator for anyone tempted to try them.

Grow Your Own Mushrooms

Dave Faris — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:04:58 -0800

How to Grow Your Own Mushrooms : Techniques that work for all kinds of spore-bearing fruiting bodies of fungi ...Instructional videos 1, 2, 3, 4, or skip ahead to the advanced techniques using the Laundry basket / Straw Log methods.

The leftovers make syupuurrrb sandwiches!

miss lynnster — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:07:19 -0800

Cooking with Vincent Price! Delicious mushrooms & stuffed eggs! Roast pork sirloin with prunes, onions & red wine! Small boys in a spectacular curry! Cooking not your thing? Well, would you prefer learning about cricket? Or perhaps Florentine art? Voilà, my friends!

Bumper crop

prostyle — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:25:54 -0800

Climate change fruitful for fungi: more than one third of the species recorded have started to fruit twice per year.

The Mozart of Mushrooms

peacay — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:21:34 -0800

Shrooming in Late Capitalism: The Way of the Truffle.

Coming soon to dirt near you.

cog_nate — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:55:13 -0800

Soon you may find yourself in the company of mushrooms. If you're curious about them, Mykoweb, Tom Volk's Fungi (especially his FOTM section), Fungal Jungal, David Fischer's American Mushrooms, MushroomExpert.com, BCERN's Matchmaker and the recently mentioned Roger's Mushrooms are remarkably handy, replete with descriptions and keys for reading up and identifying whether something growing in your yard is heavenly or hellish. The North American Mycological Association maintains a list of affiliated clubs, too, if you want to enlist help in identifying something.

Turn on, tune in, drop out

daksya — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:16:30 -0800

A landmark rigorous study, 36 years after Walter Pahnke's Good Friday study ocuments the ability of psilocybin - the chemical in "magic mushrooms" - to trigger mystical experiences. 16 of 24 participants, who had no history of psychedelic use, rated the drug episode (after 2 months) to be among the 5 most meaningful experiences in their lifetime. A longer 40-year follow-up by MAPS on those who took LSD under the supervision of psychiatrist Oscar Janiger in the 1950s, found qualitatively the same result.

Treasures from the kingdom of fungi

klik99 — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:51:32 -0800

Treasures from the kingdom of fungi Taylor F Lockwood's artsy, well lit photos of fungi in their natural habitats have gotten very little attention outside of mycologists, but his eye for detail and composition shows a skilled photographer performing in a very specific niche. S o m e f a v o r i t e s

What's That?

MiHail — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:25:48 -0800

What's That? Sadly, the education of the youth of amerika is declining in more than one way. The other day I was at the grocery store and the checker was unable to identify a portabello mushroom. And no, she wasn't new...and to make matters worse the checker next to her didn't know either. (more inside)

Mushroom! Mushroom!

loquacious — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:50:51 -0800

Mushroom Life