The emphasis in the word oyster mushrooms. How to cook wild oyster mushrooms

You picked these oyster mushrooms

Don't argue! These are oyster mushrooms in your basket!

Who is right, who is wrong? We decided that a knowledgeable person, namely the teacher of Russian language and literature of the Bashkir Lyceum No. 2, Svetlana Nikolaevna Fakhretdinova, can judge, and at the same time reconcile all the mushroom pickers: (listen to the audio file)

Our people speak in whatever way is simpler and more convenient. That’s why in all the bazaars of the republic you will only hear the version of “oyster mushroom”, although the correct word is “oyster mushroom”. . It’s worth talking about mushrooms in more detail.

Which is correct: oyster mushrooms or oyster mushrooms

Today we answer questions from radio listeners who were actively picking mushrooms and berries and then had a fight. And it would be because of this:

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You picked these oyster mushrooms

What are you saying! These are not oyster mushrooms, but oyster mushrooms

Don't argue! These are oyster mushrooms in your basket

Who is right, who is wrong? We decided that a knowledgeable person, namely the teacher of Russian language and literature of the Bashkir Lyceum No. 2, Svetlana Nikolaevna Fakhretdinova, could judge, and at the same time reconcile all the mushroom pickers:

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Our people speak in whatever way is simpler and more convenient. That’s why in all the bazaars of the republic you will only hear the “oyster mushroom” variant. It’s worth talking about mushrooms in more detail.

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Where did this strange word come from: mushroom, mushrooms. Some scientists argue that in the Old Russian language this word “mushrooms” did not exist at all. And there was the word “lips”. “Break your lips” meant “go mushroom hunting.” As our Bashkir nugget Aelita Azina sings in the song

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The name “mushrooms” appeared in Russian at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. But it applied only to “humpbacked lips,” which have convex, humpbacked caps. “Mushroom”, “mushroom” from the Old Russian word “grub”, “hump”.

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There is another version. The word "mushroom" is related in origin to the words "row", "rob". After all, mushrooms often grow in families and hide in the ground, so they need to be “raked out” from there.

There are also more terrible assumptions. Thus, some researchers believe that the word “mushroom” is related to the word “coffin” (grave).

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However, the exact origin of the word "mushroom" has not been established. You can put forward your version. Write comments in the official Sputnik FM VKontakte group.

Growing mushrooms at home and on personal plots has not yet become commonplace. What for? After all, every autumn the forests are filled with white mushrooms, honey mushrooms, chanterelles and boletus. But there are mushrooms that either do not grow in our forests at all, or do so with great reluctance. They can perfectly diversify the menu, and also make good money on them. For example, planting oyster mushrooms at your own dacha is more than possible! It is ideal for cultivation in household mushroom. Tasty, inexpensive (in terms of labor and cost technological process). You can grow oyster mushrooms different ways, but there is an option chosen by time and experience of many amateur mushroom growers.

Growing oyster mushrooms at home

"Children of the Underground"

For the first phase of growing mushrooms, which is their propagation using mycelium (mycelium), you can get by with any above-ground room - a shed, for example.

It is better for the mushrooms to “live” the second, main phase in a cellar or basement, that is, underground in the cool.

Growing oyster mushrooms - photo

Both premises for a mushroom plantation must be carefully prepared and equipped with ventilation, electricity and water supply. You will definitely need thermometers from your inventory to control the degree of heating and cooling of the air in the room. The equipment you will need is a water heater.

By the way! Temperature regulation in a room with growing oyster mushrooms is best controlled by regular ventilation. To do this, you will have to provide for the possibility of wide opening of windows or doors.

There are several mandatory procedures that should be carried out in a building or underground room where mushrooms will grow.

The premises are whitewashed with lime and then dried using active ventilation.
The walls are whitewashed with lime - photo
Then the growing area is sprayed with bleach (4% solution).
After treatment, the doors/windows are closed and the inside is left to be disinfected for two days.
Then the object is ventilated for the same amount of time.
Such disinfection treatment during conveyor multiple cultivation must be carried out every cycle.

What do mushrooms grow on?

Oyster mushrooms differ from their forest counterparts in that they do not grow in soil. They need a substrate to grow successfully. You can create a suitable mixture from numerous components:

dried straw of field cereals;
Sunflower seed shells are suitable;
it is very good to use sawdust from trees, but not from coniferous trees, but from deciduous ones;
Corn stalks and reeds are suitable.

Substrate preparation

All this will become an ideal “soil” for planting oyster mushrooms. The components can be used separately, or they can also be mixed in arbitrary combinations and proportions. The ingredients must be dry. Before use, they need to be crushed (the optimal fraction size is in the range of 0.5-3 cm). The resulting mixture should have a pleasant smell and be free of mold, fungal debris and foreign objects.

Prepare the substrate on the surface of the earth; this is not necessary in the cellar. To ensure proper preparation and compliance with all regulations, certain procedures must be followed.

The crushed mass is poured with boiling water until completely covered, to destroy all kinds of competing organisms in the form of other varieties or harmful microflora.
Moisturizing and mixing the substrate
The substrate poured in this way, steamed to a “porridge” state, is tamped into large barrels or other containers suitable in volume and left to swell for up to half a day.
Then the mass is removed from the barrel and spread onto a wide film in a thin layer to cool completely and evaporate some of the moisture.

Stage one: mycelium – mass building

Oyster mushroom mycelium

The preparation is complete. Mycelium acquired. You can proceed to the first stage, the task of which is to increase its mass.

Advice! How to check the quality of the mycelium of the oyster mushroom progenitor? It must have certain characteristics. Snow-white color, with a small proportion of substrate inclusions having a darkish tint. The second parameter is smell. Despite the fact that this mushroom does not grow in the forest, the mycelium should smell like forest mushrooms.

A layer of moist, cold substrate is placed in a dense transparent polyethylene bag with a volume of 20 to 60 liters. Layer height – 8 cm. Carefully leveled by hand.
Laying the substrate
The mycelium is placed on top, tamping tightly, in a three-centimeter layer (you can simply tear it into small pieces to compact it without voids).
Then the substrate is laid and compacted, but with a layer of 15 cm.
Again a three-centimeter layer of mycelium.
Bags with substrate for mushrooms
The procedure should be repeated until all the acquired mycelium is gone. There should be an 8 cm layer of substrate on top.
Received " layered cake» compact, tie the bag tightly with twine and place it in a vertical position.
The entire surface of the bag is pierced with a long, disinfected (can be heated on fire) nail, 120-150 mm in size. There is not one hole every 25 cm².
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Advice! There should be more holes at the bottom: this is necessary to drain the liquid that is constantly forming in the bag.

Immediately after the procedure, a clear separation of the layers into dark and light (substrate and mycelium) will be visible through the film of the bag.

The temperature required to increase the mass of the mycelium should be kept at +18...26°C. The germination of mycelium spores will begin in three days, and ten days later you can observe a miracle. The entire mass will turn into mycelium and become completely white. After this, the bag is untied and reproduction continues to the required quantity.

Hanging bags with substrate and growing oyster mushrooms

One full standard bag gives “life” to 8-10 other bags with a layer (substrate + mycelium). When, finally, the required amount of mycelium for your purposes is formed, then 2 packets from every ten are left for subsequent mass gain, and 8 are transferred to obtain the long-awaited oyster mushroom harvest.

Fruiting process

Growing oyster mushrooms

The whitened substrate must be kept in its “native” bag for another 5-6 days after ripening, if this bag is sent for fruiting. During this period, it will finally mature, become “monolithic”, and become as dense as possible.

To activate the beginning of crop formation, bags with completely processed mycelium on the substrate are kept for another three days at +3...5°C. To allow the mushroom fruiting body to grow, it will need space to grow. To create it, holes of 3-5 cm in diameter are cut out in polyethylene (one per square meter). The packages are moved to an underground room at temperature conditions of +10...16°C. Here they are installed at a distance of at least 30-40 cm from each other, always vertically. To make it more convenient to water the mushroom “plantation,” the bags are arranged in ribbons in three rows with a gap of 70 cm between them.

Advice! If you are the happy owner of a high basement, then you can also place bags of future mushrooms on additional shelves located along the walls. Such placement will increase the usable area, and therefore the mushroom yield.

Caring for future mushrooms

Once a day, the bags should be slightly moistened, and the room itself should be thoroughly ventilated, since during the fruiting process of oyster mushrooms a large amount of carbon dioxide is formed. As for the lighting in the dungeon, during the first week it will not be needed at all, and then it would be nice to illuminate the room. Mushrooms will grow in any case - both with and without light - but lighting can significantly increase the yield.

Watering oyster mushrooms

If all conditions are met, the first fruiting will begin in 10 days. When the mushroom heads begin to lighten (after the whitish, dark and grayish-brown stage), you can harvest. After some time (about three weeks), a second fruiting will begin with much lower productivity. Two series of fruiting, taking into account a well-chosen base and high-quality mycelium, yield up to 45 kg of oyster mushrooms with 100 kg of substrate used. When the harvest of mushrooms from the repeated second wave is completed, the bags are taken out of the basement, and, after sanitizing the underground room, a new batch is placed in it. This conveyor method allows for 6 double fruiting cycles per year.

Basic rules for growing oyster mushrooms

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Table. Growing conditions by cycle

1	Germination of mycelial bodies into the substrate	10-14	20-24	90	not required
2	Ripening and fruiting	4-5	22-28	95	not required
3	Extension of the fruiting body (1 wave)	7-10	15-19	85	100
4	Extension of the fruiting body (wave 2)	7-10	13-17	85	100
5	Harvesting, substrate unloading, chamber disinfection	2	doesn't matter	doesn't matter	not required

Value and use

Fresh oyster mushrooms

Oyster mushroom is highly valued due to its beneficial nutritional properties. In taste, it is not inferior to other cultivated mushrooms and even surpasses them, and in terms of the value of its composition, it has no competitors among them. Not hard, but dense texture, light bread flavor and subtle anise notes on the palate. For cooking - a godsend, since oyster mushroom is a universal mushroom. It can be boiled, fried, canned (pickled and salted), stewed, dried. The only product that the popular mushroom cannot be combined with is fish. Otherwise, in salads, hot dishes, soups, as a stand-alone culinary masterpiece- Oyster mushrooms are beautiful.

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Important! A prerequisite when preparing any mushroom dishes is its heat treatment. In its raw form, it contains chitin, which is not digestible and is rejected by the human body.

Growing mushrooms, if you have the right premises and some free time, can become not only a useful and nutritious hobby, but also a way to make good money by supplying healthy and tasty oyster mushrooms to the retail chain.

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Video - Harvesting Oyster mushrooms

How to grow oyster mushrooms at home? Using a certain technology. Then you won’t have to spend money buying mushrooms. And you will certainly be able to safely eat them without fear of getting poisoned.

Where to begin

You always need to start by getting acquainted with the experience of other people, so to speak - studying the hardware. There are many articles and videos about growing oyster mushrooms at home. After review you will need:

Two rooms. One is directly for cultivation, the second is for the incubation period. It is allowed that this will be one room. Then you need to strictly observe the temperature regime and regulate the level of air humidity.

Nutrient substrate. Sold ready-made, packaged.
The mycelium itself. Pay special attention to the expiration date.
Fan. The most common, everyday one.
Antiseptic. Rubbing alcohol or chlorine solution.
Rubber gloves, gauze bandage for the face, sharp knife, thick plastic bags.

Naturally, you have to be patient (the process takes more than one day) and the desire to taste the oyster mushrooms grown with your own hands.

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Premises requirements

To grow mushrooms at home, you need to allocate a separate room. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a bedroom or living room. Basement, cellar, barn, garage - it's all perfect. For the incubation period, the temperature should be maintained no higher than 24-26°C, air humidity no more than 70%.

Separately, it is necessary to say about cleanliness. There is no need to wash every centimeter with bleach. It is better to treat with a sulfur-smoke bomb or simply whitewash the walls with lime with the addition of copper sulfate. Then no foreign mold will infect the mycelium.

The most important condition is that all ventilation holes must be covered with fine mesh. Mushroom flies try to fly to the scent of mycelium and ruin the whole idea from the very beginning.

For the period of germination and harvesting, the air humidity in the room should be at 80-95%, temperature - no higher than 18°C.

Advice. A basement or cellar is the most optimal premises. In such places there is always high humidity, and the temperature can be increased with an ordinary heater.

Preparing the substrate for oyster mushrooms

As nutrient medium To grow oyster mushrooms at home, you can use any available substrate, as long as it contains cellulose. This is what the mycelium feeds on. Experienced mushroom growers use sawdust, small branches or shavings. For beginners it is best to use:

barley straw
sunflower seed husks
corn stalks, leaves
wheat straw
buckwheat husk
shelled corn cobs

First of all, you need to carefully sort through the prepared raw materials. The mass must be clean and dry. The presence of mold or the presence of only the smell of rotting already indicates that the raw material is not suitable for growing oyster mushrooms.

After selecting the mass, it is necessary to treat it thermally for reliability. This will get rid of harmful bacteria, insect larvae, and at the same time moisturize it. To do this, pour raw materials into a metal container and fill with clean water. Heat to a boil, cook for about 40 minutes. Then leave for 3 hours.

As soon as the temperature of the mass drops to 24-26°C, you can begin planting.

Advice. For best results, add a little to the raw material before planting. fresh yeast. Approximately 50 g per 15 kg of total weight.

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Planting material

Mycelium good quality It's very difficult to cook on your own. Therefore, it is better to buy it in seed stores or from oyster mushroom growing enterprises. How many grams will it take? It's very easy to calculate. For 10 kg of raw materials you need about 400 g of mycelium.

First of all, before purchasing, you need to carefully examine the package with planting material. Gray or black spots, a distinct smell of ammonia are signs of incipient mold. Such mycelium is not suitable for planting. The color of the vegetative body of the mushroom should be from bright yellow to orange.

Advice. If the mycelium was purchased in advance, then it must be stored in the refrigerator until planting, no more than 9 days. A temperature of 3-5°C is the most optimal.

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The most crucial moment

The substrate has been prepared, the planting material has been purchased and has already rested for a day at room temperature. Take a deep breath, you can begin.

The most important thing is that there should not be the slightest draft in the room. Fungal spores are very volatile. The slightest breath and then you can find oyster mushrooms in places completely unsuitable for them.

All instruments must be disinfected. Knife, thick bags, hands. You can wash thoroughly with laundry soap or wipe with aseptolin. Hands can be additionally protected with gloves. They also need to be treated with an antiseptic. Be sure to wear a gauze bandage. Getting fungal spores into the lungs is not a very pleasant event.

The process itself:

The mycelium is crushed without opening the bag.
Raw materials are poured into the bottom of the prepared plastic bag.
The vegetative body of the oyster mushroom is laid out in a thin layer on top.
Repeat layers to the very top.
The bag is tied tightly.

To make mushrooms germinate faster, it is advisable to place the planting material closer to the walls of the bag than to the center.

You can do it even simpler. Pour the raw materials into prepared bags and make small slits with a knife. Mycelium is placed in them, then sealed.

Advice. Don't take huge packages. Anyway, oyster mushrooms will only grow on the outside. The most optimal size holds about 5-8 kg of the finished mixture.

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Incubation period

So, the bags are filled, tied, and await their fate. Which? Warmth, darkness, calm. The temperature in the incubation room should not exceed 18-20°C. The substrate becomes very hot and the vegetative body may die. You cannot ventilate the room; the carbon dioxide released is very important for the germination of oyster mushrooms.

What to do? Fan! It will save the situation, help cool the packages, and does not create drafts.

A day after laying, the previously made incisions are opened. If the mycelium was laid in layers, then it is imperative to make cuts with a sharp knife. Vertical ones are 2-3 cm high, horizontal ones are about 0.5 cm wide, the distance between them is 10-12 cm.

The packages should not be close to each other. Leave a free space of at least 7-9 cm between them.

Incubation time depends on the variety, ranging from 16 to 24 days. Detailed information can be obtained from the manufacturer, or read on the packaging.

It is important to periodically enter the room and inspect the bags. The appearance of black spots and an unpleasant odor indicates that the instruments and materials were not sufficiently disinfected. Normal condition - light, almost white color of the contents, characteristic pleasant aroma of mushrooms.

Advice. The inspection is carried out as quickly as possible. Any light is now undesirable for mycelium.

First fruiting. Important aspects

It is important not to miss the moment when the oyster mushroom rudiments appear. They are visible to the naked eye. There are gray tubercles on a white background. In the meantime, the packages with mushrooms are transferred to another room, or the conditions in the same room are changed:

The temperature is reduced to 10-18°C.
Increase air humidity to 90-95%.
Place artificial lighting with fluorescent lamps for at least 8 hours per day.
Be sure to ventilate the room. At least 4 times a day.

The main factor for the first fruiting period is humidity. However, oyster mushrooms should not be watered. They may rot before reaching their full size. The ideal way out of the situation would be to frequently spray the walls, floors, and spray water in the air. Make sure that water does not get on the mushroom caps and bags.

Advice. If you need light-colored oyster mushrooms, then keep the temperature at 12°C. To obtain a dark cap, the temperature is raised to 18°C.

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Second fruiting

After the first harvest is harvested, the mushroom blocks are not thrown away! Oyster mushroom produces up to 5 harvests from one planting. The mycelium rests for about 12 days, then pleases with a new portion healthy treats. It is very important not to change conditions during breaks between harvests. Then one block can bear fruit for up to 4 months.

What if there is no separate room?

How to grow oyster mushrooms at home if there is no separate room? Yes, it’s also very simple! When did something stop a Russian person if he needed it? There is no basement, which means growing on stumps is a completely alternative option.

For this you will need:

Smooth stumps of non-resinous tree species.
Planting material.
A secluded place in the garden with good shade.
Burlap, film.
Enthusiasm is welcome.

The wood must be healthy, without mold, rot or rot. It is advisable that it sit for no longer than 10 months before use. The logs are soaked in clean water for 3 days, pressing under pressure so that they do not float.

Then holes are made in the wood, preferably with a drill. The diameter is about 1-1.5 cm, the depth is about 5-7 cm. Planting material for oyster mushrooms is poured inside and the holes are plugged with moss. If you don’t have a drill at hand, then simply cut off the top end of a 5 cm thick log and apply the vegetative body. The resulting cut is placed on top. For reliability, you can strengthen the structure with nails.

The procedure is carried out in March. Before planting the logs in the garden, they are folded into a pyramid and covered with burlap and film. Periodic ventilation and regular inspection for mold are the key to success. After some time, the mycelium will completely entwine the wood, and the stumps will turn white.

With the onset of warm weather (mid or late May), the logs are planted in the garden. Choose shaded places: under trees, grapes, on the north side of buildings. The stumps are installed vertically, buried 12-15 cm into the ground. You can put wet leaves or soaked old barley grains at the bottom of the holes.

Caring for logs consists only of carefully watering the soil around them if the weather is dry and hot.

If the technology is followed, the first harvest appears from the end of August. Lasts until mid-November depending on climate and weather conditions. For the winter, the logs are covered with spruce branches or covered with leaves. Ideally - birch. They disinfect well and prevent the mycelium from rotting.

Of course, this method is not suitable for industrial cultivation of oyster mushrooms, but for home use it is very good. You can get good yields at low cost. The only negative is seasonality. Oyster mushrooms do not grow under snow in winter.

Advice. Such logs with clusters of oyster mushrooms can become an original decoration for the site. They can be prepared as much as there is enough free land. There will be enough mushrooms for yourself and relatives and for sale.

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A few nuances

All work on cultivating oyster mushrooms is recommended to be carried out in a gauze bandage. Mushrooms produce large amounts of spores, which can lead to allergies.
When harvesting, oyster mushrooms are twisted out of the substrate by hand. When cutting with a knife, you can infect the mycelium with putrefactive bacteria, then you will have to forget about the next harvest. The remaining roots of mushrooms also harm the mycelium. A large amount of moisture is lost through them.
If the slightest sign of mold appears in one of the bags, you must immediately remove it from the room so that the others do not become infected.
Spent substrate is an excellent fertilizer; it would be a shame to throw it in the trash. Taking it out to the garden or pouring it out in the garden is the right decision. By the way, the remains of mycelium next year can produce a small harvest of oyster mushrooms if you pour the mixture somewhere near a pond or under trees.
When grown indoors, the most productive are the first two waves of fruiting. On logs, the second and third years of cultivation are the most prolific.

Growing oyster mushrooms yourself at home is a very real thing. Just follow the instructions and enjoy the result!

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Video: technology for growing oyster mushrooms

Oyster mushrooms are rare guests on our table, but in vain. Mushrooms have been known since ancient times in China and Japan, where they were revered as a healthy and tasty dish.

They contain many healing and nutrients necessary for human health.

In addition, mushrooms are easy to grow at home and serve as an ingredient for the preparation of medicinal preparations.

Short description

Mushrooms belong to the Pleurotaceae family.

They develop on dead plant debris of woody origin.

Cellulose is necessary for their growth and nutrition, so they settle on fallen trees or old stumps next to honey mushrooms.

They are found naturally throughout Europe in temperate climates, in forests and agricultural areas.

They grow in clusters, several in one “socket”. In appearance, they are inconspicuous and, usually, no one pays attention to them, mistaking them for an inedible mushroom.

Oyster mushroom has a false brother, which has toxic properties and is hazardous to health.

The poisonous oyster mushroom is distinguished by a denser, leathery cap, but it is rare, so there is no need to worry.

Chemical composition

The composition of mushrooms is closest to meat and meat and dairy products.

Polysaccharides and minerals (phosphorus, copper, iron, calcium, cobalt, selenium and others) were found in large quantities.

Mushrooms are a source of vitamins B and E, as well as the extremely rare vitamin D2, which serves as a natural antibiotic and antioxidant, preventing the formation of malignant tumors and inflammatory processes.

Beneficial features

Oyster mushrooms are very tasty and nutritious. The nutritional value mushrooms is 40 kcal, raw, and 70 kcal, stewed - per 100 g of product.

They perfectly satisfy hunger, and at the same time have low calorie content, which makes them useful product on weight loss diets.

IN folk medicine Their following healing properties are used:

The uniqueness of mushrooms is primarily associated with the ability fight cancer.

This property was officially proven by Japanese doctors in 1997.

In addition, it was found that mushrooms have a beneficial effect on the body during radiation exposure and radiation sickness.

Today, oyster mushroom-based products and medicines are officially included in the list of recommended products for these diseases.

Contraindications and harm

The main problem with mushrooms is the high content of chitin, which is poorly absorbed and digested.

To do this, they are processed at high temperature (boiled, stewed, fried). This helps increase digestibility by 60-70%.

Another problem is related to the danger of eating spoiled mushrooms, which serve as a source of poison.

Eating mushrooms is prohibited children under 12 years of age and pregnant women.

What to pay attention to

Before use, you need to know the specifics of using oyster mushrooms.

Traditional medicine recipes

Traditional medicine has long used oyster mushrooms as a basis for the preparation of medicinal remedies for the treatment of diseases.
Let's look at the basic recipes:

For hypertension.
To prepare, take 4-5 medium-sized oyster mushrooms and pour 1 glass of alcohol or vodka.
Infuse in a dark place for 2 weeks, shaking occasionally.

After this, the tincture is filtered through gauze, transferred several times. Take 2 times a day, 1 teaspoon before meals for 2 months.
Then they take a break for 6 months and repeat the course again.

For atherosclerosis.
For cooking, choose young, strong mushrooms, which are washed, then peeled from the outer shell and boiled for 1 minute in boiling water.

After this, they are kneaded until smooth and consumed half a teaspoon, twice a day, before meals.
The course lasts 1 month. You can repeat it after six months.

For purulent wounds.
To prepare, you will need 300 g of chopped mushrooms and a bottle of vodka.
The ingredients are placed in a container and closed tightly.

Infuse for 10 days in a dark, cool room, shaking occasionally.
Then filter through cheesecloth and dilute with boiled water 1 to 1.

The product is used to wash purulent wounds or burns (what to treat at home is written on the page).
The tincture has an antiseptic and cleansing effect.

For immunity.
Make mushroom powder.

To do this, the mushrooms are wrapped in a rag and ground, and then the resulting pulp is spread on a baking sheet in a thin layer - one or two centimeters.

The baking sheet is placed in the oven for 10 hours at a temperature of 40-60°C.

Periodically, the mushrooms are taken out and aired for a couple of minutes, and then returned to the oven.

Continue to do this until completely dry.
The mass and volume will be reduced to 10-15% of the original.

Properly cooked mushrooms should break, but not crumble.
The color remains light and the smell is pleasant, like fresh mushrooms.

Oyster mushrooms are ground in a coffee grinder, and the resulting powder is stored in a tightly closed glass container.

Take half a teaspoon three times a day before meals. The procedure is carried out for 2 weeks.

Next time you can repeat it in six months.
The product supplies the body with useful substances, prevents the formation of malignant tumors and strengthens the immune system.

How to cook dishes correctly

Fried oyster mushrooms with potatoes.

0.5 kg mushrooms,
potatoes 1 kg,
onion () 1 piece,
salt and spices to taste.

The oyster mushrooms are fried first, as they take longer to cook than the potatoes. First, they are cut into small pieces.

Fry with the lid open to evaporate the liquid contained in the mushrooms.

After 15-20 minutes, add chopped onions and potatoes.

Prepared before formation golden crust. Salt, spices and herbs are added as desired.

Delicious and healthy dish, which satisfies hunger and is low in calories. Dietary product.

Oyster mushroom soup.
To prepare you will need:

First, wash the mushrooms and separate the caps from the stems.

Now chop the carrots and horseradish and, together with the mushrooms, put them in a pan with water.

Bring to a boil and cook for one hour with the lid open.
While the soup is cooking, prepare the dough:

mix flour and eggs,
add salt to taste.

The dough should rest for 15 minutes, then roll it out and leave for another 15 minutes.

Then finely chop to form noodles. At the same time, fry vegetables (carrots, onions and cucumbers) in a frying pan.

At this time, the mushrooms, horseradish and carrots should already be cooked. Add fried vegetables and potatoes to them.

Cook until the potatoes are ready. Then turn off the heat and let the soup brew for another 5-10 minutes. Herbs and spices () are added to taste. The soup is ready.

Oyster mushrooms are healthy and nutritious mushrooms. If you wish, you can grow them yourself if you have your own house and summer cottage, or collect them in the forest, where there are plenty of oyster mushrooms.

Healing potions are prepared from them and consumed as an independent dish.

It is important not to overuse, since all mushrooms serve as heavy food and are difficult to digest. If you use them often and in large quantities, you can harm your digestion.

Watch the video about the benefits and harms of oyster mushrooms.

Not everyone knows how to properly cook oyster mushrooms. Before you start cooking, you need to be able to choose them correctly. The first thing you need to do is check the mushrooms for the presence of yellowish spots all over its surface. If you see them, then you cannot buy such mushrooms. Oyster mushrooms should have a grayish and uniform color. After purchase, they are stored in the refrigerator, preferably in glassware without cutting or washing them.

Dishes made from oyster mushrooms not only taste good, but are also very beneficial for our body. They contain perforins, which fight bad cells and prevent a variety of tumors.

Oyster mushroom recipes

How to cook fresh oyster mushrooms? First of all, it is worth noting that this type Mushrooms are absolutely not picky in terms of cooking. They are pickled, salted, fried, stewed and frozen. Next, we will take a closer look at how to prepare wild oyster mushrooms and oyster mushrooms grown under artificial conditions.

Fried oyster mushrooms

This type of cooking is the most popular. You do not need to spend a lot of energy, and the result is excellent. For this you will need:

All of the above products are quite affordable even for families with a minimal budget and can always be found in the kitchen.

The frying process consists of the following steps:

Be sure to taste the mushrooms during the cooking process so that they are not spoiled by overcooking. Even if you eat an incompletely prepared mushroom, nothing bad will happen to you, since oyster mushrooms are absolutely non-toxic and safe for humans. During the frying process, you can add not only onions, but also other vegetables, having previously prepared them. With this preparation, the taste of oyster mushrooms is not lost.

Pickled oyster mushrooms

This cooking option is perfect for long-term storage.

The main thing that affects the taste of pickled mushrooms is the marinade itself. It is very important to cook it correctly, otherwise you can ruin the dish.

For 1 liter of marinade you will need:

½ tsp. salt and sugar.
Peppercorns in the amount of 5 pieces.
1-2 tablespoons of vinegar.
small bay leaf.

Cooking process:

Boil water in a saucepan or other container.
Wash thoroughly and cut the oyster mushrooms into large pieces.
Pour boiled water over the mushrooms until it completely covers them.
Cook for 12 minutes.
Place the mushrooms in jars and pour the boiled marinade over them.
After the jars with all their contents have cooled, place them in the refrigerator and let them brew.
After a couple of hours you can eat them.

Oyster mushroom soup

To prepare the soup you will need:

150 grams of mushrooms.
3 large or 4 medium potatoes.
one small onion.
one small carrot.
dill, parsley and celery are added at your discretion.
50 gr. butter and sunflower oil.
sour cream to taste.

Cooking process:

Place potatoes and celery in boiling water.
Fry carrots and onions in a frying pan using sunflower and butter.
Mushrooms are sliced in small pieces and added to onions and carrots.
Transfer the resulting mixture into a saucepan and wait until the soup boils for 3.5 minutes.
Turn off the stove and let the soup brew.
Serve with sour cream and chopped herbs.

You can also add any cereal to this soup. This will make it more satisfying and tasty.

Oyster mushroom salad

All necessary ingredients for salad:

Cooking steps:

Green beans are boiled and finely chopped.
Cut the boiled chicken fillet and fry until golden brown.
Mushrooms and leeks are fried in vegetable oil.
After all the ingredients have cooled, mix them and add the chopped pickled cucumbers.
Season the salad with mayonnaise.

Oyster mushroom cutlets

To prepare the cutlets you will need:

Prepare as follows:

This version of cutlets is great for people on a diet or for vegetarians.

Mushrooms in pots

Ingredients required for cooking:

mushrooms - 400 gr.
onion - 1 pc.
potatoes - 500 gr.
vegetable oil - 2−3 tablespoons.
sour cream - 150 gr.
salt, pepper and herbs to taste.

The cooking process includes the following:

Wash the mushrooms well and chop them. After this, you need to fry them with onions.
Fry the chopped potatoes and add them to the mushrooms.
Add all the necessary spices and place the resulting mixture in pots.
Cook in the oven at medium temperature for 35-45 minutes.

Oyster mushrooms in Korean

This option is great for long-term storage and preparations for the winter.

Required Products:

Cooking steps:

Place well-washed mushrooms in a saucepan and cook in boiling water for several minutes.
Drain the water and let the mushrooms dry.
During this time, you need to finely chop the onion and garlic.
Mix Korean carrots with mushrooms and add onions, garlic, salt, sugar, vinegar.
Cover the resulting dish with a lid and let it sit in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours, after which it can be eaten.

For longer storage, it is necessary to distribute the dish into jars that have been previously sterilized for half an hour to an hour.

These are just some of the dishes that are worth trying. Whether mushrooms from the forest or grown for sale, when proper preparation they will become one of your favorite treats. I wish you all success in this endeavor and bon appetit!

These are delicious healthy mushrooms Under natural conditions they grow on trees, stumps, and dead wood. In order to grow oyster mushrooms at home, mushroom pickers use blocks with substrate plant origin. It develops equally quickly, the mycelium seems to hang from its place of growth, as is directly indicated by the name of the mushroom itself. The benefits and harms of oyster mushrooms are a factor that must be paid attention to, because for all its positive characteristics, this mushroom is a difficult product for the gastrointestinal tract.

Oyster mushroom caps can be of different shades: pinkish, brown, white, gray, yellow. They are very fragile, so harvesting and transporting the crop requires care and attention. The color of the mushroom and its size directly depend on the place of growth and variety. Mostly the caps are used for food, since the stems are tougher, but they are also used in making, for example, minced mushrooms for pies.

Let's digress a little from the topic. People often ask how to say or write correctly: “oyster mushroom” or “oyster mushroom”

The word has different cases and can be declined in any way. Speaking of the name: the correct spelling and pronunciation is oyster mushroom, with the letter “E”. The common definition of “oyster mushroom” has become so firmly established in colloquial use in our post-Soviet space that today no one focuses on the different letters. Thus, oyster mushroom and oyster mushroom are the same thing, the same designation for mushrooms of a given variety.

Well, now about the benefits of these mushrooms.

It has much more advantages than the so-called disadvantages. Here we will try to highlight all its qualities in detail.

Oyster mushrooms - benefits for the body

Due to the high content of polysaccharides, oyster mushroom is a very strong anti-cancer product. The immunomodulatory properties of this fungus have a detrimental effect on the development of malignant or benign neoplasms. It is also useful, and even recommended, to consume oyster mushrooms after chemotherapy or exposure to radiation – it helps remove toxins from the human body. Today, many medicines have been developed based on oyster mushrooms that suppress cancer cells.

The benefits for humans are as follows: they contain almost all B vitamins, nicotinic acid (vitamin PP), vitamins C, E, iron, iodine. The presence of easily digestible proteins, essential amino acids (tryptophan, threonine, phenylalanine, leucine, isoleucine), minerals, and monounsaturated fats provides benefits for the human body. These mushrooms also contain potassium, calcium, cobalt, copper, iron, phosphorus, zinc, selenium - minerals necessary for the normal functioning of all human vital functions.

The benefits of oyster mushrooms for the body are truly wide:

Oyster mushroom is rich in chitin and mannitol (fiber components); the high protein content in the fruiting body of the mushroom equates it to the value of meat and dairy derivatives. Low fat content and high carbohydrate percentage make these mushrooms an excellent dietary product.

Depending on the variety, its calorie content varies from 38 to 43 kcal per 100 g of product (in fresh). For those who regularly consume oyster mushrooms, the benefit will also be expressed in a prolonged feeling of fullness. This mushroom takes quite a long time to digest, providing a suppressant effect on appetite. Feeling full for a long time is a big plus for those who want to lose weight.

Oyster mushrooms - harm

Despite its high taste and medicinal characteristics, eating oyster mushrooms can still cause harm. More often this is an individual intolerance to mushrooms by the body, an allergic reaction to them. Eating this mushroom in large quantities causes a feeling of heaviness in the stomach and can cause diarrhea and bloating.

Due to the difficult process of digestion, oyster mushrooms should be taken with caution by older people and young children. For the same reason, you should not use it too often; two times a week will be enough to enjoy oyster mushrooms without harm.

We should not forget that oyster mushroom is a mushroom containing chitin, which is not digested by the body, so its heat treatment must be of high quality. Heat treatment extremely desirable before pickling, before salting. It is worth mentioning separately about medicinal preparations based on this mushroom (tinctures, powders, extracts) - they no longer contain chitin, so the range of their use is much wider.

If a person suffers from liver or kidney diseases, digestive disorders, or serious disorders of the pancreas, then taking oyster mushrooms should be limited or even abandoned.

How to cook oyster mushrooms?

Skillfully cooked oyster mushrooms are as good as taste qualities to their forest brothers - boletus, boletus, white boletus. This mushroom is simply universal: it is stewed, fried, salted, cooked in soups, pickled, added to sauces and salads. It perfectly highlights the individual taste of meat and goes well with game or poultry.

It should be noted that oyster mushroom is not predisposed to long-term storage, however, it cooks quickly and does not need to be peeled, like most mushrooms. As mentioned above, before cooking oyster mushrooms, they need to be cooked, i.e. boil.

The cap is eaten. Legs - less common, as they are tougher and more fibrous. If you decide to use the legs for food, you will have to chop them well before cooking. It is preferable to cut the hats into strips of medium length or width or tear them by hand into small fragments.

If oyster mushrooms are not an independent dish, but part of a recipe, then they should be added almost at the very end of cooking.

If the mushroom is cooked, then it is placed in already boiling salted water, pre-chopped. The cooking process lasts approximately 15-20 minutes. It is not necessary to cook before stewing. If the mushrooms are pickled, then they are boiled with spicy spices, vinegar for at least 25 minutes.

Like any mushroom, oyster mushrooms love the company of onions; they are fried in butter or vegetable oil for 8-10 minutes. To prepare salads or appetizers, mushrooms are pre-fried, boiled or removed from the marinade and added to other ingredients. Mushrooms fit harmoniously into dishes traditional cuisine, shows himself with dignity in complex recipes exotic.

There is an opinion that oyster mushrooms do not go well with fish.

Oyster mushrooms in batter - recipe

These delicious “chops” are prepared as follows: carefully cut off the largest caps from a bunch of mushrooms. Wash thoroughly. Gently beat them with a wooden hammer, as if to level them.

Important: beat from the side of the plates.

Add salt.

Prepare the batter. I took 2 eggs, 2 table. spoons of grated hard cheese, 1 tbsp. spoon of cream, 2 tbsp. spoons of flour, salt. Beat the batter.

Carefully dip the oyster mushroom caps into the batter and place in a heated frying pan with vegetable oil, fry over low heat for 10 minutes, then increase the heat and fry until golden brown.

Oyster mushrooms purchased or grown by yourself will not be eaten by worms or slugs. It may not have the same aroma as its forest counterparts, but it will definitely be cleaner and safer. Before harvesting and consuming, the benefits and harms of oyster mushrooms must be taken into account, since health and well-being are the most important things for a person.