Comment on How do you get people to wash their vegetables when you're at their house and you don't wanna seem rude?

• robolemmy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From Serious Eats:

  First off, it’s true: mushrooms do absorb water when you wash them, but it’s only about 2% of their total weight, or, translated to volume, that’s about 1 1/2 teaspoons of water per pound, which in turn translates to an extra 15 to 30 seconds of cooking time.

  “Soggy” is an exaggeration.

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  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not about the absorption. They get soggy/slimy if you don’t immediately cook them

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    • 5wim@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you’re about to cook them.

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• fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Been washing all kinds of mushrooms for years and I‘ve had the opposite experience. They’re only soggy if they’ve been cooking in oil, soaked it up, then dumped all their water. They don’t get brown as they soak up the oil, and then they dump it all out with the water, meaning you’re just steaming them until you evaporate off all the water.

  Best is to wash the mushrooms, slice, cook in a little bit of water until they dump out their water, cook until the water has evaporated, then add oil and brown (or even crisp if you desire).

  Perfect mushrooms every time (I’ve dated a lot of vegans so I’ve eaten mushrooms every few days for over a decade).

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This assumes you’re going to fry them. If you want raw mushrooms in a salad, it’s going to be a lot more noticeable.

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    • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wash them whole and dry them right after. Contrary to popular belief, they don’t soak up water like sponges with a quick wash. You can easily prove this by just weighing them before and after washing/drying. The weight change is minuscule.

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      • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It doesn’t matter if they actually absorb water or not. Just try the mushrooms side by side, washed and unwashed. Decide based on what you prefer.

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      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Total water absorption doesn’t matter that much because the significant thing is surface texture.

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Raw mushrooms are borderline wasteful to eat. We can’t digest the chitin and cell walls so most of the nutritional value passes straight through.

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    • FalseMyrmidon@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just a note that raw mushrooms make people sick all the time and are a very common cause of his poisoning - especially wild mushrooms. You can get away with it with super common crimini mushrooms but some people are allergic even to that.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve never had a problem with this, raw or cooked. The insides of my washed mushrooms are always dry.

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