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).
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.
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.
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.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Total water absorption doesn’t matter that much because the significant thing is surface texture.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A friend of mine solves this by meticulously peeling the caps and discarding the stems. It seems like a lot of work to me. I use a mushroom brush to get the dirt and substrate/manure off and call it good.
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.
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.
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.