Extreme Endotoxin Reaction. White Mushrooms. Portobello

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Where I originally from there is an old mushroom hunting culture. And there are 3 main groups of mushrooms. Edible, conditionally edible, non edible. Edible means you can even eat it raw straight from the ground in the woods. Conditionally edible group requires extensive preparation, often it takes 3-4 cycles of boiling and changing water, curing, drying and etc. Non edible group remains toxic despite any possible processing. This topic rises question about that conditionally edible group, is it endougenous chemical compounds in those mushrooms are extracted/destroyed during cooking or just bacterial flora and it's metabolic products are removed? Probably both.

My father's brother is/was a big fan of "silent hunting", this is how they call it there. Once he went to hunt mushrooms and never came back.

Every year there are entire families are wiped out by just one wrong mushroom in a basket of good ones.

Wow, thats crazy... sorry for your loss..