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WTF kinda question is that!!
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Niiiiiiice!!!
Tis the season! I gotta get out and check a few spots.
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Food looks good.
Of course you already know that mushrooms and pizza is the incantation to summon SkyzykS.
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I found 2 plastic grocery sacks full. Am going back out in the morning after work. Go get out there and goodluck!
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Nice. Orange or onion bags are what a lot of people use around here.
What region of the country are you in?
There’s a nice find from a while back.
Also, nice to meet a fellow pizza making shroom hunter. 
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From indiana. I just used some payless shopping bags lol
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Yea, thats a nice patch right there
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Yeah. Im not too persnickety about it. I’ve had a few people get a little lippy about using normal bags, as if that makes a tremendous difference.
Pizza from tonight, no shrooms. 
Thats a fatty! And fresh oregano!
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Are cast iron pans too expensive?
For steaks you might use either a reverse sear, or broiling 3” away from the heat. For fish tartare, there is no “low and slow” cooking so a reverse sear won’t work.
To me, this seems like finishing a crème brûlée. You could use a torch. Lacking that, you could use a broiler. The other alternative? You can finish a flan by briefly cooking the caramel (wet sugar) on the stove and just pouring it over the top. Would it be possible to similarly cook or sear the miso, then pour that over the fish? Not sure.
Cast irons are not too expensive in my opinion. Because if you take care of the properly they can pissibly last hundreds of years. Cant say that about a non stick pan
Its ok man. Get out there and get you some. Pizza still looks good👍. Never had anyone give me shit about my bags but i will say ive gotten a tear or 2 using plastic grocery bags and lost some mushrooms that way. Maybe thats why people are picky about the bags?
Try to use mesh bags for Morels - if the mushrooms have spores on them, the mesh lets the spores get out and start new colonies of mushrooms in the forest.
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Thats the idea.
I’ve tried to proliferate maitake by scattering past prime ones around the base of oaks, but cant really tell if it worked. It has only been about 10 years.
Ive seen upturned root balls and broken bases that had 15-20 on them all the way to the center of the tree, so they could have been growing in/under there for hundreds of years.
They might start popping when my son is my age.
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Yeah, cast iron pans are an easy way to sear steaks. I use mine a lot. And they were cheap when I bought them. I have Lodge ones, but also some cheaper ones which were on sale at (the Canadian equivalent of) TJ Maxx.
When I cook roast, I sear the exterior before putting it in the oven. I do this by heating a little butter and olive oil in a pot. Once hot, I add some salt and expose each “side” of the roast to the hot oil for 2 to 4 minutes. I think this would probably work with fish, crisping any skin nicely, but the time of exposure would literally just be a few seconds or it would cook.
Come to think of it, I have done this with salmon when making homemade chirashi wth store-bought salmon (which is fine if fresh, but is not sushi grade). I heated up some sesame oil, which paired well with toasted sesame seeds done in the same oil and pan. I wanted to improve the taste of the salmon skin but not cook the fish, though a thin layer did get cooked which actually improved the texture and contrast.
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Yea thats how i do my steaks too. I have lodge also. Theyre kinda cheap and ive never had a problem with them. Works the same as the older ones i have. Thats another good thing about them. Expensive or cheap dont really matter much, its all made of the same material. The only difference ive seen is in the cheaper ones the casting on the edges hasnt been grinded off as well. Havent used it with fish except for deep frying though.
I love the cast iron griddlefor steak & shrooms. Nice space, great heat, etc. Strips & maitake. .
All kinds of stuff, really.
At some point, I’m probably going to grab a nice piece of stainless and make a big cooktop to just cover the top of the stove, but wife has to get past her hatred of the big chunk of iron first.
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