Magic Mushroom Food Safety Course

Magic Mushroom Food Safety Course

Magic Mushroom Food Safety Course Tradd Cotter is a living legend of mycology and author of the essential mushroom cultivation book: Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation. Why Foraged Mushroom Food Safety is Important By now, you probably already know that mushrooms are a trendy topic.

Maybe you have seen it happen in a facebook group where common mushrooms hget misidentified. It is an easy mistake to make. A chef will want to know that you are knowledgeable and certain about your mushroom identifications.

Not everybody there intends h to sell their foraged mushrooms. The Wild Mushroom Foraging Class Exam

There are 4 parts to the exam. What they all have in common is that the test taker is expected to identify key characteristics of a mushroom and tell it apart from common toxic lookalikes.

Live Specimen Identification

A variety of mushrooms are put on numbered paper plates.

Slide identification

A slideshow plays and the attendees are asked to identify the mushroom and several key features based on the image in the slide.

Approved species characteristics

A list of the approved species and common lookalikes is provided. From memory, the test takers are expected to describe the key characteristics for each approved species and its poisonous lookalikes. Is the wild mushroom food safety exam difficult?