# Morel Mushroom Hunters **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morel-mushroom-hunters/400115 "2007-04-14T15:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morel-mushroom-hunters/400115/1 "2007-04-14T15:34:36Z")
Morel season is almost here!!!(In Michigan anyhow,I realise it comes earlier the further south you are).How many of you are hunters? Share your amazing finds and/or recipes here. I am also looking for other ways to preserve them. I have dried,canned and froze them.What is your preference? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morel-mushroom-hunters/400115/2 "2007-04-14T18:05:26Z")
My favorite hunt of the year is morel hunting. There are not many in the area, so I get as few as ten a year, or as many as maybe a hundred in a great year. I give them to the family members that like them, because it’s the hunt I like not the eating. I wish I had an area like Muscoda to hunt in. A person can pick garbage bags full of them in that area. They won’t really be around until mid May through the end of May in this area. I have a few key plants I see in bloom at the same time that I know means it’s time to look. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morel-mushroom-hunters/400115/3 "2007-04-14T18:31:33Z")
Peripherally-related mushroom article by Cecil, FYI: [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/061229.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/061229.html) ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morel-mushroom-hunters/400115/4 "2007-04-14T22:26:17Z")
Except once-in Rhode Island. I walk every day in the woods (I have a dog), and see all kinds of mushrooms-but never morels. Do they taste better than regular champignons? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morel-mushroom-hunters/400115/5 "2007-04-15T02:06:17Z")
My sister-in-law made some for me last year. They were awesome. Then she said now I can say I’ve eaten real Wisconsin morels. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morel-mushroom-hunters/400115/6 "2007-04-15T12:35:00Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] Except once-in Rhode Island. I walk every day in the woods (I have a dog), and see all kinds of mushrooms-but never morels. Do they taste better than regular champignons? [/QUOTE] Are you talking about button mushrooms when you say champignon? If so,yeah they taste better,the taste is hard to describe but the best description I have ever heard is they taste like filet mignon covered in crushed walnuts. [QUOTE=Kat] My sister-in-law made some for me last year. They were awesome. Then she said now I can say I’ve eaten real Wisconsin morels. [/QUOTE] Just wait til ya get a chance to try Michigan Morels!