# Morels just started popping.  Care to share your secrets?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 30, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morels-just-started-popping-care-to-share-your-secrets/617278 "2012-03-30T15:01:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morels-just-started-popping-care-to-share-your-secrets/617278/1 "2012-03-30T15:01:27Z")

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Mushroom hunters here (Missouri) are beginning to have some luck.

I never hunted for morels until last spring, and got in on the action a little late. This year, I plan on hunting like a man on a mission…a misson to eat lots of morels, that is.

If you’re a morel freak, what are your favorite spots to find them?

Once you do find them, how do you propare them?

The few I found last year were mostly near dead trees or rotting logs.

I didn’t have enough to experiment much, so they just got soaked in salt water for a while, halved lenghtwise, and sauteed in butter. Wonderful.

Half the fun of hunting them, of course, is just being outside trompring through the woods on a beautiful spring day 🙂

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morels-just-started-popping-care-to-share-your-secrets/617278/2 "2012-03-30T15:35:24Z")

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My morals started popping when I was 13.

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morels-just-started-popping-care-to-share-your-secrets/617278/3 "2012-03-30T15:58:12Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> My morals started popping when I was 13.

Indeed? How did you prepare them :dubious: