Huh. For me, sausage and mushroom are the perfect pair pizza toppings.
I’ve always loved mushrooms of all types in all ways… Canned, fresh, pickled, fried, baked, on pizza, etc.
My mom, however, despises them. She says they taste like dirt. (Which is odd as she loves beets and they taste like dirt to me.)
I love mushrooms too, all kinds that I have tried, and I always have.
And unlike others who are saying, “oh it’s ok to like or dislike whatever you want,” I’m going to say, “if you don’t like mushrooms, I don’t like you!” I look down on mushroom haters with utter and seething disdain.
Where are all these people getting slimy mushrooms?
I’ve loved mushrooms all my life. There are plenty of foods I don’t like but I just assumed everyone liked mushrooms because, to me, button mushrooms or whatever the common ones are called, have a bland flavor so why would people dislike that? So this is interesting reading.
Sauteed-in-butter mushrooms sandwiches on a buttered baguette, yum.
Probably straight from the can or salad bar bin, covered with liquid and soggy. There’s a world of difference between one of those things and a fresh, clean mushroom.
For me it’s the texture. It’s not so much slimy, but they have this vaguely rubbery chew, that some folks think is sort of meaty, but I think is totally different. If you blindfold me and give me any flavorful food that contains chunks of mushroom, I’ll pick them out instantly, even if the actual mushroom flavor is overwhelmed by the rest. There’s no way to disguise the texture.
I’m willing to bet that most of the people who are put off by a mushroom’s texture are referring to cooked or canned 'shrooms. Fresh ones have a totally different mouthfeel.
As I specifically stated in my post ALL mushrooms, yes even morels, oyster mushrooms etc, have a vaguely styrofoam squishiness that’s disgusting to have in my mouth. I’ve never eaten a canned mushroom, and for the record my mother would die before serving such a thing (not a joke, seriously she would not serve canned mushrooms, ever in this lifetime, barring some sort of life threatening apocalypse)
Oh, well. Just leaves more for the rest of us. You can have my cucumbers if it’s any help.
It’s texture. Just texture. Nobody talks about the handfeel of a pair of gloves or the footfeel of a shoe or the facefeel of a scarf. Stop it!
Nope. Mouthfeel is more than just texture.
Yeah, I could see the reflexive suspicion of the word “mouthfeel,” but it’s not the same as texture. It’s a perfectly good word that describes more than just texture.
I love mushrooms, always have, but my wife is a late convert. I think the “only had canned before” thing is also true in her case.
I love taking large portabellos, chopping up the stems finely with some tomato, garlic, EVO, parma ham, marjoram or basil and breadcrumbs and stuffing that back in the cap, covering with parmesan and grilling until golden-brown and delicious.
Also, you can’t make beef Wellington without duxelles, so all the haters are missing out.
Nope - they just talk about the “hand” (def. 11c). Sometimesspecialized language is nice to have.
I like one particular type of mushroom, and fixed one or two particular ways. I’m really kinda picky.
I love mushrooms. haven’t had a mushroom I don’t like, and the texture issue I find very funny. I have texture issues with a few foods, but not many, but mushrooms have an awesome texture, IMO. Almost meaty. Of course, there aren’t a whole lot of foods that I dislike, but among them olives, cottage cheese (there’s a texture issue and a taste issue), cole slaw, cauliflower and liver.
Huh, I like all of those things except liver (and even there I’m OK with occasional pate-like stuff). The liver dislike hasn’t been helped by seeing and smelling lots of autopsy livers, in all their fatty and cirrhotic goodness.
My parents ruined mushrooms and asparagus for us by serving us the crap that comes out of a can. Only many years later when I tried those vegetables fresh did I realize just how good they are.
I suspect the same thing happened to mushroom haters.
I mostly dislike them for their texture. But certain ones also taste like eating meaty chlorine. I do, however, like the flavor of some mushrooms, and will eat stuff prepared with them only to pick them off (so the flavor will rub off on the rest of the food.)
I used to dislike mushrooms, period, but now I have changed to the above attitude. I also don’t mind eating the mushrooms in miso soup as they are small and have little flavor or texture.