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Undoubtedly, collecting honey mushrooms in the forest is a pleasant and exciting business. Many mushroom pickers have long appreciated the merits of these mushrooms, which means they will never pass them by. One of the main advantages of honey agaric is that they grow in large groups. This is very convenient, because you do not need to make an effort to find them in the forest. In one small area - a stump or a tree, you can collect several baskets of forest "gifts" at once. In addition, for their taste, honey mushrooms lend themselves well to various culinary processes. In addition to everyone's favorite fried potatoes with mushrooms and mushroom soups, you can make excellent snacks, pates, sauces, cutlets from honey agarics, as well as preserve them for the winter.

However, along with a pleasant pastime in the forest and a rich mushroom harvest, every lover of "quiet hunting" is faced with the task of thorough preliminary processing. How to clean and wash mushrooms before different processing methods?

Cleaning and processing of honey agarics

To know how to properly clean and wash mushrooms, you need to decide what you will use them for in the future - for cooking or preservation for the winter? So, the cleaning method for all processing methods is as follows:

• the mushroom crop should be sorted out and all blackened, rotten and wormy specimens should be discarded. Small and strong ones are best used for pickling and pickling, while broken and large ones can be used for caviar, frying, sauces, pates, etc. Sometimes it happens that the stem of the fruit body is whole and strong, and the cap is badly damaged. In this case, they can be separated from each other and a good part can be used for cooking;
• before washing the mushrooms after the forest, it is necessary to first remove strong pollution from them. Better to do this with a regular kitchen knife or dry sponge. Usually, little forest debris is collected on mushrooms, as they grow on stumps, fallen branches or trees, and not on the ground. It is enough just to take a good look at them and cut off all damaged areas, if any;
• then cut off the edges of the legs, because they are too hard, which means that a "travel" dish with their participation will not work.

Many housewives are interested in: should the skirt be removed from the stem of the mushroom before washing fresh mushrooms? It should be said that here everyone decides for himself. There is an opinion that the skirt framing the mushroom leg adds bitterness to the dish, but this is not the case. Most mushroom pickers do not even bother removing this film, believing that this is simply a waste of time and effort.

How to wash autumn, summer and winter mushrooms

Does it matter how to wash mushrooms of different types of honey agarics? So, autumn, summer and winter mushrooms, although they differ in appearance and growing season, are still washed after cleaning in almost the same way. The only thing is that winter mushrooms do not need soaking, because they are considered one of the cleanest representatives of their kind. Sometimes in the winter forest, these fruit bodies are found literally under the snow. They are practically not cleaned of adhering dirt and debris, but simply cut off the tips of the legs. After that, winter mushrooms are rinsed in water for several minutes and start cooking.

And how to wash mushrooms of autumn and summer species? Everything here will depend on the further processing method. Traditionally, both of these types require the same cleaning and rinsing methods. So, fruiting bodies need to be soaked after sorting and cleaning. Soaking should take place in cold salted water (for 1 liter of water, you need to take 1 tablespoon of table salt). Salt helps open the pores of the mushroom and remove fine grains of sand from there.And if there are insects or worms in the fruiting body, then they will simply float to the surface. The soaking time is 30 to 90 minutes. Then you should rinse the mushrooms under the tap and start cooking. As you can see, washing mushrooms of summer, autumn and winter species is quite simple if you follow the advice given.

How to wash honey mushrooms before frying, boiling and freezing

Fried mushrooms are a very popular dish, especially if they are mushrooms. When fried, they can be combined with various vegetables, as well as harvested for the winter. How to properly wash mushrooms after cleaning, so that you can then fry them deliciously? For this processing process, you need to rinse the prepared mushrooms in cool water, and then dry on a kitchen towel or leave in a colander to drain excess liquid. If the fruit bodies are large, then it is better to soak them in salted water for 40-50 minutes, and then rinse them under the tap.

Most methods of processing mushrooms involve boiling them first. In this regard, many novice housewives ask how to wash mushrooms before cooking? To do this, after cleaning, the mushrooms should be rinsed under the tap for several minutes and then boiled. You can also soak the fruit bodies in salted water for half an hour, and then rinse again. If you decide not to soak honey mushrooms, but immediately boil, then during cooking, change the water at least 2 times.

If you want to freeze fresh fruit bodies for the winter without prior boiling, then contact of the mushrooms with water should be minimized. How to wash fresh mushrooms before freezing? First of all, remember to use only whole, strong, young and undamaged specimens. After cleaning, they should be rinsed literally within a minute under running water and dipped in boiling water for 20-30 seconds. If you want to prepare boiled mushrooms for the winter, then rinse in the way mentioned above.

How to wash honey mushrooms before pickling and salting

And how to wash mushrooms before pickling and pickling? To do this, after cleaning, immerse the fruit bodies in a deep container with warm water, leave for 20-30 minutes, then rinse them. Change the water in the container and immerse the mushrooms there again. After 15-20 minutes, transfer them to a sieve or colander and let the excess liquid drain. Next, feel free to proceed to heat treatment before pickling and salting recipes.

Some housewives prefer to use the cold method of salting fruit bodies, which excludes preliminary boiling. In this case, you need to soak honey mushrooms after cleaning for 9-15 hours, then rinse under a tap and dry. Important: for cold salting, you also need to use extremely young and strong specimens.

We suggest watching a video showing how to wash mushrooms after the forest:

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How to properly store washed mushrooms

Honey mushrooms are a perishable product, so you cannot keep it fresh for a long time. How to store washed mushrooms after cleaning and where? It is better to use fresh fruit bodies immediately and prepare a dish from them. However, if for some reason this cannot be done, then send the mushrooms to the refrigerator for storage for no more than 7-10 hours. In this case, cover the storage container with cling film, otherwise the mushrooms will absorb extraneous odors.

Washed mushrooms can be stored for a longer time if they are shock-frozen, then put in plastic containers and returned to the freezer. Fruit bodies can be stored in this form for up to 1 year.