Cleaning mushrooms: the best tips and tricks
Mushrooms have few calories, are healthy and go well with many dishes. Before you can process the mushrooms, you must first clean them. We'll tell you how this works best here.
With these tips and tricks you can properly clean mushrooms
Mushrooms are perfect in sauces, on the grill, or in salads. Cutting them is quick. Cleaning them shouldn't be that difficult either, after all you only have to hold them under the water for a short time - but that's wrong !
- Mushrooms soak up water. This makes them go bad and lose their taste more quickly. Therefore, you should avoid washing mushrooms with water.
- With light soiling : Rub off the dirt with a tea towel or kitchen paper.
- For medium soiling : Rub off the dirt with a damp tea towel or kitchen paper. You can also use a knife to cut out unsightly spots entirely.
- If heavily soiled : Use a mushroom brush to help with cleaning. If you don't get the dirt at all, briefly hold the mushrooms in a sieve under running water. Even if you should avoid water, at some point you should consider whether you prefer to eat aromatic or purified mushrooms.
- Alternative : You can also peel the mushrooms, which saves you cleaning. All you have to do is remove the top layer of skin from the mushrooms.
- You can wash morels thoroughly with water. These are the exception among mushrooms.
How to store mushrooms
You do not always have the opportunity to eat the mushrooms directly. Although mushrooms are very sensitive, there are ways to keep them safe. Before storing the mushrooms, remember to clean them.
- Store the mushrooms in the refrigerator, preferably in a vegetable compartment, or in another similarly cool place. The mushrooms can be kept in the refrigerator for around 3 to 4 days.
- Make sure that the mushrooms are stored in an air-permeable container.
- Do not put any other food on the mushrooms as they can easily get bruised.
- You can also freeze or dry the mushrooms if a few days are not enough to store the mushrooms.
In order to be able to identify the right mushrooms when collecting mushrooms, various apps will help you, which we will introduce to you in the next post.