December 3, 2024

VIDEO: How to Grow Shiitake Mushrooms (Recipe Included!)


Shiitake mushrooms are my FAVORITE. The flavor is so rich and complex, but they’re often extremely expensive at the grocery store. So I figured I’d grow some of my own and cook them up for you guys!

Keep in mind this is a partial grow guide…to grow from “scratch” you’d need to create your own substrate and inoculate it with spores, let the spores develop shiitake mycelium, and THEN you’d get to this step in the process. But for the first shiitake video, I kept it simple and practical and went with a hardwood sawdust kit from Fungi Perfecti.

SHIITAKE MUSHROOM RECIPE

70% olive oil
15% sesame oil
10% tamari or soy
5% white wine
pinch of black pepper
1-2 cloves of crushed garlic

Cut stems off, marinate in mixture, and bake uncovered at 350° for 30-40 minutes. Enjoy!

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26 thoughts on “VIDEO: How to Grow Shiitake Mushrooms (Recipe Included!)

  1. Hi. I have Shitake mushroom mycelium, but I don't know how to create a shiitake mushroom patch like in the video. What does the base (that white block) consist of except the inoculated mycelium?

  2. PSA: Cities are using more chloramine (or monochloramine) to disinfect water, and it CAN NOT BE BOILED OFF or off-gassed

    I REPEAT CAN NOT BE BOILED OFF

    It must either be chemically removed or not be used at all

    So if you are going to soak your mycelium, use bottled water that has been boiled

  3. Do the shiitake mushrooms you cut off (where some is left behind) grow back? As in does this "block" continuously grow mushrooms or is it only for a period of time and then you toss the block?

  4. plastic is not good for health。better not to use it to grow vegetable and make compose。better to use food safe glass to make compose and use clay pot to grow vegetable。any plastic will leak some chemicals into the soil when it under the sun or put acid or alkali or salty in it or put something in it for long time。

  5. LMAO, what the actual fuck man? This is a video of how to cut open and water a pre-made, everything-done-for-you kit.
    Take it from someone who grows mushrooms from spore prints and mycelium cultures: stick to green gardening. Mushroom growing is a complete world of it's own. There are better and ACTUAL videos of how to grow shitakes. This is lazy B.S. All of this should be included with the kit that the manufacturer of the block sends you. While thes are good care tips, you should follow instructions from the manufacturer of your kit.

  6. The chloramine in water wont volatilize like the chlorine. Some humic acid (or any organic acid) will bind it though. Just enough to change the water color is perfect. I collect rain water to do this.

  7. You cant de-gass all types of chlorinated water. Some of the chlorine substances they put in do not evaporate. So if that's what you got, then leaving water out/ boilingit etc will give you more concentrated clorine.

  8. It's interesting to see how confidently people teach others on mushroom growing, and it always includes some kind of info you've never heard of. This is a big problem in amateur mycology. We need more consistency and common knowledge.

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