Nada seems to know an awful lot about these gold tops.

Nada seems to know an awful lot about these gold tops.

Check his boots...

Disclaimer: I dont live in Canberra and Ive never seen Gold Tops growing here in Brisbane so my knowledge is all second hand. Unfortunately I tend to see individuals who have suffered from the experience with ongoing visual hallucinations, severe anxiety and dissociative disorders from "bad trips".  Im sure there might be a place for them use in a traditional culture but I think they ofen get abused here in Australasia.

 

I dont know what would be worse for a Gold Tops amateur. Picking poisonous gold tops by mistake and almost dying from liver failure or picking really strong trippy Gold Tops and poisoning their brain. From the mushrooms view point the reason they create neurotoxins like psilocybin  is to stop animals eating their genitalia. Humans are really strange.

Just as I expected:

 

 

Death cap mushroom poisoning: ACT Health confirms fourth case   www.abc.net.au

Authorities say the mushrooms at the centre of the three poisoning cases reported at the weekend were picked and there was no link to Woolworths, as claimed by the victims.

Edited April 29, 201411 yr by Nada

Everyone knows you snap the stems and wait for the development of blue/purple bruising right? Deathcap poisoning is such a rookie error.

 

Seriously though, I've done post grad study in various areas including neuropharmacology and organic chemistry and just want to clear some misinformation up. Psilocybin isn't a neurotoxin, it doesn't 'poison the brain'. It's a tryptamine (ie: contains an indole ring structure) that's actually quite rapidly broken down by alkaline phosphatase in the GI tract post consumption. A metabolite of psilocybin is thought to be what causes the hallucinations. Some people just react badly to it - same story with LSD and Cannabis - these people can suffer ongoing issues such as Hallucinogen Persisting Perceptual Disorder which is thought to result from permanent or at least semi-permanent changes in the brains visual processing centres. Furthermore the exposure to certain substances can essentially trigger psychological issues/disorders like schizophrenia in susceptible individuals. Just comes down to genetics and your personal biology.

Edited April 29, 201411 yr by CryptiK

Just as I expected:

 

As I.

As I.

 

.....and pretty much everyone else.

There is a fourth case, reported today.

 

Fourth case of death cap mushroom poisoning confirmed

The Death Cap is more likely to have been mistaken for a 'standard' edible 'shroom than a 'goldie'.

It happens every year about this time in Canb.

Yes, I am from there and know what to look for.

Lots of Fungi down this way too.

very cultural lot in Canberra

The Death Cap is more likely to have been mistaken for a 'standard' edible 'shroom than a 'goldie'.

It happens every year about this time in Canb.

Yes, I am from there and know what to look for.

Lots of Fungi down this way too.

 

You must be a fungi to be around...

The real problem here is Canberra, not Woolies. Canberrans will do anything to escape the place with winter approaching ; ) A nice warm bed in a Sydney hospital has a lot of appeal I'm sure.

You must be a fungi to be around...

 

certainly fits the mould

I think everything has been covered here, there's not mushroom for me to add anything

Seems like some of those Canberra Pixies down the bottom of the garden have known about this supply for a long time.

My dad never ate the mushies my mum cooked for him?

I think everything has been covered here, there's not mushroom for me to add anything

 

i have a spore room in my house for anything you cant fit here

I'm glad this forum is full of fungis!

 

(apologies to ST.......I missed his post)

Edited April 30, 201411 yr by LogicprObe

I'm glad this forum is full of fungis!

 

(apologies to ST.......I missed his post)

 

If we fungis leave...the fungus...

Edited April 30, 201411 yr by Sir Triode

I should stalk you more often.............

Having worked on the Liver Transplant unit at the The Austin hospital as a junior doctor many years ago, I wouldn't go near a wild mushroom whether I thought I knew the identity or not. Watching someone go from completely healthy to dead within 48hrs from fulminant hepatic failure is just awful. 

Mushie turnovers.  Not the blue-tinged variety ...

 

This is man cooking so no quantities are listed. You know what to do anyway being a bloke. (Engineers, fitters and other such sissies worry about quantities. However they may be right to do so - I made a brilliant xmas pud one year and recorded the ingredients. The one I made a year later was appalling ...)

 

Fry garlic and onion in a deep saucepan until soft.

Wash and slice whole mushrooms - chuck in saucepan.

Cook with lid off to evaporate liquid. Don't overcook mushies. Chuck in cornflour to thicken if you dont have a raging woodstove (like I use in winter) and it will take forever to boil the water off.

Stir in parmesan cheese (the dry stuff in the Kraft tubes is the go). Let cool.

When cool stir in sour light cream.

Get pastry sheets out of the freezer (short crust or puff) while you're waiting and when they're softish get a bowl and invert onto the sheets and cut out 4 discs per sheet (bowl = 125mm diameter).

Get a pastry brush into a bowl of milk and wet the edges of the discs. Put a generous dessertspoon of mushie mush into the middle of each disc. Fold over and pinch the edges together tightly.

Place on oiled baking trays and prick with fork. Alternatively,don't prick and enjoy scraping exploded turnovers off the oven walls.

Bake at 180-200° for 10-15 minutes until brown.

Burn mouth while scoffing because you haven't let them cool.

 

I might try adding some anchovy paste, parsley, red wine, or delicious bits of dead animal in the next ones.

 

Suggested accompanying music - Daddy Cool's long version of 'Come Back Again', McGuinness Flint's 'When I'm Dead and Gone', 'Simple Ben', 'Mr Soul', 'Green River', 'Roll it Over', 'Hey Hey Helen', 'After Midnight', etc etc. You get the idea ....Discerning cooks will play unusual versions such as John Fogerty at Glastonbury for example.

Edited June 29, 201411 yr by lencolad