chickenofthewoods

I commend you on your efforts... LOL. And Hi! I did one of these a few years ago with one of my accounts, and I believe my friend Loren did one as well, though his wasn't as a "professional".

Have fun! I'm gonna link this a bit and see what happens.

Hmmm. It seems that perhaps reading, or maybe it's comprehension, is not your forte. That's ok.

You see, this is an IAmA, where people get to learn some stuff about some stuff they didn't know about stuff. That's pretty cool.

So, you brought up a topic that lots of folks should know about - the difference between sclerotia and true truffles. Lots of people need to know that stuff. Psychedelic mushroom people all refer to these "philosopher's stones" as truffles, so it's a confusing little thing, and it's good to include that stuff here in this thread. That has value to OTHER PEOPLE, ya know? So there is, in fact, a reason to keep it around.

It's the internet. It's a huge document. It persists. Years from now you can come back and read this thread, and magically the information is still here, and just as valuable.

So yeah, uh, deleting stuff at reddit is getting to be a huge pain in the arse. It's unnecessary. This isn't a private conversation. I never said anything about "hiding" anything. But you deleted your comments, leaving mine to hang in the ether, out of context. So in a sense, what you did was a direct affront to me, personally. I shared information with you, and you, having learned the information, selfishly and needlessly deleted your comment, which rendered the thread nonsensical until I restored the continuity by quoting your deleted comments...

Seriously. Don't just delete shit willy-nilly. You waste people's time. It's maddening.

Cheers!

Because you can't spell, and because they aren't truffles. Truffles are reproductive, spore-bearing structures. What you are referring to are sclerotia.

They are sold as "truffles" because they resemble truffles, but they are not actually truffles.

I've had truffle butter that was indirectly infused then stored in a freezer that was still strongly aromatic after 4 years.

This is mostly true and great advice, but... when it comes to PNW truffles, despite what Alana and I and many others are doing, the "industry" is still buying raked truffles from destructive idiots, en masse. A very tiny fraction of the truffles on the market from the PNW are dog-harvested. The rest are raked. Raked truffles are harvested mostly prematurely, as the truffles take several months to develop and mature, and during that time have no aroma to give them culinary value. Raked truffles are sold indiscriminately, and thus your local chefs may be buying truffles through their normal distribution channels, from companies like Mycological Natural Products, who frankly don't give a shit about quality. They make bold statements about sustainability and quality, but it's all BS. They (and the whole mushroom industry in the PNW) buy and sell tons of mushroms, plants, and truffles at rock-bottom prices from desperately poor people and mark them up to sell to high-end customers, never once acknowledging that the truffles are raked from the ground, generally illegally, from private property, without permission... creating tons of drama and bad press.

It may seem like marketing, but please note that my contact info is nowhere in this thread. I'm just telling things like they are.

You may go to a restaurant and sit down and pay lots of money for PNW truffles only to find that they are bland and not very exciting.

ALWAYS ASK WHETHER THE TRUFFLES WERE RAKED OR DOG-HARVESTED.