In summer and autumn, on the sunny edges of pine and spruce forests, you can see brown shiny caps of oil. These mushrooms are in the first category in terms of their taste. They can be salted, pickled, dried, fried. Soup with butter is also very tasty. It is difficult to confuse this mushroom with others, but it is possible.
Instructions
Step 1
If you find a mushroom in the forest that looks like an oil can in description, examine it carefully. The oiler has a convex cap. Rotate the mushroom so that the convex part of its fleshy cap is facing up. From this perspective, it represents an almost correct hemisphere. The leg of the oiler is short and dense. The hat is most often dark brown, but sometimes it is reddish brown and even light brown.
Step 2
Turn the mushroom upside down. The underside of the cap of a young mushroom is usually covered with a white film. In large mature mushrooms, the film usually breaks, there are only bumps around the stem, a kind of a kind of ring.
Step 3
Remove the bottom film. You will see that the bottom of the cap is a sponge. The oil can belongs to spongy mushrooms. Their other name is tubular, because a sponge is nothing more than a set of tiny tubes that have grown together.
Step 4
Use a knife to pry the film covering the top of the hat. It can be removed very easily. By the way, they always shoot it. Various forest debris sticks to the film, such as pine needles, blades of grass and even small insects. In addition, even a perfectly clean film becomes tough and tasteless after cooking.
Step 5
Butterlets usually grow in colonies. Having found one such fungus, be sure to inspect the surroundings. It is possible that you will find a dozen more nearby. Butters prefer relatively dry places.
Step 6
There is a mushroom that looks very much like a butter dish or a young boletus, but is inedible. This is the so-called gall fungus. Perhaps this is the only tube mushroom that is not eaten. It is not poisonous, but it has an extremely unpleasant and very bitter taste. Distinguishing it from edible mushrooms is not always easy, but possible. The cap of the gall fungus has a noticeable yellowish or grayish tint. The sponge can be bluish or pinkish, but there are also young bile mushrooms with pure white tubules. In this case, pay attention to the leg. In the oiler, the leg is white, in the gall fungus it is covered with a dark mesh pattern.
Step 7
Cut open the mushroom and examine the pulp. In an oiler or boletus, it is pure white, sometimes yellowish. In the gall fungus, it is often bluish or lavender. If the flesh is white, keep the mushroom in the air. The oil can and boletus will remain white, the gall fungus will turn pink very quickly. It is very useful to try to remove the film. It separates easily in an oiler, but with difficulty in a gall fungus.
