How to get rid of worms in mushrooms?

Many of you are very fond of mushrooms, willingly pick them or buy them on the market. Wonderful! Mushrooms are delicious and healthy.

However, almost every mushroom picker or mushroom lover is faced with an unpleasant problem – wormy mushrooms.

Most often, we throw away all the mushrooms on which we see at least a small hole. Remember: worms in mushrooms cannot be poisoned (unless these mushrooms are poisonous). Therefore, the problem of wormy mushrooms is more aesthetic.

The largest restaurants in the country buy mushrooms from private traders in quintals, prepare various dishes from them, and no one complains. Want to know where the worms go? Are all mushrooms checked almost on a microscope?

Of course not. It's just that restaurant chefs know how to get rid of worms.

Let's reveal their secrets:

• Buy only fresh mushrooms. They cannot be stored for more than 3 hours. The more they are stored, the more the mushrooms will become fermented.
• Mushrooms picked in the rain will spoil especially quickly, so try to heat your mushrooms as soon as possible.
• If, for some reason, you cannot tackle the mushrooms right away, place them in water.

There are two ways to get rid of worms:

1. Chop the mushrooms coarsely and place in a saucepan with brine. The solution is prepared as follows: 1 glass of salt per 5 liters of water. Porcini mushrooms are kept in solution for 3-4 hours. Russula and pigs are less dense, so they should lie less in the water. Milk mushrooms, in general, are soaked for at least a day. Then the water is drained, and the mushrooms are thoroughly washed in a colander. The worms will fall out into the saline solution.
2. You need to dry the mushrooms. The worms fall out during drying. There are two ways here. First you need to cut the mushrooms into thin slices, then string them and hang them. Just be sure to lay something on the floor. After 24 hours, all mushrooms will be worm-free. Or (if there are a lot of mushrooms), mushrooms cut into thin plates are dried in the oven at the lowest temperature. Then the mushrooms are shaken off the dried worms that have crawled out.

In the oven, it is better to use something like a sieve with large meshes, and put an ordinary baking sheet down. These simple devices allow you to get clean mushrooms at once. All the worms will fall through the holes in the sieve onto the baking sheet.

That's all the simple secrets. If the information turned out to be useful to you, do not forget to share it on social networks.