Good afternoon, my reader. Butterlets are one of the most common and delicious mushrooms. They grow mainly in coniferous forests, and the time of their collection is from May to October. They got their name because of the oily film on the cap, to which all forest debris easily adheres: leaves, blades of grass, needles. This poses a problem when cleaning mushrooms before cooking. Let's consider several options on how to speed up this process.
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Preparing for cleaning mushrooms
Take care of your hands first. If you do not want to wash your hands and nails for a long time and persistently after cleaning the mushrooms, then you will need gloves. Ideally, take two pairs:
- rubber, for washing mushrooms;
- cellophane, for subsequent cleaning of the product.
The next step is to understand how you are going to cook mushrooms;
- If the mushrooms are dried, then you do not need to wash and remove the film from them. They are dry cleaned from debris and dirt.
- If the oil will undergo heat treatment, then they are washed and the oil film is completely removed from them.
- If you cook mushrooms in these two ways, then they should be sorted.
If the mushrooms were picked in wet weather, then they should initially be dried by spreading them out on a dry newspaper. The oil should be cleaned and processed within 12 hours, otherwise the product will become unusable.
Methods for quick and effective cleaning of mushrooms
Remember that you need to wash the oil only after you have cleaned them and removed the film. Otherwise, the mushrooms will absorb moisture, become very slippery, and it will be very difficult to clean them of the swollen film.
Cleaning with a knife
The film should be removed from the end of the cap so as not to damage the surface of the mushroom. Using the edge of a knife, grab the edge of the top layer and pull.
Such cleaning can be done directly in the forest if the mushroom picking takes place in dry weather. The film can be removed very easily.
No knife
This method is suitable when the integrity of the mushroom itself is not important. Break the cap into two parts and pull on the formed edge. The film comes off quite easily.
With boiling water
Place a large pot of water on the stove and let it boil. Put a small portion of mushrooms in a colander and hold over a saucepan for about a minute. Or, dip the boletus in a colander in boiling water for 30 seconds and chill them quickly in cold water. After this procedure, they are very easy to clean from the film.
You can add vinegar to the water at the rate of five tablespoons per liter of water. This will make it even easier for the film to peel off the surface of the oiler.
Using vegetable oil
Soak gloves, a knife and a piece of cloth in vegetable oil. Rub the mushroom cap with it. The film will become elastic, and when you remove it with a knife, it will not tear and come off completely.
With a dry sponge
Using the hard part of the sponge, rub the cap of the oiler, being careful not to damage it. With this method, the film easily leaves both old and young mushrooms.
Using gauze or napkin
Press the material firmly and gently against the cap. Grasp the edge of the gauze or napkin and pull. The film stuck to them will come off.
Post-processing
After you have cleaned the oil from the film, place them in salt water (200 g of salt for 1 liter of water) for one hour. With this procedure, the pores of the mushroom will open, and it will be better to rinse them out of dirt.
Then you can cook mushrooms according to your favorite recipe.
Do you know how to quickly clean butter oil?
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