Every Mushroom Explained

From the humble button mushroom to the impossible-to-farm porcini, most of what people think they know about mushrooms is wrong. This video covers 20 of the world's most consumed, most expensive, and most unusual fungi — and every single one has a fact that most people have never heard. Did you know the white button, cremini, and portobello are all the exact same mushroom? That the oyster mushroom chemically paralyzes worms to feed itself? That enoki mushrooms in the wild look nothing like what you buy at the grocery store? That the portobello was invented as a marketing term in the 1980s? We cover: button mushroom, shiitake, oyster mushroom, portobello, chanterelle, porcini, king oyster, morel, enoki, maitake, lion's mane, cremini, black truffle, matsutake, reishi, hen of the woods, chestnut mushroom, wood ear, cauliflower mushroom, and saffron milk cap. Whether you cook with mushrooms every week or you're just getting into foraging and fungi, this video will change how you look at the produce aisle — and the forest floor. 🍄 What you'll learn: Why porcini and matsutake cannot be farmed The mushroom that hunts and eats animals Which two mushrooms are secretly the same species How enoki are grown to look the way they do in stores Why truffle oil usually contains no truffle at all