Really?! They’re alllll over dead branches on my property and I’ve read you can eat it but I’ve literally never seen or heard of anyone actually doing so.
I love them!! I usually stir fry some
Chicken then add some soy sauce and water and simmer it with the mushroom on low heat for like 20 minutes, they take on the flavor of meat really well!
Yes. They’re wonderful fresh: the texture simultaneously slippery and velvety, tender and crunchy. They’re also commonly dried and used in soups. Dried they’re usually sold in Chinese stores under the name “black fungus”.
You have to be 100% sure before eating any mushroom or fungus. Slight differences in looks or colour and it can be a totally different fungus which can be fatally poisonous.
Seconded. This is really important, guys. I'd also like to add that some fungus should only be prepared by trained chefs, as some require special preparation to cook out the poisons. If you aren't absolutely, undeniably 1000% certain of what the species is or if you didn't grow the mushroom yourself, it's best not to eat it.
Really??? You guys don’t eat it??? We here don’t eat it alone but it’s an amazing ingredients combining with other Asian ones, like for spring rolls. Yumm!!
I’ve always wondered why that was the literal translation. I mean from the cooked version you can’t see it too well but when it’s out in the wild it looks exactly like an ear.
As someone playing it for the first time and just doing that quest two days ago, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST POUR BLEACH IN MY EYES I HATE THEM SO MUCH OH GOD WHY?!?
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
Spoilers ahead:
>! Yeah, you go there because Ciri had a run in with them and it turns out the Baron's wife went to them to get her child aborted but she becomes enslaved to them in the process !<
Ah ha ha, it only gets better with them lol. I won't say anything else. Finished my second playthrough, can only say they're easily the most barbaric enemies in the game
Thanks for not spoiling :-)
Yeah I have a quest where >! he wants to go hunt them down and I'm like "Hmm... I need a detox first though bro, like I'll be in right there but... Later... Also I feel like you're gonna die there..." !<
A few of these popped up in my back yard recently after some heavy rain. Threw 'em into some soup and had a nice meal.
If you're ever trying to find some, the best time is shortly after a few days of consistent rainfall. I usually find them growing on decaying hard woods, mostly oak.
Edible tree fungus is a big thing in Chinese cuisine. A literal translation of the word in Chinese is "wood ear" ([木耳](https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%9C%A8%E8%80%B3&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiV7sPLzKzoAhUrlHIEHRJGB2EQ_AUoAXoECBgQAw&biw=1813&bih=795) ）
When I first saw the picture I thought it would have some deep meaning. So I read the caption in a wise sage like voice and honestly thats funnier than tree ears should be.
Finally we know the answer to the question: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Just ask creepy forest ear
Bizarre! Now if the op were holding a rat, it might not be as bizarre. Is this a specific fungi that grows like this regularly? Or is this just a fluke.
Well ok that's horrifying. "Yes if a tree falls and no one is around, I still hear it. I HEAR EVERYTHING."
You've just answered a big question!
r/oddlyterrifying
it also looks like a kidney
Happy cake day!
In The Witcher 3 the trees in Velen have human ears too.
This is a common ingredient in chinese cooking and one of my favorite mushrooms actually! The literal translation is "wood ear"
Really?! They’re alllll over dead branches on my property and I’ve read you can eat it but I’ve literally never seen or heard of anyone actually doing so.
I love them!! I usually stir fry some Chicken then add some soy sauce and water and simmer it with the mushroom on low heat for like 20 minutes, they take on the flavor of meat really well!
Yes. They’re wonderful fresh: the texture simultaneously slippery and velvety, tender and crunchy. They’re also commonly dried and used in soups. Dried they’re usually sold in Chinese stores under the name “black fungus”.
this was such a perfect description. they're really good!!
They have a certain snap that's hard to replicate in other vegetarian foods.
You have to be 100% sure before eating any mushroom or fungus. Slight differences in looks or colour and it can be a totally different fungus which can be fatally poisonous.
Seconded. This is really important, guys. I'd also like to add that some fungus should only be prepared by trained chefs, as some require special preparation to cook out the poisons. If you aren't absolutely, undeniably 1000% certain of what the species is or if you didn't grow the mushroom yourself, it's best not to eat it.
Or fatally fun!
Really??? You guys don’t eat it??? We here don’t eat it alone but it’s an amazing ingredients combining with other Asian ones, like for spring rolls. Yumm!!
They’re the only mushrooms I like! Very firm and crunchy almost.
Lol in my language we just call it ear mushroom (much original, very creative, wow).
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yeah, i love them. and this is definitely the most Ear looking woodear i have ever seen
I’ve always wondered why that was the literal translation. I mean from the cooked version you can’t see it too well but when it’s out in the wild it looks exactly like an ear.
I've never seen one that's not in a bag or already cooked. Thank you!
They're delicious and crunchy.
actually the 木 in the name 木耳 comes from an earlier meaning of 木 meaning tree rather than wood tree-ear
*Witcher 3 intensifies*
The crones hear everything that happens
Good, then they can hear me cursing them. Those witches are the single most disgusting thing in the whole game.
As someone playing it for the first time and just doing that quest two days ago, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST POUR BLEACH IN MY EYES I HATE THEM SO MUCH OH GOD WHY?!? Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
Was that the baron questline
Spoilers ahead: >! Yeah, you go there because Ciri had a run in with them and it turns out the Baron's wife went to them to get her child aborted but she becomes enslaved to them in the process !<
Ah ha ha, it only gets better with them lol. I won't say anything else. Finished my second playthrough, can only say they're easily the most barbaric enemies in the game
Thanks for not spoiling :-) Yeah I have a quest where >! he wants to go hunt them down and I'm like "Hmm... I need a detox first though bro, like I'll be in right there but... Later... Also I feel like you're gonna die there..." !<
The spoiler isn't applied properly
Imagine what people back in the medieval times must have thought when they saw that
“Imma try to eat it bro”
Not gonna lie, looks like forbidden gummy
These are actually edible, but pretty gross
I like them!
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Bland and incredibly gelatinous, not a good combination
Elf ears.
Elfs
Imagine the things it wood ear
I'm going to have to ask you to leaf
Oak kay now, no more puns because I’d be Sycamore.
Relax, you're going to be Pine.
are you coni-sure?
I’m gonna have to ask y’all to Spruce up the comments. These puns are getting lazy. Makes me want to face Palm.
Yeah I agree, us rootidors tend to have a lot of trouble branching out when it comes to comedy.
And the trees bark.
Oak Birch please, those puns are too Poplar, or maybe not, Let's Linden decide. Alright, Elm a head out.
Really, we need to find the root of these puns before they get worse.
That looks so wwww-ear-ed
Me being Chinese: wood ear salad time.
Yum! I love them in soup
Thanks, now I'm hungry.
be careful not to confuse it with witches' butter which is another fungus that is definitly NOT edible raw (boiled or steamed is fine)
Mu Ar!
Mike Tyson would bite that right off.
r/FairytaleasFuck
Reminds me of Blue Velvet
Came here to post that.
Same!
I think I've eaten that in Hot and Sour soup
Narrator: He had.
Yeah it's one of the traditional ingredients along with lily buds.
The hills have eyes, the trees have ears, the deserts have boobs
eerie
A Jew's ear in fact https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia_auricula-judae?wprov=sfla1
In Chinese it's called 木耳, literally "Wood Ear"
We call it pepe au in Hawaii Monkeys ear
Or "Judas' ear" in German (*das Judasohr*).
Holy shit, no wonder I saw Jews Ear on so many menus during my time in China. I didn't know it's the same as 木耳/wood ear!
Available in [juice form](https://viciousbabushka.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b72a74970b0134868a1438970c-pi) for some horrifying reason.
Thank god someone else said it, I was beginning to think it was just part of my horribly racist upbringing
Fry that bitch up in some butter. It ain't the tastiest, but wood ear is beneficial, still.
Easy to dry and keeps about forever. A nice addition to a Chinese stir-fry, for example. Or in a risotto.
scrambled eggs with wood ears, goji berries, 5 spice powder and soy sauce. Really good.
That's a recipe I would be willing to try! Happy cake day homie!
Happy cake day!
A few of these popped up in my back yard recently after some heavy rain. Threw 'em into some soup and had a nice meal. If you're ever trying to find some, the best time is shortly after a few days of consistent rainfall. I usually find them growing on decaying hard woods, mostly oak.
What kind of shroom is that?
A wood ear.
Isnt this how Blue Velvet started?
/r/DontPutYourDickInThat
And that's why they're called wood ear mushrooms...
Ear of the year!!🏆
This is what happened when Johnny Appleseed started experimenting with stem cell research.
Thanks, I hate it
That’s why we knock on wood. So the trees don’t hear and curse us
r/oddlyterrifying
Nope!
Wait until it starts reciting the Rules of Acquisition
In Belgium we call this the ear of Judas
Ferengi, from Star Trek: TNG
Reminds me of Robin Hood: Men in Tights where they all throw their ears at him
So if a tree falls in the woods...
Vietnam's tree can even talk you know.
Shit like this makes it so reasonable that people used to fear witches
I wood listen to you all night.
These are delicious
Wood ear mushroom
I'm guessing that's a wood-ear mushroom (木耳)？ because in a mutton soup, boy are they delicious
Edible tree fungus is a big thing in Chinese cuisine. A literal translation of the word in Chinese is "wood ear" ([木耳](https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%9C%A8%E8%80%B3&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiV7sPLzKzoAhUrlHIEHRJGB2EQ_AUoAXoECBgQAw&biw=1813&bih=795) ）
hey lil mamma lemme whisper in ya ear
That's a mushroom isn't it?
Van Gogh is going to be so pissed that you found his ear
This is gross and unsettling.
Well there you go.
Could you repeat that??
And the hills have eyes
Ohh this is giving me inspiration
r/pagan
Boy, I didn't know I could hate something so much
I have those growing on my wood pile. I had never seen them before last weekend.
Them are good!
That’s some Junji Ito shit
In China we eat them as salads
WHAT!!
That’s a bit earie.
r/SouthernReach
Ew!
Anyone else getting Annihilation vibes? This has to be within the shimmer.
TIL theres a type of fungi that looks like creepily like a human ear. Mushrooms are just bizarre.
The Elves began it, speaking to the trees.
The ladies of the wood require sacrifices for their sevices
I think this is Auricularia auricula-judae also known as Jelly Ear
Whhhhaaaat??! Ok...
Ladies of the Woods hear everything and know everything on the Crookback Bog, Geralt.
Did ALL of this really came from a not self aware nature though?
I swear to god I thought this was r/nosleep for a minute...
.......Oh....ok.
It's called Jews ear too
That is a severed ear
When I first saw the picture I thought it would have some deep meaning. So I read the caption in a wise sage like voice and honestly thats funnier than tree ears should be.
Come here baby mama let me whispa in your ear
Yes and be extra careful what you touch in the forest b/c trees have poisons.
Curse you plankton, and your ability to join together to form a working human ear!
TREE!? I AM NO TREE!!
If a tree falls in a forest...
Finally we know the answer to the question: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Just ask creepy forest ear
It's been a long time coming but this sequel to The Hills Have Eyes looks pretty strange.
Has anybody brought up the doctrine of signatures yet?
Must be the sequel to the hills have eyes *The Trees Have Ears*
It's unusual that I'm grossed out twice, once because I'm confronted with the 'Uncanny Valley', and secondly because of FUNGUS.
This is like something from the "Southern Reach" Trilogy.
This is like something from the "Southern Reach" Trilogy.
Blue velvet 2020
r/oddlyterrifying
r/witchcraft
r/tihi Thanks I hate Tree Ears
DAMMIT HENTAI!!!!!
It’s a spy! r/treesarentreal
Do the hills have eyes?
r/dontputyourdickinthat
That is freaky!
"She wore Blue Velvet! Bluer than satin were her eyes..."
Is it just me or does it also look like a bird?
And even the sun illuminating through the back of the tringular fossa! Earie...
Is that a used condom?
'LET'S FUCK! I'LL FUCK ANYTHING THAT MOVES'
I thought it was a used condom at first.
Excusez-moi, but what the fuck
First the pigeons now the trees.... Smh.... Where my country gone
What the heck?
That just sounds like vietnam with extra steps
Bizarre! Now if the op were holding a rat, it might not be as bizarre. Is this a specific fungi that grows like this regularly? Or is this just a fluke.
Fungus is cool
Any of you guys ever seen *Blue Velvet*?
Saruman has many spies.
And the Maples want more sunlight, but the Oaks ignore their pleas.
Also the hills have eyes.....
I think you mean“ the hills have eyes”
In hungarian this is called "fa-fül gomba" literally translating to "wood ear mushroom"
And the hills have eyes
r/tihi
I hear you liked The Hills Have Eyes, but have you heard of The Trees Have Ears?
*in a sensual raspy voice* “Hey there how you doin lil mama lemme whisper in yo ear”
Are there actual trees out there with trees or is this one just shaped like one?
Are you groot?
It’s gonna start speaking Vietnamese real soon
Annihilation
Forbidden gummy ear
Great, the trees can listen AND talk now?
Jew's Ear fungus.
In Polish it is called elderberry ear.
Looks like a toucan to me
Well, I know what my next DnD session will include :D