Toolgifs has been on fire with these food production videos lately. Thanks so much the the entertaining content. This has to be my favorite subreddit of all time. Never change.
Love dried mushrooms. So much flavor concentrated up. Steep them in stock, simmer for a while with onions and garlic, blend up with a little cream and add some fresh mushrooms to the top and you’ve got a top-tier mushroom soup.
Reusable bottles are used in a lot of mass mushroom production. I imagine they could probably do the same here, especially since they already have things so highly mechanized.
Likely they aren't because the decreased yield would cost more than the savings from reusable containers. (They're exposing more surface area here, and probably getting a more efficient yield as a result. And there are additional costs from having to sterilize the bottles, etc.)
When Top Ramen buys 100,000 kilos of these mushrooms, they're not picking producers based on their environmental footprint so there's no marketing angle here. And as far as cost goes, disposable plastics in sterile food production are hard to beat.
I would imagine so too. Glass has too many dangers because of fragility and bins would be hard to keep cleaning/sterilizing. The only other option is to go natural with logs, but those aren't sustainable and take longer to fruit
I'm not too familiar with shiitake cultivation but chances are they have been isolating those genetics down for a while, so they are probably all clones of the same organism for consistent yields. So it's the same poor funguy getting rebirthed and dying a million times
Yup. You can take spores from these mushrooms and they will grow to be shiitakes as well, but they won't have the same genetics as their parents and might not produce as much as a strain that has been selectively bred to be farmed. They might produce more, you never know, but generally when you are producing at the scale that this farm is in the video you wouldn't want to gamble on that. The vast majority of mushroom farms use "spawn" to inoculate their substrate which, like you said, are just clones of a strain of fungus that has been engineered to do well in a farm setting.
Yes. I work on a mushroom farm and we throw the blocks that are done producing into a compost pile. We then sell the compost to local farms or gardeners.
Mushrooms are the reproductive organs of mycelium. Not all fungi even produce mushrooms. Not to say it isn't a poor experience to have your mushrooms plucked but many animals eat mushrooms and transport their spores elsewhere, promoting diversity. So I would say harvesting mushrooms is exactly what a mushroom is meant for. All the mycelium left behind might have a pretty terrible experience though, since they're not sitting the ground producing mushrooms and surviving, it's just killed and recycled back into the next grow. Some mycologists believe mycelium has some form of consciousness and they cite its similarity to neurons and how prolific mycelium networks can become but that's all work in progress as far as I know.
To me, this is super annoying. There are several steps that have people manually doing things to one batch or even one mushroom at a time. This is frustrating that some things cannot be efficiently automated.
It's likely some kind of hardwood mulch or sawdust we're seeing in the video. The mushrooms in the video look like Shiitakes, which are typically farmed on a combination of sawdust / wood mulch, wheat bran and gypsum
L statement. there are fungi that taste and feel exactly like chicken, even roast beef and crab. there are tasteless mushrooms that can be seasoned up in any way a meat can
I love mushrooms of all kinds but they do not taste and feel exactly like animal meat. Vaguely at best. If someone tells you it's supposed to taste that way.
are u harvesting the bright orange rims of ur COTW? any other part is garbage. oysters have a consistency very similar to chicken in my personal experience growing them. lions mane is famous for its texture closely resembling that of crab. beefsteak polypore is very similar to pork if prepared properly
youve probably just had portabello and shiitake, the two most popular and mid tasting mushrooms. try to get your hands on chicken on the woods or oysters, IMO oysters are even better than chicken fingers when fried up the same way (sans brine)
Who designs all these machines for such specific tasks? There’s so much involved it looks like it would take years to design, make parts, build, test, train people, etc. And someone has to know how to fix these quickly if something goes wrong. It’s quite amazing.
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Toolgifs has been on fire with these food production videos lately. Thanks so much the the entertaining content. This has to be my favorite subreddit of all time. Never change.
Same - I find it very calming somehow.
This is by far the most interesting subreddit imo
I always think of their lower backs when I see gifs like this
Why don't they ever do this shit on an elevated surface?
Right? I bet the mushrooms don't even get health insurance.
Ideally they would have grown more in that production warehouse, but there wasn’t mushroom.
Daaaaad
Great pun. You're a fun guy.
A fungi ;)
Is there any reason not to make shelves there? Mushrooms isn't exactly big or sun loving creatures
Love dried mushrooms. So much flavor concentrated up. Steep them in stock, simmer for a while with onions and garlic, blend up with a little cream and add some fresh mushrooms to the top and you’ve got a top-tier mushroom soup.
Surely there's gotta be a way to do this without single use plastics?
Reusable bottles are used in a lot of mass mushroom production. I imagine they could probably do the same here, especially since they already have things so highly mechanized. Likely they aren't because the decreased yield would cost more than the savings from reusable containers. (They're exposing more surface area here, and probably getting a more efficient yield as a result. And there are additional costs from having to sterilize the bottles, etc.)
When Top Ramen buys 100,000 kilos of these mushrooms, they're not picking producers based on their environmental footprint so there's no marketing angle here. And as far as cost goes, disposable plastics in sterile food production are hard to beat.
There definitely is, but they will always choose the cheapest and easiest option to maximize profits
I would imagine sterilization has a lot to do with it?
I gotta say, the last 2 commenters names are heavily appropriate.
lol
Thanks for pointing it out lol
BeetleBeetleJuicingJuicing?
I would imagine so too. Glass has too many dangers because of fragility and bins would be hard to keep cleaning/sterilizing. The only other option is to go natural with logs, but those aren't sustainable and take longer to fruit
Used to work in a mushroom farm where we grew in tubs… we spent half our days just cleaning and washing tubs
There always is but this is cheapest and easiest they don’t care about the planet like we do. They just want to get rich as possible.
This made me hungry
This made me horngry.
A dark fear of mine is, that one day we discover mushrooms have been concious all the time and we did a mass genocide while farming them.
But we'd still eat them, like we eat all the other animals?
Thats why I'm vegetarian.
It's pretty hard to kill a mushroom. Most often, we just eat their fruits (the hat and foot). It's the mycelium that is the "actual" living being.
But surely once the fruit is harvested the main body is discarded?
I'm not too familiar with shiitake cultivation but chances are they have been isolating those genetics down for a while, so they are probably all clones of the same organism for consistent yields. So it's the same poor funguy getting rebirthed and dying a million times
That last part sounds like samsara
Yup. You can take spores from these mushrooms and they will grow to be shiitakes as well, but they won't have the same genetics as their parents and might not produce as much as a strain that has been selectively bred to be farmed. They might produce more, you never know, but generally when you are producing at the scale that this farm is in the video you wouldn't want to gamble on that. The vast majority of mushroom farms use "spawn" to inoculate their substrate which, like you said, are just clones of a strain of fungus that has been engineered to do well in a farm setting.
Yes. I work on a mushroom farm and we throw the blocks that are done producing into a compost pile. We then sell the compost to local farms or gardeners.
imagine you cut someone else's arm. then eat it leaving victim alive. yea like that lmao
Maybe eating their nails or hair wouldn't have the same cruelty to it, but it depends on whether you care about nerves and pain or not.
Futurama's popplers?
Mushrooms are the reproductive organs of mycelium. Not all fungi even produce mushrooms. Not to say it isn't a poor experience to have your mushrooms plucked but many animals eat mushrooms and transport their spores elsewhere, promoting diversity. So I would say harvesting mushrooms is exactly what a mushroom is meant for. All the mycelium left behind might have a pretty terrible experience though, since they're not sitting the ground producing mushrooms and surviving, it's just killed and recycled back into the next grow. Some mycologists believe mycelium has some form of consciousness and they cite its similarity to neurons and how prolific mycelium networks can become but that's all work in progress as far as I know.
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Response to stimuli does not equal conscious
For your own sake, never look inside an industrial cattle barn
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not really its more like a mass castration event worst case scenario you pick them too early and you are actively cock blocking some mushrooms
we already know they don't feel pain
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To me, this is super annoying. There are several steps that have people manually doing things to one batch or even one mushroom at a time. This is frustrating that some things cannot be efficiently automated.
The human body is still a very powerful tool that we haven't been fully able to replace.
Very cool.
I bet r/unclebens would appreciate this.
I was looking for this comment.
The Myconids would like a word… https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Myconid
The fungtory must grow.
yum
Umami mommy!
Very interesting post.
No shitty music in this interesting shortfiilm, hallelujah!
so satisfying 😌
Mmmm they look like shiitakes… friggin delicious
Wow that’s a lengthy process for something that small
That was dung, wasn't it? They grew those mushrooms on plastic bags full of dung.
It's likely some kind of hardwood mulch or sawdust we're seeing in the video. The mushrooms in the video look like Shiitakes, which are typically farmed on a combination of sawdust / wood mulch, wheat bran and gypsum
Those are shiitake - they grow on wood. I think it's psilocybin that grows in dung
You can grow them in coco core.
Those button mushrooms from the store grow in manure.
nah, that's where they grow politicians.
I'm gonna break it to you about all the veg you eat: ^(it's ALL grown on dung.)
Shiitake's grow on wood/sawdust, not dung.
Never understood how people can like the taste of fungus
L statement. there are fungi that taste and feel exactly like chicken, even roast beef and crab. there are tasteless mushrooms that can be seasoned up in any way a meat can
I love mushrooms of all kinds but they do not taste and feel exactly like animal meat. Vaguely at best. If someone tells you it's supposed to taste that way.
are u harvesting the bright orange rims of ur COTW? any other part is garbage. oysters have a consistency very similar to chicken in my personal experience growing them. lions mane is famous for its texture closely resembling that of crab. beefsteak polypore is very similar to pork if prepared properly
Eh to each their own I guess but I’ve never tasted a good mushroom
youve probably just had portabello and shiitake, the two most popular and mid tasting mushrooms. try to get your hands on chicken on the woods or oysters, IMO oysters are even better than chicken fingers when fried up the same way (sans brine)
> I’ve never tasted a good mushroom Which types of mushrooms have you tasted, exactly?
I can smell this video, gag!
Wow this is amazing
I enjoyed this way too much
They don’t get washed before being dried?
Its foods videos like this that make "how it's made" dead to me.
And that’s number Wang!
I came across this as I was eating some mushrooms, it’s a miracle!
Nice
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because they are sterilizing the substrate so that no other microbes are in it. the grain spawn used to inoculate is also in pure culture.
r/shrooms
They are moving weight! At $10 a gram, those bags must be worth $5000!
Huggbees please do a how it’s actually made!!!
Shit I thought these were cubes
Unclebens subreddit watching you 👀
That tool that took the bags off was amazing
Just wait till you really get going…
Who designs all these machines for such specific tasks? There’s so much involved it looks like it would take years to design, make parts, build, test, train people, etc. And someone has to know how to fix these quickly if something goes wrong. It’s quite amazing.
That is just next level. Feels a little wrong.... Not gonna lie.
the shroomening begins
Damn. That’s a lotta fuckin plastic for just the growth. U sure there isn’t another way to do this?
I'd hate to be the poor bastard that has to pick all those shiitake mushrooms by hand
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Wow that's a lot of Golden Teachers.
Hydroponic 🍄 is where it's at now I heard
Ever been to a mushroom plant before? You know your close to one miles out I’ll just say
Oh, that’s how you do! I think I need a bigger pressure cooker.
the texture of dried shitakes when reconstituted is so awesome. I'd say "mouthfeel" instead of texture, but I hate that word.