The oysters taste pretty similar to crimini but with a lighter more mild mushroom taste. Depending on how you cook them they have a less slimey texture than normal mushrooms as well. I had some that were mildly sweet too that picked up some of the willow tree sugars they were growing on.
That's my theory. Most of the wild oysters i've harvested off hardwoods like maple and oak. It was a bit rare to find them growing on a softwood like willow. Also they were gray oysters so it could be their own special taste. I know that pink oysters have a drastically almost bacon like taste compared to the other oysters out there.
I need to order the blue oysters again, maybe i have a blue thumb this year...
The oysters taste pretty similar to crimini but with a lighter more mild mushroom taste. Depending on how you cook them they have a less slimey texture than normal mushrooms as well. I had some that were mildly sweet too that picked up some of the willow tree sugars they were growing on.
That sounds really yummy!
I might get some oyster plugs and find a dead willow tree stump to put them in. Just to see if it was the willow bark that made them sweet.
That would be actually a cool experiment.
Would they grow on different trees? With different flavours...
That's my theory. Most of the wild oysters i've harvested off hardwoods like maple and oak. It was a bit rare to find them growing on a softwood like willow. Also they were gray oysters so it could be their own special taste. I know that pink oysters have a drastically almost bacon like taste compared to the other oysters out there.