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Mushroom Guides (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For mushrooms the only good advice is, if you don't know what you are doing, don't go foraging for mushrooms. Rules and guidelines that apply for one region might not work for another. The risk reward never works out if you're inexperienced. You either get a tasty treat or incurable certain death. It's not a great gamble.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sure, and I suppose you’re going to advise me not to do my own electrical home wiring either. 😛

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you're even half competent, you could (not recommended) actually do some basic electrical work at home and come out of it alive and well after a few youtube videos and some reasonable precautions. I can't same the same about mushroom foraging.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People are shocked when they find out how bad I am at electrical work!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Thank you!

This is how the internet should work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Still safer than mushrooms picking

[–] riskable 13 points 3 months ago

You either get a ~~tasty treat~~ bland, mild dirt flavor or incurable certain death.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The people who die from death cap mushrooms here (Canberra, Australia) all learnt about mushrooms in another country, where death caps don't grow, but an edible mushroom that looks just like them does