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Found my first ones last night. Its a mushroom I've looked for a few years in a row now, but haven't had any luck. With such a beautiful evening last night, I decided to go for a walk through the woods and found about a pound of these beauties. It was a fun night! Cooked a few up before bed and thought they were delicious. Now I need to find a few oysters. I haven't had luck with them yet.

I also found a few boletes, but they were so covered in some kind of a white mold that I couldn't identify them.

Heading to Canada Saturday for some muskie fishing for a week. Hopefully we'll get some rain down here while I'm gone so I can continue shrooming when I'm back!

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Nice! A couple locals, Bigfork area, told me and a buddy when we were up fishing for opener that they find these around that area. I've hunted morels fora while now and am looking forward to trying out some chanterelles. Can I ask how far North you found these? We're going back up to the camper this weekend and would like to give it a try to find some. Just not sure when and where to look quite yet. Thanks.

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Johnny,

I found these in the South Metro. I wish I could offer you some advice, but I know very little about them. One group was around a couple of white oaks and another was in some poplar trees that were about 10" in diameter. There wasn't much underbrush and it was almost like they glowed when the sun hit them. Much easier to see than morels.

Good luck!

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Early in the season(late June-early July) looks for chants on south and west slopes in grassy/mossy areas with sparse ground cover and canopy. Later in the season as the ground continues to warm you might find them on north slopes and in areas with denser ground cover. With the right conditions they will flush through September. Rain and heat are key. The only look-alike is the jack-o-lantern, but once you've seen them side by side, you'll never confuse them.

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How do they taste as compared to morels? I do pretty well at finding morels, but have never really tried picking any other kinds of shrooms. I'm just not that confident about the other types and don't want to end up sick or in the morgue! eek

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Chants are great tasting mushrooms. Not as nutty or earthy as morels but a little fruity. They tend to be dirtier than morels so take your time when cleaning them. I use a soft bristle tooth brush without water(if possible) to get the dirt out of the flase gills. Gritty shrooms never tastes good. Bugs love them too so you have to get to them within a couple days of popping. The chants in some of my spots get buggy within a day or two. Other spots take a week or so. Bugs don't bother some people, but personally I don't need the extra protein. Saute them in olive oil or butter with some onion or shallot. Their milder flavor pairs well with fish and chicken.

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Thanks for the advice, guys.

We didn't get a chance to shroom hunt like I wanted to with the mosquitoes and heat-plus had some work to do and the fish were biting. I'm hoping to give it a try this next weekend, though. Thanks for the head's up about the sparse cover on the floor of the woods. I was wondering how a guy would find them in the dense cover.

On a side note, there's raspberries popping everywhere up there. Hope the blueberries come soon too.

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Nice! Cut off the ends before you bag them and you will eliminate most of the dirt....I had my mom check my Chanterelle spot in OT county and she got lost and fell down twice..no shrooms yet...Guess she won't be helping any more wink

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Found a great spot, but earned it by losing about a pint of blood. Initially was not out looking for them and only had a few sandwich bags to put them in and going to go back tomorrow. Planning on drying these unless someone tells me it is a bad idea. Also found a bunch of similar looking ones that were a deeper orange/ almost salmon colored....assuming these were also chants but still a newbster at this. Any comments on that would be appreciated.

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Chants, like most mushrooms, are definitely better fresh. They will keep for several days in the fridge. They tend to be a litte chewy when rehydrated which some people find unappealing. Personally, I like the chewy, meaty texture and dry most of the chants I find. To rehydrate I soak them in warm water, milk or broth for a good 20-30 minutes then saute with some olive oil and shallots.

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In my experience, the color is dependant upon the weather. Lots of sun and no rain= pale yellow. Lots of moisture and no sun=gold to almost orange. If they're a deep orange color make sure they have white flesh and false gills, or they could be jack o lanterns.

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Took the kids out and got a bunch of Chanterelles today-cant seem to get the pics posted but got about 15# or so-TONS of bugs in the woods-Also found a couple King Boletes but they were too far gone-As far as storage, saute in butter, garlic, salt and pepper and freeze in small individual use size ziplocs-they will be frozen in liquid this way and keep the best-

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Went wandering around a family friend's woods last night and got a nice batch of Chanterelles and I even found what I'm pretty sure are my first oysters. While collecting the chants I explained to our friend how the "gills" looked on them, and then picked a random other mushroom to show him how the true gills would look if he found an imposter like a jack-o-lantern. 20 minutes later he dumps a handful of mushrooms into my dad's bag, all excited about his find. My dad (who had never picked a chant before last night in his life) looked at them funny and pulled them out. I'm assuming they were jack o lanterns or something similar. All I know is they were NOT chanterelles. To my dad and I it was very obvious. To him it apparantly was not. So, be careful out there! These were growing right amongst the chants and would have been easy to just throw in the bag if you weren't paying attention.

My next goals are kings and hedgehogs. I have no idea where to even begin my search for these. Anybody have any ideas what type of woods to look in?

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Yeah, Dietz when i stumbled into chanterelle nirvana, thought it might be a cantharellus cinnabarinus or something related. But after looking at them closer, as you can see by the pics......not so much....did slice it open and the slice did not turn blue and probably not poisonous, but will not be cooking any for dinner wink Jerkin'm/Nowiser/Deitz thanks for the cooking and freezing tip. I ended up eating the ones i first found but will be back this weekend for more to freeze. Also as Nowiser pointed out.....had jr. and his mom with and they started having fun picking the mushrooms with me and when i looked at the quarry...they ended up picking some shrooms that were similar to but not true chanterelles!

Don't think any were Jacks, but caution and awareness is a good thing! If anyone comes across a Jack, think some pics would be a great resource back here.

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