Golden Oyster
P. citrinopileatus
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Description and Taste Profile
Golden Oyster mushrooms have yellow flower petal-shaped caps with ivory white stems. The cap is smooth and often convex with age. The flesh is always white be thin or thick depending on size, regardless its texure maintains a rather meaty and almost melting quality. The aroma is distintivly fruity and reminiscent of an aged red wine, a quality that permeates with cooking. The mushrooms' stem is most often short, even horizontal as it emerges perpendicular from its wooded host or growing medium. The mushrooms typicalyy grow in tightly layered non-uniformed clumps.
Yellow Oyster mushrooms are in my opinion best suited as a soup and stir fry mushroom or braising mushroom. Beware!! Their texture does not lend itself well to raw applications, so it is recomened to cook this mushroom. The stems of the Yellow Oyster mushroom may be quite bitter to some individuals, in which case they should be removed and discarded. Yellow Oyster mushrooms pair well with seafood, pork, garlic, ginger, soy, tomatoes, Asian vegetables and pot herbs. Traditional recipes include stir fries, curries and soups and these are good starting points if you have never cooked with Yellow Oyster mushroom before. Modern recipes include companion ingredients such as clams, fennel, wild arugula, fresh and melting cheeses, cured meats such as prosciutto, wild ramps, black garlic and young shallots. To store, place in paper bag or between paper towels. Never store fresh mushrooms in plastic as the plastic deteriorates the flesh rapidly.
Cultivation
Oysters are some of the mushrooms that are easiest to grow. They can colonize just about anything including phone books and toilet paper. Simply innoculate 1 quart of rye berries with a culture syringe or with a slice of colonized agar.
When finished colonized, boil a big pot of water and soak either an old phone book or 4 toilet paper rolls on a strainer as you pour the hot water into the pages of the phone book or onto the outside and inside of the toilet paper rolls, wetting it very thoroughly. When it has cooled off and all excess water has been strained, use the colonized rye berries to inoculate the inside pages of your phone book or by inoculating the inside of the toilet paper rolls by filling the inside cardboard tubes with the colonized berries all the way to the top. Put all 4 toilet paper rolls together inside a micron filter bag and seal it. Same with the phone book. Allow to fully colonize in a dark, warm place and birth in a high humidity environment.
AGAR
PDA, PDYA, MYA, MYPA
SPAWN RUN
Incubation Temperature: 75-85ºF (24-29ºC)
Relative humidity: 90-100%
Duration: 10-14 Days
CO2: 5,000-20,000 ppm
Fresh Air Exchanges: 1-2 per hour
light Requirements: n/a
PRIMORDIA FORMATION
Initiation Temperature: 70-90ºF (21-32ºC)
Relative Humidity: 98-100%
Duration: 3-5 days
CO2- < 1,000 ppm
Fresh Air Exchanges: 4-8 per hour
Light Reequirements: 500-1,000 lux
FRUITBODY DEVELOPMENT
Temperature: 70-85ºF (21-29ºC)
Relative Humidity: 90-95%
Duration: 3-5 days
CO2: < 1,000 ppm
Fresh Air Exchanges: 4-8 per hour
Light Requirements: 500-1,000 lux
CROPPING CYCLE
Two to three crops, 10-14 days apart
Medicinal Properties
This oyster possibly aids and ever cures pulmonary emphysema which is becoming more present in our society with the increase of pollution. Like it's sister P. osteratus it has cholesterol reducing properties.