Delicate & Buttery Blue Oyster mushrooms were first documented in 1775 by Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin, a dutch scientist who studied medicine, chemistry, and botany and traveled the world gathering samples and specimens of his discoveries. Blue Oysters are particularly appreciated for their density, and can be used quite successfully as a replacement for meat in many recipes. They are especially wonderful sautéed in butter.
This kit is designed to help you learn to grow mushrooms at home without any specialized equipment. They are fairly easy to work with and include instructions for growing them on a bag of precooked rice at home or a bucket of straw if you'd like to grow a lot of them.
Each set includes detailed instructions, your mushroom culture, and a fungi word search. It’s a great project for anyone with a love of plants, or to do as part of a nature study, or simply because they are beautiful and fascinating. And they’re great for cooking with/eating or just looking at if you’re the non-mushroom-eating type.
This is a pretty flexible project age-wise with the only caveat being that you’ll want adult supervision for the inoculation process for young students so that no fingers get poked:) it’s an indoor project, you’ll need a bag of pre-cooked rice, rubbing alcohol, and some paper bandage tape.
These kits were developed for as a way for people to learn a little more about growing mushrooms than your standard mushroom kit will teach you. This kit includes:
- 5mL mushroom culture
- Instructions
- A glossary of mycology terms
- Fungi word search
Ingredients: organic honey with living mushroom culture in pure water. They are shelf stable at room temp for a minimum of three months or can be kept in a very cool area or fridge for up to a year
The kit is meant to be grown on brown rice, but should the grower have a rice allergy, they could also grow their mushrooms on birdseed or a variety of other things.