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Community => Butchering, Cooking, Recipes => Topic started by: timberhunter on October 09, 2023, 08:35:24 PM

Title: Ways to preserve boletes?
Post by: timberhunter on October 09, 2023, 08:35:24 PM: How is everyone preserving their boletes? I’m thinking I will dehydrate some and the rest I will try cooking them down until the water is released and then strain and freeze like I do with chanterelles.
Title: Re: Ways to preserve boletes?
Post by: Angry Perch on October 10, 2023, 07:22:59 AM: Quote from: timberhunter on October 09, 2023, 08:35:24 PM
How is everyone preserving their boletes? I’m thinking I will dehydrate some and the rest I will try cooking them down until the water is released and then strain and freeze like I do with chanterelles.

I dehydrate and grind. Sometimes I smoke them first. The powder is fantastic to coat steaks or chicken before grilling, or to add to rubs, make compound butter, etc.
I picked these slippery jacks yesterday. I get a bunch around this time every year and process them.
Second pick is last year's harvest after smoking and drying.
Title: Re: Ways to preserve boletes?
Post by: pianoman9701 on October 10, 2023, 07:56:30 AM: Freeze or dehydrate. You don't need to cook them down to freeze them. The excess water from cell damage will cook off.
Title: Re: Ways to preserve boletes?
Post by: Angry Perch on October 10, 2023, 07:57:39 AM: And when boletes are wet, they hold boatloads of water.
Title: Re: Ways to preserve boletes?
Post by: timberhunter on October 10, 2023, 10:15:58 AM: We usually eat them all up but stumbled across a few more kings than we will get through. It will be nice to have some until spring comes.

Great idea coating steaks with the powder. Nice haul of slippery jacks too. Do you peel the top before processing them?

Freeze whole or slice them? I will also vacuum seal them.
Title: Re: Ways to preserve boletes?
Post by: timberhunter on October 10, 2023, 12:26:46 PM: Ended up with all of them in the dehydrator this time.
Title: Re: Ways to preserve boletes?
Post by: Angry Perch on October 10, 2023, 01:37:34 PM: Quote from: timberhunter on October 10, 2023, 12:26:46 PM
Ended up with all of them in the dehydrator this time.

Man, those are pristine!
Title: Re: Ways to preserve boletes?
Post by: pianoman9701 on October 11, 2023, 10:45:14 AM: Beautiful batch.