Sigh... What To Do with Two Ears and a Nose

Of course the answer is... EAT IT! We had it for dinner tonight. The 'shrooms were quite delicious. Alas, we used them all and need to wait for the next harvest to find another way to eat 'em.

Prep photos:





Yum yum, fried rice!

The Nose Knows Its Time to Go(es)

The nose was the remaining stem standing from this harvest. He also turned out to the biggest one of all. I did let it grow until the cap truly curled underneath. This whole effort is still simply amazing!

It's all a learning experience. I learned that if you gently turn the cap, you can easily look underneath to see how the cap is progressing. I kept thinking the Shiitakes were delicate babies that couldn't be jostled. Yeah, not really.

Once I let the nose go, I had some fun and giving folks a sense of size rather than bottles or bunnies:




The block is now in a two-week rest period. Then it'll go into another 24-hour submersion before its transferred back on the baking pan for spritz, humidity tent and spritz. I truly don't foresee as many photos happening as it's all cyclical. If the block blossomed for all angles or flushed a huge crop, more fun with more photos. As it is, we have about 80+ photos to date. Oh my!