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Project idea: The death cap mushroom is really tasty according to people who are now dead. Disable the poison.
by tropo 10y ago
Project idea: The death cap mushroom is really tasty according to people who are now dead. Disable the poison.
- indiv0 10y agoMaybe the poison is what makes it tasty?
- dekhn 10y agoyou would do that chemically, after collecting the mushroom/while cooking it, because that's easy.
- tropo 10y agonot for the death cap The poison is a bicyclic polypeptide that shuts down ribosomes in your liver. Destroying or removing the poison is as difficult as destroying or removing all the protein. (like dealing with mad cow prions) It's just not going to happen unless you like your mushrooms charred pure black all the way through. Well, that or dusty white ash. Just half a mushroom will kill an adult human. This isn't something to take chances with.
- dekhn 10y agoRight, my protocol would have been: fully homogenize the mushroom, treat it with an antibody known to disable all the toxins, then cook and eat. I wasn't really proposing anybody does this.