Another Tips

How to choose

 Mushrooms should be smooth and dry.  If you see the gills under the mushroom, that mushroom has a richer flavor; if you don’t see the gills, it is a more delicate flavor.
    

How to store

Store them unwashed in the paper bag or container in which they were purchased in the refrigerator drawer.  Mushrooms are perishable and you should plan to use them soon after purchase.  You can prolong their life if you put them in a dry container and not in plastic.  Dried mushrooms should be stored in your pantry in the bag in which they came.  They will keep for a very long time dried.
    
 Fun Fact
Like Chocolate, Mushrooms have been saved as the ‘food of the gods’ and Egyptian Pharaohs believed they had magical powers.
Of the 70,000 species of the mushrooms in the world, only about 250 are actually edible.
Mushrooms will double in size every 24 hours so a Portabella is not that much older than a Cremini!
While used as a vegetable, mushrooms are actually a unique food in that they are a fungus.