Mari Moilanen has written a mushroom book that has never been before.
Most Finns want to ride a piggy train, even if they have the opportunity to go to the roller coaster.
This is how the food influencer, mushroom writer and natural product advisor believes Mari Moilanen.
When talking about a pig train, Moilanen means chanterelles.
Moilanen has recently appeared Mushroom book (WSOY 2025) that is the only one of its kind. It is a mushroom book with nearly 90 QR codes that lead to fungal videos. It is known that no one has been done anywhere in the world before.
Moilanen has been making something tasty for three years on his stagram of mushroom videos where he guides the mushroom world. He has received several questions in Somme that repeats the same problems.
Where can I find mushrooms? What is done with dried mushrooms? Is there a poisonous type of vision? I go to the woods, but I can’t find mushrooms, where’s the fault? Do I need to remove the buckwheat whistles? Can poison fungus be touched?
Moilanen has tried to answer all the questions he has received in practice over the years, so he settled on the position of the ordinary fungus when making a book.
– I remember when I started reading mushroom books myself. Then I wondered what a hairdresser or red scarf means, for example. I have tried to make a mushroom book so that everyone realizes what it is all about. The terms are correct, but they are explained to the reader in an easy way.
Moilanen’s videos show, for example, forest types because it is difficult to understand them based on text alone. How many people remember what a dry fabric forest, grove, barren fabric or mixed forest is like?
Moilanen has noticed that the identification of fungi is frighteningly weak. If you want help identifying mushrooms, Moilanen advises you to get around at least one. It’s Facebook mushroom groups.
If no mushrooms are found, it is worthwhile to consider the mushroom picker in the right forest. Mari Moilanen points out that you can make a completely wrong forest, and of course you will not find the mushrooms you are looking for. Sampo Moilanen
– There are all kinds of guesses from recognizing buckwheat. They are mixed with the sequencies. There are a lot of Besserwissers who know and advise on the basic stuff, Moilanen horrified.
In the same breath, he reminds that there are always experienced long -line mushrooms who know the food fungi well. Unfortunately, a chick sponge cannot know who is an expert and who thinks they are.
– Sometimes there are terrible things. Let’s just guide the questioner to throw the dubious mushrooms into the pan. I can’t even look at those groups. There should always be saying that not really like that. I simply don’t have time for that. I prefer to look.
But one exception is. Facebook group of the Finnish Sieniseura Association. According to Moilanen, there are the best experts. He notes that he does not know all the mushroom groups in Finland, but the fungal club is reasonable and reliable.
Moilanen warns that mushrooms should never be identified through Google Lens. According to him, it is just a lottery throwing.
Mushrooms evoke strong opinions. Moilanen has noticed that people are top to argue.
– Many times you can read comments about why you do that, why do you do that, do not in any way, I’ve done this for 30 years. Many have truly fascinated thoughts and do not tolerate non -their own style.
Moilanen points out that mushrooms have a lot of visual species that are easy to mix. For example, a chanterelle may be mixed with a tile poison.
– People make wild mistakes. I understand that any sponge can be mixed with any sponge. I have seen it from the questions you send in people.
In addition, the identification is complicated by the fact that the fungi are different at a young age and as an elderly. The young sponge cap is small and in the stroke, as it becomes older. In addition, as the sponge colors change, as they grow older.
At the shortest, Mari Moilanen is two hours in the mushroom forest. According to him, the time is four hours. Sampo Moilanen
How does an inexperienced mushroom even dare to the mushroom forest after these facts?
According to Moilanen, caution is a very good thing.
Secondly, it is important that the mushroom basket has a decent mushroom book. Explore fungi with a book. When you remove the sponge on the ground, do not cut the leg, but remove the sponge as a whole. There may be signs at the base of the foot.
Explore the color of the cap on the sponge and whether the cap is sticky, matte surface, whether it shines. What about the yellows, whether there is something in color, is there a tire, what color.
Moilanen recommends for anyone who wants to have a mushroom mushroom exhibition with all the mushrooms on display. There you can talk to a professional and ask for advice.
Even more important is a professional sponge course.
– Nothing teaches as much as mushrooming with a professional. It’s eye -opening.
Moilanen has noticed that Finns are enthusiastic about mushrooms, regardless of age and gender.
– Everyone has a terrible mushroom forest, but they practice other hobbies and go to courses, why not mushroom picking. This is nothing about picking blueberry.
Moilanen understands people’s fire in the mushroom forest. After all, he thinks all his schedules from the angle that he can get a sponge. He is simply happiest in the mushroom forest.
Moilanen experiences the same excitement before entering the mushroom forest as as a child before Linnanmäki. There is a wonderful feeling and enthusiasm in mind. Here’s the reason why he calls the chanterelle a safe and a bit boring piggy train.
– It’s so nice. I get a mushrooming with an insane feeling of happiness. Mushroom picking is exciting and exciting. In the woods I am separated from all the hustle and bustle, the essential oils of the trees smell. Of course, it also matters that the mushrooms taste so good, mushroom food is the best.
This fall, Moilanen is enthusiastic about herring, which is difficult to recognize. An experienced mushroom is getting more challenge coefficient. The herring can be red in color from the yellow in olive to the wine red. The right source is recognized by the odor. However, the picture shows a delicacy and a Onni dog. Sampo Moilanen
Moilanen says that a forest full of mushrooms is like a beach for free crustaceans for everyone. He thinks everyone would be there to collect crustaceans.
-Mushrooms are just as valuable and fine for me.
Since the little girl, Moilanen has been hiking in the woods looking for food. He laughs that the collector is really strong in the genes.
Even Moilanen can’t find good mushroom spots right away. You have to work hard in front of them. He has traveled in the woods in the woods looking for mushroom workshops – sometimes in vain. Even though he knows what kind of mushroom species in the forest. The story is specifically looking for and finding. When the mushroom is finding a good mushroom spot, the feeling is insane, part of the experience.
– Before going to the woods, I decide what I’m going to catch. I may tell the family that in the evening we eat black horn soup or bake tat. Then I go to the woods to get them.