U.S. Janet B. > writes:

> On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 21:42:24 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
>>Bryan Simmons wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday, August 23, 2020 at 5:22:36 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
>>> > Bryan Simmons wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > On Friday, August 21, 2020 at 1:11:01 PM UTC-5, Tom Del Rosso
>>> > > wrote:
>>> > > > Sometimes I make something unplanned and I wish I had some
>>> > > > mushrooms, but I don't keep a can handy because they have a bad
>>> > > > rep. Are the canned ones any good, in any brand? Do dried
>>> > > > mushrooms keep? Pickled ones wouldn't have the right flavor.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > --
>>> > >
>>> > > It's been ages since I've eaten canned mushrooms. When I was
>>> > > young, I'd eat them straight out of the can.
>>> > >
>>> > > --Bryan
>>> >
>>> > Canned mushrooms are actually optimal in *some things* over fresh
>>> > to my way of thought. Pizza is one of them for example.
>>>
>>> Oh God. They're terrible on pizza, just like canned black olives
>>> are. Yeah, it's extra work, but everyone here ostensibly cares about
>>> cooking. Using fresh mushrooms on pizza works best if one has
>>> slightly dehydrated the sliced mushrooms first. Otherwise they do
>>> indeed have too much moisture for the 525F maximum temperature of
>>> most ovens.
>>>
>>> I've on and off tried to make scratch pizzas over the years, and they
>>> were never very good. I make decent ones now, though far from great.
>>> Back when I made disappointing ones, I did learn to pre cook thinly
>>> sliced mushrooms by preheating a cookie sheet sprayed with cooking
>>> spray to 170F, then taking the cookie sheet out and putting the
>>> mushroom slices on, and returning it to the 170F oven.
>>>
>>> --Bryan
>>
>>Then learn. There are times when canned actually work better. Dried
>>out 'fresh' never work on pizza.
>
> all pizza places use fresh mushrooms when preparing pizza. they don't
> used canned. In fact all the vegetables they put on pizzas are fresh.
> Janet US

I made pizza after high school while awaiting my boot camp date. The
best part of the day was food prep. The veggies were delivered around
6am and I'd spend hours chopping onions, mushrooms, bell peppers,
etc. Made dough for the next day.

All our veggies were fresh but we also used a true pizza oven.
--
Daniel

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