On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:38:07 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>Umm, no. Most use canned.

Maybe around you but I have never lived anywhere where canned
mushrooms were used on a pizza. There is no reason to use canned.
Fresh mushrooms cook just fine on a pizza without making a puddle or
shriveling up. I never have that problem at home.
Janet US