Is a straight blade good enough for harvesting mushrooms?

I can't carry a pointed blade where I am and I have never gone looking for mushrooms before.

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  1. 2 years ago
    /out/surgeon

    I've used knives, scissors, and even straight blades.
    I have a pair of Kifa straight blades, old swede stuff. They can hold an edge very well, and are angled to strop
    Where are you, OP ?

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Have you ever eaten a mushroom? They're not exactly hard, a butter knife will do. Scissors work fine for toadstools.
    Or just carry a pointed knife, there aren't any police in the woods.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >a butter knife will do
      no it won't, exactly because they're soft squishy.
      before using a dull knife, i'd rather twist them off.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    just pinch them with your fingers they are soft as foam

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Victorinox Baker is super light and slim, or they have a Pruner model with beefier handle and deeper hookbill blade.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i pretty much only take Chanterelles and funnel chanterelles at this point, and i just pinch and break off the stem. so i dont carry a knife anymore when specifically mushroom hunting,
    wicker basket and ID book of course though

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Take a stubby chisel with you, mora use to have a chisel/knife blade but idk if they still make it.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The brush is more important than the blade. Straight blade is perfectly fine.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I just do my cleanup at home then again i also commit haram acts by rinsing them in water to get rid of dirt

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I prefer to leave dirt where it belongs to.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No blade of any type required. Are you moronic?
    Flickem before you pickem

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    butter knife against thumb will do just fine
    you will clean them at home anyways so brush is not nescessary and if you eat them innawoods you can just cut them clean with the knife

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    How about a box cutter? That's hardly pointed and cheap as frick.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >straight blade bad
    The stockman would like a word with you

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Amerimutts cannot legally carry pointy knives
    Absolutely pathetic.
    What the frick honestly.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >obsessed

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >He keeps saying it

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, he does

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >urbanite Amerimutts cannot legally carry pointy knives
      neither can your urbanites eurogay

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Watch out, he'll point to his unused knife as a counter. The one with the clean edge, and no stains or nicks to the wood. He avatargays as the edgy character from an old cartoon, so don't expect less.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >stains or nicks to the wood
          You're supposed to use the blade when you work, not the handle
          >The edgy character
          Embarrassing

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    1) I cannot believe that there is anyplace in America, outside a urine-soaked metropolitan shooting-gallery shit-hole run by enemy Democrat scum, that would forbid you to carry any kind of knife you liked while hunting mushrooms.

    2) Almost any knife will do. There is a famous mycologist who is known for using a plastic knife from the McDonald's where he had breakfast.

    3) Do not listen to the morons telling you to just grab them out in the woods and then wait to clean them at home. Only newbies do this. Clean them before they go in your basket, or the gills and pores will be filled with sand and grit that is nearly impossible to clean out. Take a 2 inch paintbrush, cut off at an angle so you have short stiff bristles at one end and long floppy soft bristles at the other end. That will allow you to clean delicate, lightly soiled mushrooms as easily as mud-caked lobster mushrooms.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Do not listen to the morons telling you to just grab them out in the woods and then wait to clean them at home. Only newbies do this.
      Nah the biggest misstake is to listen to what autists on the internet think is the "right way" to do things. do whatever the frick works for you.
      I always just cut of the lower part of the stem and then do my cleanup at home since it takes fricking ages to do it in the woods in comparison. Use plastic containers or whatever works for you.

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