Help with ID this little yellow bolete from SW Ontario.

[Natasha]

Hello fellow shroomers! It's been a while since I posted on this forum. Now I'm back to doing what I love to do: mushroom hunting! Just learning how to post from my phone and sure seems a lot more convenient. However, I just wrote an assay about this mushroom, and just as I was looking for a way to add photos, I clicked "full version" bottom at the bottom and I lost it all!

Well here is a short version:

Found in SW Ontario, growing among or near pine trees. Growing in groups or singularly.

All yellow, cap, stem and pores when fist picked, cap slimy, about 4-8 cm, pores geometric in shape up to 1 mm size. Stem up to 9mm wide, not sure how long or about the base.

Spore print: cinimmon brown.

Bruising also cinimmon brown, pores turning darker shorty after picking. The more mature the mushroom, the darker the pores.

I already confirmed its edible. Like to read more about it.

Also, how do you like to prepare it for eating?

[Natasha]

Answering my own post:

Is it Suillus Americanism?

[Dave W]

I think these are Suillus americanus. Not a species I enjoy eating. I think they cook up slimy and insipid. But some folks have reported they are good. Maybe dried/rehydrated they improve...? I haven't tried this. I leave this species in the woods.

[Natasha]

Thank you Dave! Yes they do cook up slimy but I don't mind the consistency, I grew up eating slimy mushrooms. I have heard that you can get rid of the slime by peeling the top skin off the cap. But that's too much work and I don't bother.

[rob]

I find the buttons edible but flavourless. Dried they add body with other dried boletus types.

[Natasha]

Thank you Rob.

[GCn15]

Not terribly tasty but they aren't too bad dried into a powder as an add in for soup or stew. However, I am like Dave...I leave them in the bush. Mushroom season in the sub arctic is too short to spend picking and processing anything but choice mushrooms.