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While on vacation in WI last week I found a decent 5lb hen growing. The soil up there was sandy. I found that even when I cleaned the hen very thoroughly it was still gritty when I cooked it. I can't remember, do hens grow around whatever they encounter? Is it possible that the sand was actually embedded into the mushroom tissue? It was so disappointing as I had to just throw the whole thing out...

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  • 3 weeks later...

Oh yeah, mostly in the pore surface though, I scrape those from sandy areas with a knife to remove the pore surface completely.

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There are plenty of sand in NJ. I had the same experience couple of times. Now I just leaving too sandy mushrooms including hens behind. It just too unpredictable if it washes out or not. Fortunately I usually find enough hens from not sandy patches. The only exception are trumpets. Usually I can wash sand out from trumpets after vigorous wash in 4-5 changes of water in vegetable spinner. They break but retain flavor.

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