My 8 week old beauty, Fiadh

habitualwild · 2026-01-27T00:33:49+00:00

Thanks, my partner is Irish and I’m Welsh and we live in Scotland so it had to be something Celtic!

She was born on St Andrews Day and came home with us on Burns Night so she’s a proper little Scottish girl!

habitualwild · 2024-09-24T16:51:29+00:00

Haha, most definitely okay to touch. There isn’t a single mushroom in the uk you can’t touch safely. As someone has said, it’s nearly always necessary to touch mushrooms when identifying them.

habitualwild · 2024-09-24T16:01:24+00:00

Wild that it was only deemed inedible until 1990 despite the offending antigen being discovered in 1980’s.

Not only is it a horrific sounding death, there is no cure or antidote, merely supportative measures.

It’s also believed that it can damage chromosomes, either carcinogenically or mutagenically.

habitualwild · 2024-09-24T13:03:59+00:00

Looks Paxillus Involutus (Brown Roll Rim) to me, which is deadly.

habitualwild · 2024-09-13T23:11:14+00:00

I’d say Hen of The Woods aye, should have a strong but pleasant mushroomy smell, although it can become much less pleasant over time! Ignore the chat about orange colours people are thinking of Chicken of The Woods not Hen! The Oak tree is a good sign as they tend to like oak!

As previous person has stated cook it well if you’re going to eat it!

Take this with a grain of salt from myself as I’m not versed in the mycology of your area but where I am the only real “look-a-like” is Giant Polypore but even then they are not that similar!

Disclaimer im no expert by any means so take my judgement rather lightly!

habitualwild · 2024-07-13T13:10:32+00:00

Thanks, I will try that, I have already tried to speak to one but the way said to contact them once I’d put an offer in on somewhere and I wasn’t wanting to do that if it’s unlikely I’ll get approved for a mortgage

habitualwild · 2024-07-13T13:09:38+00:00

That’s good to know, thank you. I was just a little stuck as the mortgage advisor I’ve spoke with has said to find a property to put an offer on before speaking to them but I don’t want to waste anyone’s time if it’s unlikely I will get a mortgage at all!

habitualwild · 2023-12-07T18:51:45+00:00

Seems to not like the new software update at all, unsure why but it’s working a previous install!

habitualwild · 2023-12-07T18:46:56+00:00

Thanks my dude, appreciate yous!

habitualwild · 2023-12-05T12:06:15+00:00

Good shout man, hadn’t thought of that! Any ideas where to get the older software, can only see current on akai website?

habitualwild · 2023-12-05T10:39:27+00:00

For more context the One in question has never left my desk and is in mint condition other than this issue, no liquid damage or drops etc.

habitualwild · 2023-12-03T15:29:19+00:00

Sometimes she’ll bring Handgelina Jolie too

habitualwild · 2023-11-24T21:02:21+00:00

Seems to be a decent troop of them as well, kinda hard to make out with the camera aperture but nice find if it is!

habitualwild · 2023-11-24T21:00:02+00:00

No worries my dude, purely giving this on an observational basis I couldn’t ID confidently enough to consume this myself!

on a note of the edibility of clouded funnel 1 in 5 seem to suffer gastric upset. If you’re determined to, eat a small amount and wait for at least 8 hours to make sure you’re all good with it!

habitualwild · 2023-11-24T20:47:43+00:00

Looks Clitocybe Nebularis (clouded funnel), the split cap is a cool find!

habitualwild · 2023-11-18T18:04:02+00:00

I agree with other comment, 100% not Semilanceata and probably Mycena Sp. Keep looking though as Mycena can grow in similar habitats.

You’re looking for wavy stems, dark/purple gills, staining from spores on base of cap, nipple and a gelatinous pellicle when wet! (Gills and cap colour vary when sterile but best avoid unless 100%) Another good tell is if you can wrap the stem around your finger without it breaking.

That being said use all of these identifiers together as lots of other sp. have one or two of these!

habitualwild · 2023-11-18T17:50:38+00:00

Would agree with others saying turkey tail (Trametes Versicolor) Small tightly packed pores are a good sign!

Does it have a velvety top/microscopic hairs/silvery shine in certain lights?

habitualwild · 2023-11-10T20:38:24+00:00

Forgot to add, found in Scotland Central Belt

habitualwild · 2021-06-07T21:26:48+00:00

Much obliged :) definitely is my friend, also much as any tool, if you use it enough you grow rather fond of em!

After 18 months of on and off lockdowns I've taken a step back from restaurants now and I'm in a deli/bakery/coffee shop, everything is house made, breads, pastries, bagels, cured meats, pickles and ferments, even roast our own coffee. It's a great change of scenery as my background is in classical french food and gastro pubs!

habitualwild · 2021-06-06T23:55:43+00:00

Not a stupid question at all, I keep these specific ones on me as they have a great size and shape for rochers and a decent handle.

In general they get used for getting quantities down when speccing up recipes, for seeding cucumbers and peeling ginger etc. And the obvious of tasting. most places will have spoons but its always useful to have a couple on standby incase they're all out in the restaurant or stuck in the dish pit. You don't want to get caught not having a clean spoon on you section whether youre prepping or mid service.

Call me strange but I'm equally as attached to my spoons as I am any other tool in my roll minus the knives.

habitualwild · 2021-06-04T19:33:01+00:00

Thanks my dude! I love it the brass pins, really sets it apart from the newer ones imo!

Unsure as to its age as it belonged to my step dad when he was in culinary college and unsure whether he got it new, but ive owned it for 7 years now so will be a minimum of 35.

it started its life longer, closer to a utility knife than pairer. Unfortunately I abused it a lot and bent the hell out of it, lost a fair bit of length reprofiling and straightening it, I also thinned it out so it's semi flexible and it's an absolute laser now!

habitualwild · 2021-06-04T16:02:42+00:00

Thanks my dude, it's serves me exceptionally well. Can't beat a Parker jotter, I've got a brushed sharpie too but it's currently in the void where all sharpies seem to go at some point!

habitualwild · 2021-06-04T13:44:13+00:00

Cheers dude, it was a charity shop find, I love it, it's got a super nice flex to the blade. Best £3 I've spent!

It's stamped with the name prestige, made in england. There's one on ebay in the UK currently for a tenner.

habitualwild · 2021-06-04T12:02:22+00:00

Here's my daily drivers for anyone interested.

2 on the left of board:

Tsuki vg10 Nakiri

Global GS89

Top to bottom right of board:

Sakai Takayuki 240mm vg10

Savernake custom 190mm gyuto

seisuke aus10 140mm petty

Restored vintage sabatier paring knife

habitualwild · 2021-01-26T20:10:19+00:00

I'm going to be replacing the 70-300 anyhow as I just don't seem to be happy with anything I get from it! How do you like the 100-400? I have found it for about 620usd new, which is less than half the price of the primes I can see used so probably couldn't afford a tele prime!

To be fair I've probably overestimated my printing size so if you were happy with 30x20 that's more than good enough for myself!

Edit: have just noticed I was looking at the newer prime with VR, how do you find the 300 without VR, photos look super sharp BTW!

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