Mushroom mix up

[rich d2]

Hi king time no post after some changes in my life. So went to the woods to have a look around and saw some chicken of the woods but it was a bit past it and getting too hard. Some good mushroom spotting and got a good haul of field mushrooms - did a stain test on them in situ and and home and they didn’t stain yellow and smelled of mushrooms. So ate a little bit of one and waited 24 hours all good. So chop them up and start to fry them in some olive oil for mushroom pasta. One of them goes bright yellow and smells like I’m burning Elastoplast. Somehow two of the ones I’d picked were yellow stainer and I’d not checked every mushroom and didn’t notice it as I was slicing them. Made me realise I need to not assume that just because they’re growing next to each other that they’re the same. At least I didn’t eat it and popped the pasta into some tomato sauce instead. I’ve linked a photo to my twitter account as I can never work out how to post photos on here so you can laugh at my stupidity

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688988609792106496

and these are them in the pan

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688988976294592512

 

[Robbi]

That's scary stuff if you didn't know.!!

 

[rich d2]

Better outcome today - blackberry and dewberry muffins - but if an easier ID

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689930891873718272

 

[rich d2]

That's scary stuff if you didn't know.!!

Although they really smelled bad, like cooking old school elastaplasts or hospital cleaning stuff. Not sure how you’d actually eat them when they smelled like that, maybe if they were in loads of sauce you wouldn’t smell it? The overall mushroom smell masked them raw though

 

[Suffolkrafter]

Wow that's a great warning. Thanks for posting. A few years back I picked what I thought were edible, very minimal yellow staining, no discernable smell. I emailed a micologist and he said 'nope, yellow stainers'. I went back to them and put them in a plastic bag and had a good sniff - lo and behold the smell was unmistakable.
I just can't get my head around mushroom ID, it's like theoretical physics to me. I know there's a logic in there somewhere but damned if I can find it.

 

[billycoen]

All mushrooms are edible,some only once though..

 

[demographic]

I spotted a load of Yellow Stainers last week while walking the dog near Brampton (Cumbria) last weekend.
Initially thought they were horse mushrooms but when I picked one and bruised it yellow I so I left it with its mates.