Very good quality shiitake, highly recommended.
Very good quality shiitake, highly recommended.
Great flavour and always fresh
Regular purchase, consistently long fridge life, good quality and have an excellent meaty flavour, especially if they're fried off. Mushroom size can vary within a pack, but as I typically slice them for stir fries / ramen that's not an issue at all. Yes, the stalks are tough and woody, but that's because they're shiitake mushrooms! If you use a lot of shiitake mushrooms, it's worth saving the stalks and throwing them into a bag in the freezer, so when you have enough, you can use them to make a broth or meaty stock, but if not it's not an issue because the stalks are relatively dry they don't make up a lot of the weight of a pack.
You have 50/50 chance getting not shiitake mushroo
You have 50/50 chance getting not shiitake mushroom but some weird white mushrooms
One of the nicest mushrooms & great value
one of our favourite mushrooms. Tesco's ones are the best value compared with other supermarkets, so we buy these regularly. they are always nice and clean, not too much soil on them. good for Asian cooking eg stirfries, but I have also just pan fried them lightly and they taste great
UK grown with a distinct flavor
Such a distinct, tasty flavour. We've used these in a few dishes, they work particularly well with an Asian greens recipe, with some Pak Choi and a few other veg as a side. I've used the stalks either in meals or boiled up in a brother to extract the flavour for soups or stock. Surprised to hear they are grown in the UK too!
Not as good as they used to be
These used to be great and you’d get a lot of small to medium sized ones. Whether it is the time of year but I’m now getting about 5-6 large stemed mushrooms in a box. I usually put the stalks out unless I can use them for a soup but they are a bit woody.
Check what you are getting!
These often have much of the weight made up by the stalks which are really not digestible.
Great taste
Great taste