[Candor7]

Excellent.

Eat them raw?

The high heat stir fry method simply puts a cooked skin on them.Only takes about 10 seconds.

[TigersEye]

You could eat them raw if you don't mind the taste of raw mushrooms. Put them in a salad or something. Quickly sauteing them as in a stir fry probably wouldn't hurt their properties. I don't know for sure that any cooking would, just staying on the safe side.

I went to a whole foods store to get some for a friend and they let me look through a couple of cases of them to find the smallest ones. That wasn't easy because they seem to prefer the biggest ones possible for the market.

My teacher told me about this. Many years ago he was getting an employment-based physical and the doc told him he had to get his cholesterol down. Instead of taking some Rx meds he asked the doc to give him 30 days to get it down himself. Did the shitake thing and amazed the doc with dramatically lowered numbers.