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    Is It Bad to Wash Mushrooms?

    Dec 11, 2018 1 minute
    –L.L.

    Years ago, we weighed white mushrooms before and after submerging them in water and found that the fungi soaked up very little mushrooms and then submerging each batch in water for 1 minute. We removed the mushrooms and blotted them dry before weighing them again.

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