Fermenting Mushrooms?

[Entheological]

Have you ever tried fermenting mushrooms? What kinds of results did you come up with?

[majji]

I take a shitaki tincture to boost the immune system. The guy I bought it from had barrels of the tincture fermenting somehow. He was an ethnobotanist, and didn't really want to give up his secrets.

According to him, the only way to release the immune boosting factors is through some process of fermentation.

If anyone knows how this is done I would like to know.

[fermentor]

In East Europe, especially Russia, so called "salted mushrooms" are very common. Basically as common as "salted cucumbers" ( fermented pickles) and fermented cabbage. They are part of basic standard menu. They are usually served as an appetizer, can be used as a component of dumpling or pierogi filling , as a side dish, part of a salad, etc.
Olga

[Ido]

I've done it as a quick ferment (put mushrooms in existing kraut),
2 days were enough.
it's a delicacy (ends too fast).