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Salting and pickling milk mushrooms in a cold, and sometimes hot way, is always fraught with one problem – the appearance of mold. However, this is not always a sentence for homemade preparations. If salted or pickled milk mushrooms are moldy, then with early detection they can be saved.
Why did mold appear after salting mushrooms
Molds are the most common living organism on earth. In a comfortable environment, they multiply quite quickly, spreading to more and more new territories. Canned mushrooms are an excellent nutrient base for mold development. It is enough for even a small amount of mold spores to get into the container where salted or pickled milk mushrooms are stored, this will certainly lead to the spread of the source of infection to all products, without exception, in the bank.
Mold on mushrooms – the result of violations during canning and storage
There are quite a few reasons why salted mushrooms become moldy even in tightly rolled cans under a metal lid. Here are the main ones:
- Insufficient heat treatment (when preserving hot).
- Dirty feedstock.
- Small amount of preservative ingredients such as salt or vinegar.
- Poor preparation of canning containers, insufficient sterilization of jars.
- Loose twisting of cans, violation of their tightness during storage.
- Invalid storage conditions.
Is it possible to eat salted mushrooms with mold
Mold needs oxygen to grow. Therefore, mushrooms mold first of all in the place where there is direct contact of the fruiting body with air. From this, the fruiting bodies turn black, and a greenish-white coating appears on their surface. In this form, they cannot be eaten. The deeper layers of caps, hidden under the thickness of the brine, become moldy much later. If the milk mushrooms are moldy on top, then it is necessary to get rid of the entire top layer, which has traces of damage. Under it, there may well be absolutely normal salted mushrooms. If you carry out a series of manipulations with them, then they can be eaten without any fear.
Mushrooms heavily affected by mold have one road – to the trash
What to do with mold on salted milk mushrooms
Having discovered that the salted milk mushrooms are moldy, it is necessary to process them as soon as possible. In this case, most of the homemade preparations are likely to be saved. The top layer of mushrooms, on which there is blackness and obvious traces of mold development, should be thrown out without hesitation. If there are clean and undamaged hats under it, then they must be carefully transferred to another container. Since mold spores are already present in the brine, all removed fruiting bodies must be boiled to avoid further development of the fungus.
A pot with selected clean milk mushrooms is poured with clean water and put on fire. In order to kill mold spores, it is enough to bring the water to a boil. After boiling, the water is drained. Mushrooms are laid out in sterilized containers, sprinkled with salt, and poured with fresh brine.
Boiling will kill mold spores in the brine
It is necessary to disinfect not only the container in which the milk mushrooms are placed, but also the wooden circle and the oppression that holds the mushrooms in the brine. They are thoroughly washed from mold with water, and then scalded with boiling water. The circle and oppression are put in place, after which the container is removed for storage.
Rules for storing salted milk mushrooms
Milk mushrooms are best stored at a temperature of + 2-4 ° C. With its increase, the risk of re-development of mold increases significantly. To prevent this, the tub is regularly inspected. Approximately 1 time per week, the oppression and the wooden circle are removed, the brine, which is above the level of the mushrooms, is carefully drained, adding fresh saline instead. The edges of the tub are wiped with a cloth soaked in vinegar. The wooden circle and oppression are washed with water and scalded with boiling water, after which they are returned to their place.
When stored under the right conditions, the risk of mold on salted mushrooms is very small.
On the video you can see how mold development is controlled when pickling mushrooms:
Conclusion
If during storage the salted milk mushrooms become moldy, then this is not a reason to throw them away. It is enough to cull, re-disinfect the container and the mushrooms themselves and pour them with fresh brine. And in order to avoid a repetition of the trouble, during a detailed inspection, the cause of the appearance of mold should be established, storage conditions, and the quality of the raw materials used should be checked.