Who summoned us.
Hey guys.
Hey Jared.
So today I have chaga mushroom
which is
Something that a lot of people like talking about it's kind of fun to squish it
if we really want to get down to like the nitty-gritty about chaga mushroom, like a bean bag, it is like a bean bag and
this is a
fungus that
Well Stu was doing some research on the Wikipedia. What did you find out about the Chaga mushrooms?
Well, it grows on birch trees and then kills them. It's considered to be sterile until the tree is dead and
Then its sexual development
happens on top of the dead tree
so
It's kind of I mean, that's what I'm into. An evil
Necrophiliac mushroom everybody like talks about this as being like some very like healthy
natural
Sort of thing, but it's very natural. It's definitely not healthy for the tree. It's not healthy for the tree that tree got messed up
It might be healthy for us
Though maybe what's cool about this? Is that like, although this is like little granules
What some people will do is they'll just take a chunk of it and brew that like a tea and then when you're done
You can reuse the chunk. Whoa
Yeah
Like you just like hold its little chunk like in your pocket and just like throw it into hot water and drink tea
One of the recipes here
Says to take a pot with the wide bottom
I think this will do it's pretty wide
It says place the chaga chunks at or powder at the bottom of the pot measure one to two spoons of powder
Or one or two chunks because you can get plates chunks of this thing and just use one chunk. I
Per for each person, but it's a spoons
not teaspoon not
tablespoon
spoon let's assume they mean
teaspoon
and
We'll put in
Two
For each person what it says to do is to put this on
to boil
Okay, we're bubbling so I'm gonna turn this on low and let this simmer I've been 30 minutes of simmering
so if you turn this off and this thing is
dark
Oooh.. That is a dark brew...
It's sort of a color like maple syrup.
It looks reddish.
Yeah, it looks like almost thick
Looks like coffee I guess but like
Like an espresso really black. Yeah. It is a very dark coffee.
Alright, do you want to do a David Lin shot?
Let's get a whiff
Very earthy medicinal
It just smells kinda like
Dust or something it's not really a like. I've got medicine. You've got dust you've got earth.
Our powers combined we can call captain
Captain Chaga..
Bitter vegetable soup. Yeah, it's kind of vegetable E. Mm-hmm
Not like coffee it's sort of woody no definitely taste like the woods that came out of
yeah, mineral some of the dirt some of the bark some of the
The rocks around it
It's nice.
Doesn't taste like mushrooms, no mushrooms. It tastes much more like the dandelion tea. Even though it's very dark
It's not like super like knock you over the head strong
It's like fairly mild
It's not bad like it's kind of like a comforting sort of drink like a like a tea though. Yeah, it's definitely tea.
Yeah, that's more like tea. A little bit like everywhere. Like Pu Erh Tea. Yeah, like a little bit like that
It's got like a little bit of earthiness to it. Yeah
I would say so.
So I think we should add some milk and sugar and see if that will
you know bring this more into a coffee world and instead of
herbal tea
Pu Erh Tea world
Put a little bit sugar.
It's not lightening up. No. little bit. staying pretty dark.
It is a little bit more like coffee a little bit
Yeah, if you told me it was a mushroom
I would be surprised my god this and you were like identify the substance coffee wouldn't be the first thing that came to mind
no, I
Would not for a second think this was coffee. I- identify the substance.
Well, the thing is that that happens too
Yeah I know I mean with Jarrod around that's actually something that happens.
It's something that happens a lot.
But
Pop something down identify this substance.
That'll be the next series. Yeah, I think we need to take this to the street to stop strangers walking down.
Identify this... DRINK IT!!
if someone were just like hand me that it's like I'm Street randomly and I would
Drink it
Then I would think that it was probably some sort of either herbal tea
or they just like took some like sticks and in dirt and rocks and like brewed it and end up being like
Surprising not that bad
But that's accurate yeah
Pretty woody. It does taste like the woods, you know, I kind of on a scale of one to five
Trees like I think this gets five tree. Yes, I would say five woods five woods
And now one it's like the bench but woods like the forest, right?
Let's not confuse this with bench scale and I hate mushrooms, but even though this is a mushroom
It doesn't taste like yeah, doesn't it like grocery store like white button mushrooms are portobello
No, no, I mean it's a tree fungus
Mm-hmm fungus as mushrooms or do they have to look like a cute little man that tells you the princess is in another castle
That is a question for somebody that knows about things. Yeah
If you've stumbled across this video because you want it to be highly educated about
the benefits and
Science behind chaga mushroom you're in the wrong place
All we can tell you is a it doesn't taste like coffee
But it does taste like the woods on a scale of one to five beans
Where five beans is exactly like a cup of coffee in zero means it's not at all like a cup of coffee
How many beans would you give this Chaga mushroom tea zero beans taste like tea.
One.
I give it a one the thing that tips me off of this is really not
Not coffee or anything like it is like chicory and dandelion things that are common coffee substitutes
They do have that like white that bitter edge. This does not have that. It's really mellow
Well, you could have dandelion root tea that's not roasted. And that's what this tastes like like an average rating would be like
One not to say it's bad
but it's not gonna. gonna maybe comfort you if you want like a hot drink that's like a little bit more like coffee than
A tea but it's not a replacement for coffee. Yeah would not would not satisfy any coffee. Jonesing. Mm-hmm
So I think that's about it now
Stu and Albo are
Unfortunately going away. Where are you going camp? You're going to camp so
Probably we'll be seeing them again here in the future, but it might be a little bit of time
so
Take a good look at their faces guys, watch them the old videos
We'll be back
Sometime in the future
Maybe there's a lot more coffee substitutes to try. But I think we've made a pretty good dent so far, so
Thanks a lot for watching guys, and we'll see you sometime