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Is this a problem a lot of people have, the slimy mushroom thing? I don't do anything special or careful at all with mushrooms; I rinse them off, maybe halfheatedly salad-spin them, chop them up and put them in a hot pan with some fat. I've never had a slimy one.

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I used to carefully clean my mushrooms with a brush to keep them dry so they wouldn’t end up slimy. But someone told me that was a myth and I decided to try just quickly rinsing them instead. Never resulted in slimy mushrooms, and I was shocked at how much crap ended up in the rinse water.

My current belief is that there's nothing you can do to a mushroom that a hot pan won't fix.

Parboiling is often a critical step for certain mushroom species to remove toxins. But that's probably only relevant if you're foraging outside your local grocer.

Tbh, it mostly comes from people using too much oil. I have a longer description of my preferred cooking method above, though I should add that I still love them when cooked the normal way.

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