The Broad Note
Lentinus levis · Kitchen
Broad Note - L. levis
A wide pale cap you can slice like a steak.
$29.00
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Grown for a wide cooking cap
L. levis makes a broad, meaty cap with a mild oyster flavor. You grow it with the same X cut as the kitchen oysters, then slice and sear. It is a cooking mushroom, not a tea.
Kitchen mushroom. See How to grow for the cut and when to pick.
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One kind per bag. Read the sticker before you cut. Full steps are on How to grow.
Grown for
Everyday cooking
How you use it
Sauté, roast, slice into steaks
First harvest
10 to 18 days
Temperature
60 to 75 F
How it fruits
Side fruit through an X cut
Expected yield
About 1 to 2 lb on a strong first crop
Flavor
Mild, meaty, like oyster
Difficulty
Easy
The facts
About L. levis
Timeline
First harvest about 10 to 18 days after you cut. Same X cut as oysters. Dry yellow edges mean you waited.
As food
This is a cooking mushroom, lean and savory. Cook it all the way through and do not eat it raw.
Worth knowing
The cap is the point. Slice it thick and sear both sides. Still pale and a little fuzzy is fine.
Food and tea. Not medicine. The FDA has not reviewed this.
See how to grow this block · Not sure which mushroom? See the guide.
Why this one
Before you add it to cart
The caps can get large, so pick before the edges dry. Write L. levis on the sticker exactly that way.
Same X cut as the oysters.
The full steps for every species, including the ones that need an open top, a cold night, or a sealed bag, live on How to grow. Use this page to decide if you want this mushroom. Use that page when the box is on your counter.
See how to growFood and tea. Not medicine. The FDA has not reviewed this.
Harvest
Still pale, still a little fuzzy is fine. Dry, yellow edges means you waited.
After you pick
Keep spraying the same X. If nothing returns, soak the cut face 20 minutes. Drain. Mist again.
In the kitchen
Slice thick. Hard sear. Butter, salt, lemon.
Recipe
L. levis steaks
1. Cut thick slices and score them. 2. Brown both sides in a hot pan. 3. Butter, garlic, lemon. Cook through.
If something looks wrong
Fuzzy white, no mushrooms yet
That white growth is the mushroom. Keep misting.
Pins stall or turn crispy
Too dry. Mist more, or loosely tent with air holes.
Green, black, or sour mold
Photograph it. Email Team@harmonixhome.com within 30 days.
