The Opening Note
Pleurotus citrinopileatus · Kitchen
Opening Note - Golden Oyster Grow Block
Gold caps for a warm kitchen, often ready the same week you start.
$27.00
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Grown for dinner this week
Golden oyster is the block we hand to people who have never grown a mushroom. It likes a warm kitchen, it shows baby mushrooms quickly, and the cluster cooks like a weeknight side. If you want dinner from your counter this week, start here.
A fast cooking oyster with a toasted, slightly sweet flavor. Full grow steps for this species live on How to grow.
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No pins, no mushrooms, or contamination in 30 days. We replace it or refund you.
Living product. Start within 7 to 10 days, or keep the unopened bag in the fridge. Never the freezer.
30 day grow promise. If it does not grow, we make it right.
One kind per bag. Read the sticker before you cut. Full steps are on How to grow.
Grown for
First harvest + everyday cooking
How you use it
Sauté, eggs, broth, toast
First harvest
5 to 12 days
Temperature
65 to 75 F
How it fruits
Side fruit through an X cut
Expected yield
About 0.75 to 1.5 lb on the first crop
Flavor
Toasted cashew, delicate, a little sweet
Difficulty
Easiest. Start here
The facts
About golden oyster
Timeline
Pins in about 3 to 7 days. First harvest about 5 to 12 days after you cut. A second round can follow in 2 to 3 weeks if you keep spraying.
As food
This is a cooking mushroom, lean and savory. Cook it all the way through and do not eat it raw.
Worth knowing
Baby pins can look fuzzy and white, almost like lion’s mane, then they turn gold. It wants a warm room. A cold kitchen is the wrong oyster.
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
This is an easy first grow because it is vigorous, it tells you what it is doing, and it forgives a missed mist better than most. Pins can look pale and fuzzy at first, then they turn gold.
Start here if your kitchen stays around 65 to 75 F.
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
Pick when caps are 1 to 3 inches, still gold, just beginning to flatten.
After you pick
Keep spraying the same X. If nothing returns, soak the cut face 20 minutes. Drain. Mist again.
In the kitchen
High heat, little oil, salt at the end.
Recipe
Golden oysters on toast
1. Tear the cluster into pieces and get a pan hot. 2. Cook in butter until the edges crisp. 3. Splash of soy, lemon, black pepper. Pile it on toast.
If something looks wrong
Fuzzy white, no mushrooms yet
That white growth is reaching for air. Keep misting.
Pins stall or turn crispy
Too dry. Mist more, or loosely tent with air holes.
Long skinny stems
Needs more fresh air. Do not fruit it in a closed cabinet.
Green, black, or sour mold
Photograph it. Contact us within 30 days.
