Prataiolo

The common button mushroom is mainly commercially cultivated in dark humidity- and temperature-controlled rooms. The spores are mixed with sterilized straw and dung and spread over large trays. After 2 or 3 days they start to shoot and are then cut by hand when they reach the required size. They are grown all the year round, regardless of the season. This commercially produced mushroom, tasteless as it is, has many uses in the kitchen on a daily basis.