


Chef Kang Leo: You just need to dust off mushrooms. He explains that washing them in water is a no-go because the texture and scent disappear.

Another chef, the currently hot 'Im-jjang' (Im Seong-geun). Seeing his wife wash shiitake mushrooms, he tells her she shouldn't do that.


Im-jjang explaining why you shouldn't wash mushrooms for the exact same reason as Kang Leo.
Then what about our CEO/Chef Baek Jong-won...!?







Making a shiitake rice bowl or soup or whatever... look at what this guy is doing.
Let's just say he was soaking them to get the broth out...

Even on 'Delicious Rendezvous,' he had the shiitake ingredients soaking in water.

Making button mushroom tangsuyuk, and he's drenching them in water again.
Let's just leave it at that...
Just...

"It's me, Baek Jong-won."
Source: Baek Jong-won's Alley Restaurant Gallery [View Original]
"Users are roasting Baek Jong-won for committing the 'sin' of washing mushrooms, comparing him to other 'real' chefs, though a few wonder if he's just using dried ones."
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