mushroom poisoning
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Anyone been following the Australian mushroom poisoning case
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12403745/...
Woman invites ex Husband , both his parents , her sister and brother in law round for a home made beef wellington meal that contains death cap mushrooms , after eating the meal , The parents and sister in law die , brother in law hospitalised needs a liver transplant.
Ex husband doesnt turn up for the meal , takes custody of his two children .
strange facts about the case . The husband had suffered severe food poisoning months before and required hospital treatment .
Ex wife prepared the meal , says she used two types of mushrooms , button mushrooms from a supermarket and dried mushrooms from an Asian seller . she cant remember which Asian seller ?
She also used a dehydrator to dry the mushrooms which she dumped at a land fill site ?.............miraculously , she didnt eat enough mushrooms to make her seriously ill . When half a death cap can kill ?
she removed mushrooms later , so children could have the beef wellington because they don't like mushrooms .
The meal was apparently to get back with the husband
Case doesn't add up
Who would feed something to their children (unless they wanted to kill them) which had been cooked with poisonous mushrooms, just because they thought they had got all the toxic bits out? Bound to have missed something, and what if the cooking spread the toxins anyway?
Sounds very odd as well as tragic.
Sounds very odd as well as tragic.
cossy400 said:
Also shes said that shes chucked away something she used to cook them in.
She invited ex husband to try and win him back....
So originally she didn't admit to this but now has. It was a dehydrator! But she now says the mushrooms she cooked with were Button ones from a supermarket and dried mushrooms from an Asian supermarket she bought months ago. She says she didn't even use the dehydrator but panicked when this all happened that her ex would take the kids, so she took the dehydrator to a landfill in secret......She invited ex husband to try and win him back....
I've never made beef wellington myself but I've seen Gordon Ramsey do it enough times, I don't think I've ever seen him use dried shrooms? In fact the one thing I do remember about making the duxelles is to cook the shrooms thoroughly to ensure there's no water left.
I knew someone through work who's sister cooked a meal for her family after going foraging for mushrooms. Her husband and children didn't like the tase of it and didn't finish their meal although the woman said that they were being fussy and finished hers.
They all ended up in hospital, the husband and children were ok but the wife was really ill. She needed a kidney transplant, but died before a donated kidney became available.
They all ended up in hospital, the husband and children were ok but the wife was really ill. She needed a kidney transplant, but died before a donated kidney became available.
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