We loved the mushrooms and was shocked by just how much we got. Went towards some of our most favorite recipes!

These were gorgeous, whole mushrooms at a great price.

I'm including pics of what they looked like out of the package and their weight.

Roughly .7 ounces dried.

Enough to make a morel mushroom cream sauce for three people. Will definitely be purchasing these again.

Thanks!

Morels are my favorite mushrooms, I adore them! I tasted them first time in 1990 in Zurich, Switzerland and fell in love with them. After moving to the U.S. in 1994 (we are in the Boston area) I started making a traditional French dish with chicken breasts, morels, shallots, thyme, brandy and cream and did so for many years. I could always find dry morels in Whole Foods and other grocery stores. Recently I haven't seen the small packets of morels so I forgot about the dish or to look for them, I'd say it's probably been a year or so since I ran out of the dry ones in my pantry and didn't restock it.

Once per year if my timing is right, fresh morels show up at Whole Foods and that's the best way to have them. But the dry ones I got here have always tasted as wonderful as the ones I first tasted in Zurich in 1990.

A friend from college came last weekend to visit us from St. Paul and he remembered this dish I made for him when he last visited us in 1999. So that's 19 years ago, and the man remembered my dish. He said it was the best dish he's ever had in his life. So off I went to buy morels and make it again for him and his family. But to my dismay there was no trace of morels in the grocery stores. Desperate I clicked on Amazon and lo and behold there they were. I ordered 10 packets of the famous 15 morels/package given that we were a party of 5 people, paid an insane second day shipping rate and set to cook the dish.

The moment I opened the packages I knew something was terribly wrong: they were super clean and had absolutely no smell of morels. I thought maybe when I reconstitute them the flavor will develop. Nothing happened. I made the dish and it was fairly good but it had absolutely no morel flavor. I was asked by the vendor to rate my experience and I wrote a very long email in which I wrote most of what I wrote in this review.

The response was somewhat sympathetic but also had a touch of denial and arrogance I would say - the rep categorized my opinion as my opinion which I was entitled to (granted we were 4 adults who agreed those were not tasting like morels at all but that didn't seem to matter to the rep) but said she didn't think that was the case and "other" customers agreed with her opinion. Way to go! I guess they never trained them that the customer is always right.

However, I must give them points for reaching out to me and for offering to reimburse me for part of the order I didn't use. And for the shipping. That was very nice given this major fiasco. I went all the way out to make a special dinner for our friends and instead I got a disappointment. Again, positive points for their effort to reach out to me before I was going to write a review and also for offering to compensate me for my troubles.

If you know your morels don't buy them here. If you never had them before those will do just fine. The other odd thing is that they were extremely clean, something dry morels are usually not (the fresh ones are even dirtier). You are not even supposed to wash them too much, you have to find a balance - rinse them briefly but cook them and then filter the juices that result through a fine sieve lined with cheesecloth, at least that's what I do. Those morels did not have one piece of dirt in them, they were immaculate...and tasteless. Also they come in vacuum bags, that could also alter their taste. The ones I always bought came in regular cellophane small bags.

I have read reputable culinary articles about China growing types of truffles that are not good quality and the sad part is that the fungi have spread to Italy and are destroying the good truffles. I hope this is not the same case here with the morels. If you look at the answers to questions asked by customers regarding where those come from, you will get some hints.

I'll have to keep searching for a good source of authentic morels.

Perfect dried morels. I soak overnight so they aren't chewy. Keep the soaking water for soup. So good...flavorful, full of delicious woody wild love. Not as goood as fresh but a great substitute.

Excellent quality. All mushrooms are whole (none broken). A smaller-ish bag but the mushrooms are beautiful. I re hydrated them in warm broth for 30 minutes in a covered bowl and they were awesome! Can't hardly find this mushroom in the store and when I do it goes bad in a day or costs an arm and a leg. This is the way to go!