>>80515944If you're serious, the mushrooms were most likely not prepared right.
For general use, you're supposed to at minimum sautee the mushrooms in butter and salt. If you just want a "mushroom" (aka earthy) flavor, this is enough and it pairs well with things like arugula or bell pepper.
If you want it on meaty stuff, adding beef base and onion powder makes it taste like roasted meat (or if you just want an intense "beef" flavor but without the heaviness of actual meat).
You can also fry them which tastes amazing and it's possible to eat them raw, but the flavor of raw mushrooms is insanely mellow and even kinda gross if you don't properly wash it.
Mushrooms are amazing and it saddens me to see it misrepresented like in your experiences.