Flammulina velutipes is an easy food to cook. Boiling water 1 to 3 minutes is enough. If it takes too long, the taste of Flammulina velutipes will be bad. Boil Flammulina velutipes in a pot until it is half cooked to meet different cooking needs. Blanching is a common step in cooking, which means that the primary processed raw materials are put into a boiling water pot and heated to half-cooked or full-cooked, and then taken out for further cooking or seasoning. The main purpose of blanching is to remove impurities and odors from ingredients, at the same time help to maintain the color of food and shorten cooking time to some extent.

Flammulina velutipes, alias: Lentinus edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus, Flammulina velutipes, Flammulina velutipes of Tricholomataceae. Its cap is spherical, with thin edges and yellowish brown, and its surface is sticky and slippery, and its bases are connected and clustered. Dried products are shaped like day lilies, hence the name. Flammulina velutipes has yellow, dark brown or cinnamon on the surface, slightly dark in the middle and milky yellow on the edge.