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Mushrooms are a simple food as far as flavor goes. The only detectable taste in mushrooms is richness.

Richness compliments richness, and a dish made of multiple types of mushrooms has a flavor greater than or equal to 100.

For these reasons, I decided to experiment with cooking mushrooms to see if I could find a pattern to flavor values.

Conventional wisdom holds that any two mushrooms are interchangeable in terms of flavor. I have not seen any evidence to contradict this, so I did not make an effort to record the types of mushrooms I used.

Two Mushrooms

Some of the low end data was wrong. I've corrected it. Please feel free to double check my results.

Mushroom Count	Mushroom Percent	Flavor
5 - 5	50.00 - 50.00	106
6 - 8	42.85 - 57.14	106
4 - 6	40.00 - 60.00	106
6 - 10	37.50 - 62.50	106
4 - 7	36.36 - 63.63	106
5 - 9	35.71 - 64.28	106
7 - 13	35.00 - 65.00	106
8 - 15	34.78 - 65.21	106
17 - 33	34.00 - 66.00	106
4 - 8	33.33 - 66.66	104
13 - 27	32.50 - 67.50	106
8 - 17	32.00 - 68.00	106
5 - 11	31.25 - 68.75	106
4 - 9	30.76 - 69.23	106
3 - 7	30.00 - 70.00	106
5 - 12	29.41 - 70.58	104
4 - 10	28.57 - 71.42	104
3 - 9	25.00 - 75.00	104
4 - 14	22.22 - 77.77	104
2 - 8	20.00 - 80.00	104
2 - 9	18.18 - 81.81	104
3 - 14	17.64 - 82.35	102
2 - 10	16.66 - 83.33	102
2 - 12	14.28 - 85.71	102
2 - 14	12.50 - 87.50	102
2 - 15	11.76 - 88.23	102
4 - 31	11.42 - 88.57	102
5 - 39	11.36 - 88.63	102
6 - 47	11.32 - 88.67	102
2 - 16	11.11 - 88.88	102
1 - 9	10.00 - 90.00	102
1 - 10	9.09 - 90.90	102
1 - 11	8.33 - 91.66	102
1 - 12	7.69 - 92.30	100

No, the 104 flavor for a 33.33 - 66.66 percent meal is not a typo or a data collection error.

Three or More Mushrooms

17 - 2 - 1	85.00 - 10.00 - 5.00	102
8 - 1 - 1	80.00 - 10.00 - 10.00	104
15 - 3 - 2	75.00 - 15.00 - 10.00	104
12 - 2 - 2	75.00 - 12.50 - 12.50	104
8 - 2 - 1	72.72 - 18.18 - 9.09	106
10 - 2 - 2	71.42 - 14.28 - 14.28	106
7 - 2 - 1	70.00 - 20.00 - 10.00	106
7 - 1 - 1 - 1	70.00 - 10.00 - 10.00 - 10.00	106
8 - 3 - 1	66.66 - 25.00 - 8.33	104
8 - 2 - 2	66.66 - 16.66 - 16.66	106
13 - 5 - 2	65.00 - 25.00 - 10.00	106
10 - 2 - 2 - 2	62.50 - 12.50 - 12.50 - 12.50	106
8 - 4 - 1	61.53 - 30.76 - 7.69	104
6 - 3 - 1	60.00 - 30.00 - 10.00	108
6 - 2 - 2	60.00 - 20.00 - 20.00	110
6 - 2 - 1 - 1	60.00 - 20.00 - 10.00 - 10.00	108
8 - 5 - 1	57.14 - 35.71 - 7.14	104
8 - 4 - 2	57.14 - 28.57 - 14.28	108
11 - 8 - 1	55.00 - 40.00 - 5.00	106
11 - 7 - 2	55.00 - 35.00 - 10.00	110
10 - 9 - 1	50.00 - 45.00 - 5.00	106
5 - 4 - 1	50.00 - 40.00 - 10.00	110
10 - 8 - 1 - 1	50.00 - 40.00 - 5.00 - 5.00	106
6 - 4 - 2	50.00 - 33.33 - 16.66	108
6 - 3 - 3	50.00 - 25.00 - 25.00	110
6 - 2 - 2 - 2	50.00 - 16.66 - 16.66 - 16.66	112
9 - 9 - 2	45.00 - 45.00 - 10.00	110
9 - 9 - 1 - 1	45.00 - 45.00 - 5.00 - 5.00	106
9 - 8 - 2 - 1	45.00 - 40.00 - 10.00 - 5.00	108
9 - 7 - 2 - 2	45.00 - 35.00 - 10.00 - 10.00	112
6 - 6 - 2	42.85 - 42.85 - 14.28	110
6 - 4 - 4	42.85 - 28.57 - 28.57	112
6 - 4 - 1 - 1	42.85 - 28.57 - 14.28 - 14.28	114
4 - 4 - 2	40.00 - 40.00 - 20.00	110
4 - 4 - 1 - 1	40.00 - 40.00 - 10.00 - 10.00	114
8 - 8 - 2 - 1 - 1	40.00 - 40.00 - 10.00 - 5.00 - 5.00	110
4 - 3 - 3	40.00 - 30.00 - 30.00	112
4 - 3 - 2 - 1	40.00 - 30.00 - 20.00 - 10.00	112
4 - 2 - 2 - 2	40.00 - 20.00 - 20.00 - 20.00	112
4 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1	40.00 - 20.00 - 20.00 - 10.00 - 10.00	110
8 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 3	40.00 - 15.00 - 15.00 - 15.00 - 15.00
7 - 7 - 3 - 3	35.00 - 35.00 - 15.00 - 15.00	114
7 - 7 - 2 - 2 - 2	35.00 - 35.00 - 10.00 - 10.00 - 10.00	116
7 - 5 - 5 - 3	35.00 - 25.00 - 25.00 - 15.00	116
4 - 4 - 4	33.33 - 33.33 - 33.33	112
4 - 4 - 2 - 2	33.33 - 33.33 - 16.16 - 16.16	114
4 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2	33.33 - 16.66 - 16.66 - 16.66 - 16.66	120
3 - 3 - 2 - 2	30.00 - 30.00 - 20.00 - 20.00	114
4 - 4 - 4 - 2	28.57 - 28.57 - 28.57 - 14.28	118
3 - 3 - 3 - 3	25.00 - 25.00 - 25.00 - 25.00	112
4 - 4 - 4 - 2 - 2	25.00 - 25.00 - 25.00 - 12.50 - 12.50
4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 2	22.22 - 22.22 - 22.22 - 22.22 - 11.11	112
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2	20.00 - 20.00 - 20.00 - 20.00 - 20.00	120
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 1	18.18 - 18.18 - 18.18 - 18.18 - 18.18 - 9.09	120
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2	16.66 - 16.66 - 16.66 - 16.66 - 16.66 - 16.66	130
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 1	15.38 - 15.38 - 15.38 - 15.38 - 15.38 - 15.38 - 7.69	130
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2	14.28 - 14.28 - 14.28 - 14.28 - 14.28 - 14.28 - 14.28	142
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 1	13.33 - 13.33 - 13.33 - 13.33 - 13.33 - 13.33 - 13.33 - 0.66	100
2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2	12.50 - 12.50 - 12.50 - 12.50 - 12.50 - 12.50 - 12.50 - 12.50	100

Analysis

Based on the theory of combination of flavor pairs, we can derive the following information.

75.00 - 12.50	2
71.42 - 14.28	2
66.66 - 16.66	2
62.50 - 12.50	2
60.00 - 20.00	4
50.00 - 33.33	4
50.00 - 25.00	4
50.00 - 16.66	2
40.00 - 40.00	6
40.00 - 20.00	2
33.33 - 33.33	4
33.33 - 16.66	2
25.00 - 25.00	2
20.00 - 20.00	2
16.66 - 16.66	2
14.28 - 14.28	2
12.50 - 12.50	0