There are many different ways of cooking and preparing mushrooms. Some may eat certain mushrooms raw, while others enjoy cooking them. Different ways of cooking could be frying, sauteeing, microwaving, boiling, baking, grilling, or roasting. There's been some research that shows that the shorter the cooking time of mushrooms the more of its nutritional values are retained. They also mentioned that grilling is better than boiling or frying mushrooms which increased its antioxidant activity.