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RogerRabbit said:
Any substrate can be steamed without a pressure cooker, but bear in mind a large substrate is going to take much longer to get to temperature.  I sterilize large filter patch bags of rye berries at 100C for 8 hours for our farm use.
RR

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8 hours is a good chunk of time but manageable. Thanks for the help RR, I am planning on growing out some oyters (probably some cubes too) and figured this method would be better yeild wise than just doing a bunch of 1/2 pints.

Thanks again

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RogerRabbit said:
Any substrate can be steamed without a pressure cooker, but bear in mind a large substrate is going to take much longer to get to temperature.  I sterilize large filter patch bags of rye berries at 100C for 8 hours for our farm use.
RR

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8 hours is a good chunk of time but manageable. Thanks for the help RR, I am planning on growing out some oysters (probably some cubes too) and figured this method would be better yield wise than just doing a bunch of 1/2 pints.

Thanks again

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dmonkey1 said:
This is my take.  Take in mind i use a PC to save time.

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/13875187#13875187

check out spongiform's link in there too



cheers.  and good luck with fruiting with this tek- its more difficult than standard methods

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Thankyou, added to my favorites list. I actually got this idea from coming across spongifarm's pictorial, and last night I skimmed through to see if anyone asked about steam sterilizing and no definite answer was given.

I seen the troubles that slappypillhappy had with fruiting and hope to learn from his mistakes.

Thanks