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SpekOner
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Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question
#10116102 - 04/06/09 11:12 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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i fan dried for 24 hours, and now im placing them in a desiccant chamber for another 24 hours...
heres my question: Do i keep the lid on the Damp-rid, or leave it off
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: SpekOner]
#10116129 - 04/06/09 11:16 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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keep the lid on. If you keep it off the damp rid will try and suck out the moisture from all the air wherever you have it placed.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: SpekOner]
#10116133 - 04/06/09 11:17 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Open it, open the bag the desiccant is in, dump in the tray thats in the tub, then place the tub in sealed drying chamber. place in the mushies, and give it a couple days.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: SpekOner]
#10116139 - 04/06/09 11:18 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've never used the damp-rid container as a drying chamber before, it could work but its small. I would make one of decent size and use the damp-rid on a screen
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: T-Rex]
#10116379 - 04/06/09 11:55 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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let me explain again... i have a sealed tub, with the damp-rid inside of it... with the mushrooms... i followed the directions on the damp-rid BUT it doesn't say to leave the lid off or on..
see: the lid is on here
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Captain Caveman
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: SpekOner]
#10116410 - 04/06/09 11:58 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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take off the lid.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: Captain Caveman]
#10116425 - 04/06/09 12:01 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: Captain Caveman]
#10116431 - 04/06/09 12:01 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Just pour some damp rid on the bottom. Use a rack or make something where they arent touching the damprid directly. Then close the container and leave it for a couple of hours. I usually leave mine over night. Dont just leave the whole damprid in there. You really dont even need that much
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: Killa420]
#10116465 - 04/06/09 12:06 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Dont NEED it but it doesn't hurt, This is exactly how I used to dry mine before the dehydrator. You just put the lid back on when your done, and use it again and again. No cleanup this way.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: Captain Caveman]
#10116484 - 04/06/09 12:09 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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yea, this seems like the easiest method i can i think of... i really don't feel like making another perlite fruiting chamber lol
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: Captain Caveman]
#10116496 - 04/06/09 12:10 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Why would you want to mix up the used and unused damrid in the same container. Instead of just throwing away the used after your done.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: Killa420]
#10116526 - 04/06/09 12:16 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Killa420 said: Why would you want to mix up the used and unused damrid in the same container. Instead of just throwing away the used after your done.
The used just liquefies and drips from the supplied tray to the bottom of the container.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: Captain Caveman]
#10116551 - 04/06/09 12:19 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Then as the liquid goes down. The rest of the damprid is soaking that up. Your just using up more damprid.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: Killa420]
#10116568 - 04/06/09 12:21 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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you can bake damp rid on a cookie sheet to reuse it. then you recrumble it. fyi.
the set up you have works, and yeah take the lid off the damprid container in there. remember to not let the mushies touch the damp rid. Its nasty. lol
to save money in the long run, buy a $40 dehydrator on ebay or at wal-mart instead of buying desiccant all the time. I started with damprid then used a fan with mushies on a paper towel, then eventually got a dehydrator, the best for large amounts of mushies.
I only use damprid, now, for storing my mushies for a long period of time.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: 13shrooms]
#10116622 - 04/06/09 12:32 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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lol this made my day.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: Killa420]
#10116630 - 04/06/09 12:33 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Killa420 said: Then as the liquid goes down. The rest of the damprid is soaking that up. Your just using up more damprid.
You evidently have never used this stuff. If that was the case, that used damprid is absorbed by the unused, then you wouldnt be able to store it after opening, which is not the case. I only used 2 tubs in a 2 year span.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: 13shrooms]
#20875867 - 11/22/14 05:38 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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You use a regular food dehydrator? Nothing else in there with it? No Silica Gel or Damp rid? Do you section the mushrooms into smaller pieces to make drying quicker?
New to all this, so please bear with me.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: pilzmogi]
#20875938 - 11/22/14 05:50 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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pilzmogi said: You use a regular food dehydrator? Nothing else in there with it? No Silica Gel or Damp rid? Do you section the mushrooms into smaller pieces to make drying quicker?
New to all this, so please bear with me.
Holy shit man, this thread is almost 6 years old.
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: dr.alkaline]
#20876816 - 11/22/14 08:50 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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to answer your question, just put the whole fruitbodies in the regular food dehydrator, run it until they're "cracker dry", that is, they 'snap' when you break them. the dehydration times will vary anywhere from 2-4 hours, to 8-12 hours...to 6 years, depending on the size of the fruitbodies
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Re: Drying the fruits of your labor.. Damp-rid question [Re: Killa420]
#20877207 - 11/22/14 10:30 PM (9 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Killa420 said: Just pour some damp rid on the bottom. Use a rack or make something where they arent touching the damprid directly. Then close the container and leave it for a couple of hours. I usually leave mine over night. Dont just leave the whole damprid in there. You really dont even need that much
Thats how I did it too.
I dumped the damprid in a plastic tub. I then layered papertowls over the damprid to soak up the water. I then had chicken wire in the tub that I layed mu mushrooms on after be faned dried for a day.
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