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CaptainLinger
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"Cracker Dry", eh?
#7075796 - 06/21/07 03:36 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hi there folks!
I was drying up a tray that grew spectacularly, and am faced with an unknown: will huge (50-120g wet) shrooms yield a cracker dry stem? I've had the buggers on fans for 2-3 days. Caps are brittle, stems are ever so pliable/squishy, but seem pretty much dry.
Thanks!
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LVL12
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You can always cut the stems in half, long way - makes it easier to dry
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Edited by LVL12 (06/21/07 03:45 PM)
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CaptainLinger
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Re: "Cracker Dry", eh? [Re: LVL12]
#7075801 - 06/21/07 03:38 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, I've created splits down the stems only partially intentionally, by squeezing to test pliability. Still a bit rubbery.
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xaxphaanes
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get a dehydrator man seriously have cracker dry in a day at most a day and a half.
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CaptainLinger
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Re: "Cracker Dry", eh? [Re: xaxphaanes]
#7075825 - 06/21/07 03:43 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sigh...answer the question rather than the ideal?
I have no problem drying my shrooms; the little guys are done within hours. I have a dehydrator and use the box fan because it's better anyhow; the difference between 120 degrees and the 80 of my apartment is irrelevent.
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xaxphaanes
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for one it's not possible to get a mushroom cracker dry (with a box fan)unless your arpartment/house contains 0% relative humidity in a dehydrator it uses heat to push the humidity out hense you can get them cracker dry.
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CaptainLinger
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Re: "Cracker Dry", eh? [Re: xaxphaanes]
#7075881 - 06/21/07 03:52 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, it really is. I've done it with all my mushrooms, minus these uniquely large ones. The heat will speed evaporation; it will not enable the evaporation to extract more water than room temperature air.
Again, you offer a bunch of inane comments about my setup, instead of answering a simple question.
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CaptainLinger
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My ambient humidity is 10-15%, by the way, which is more than workable.
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xaxphaanes
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lol i am not trying to put you out or anything just answering a simple question of science,and offering something that is trusted and alot easier than what you are currently doing,i guess since you dont want this advice your only option is to put them on that box fan and wait days until you get the results that you want.
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LVL12
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Are you using damp-rid or anything of the like, or just fan drying, i'm somewhat confused as to what answer you're looking for here, but yes large mushrooms can become cracker dry
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DiabloSmurf
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IT will you just have to Dry it foooorever.
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xaxphaanes
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and due to all that oxidation you are losing the most important thing "potency" which we all strive for.
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CaptainLinger
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Xax, I'm not sure how you offered up any "science" only than an improper/incomplete explanation of how a dehydrator works. It's not as if my method isn't "trusted" or gosh, the same fucking thing without a heater, kid. I think you kind've missed the point that I'm not having any problems, just wanted to know why my guys were still pliable 24 hours later. They'll get dry reasonably soon.
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large mushrooms can become cracker dry
Thanks! I just figured that the spongy interior may have enough give to change things on big'ns.
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CaptainLinger
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Quote:
and due to all that oxidation you are losing the most important thing "potency" which we all strive for.
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Lost Nebula
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I've done well with a box fan as well until I got my dehydrator. Even with low ambient humidity, those huge stems have trouble drying out completely. As someone said, if you slice them lengthwise it'll make it much easier to dry them without the use of a dehydrator.
Peace
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CaptainLinger
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Yeah, if they don't get nice and crackly in the next 36 hours or so I'm going to go ahead and plug in the heating element on the dehydrator, see what we can do. I hate ruining the look of the big guys by slicing them :/ but just gently crushing the stem halfway through drying has seemed to work.
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LVL12
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CaptainLinger said: I hate ruining the look of the big guys by slicing them
I am totally the same way LOL, but sometimes you have to out of necessity
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Re: "Cracker Dry", eh? [Re: LVL12]
#7076048 - 06/21/07 04:26 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Shrooms do not like to be shock-dried. They prefer the ancient mummy tek. A very slow drying process in a dark surrounding, transforming on a common kitchen tissue.
And they do not like it either, if one cuts of their feets. Just gently remove the rests of the substrate with your fingers and do not use a knife or other instruments on them. I do not believe, that YOU would like it, if they cut your feets prior to your own funeral.
If you do not trust me, then please ask the smart shrooms them self.
Bon voyage
PS. And why make them hard as potato-chips, when you want to eat them? Only more work for your stomach, to digest the stone-hard shrooms. "Soft" is the keyword.
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CaptainLinger
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Is the "talk to the shroom" stuff a shtick, as I thought, or are you stone cold serious?
I wouldn't care much what they did to my feet after I was dead. Nor does a low-level fungus. Slicing does help disperse the moisture.
Making them dry is for storage.
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After watching that video i can help but think, thats 3 minutes of my life i'm never getting back. Some of the videos are good, but that one particularly is not informative in the least bit.
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