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Jailbait
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Shredding shrooms for faster drying?
#10110417 - 04/05/09 01:16 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I picked up this hobby with a friend of mine so we can compare results and just give it a try. I dry my fruits over a fan for a day, then use desiccant to finish drying them.
However, my friend just informed me that he shreds his fruits and places them in front of a fan and they dry within the day. Is this a viable method to dry them? Could there be a significant change in the potency of fruits that are dried with this method?
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: Jailbait]
#10110563 - 04/05/09 01:49 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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You can dry them in your oven on the lowest setting on a thick piece of cardboard with the door partly opened in about 4-12hrs with NO loss of potency.
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: Jailbait]
#10110923 - 04/05/09 02:51 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Don't you love it when people answer someone else's question?
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: Mad River]
#10110985 - 04/05/09 03:04 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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What I am saying is it doesn't matter shredded or not, you want fast and retained potency go the oven route.
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If you shred them, slice them, etc., it only makes sense that yes, it will dry faster and therefore, be a compoletely viable method to drying them. many shroomers do that actually.
It doesn't make sense to me however, how shredding them or slicing them could affect the potency in any way, so I'm going to say it doesn't affect the potency.
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: Fryer Mike]
#10111087 - 04/05/09 03:30 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I use a dehydrator. Dries them in 4 hours.
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: JPmagic]
#10111095 - 04/05/09 03:32 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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4 hours really?
My dehydrator reaches ~180F and it still takes 24-36 hours most of the time
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: RedBeerd]
#10111120 - 04/05/09 03:36 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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24-36 hours??? That doesn't sound like a good dehydrator to me. Might as well dry them with a fan for that long :S
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Mad River
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: JPmagic]
#10115979 - 04/06/09 10:57 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think the dude's question is derived from the commonly held belief that exposing shrooms, especially cut sections, to oxygen results in oxidation of the actives; which would be maximized by shredding.
I have always found the validity of this to be puzzling as well.
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: Mad River]
#10116084 - 04/06/09 11:10 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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shredding can't be good since bruuising is oxidation from loss of actives that doesn't sound like a good idea at all to shred them, I would think you are seriously fucking the potrency but I could be wrong...
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: Mad River]
#10116086 - 04/06/09 11:10 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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shredding can't be good since bruising is oxidation from loss of actives that doesn't sound like a good idea at all to shred them, I would think you are seriously fucking the potency but I could be wrong...
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: rizingfire]
#10116172 - 04/06/09 11:24 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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i was always under the belief that any kind of heat ruined the potency
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: Monkee]
#10116189 - 04/06/09 11:27 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Psylocybin and psylocin will break down with heat but its a certain temp........not sure what that temp is though 160 maybe?
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Mad River
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: brandonb1369]
#10116245 - 04/06/09 11:36 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Like I said, a lot of this information just isn't clear. There are people that use quite high temps to dry. Also, powdering shrooms to capsulize is also done at no loss of potency. Of course they are powdered after drying.
I would try shredding them if you want, dry them, then experiment with an appropriate dosage. If it works, then I guess it didn't affect the potency. My guess would be that it works fine.
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Re: Shredding shrooms for faster drying? [Re: Mad River]
#10116473 - 04/06/09 12:07 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ive done this they all bruised really bad and we got no buzz i wouldn't do it (fan dry)
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