ecstasteve said:

fridge or not is debatable.  most teks say to use the fridge.  it slows any possible contam growth and causes a large temperature drop which can help trigger pinning.

in my findings, side by side, fridge has always made more pins.

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anonjon said:

You CAN use condensation as an indicator of humidity for cakes. Somewhere between foggy and dripping will work. You don't need a hygrometer for cakes.

Don't mist cakes, when you mist the white fluff on the cake it matts down, turns blue, and doesn't want to pin.

Soak it, roll it, stick it in w/ 3+ inches of perlite, and fan it. You can't go wrong. It'll grow cottony fluff within 2-3 days and probably start pinning on day 4.

Don't stick em in the fridge, you'll just slow em down. Even if you believe cold shocking works (I don't) you've got a plenty big drop in temp just from turning off that heater.


Here is some ecuador cake fruiting on perlite in a single container.



Here is the same cake 2 days after being picked and soaked for 12 hours. (right now)



My lazy cat didn't even bother to roll it in verm, just soaked it and stuck it back in.

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