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growersunite
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: Doc_T]
#25266417 - 06/13/18 06:24 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Doc_T said: Don't go over 170, lower if you can. My dehydrator runs around 130. Faster drying certainly affects taste and texture even if the magic is not degraded.
For how long approximately?
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: growersunite]
#25266511 - 06/13/18 07:08 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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growersunite said:
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Doc_T said: Don't go over 170, lower if you can. My dehydrator runs around 130. Faster drying certainly affects taste and texture even if the magic is not degraded.
For how long approximately?
Till they are cracker dry
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joey
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: growersunite]
#25266812 - 06/13/18 09:55 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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For around seven years.
Just as long as this post is old.
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TexasMyco7
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: joey]
#25266852 - 06/13/18 10:25 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Although I am sure dehydrator works well, desiccants are amazing and work fantastically if you air dry with a desk fan for the first 12-24 hours.
I use the same epsom salt that you can but from target, $5 for 5lbs. The chemical makeup is MgSO4·7H2O, note the 7 water molecules at the end. Take the epsom salt out of the bag and bake it at 250-300 for a couple of hours, stirring it ever 30 mins or so, then put it in the bottom of a plastic tub. Add a couple of napkins, your partially dried fruits, and then the tight fitting lid. (if the lid isnt tight fitting, layer saran wrap 10 times or so to make a thick sheet and put that over the open tub before the lid) Wait a mere 24 hours and you'll have cracker dry fruits.
When your done, dry the salts in the oven to use them again, or throw them in the tub and take a well deserved epson salt bath. Cheap, reusable, and no heat needed. You seriously cant beat it.
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: TexasMyco7]
#25267416 - 06/14/18 08:34 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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I got a $30 presto dehydrator from walmart. Runs at 165F and i have never lost potency. Heat is needed to dry cracker dry. Oxidation is a potency killer. You want to get them as dry as possible as fast as possible. Fans, boxes, dessicants, etc. I have tried many ways. Dehydrator is the best way. They get cracker dry in several hours not days.
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: Ama420]
#25268205 - 06/14/18 03:53 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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You figure you don't lose potency? I air dry with fans asap, then I dehydrate with a presto unit until cracker dry.I will skip the air dry and just dehydrator them until dry.This my first batch and very potent, so I am sure the way I dried them worked well.
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: rockpup] 1
#25268313 - 06/14/18 04:40 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Still more optimal to go right to dehydrator
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Ama420
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: bodhisatta]
#25268332 - 06/14/18 04:48 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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rockpup
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: Ama420]
#25268354 - 06/14/18 05:01 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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OK going straight to dehydrator doing a few more-
What temp should I use please? I just use the lowest settings? I have been told the Alkaloids will start to break down at higher heat settings.
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: rockpup]
#25268358 - 06/14/18 05:03 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mine runs at 165F i hear of plenty of people running it at 210F. Pretty much your highest setting or 180 or something of that nature. Not sure a precise temp but heat wont affect it like thwy used to always say.
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: rockpup]
#25268366 - 06/14/18 05:06 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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rockpup said: OK going straight to dehydrator doing a few more-
What temp should I use please? I just use the lowest settings? I have been told the Alkaloids will start to break down at higher heat settings.
The highest heat it goes.
We make tea with boiling water. Well over 170f of a dehydrator. You can put magic mushrooms on pizza in a 450f oven for 15m they still work. They've been deep fried, tempura battered in 350+ oil And cronicr even pressure cooked some shrooms and still tripped on them
You know you're talking to someone you shouldn't listen to if they say heat breaks down the alkaloids. Yea like 450+ degree heat
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Re: yet another how to dry mushrooms thread [Re: bodhisatta]
#25268571 - 06/14/18 06:55 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cool I will run mine as hot as I can.I think the quicker the better anyway.Thank you! There is still lot's of old post's with air dry and people bashing using heat to dry-kinda where I conjured up this myth.
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