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roulette450
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Drying For Poor People
#14208570 - 03/30/11 09:58 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I do not have a desiccant. I do not have a food dehydrator. I do not have a space heater. Also, I do not have an oven. Besides the advice to get a damn oven..
How can I dry mushrooms in under 3 days to prevent spoiling without any of the previously mentioned tools.
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Luger0815
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Do you have a fan? If so, you should point the fan to your shrooms.
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: Luger0815]
#14208703 - 03/30/11 10:26 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Take a piece of fishing line thread it through the stems of the mushrooms, making a mushie necklace of sorts, find a way to hang your mushie necklace in front of the fan and let them bad boys dry.
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Depends how much you have to dry... I used to dry mine in a folded paper towel on top of a stereo receiver, alarm clock... that was just for a small amount... from cakes... dried nice...
for larger amounts... i got a food dehydrator for like $25 NEW...
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: Luger0815]
#14208718 - 03/30/11 10:29 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Luger0815 said: Do you have a fan? If so, you should point the fan to your shrooms.

Only other option would be to lay them out to air dry. But that sucks.
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: esquaredx]
#14208826 - 03/30/11 10:50 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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if you still got one of them old tv put the shrooms on top of it inside a carboard box. mines dries out by the end of the day if i keep the tv on cuz it gets so hot.
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skyjohnny
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Place them in a warm spot, thickly wrapped in napkins or paper towels and apply new napkins or paper towels often, by first removing the old (now damp) ones. If they are covered well you could probably place them in a sunny location, though a tv, computer or other electrical appliance would at least provide some added heat to speed evaporation. Good luck. Also, you should consider selling a couple and buying a dehydrator.
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you have a computer. that means you have a fan at the back of it.
why not leave your comp on and try using your computer fan to dry them out. ive never tried it but im just thinking that since it shoots a nice stream of warm dry air it might acually work well.
lay them on top of a piece of tissue or paper towel
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: jimmyjame1]
#14208942 - 03/30/11 11:12 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I know this sounds like a horrible idea but has anyone ever tried microwave like 10-15 seconds at a time might do the job?
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: 3Cajun1Mo8]
#14208953 - 03/30/11 11:15 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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that would just boil the water inside the shrooms, and cook it. it wouldn't dry out i dont think.
try it with one, but i think high heat will make the mushroom much less potent. but i could be completely wrong
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: jimmyjame1]
#14208980 - 03/30/11 11:21 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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i use rice to suck the moisture out of mu phone when it gets wet. should be able to pull some if not all the moisture out.
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: jimmyjame1]
#14208981 - 03/30/11 11:22 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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the microwave would not dry them out and they would likely be digusting after that.
Do you have a furnace room?
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biologys
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any computer, PS3, xbox/360 anything like that, turn it on and play place the fan blowing warm air towards the shrooms on a napkin..
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try the computer fan. lol
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: jimmyjame1]
#14209027 - 03/30/11 11:31 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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whys everyone gotta microwave everything thats what i wanna know?
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: darkhawk37]
#14209044 - 03/30/11 11:33 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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just being exposed to that sorta stuff is what is ruining our dna structure. locking us off from our pure potential.
(off topic anyone heard about the pineal gland and its uses. )
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: darkhawk37]
#14209056 - 03/30/11 11:35 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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rice in a bowl with paper towel over rice...with fan blowing. replace rice daily...till dry
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Just yesterday I drilled a shitload of holes in the bottom of a plastic bucket laying around the house...

And cut a wire mesh window screen into pieces to make layers that fit nicely inside...

Now I just need bungee cords to attach to a fan.
Set mushrooms on bottom of bucket, set a layer of wire mesh, repeat until full. Set bucket onto a fan and bungee cord it into place.
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: shthd]
#14209207 - 03/30/11 12:00 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Get a dehydrator at Goodwill for like five bucks.
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: Doc_T]
#14209306 - 03/30/11 12:25 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Interesting. I guess our ancestors used the sun and wind.
My favorite way is to slice the larger fruits in halves or quarters and fan them from underneath in a wire mesh sieve. They are pretty dry in 24hrs with a toss or two. Then they go in a sealed container with a load of desiccant for a day or two. Cracker dry, they go in a screw lid jar with a sachet of new desiccant and are kept in the fridge.
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: tugwax]
#14209357 - 03/30/11 12:34 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I like the rice idea. I too have used it to dry my phone (after dropping in the creek out back) combine that with the heat from the comp. or tv, they ought to be done in no time
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: tugwax]
#14209397 - 03/30/11 12:43 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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If i'm in a rush to dry something i just pop it behind my pc tower or xbox and wait a few hours. The fans that cool the processor puts out constant warm air flow. Just stick those suckers near there and soon you'll have cracker dry anything.
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: Obey]
#14217185 - 03/31/11 08:47 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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When I have a lot of shrooms to dry, I take an old box fan ( the big square ones, like 24"x24" or so). Then go to Walmart or any hardware store & buy 2 furnace filters....like 89 cents each. Spread all your shrooms evenly on one filter, then tape the other filter on top ( like a filter-mushroom-filter sandwich lol). Either tape or bungie cord the filter sandwich to the side w/ the air blowing out. If you can, put the fan in a closet w/ a space heater set on low w/ the lights out. MEGA DRY!
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Quote:
thepreciouslamb said: When I have a lot of shrooms to dry, I take an old box fan ( the big square ones, like 24"x24" or so). Then go to Walmart or any hardware store & buy 2 furnace filters....like 89 cents each. Spread all your shrooms evenly on one filter, then tape the other filter on top ( like a filter-mushroom-filter sandwich lol). Either tape or bungie cord the filter sandwich to the side w/ the air blowing out. If you can, put the fan in a closet w/ a space heater set on low w/ the lights out. MEGA DRY!
I saw this on good eats... but when i tried it, the furnace filter stuck to my food so I had to peel off the little filter fibers lol
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Re: Drying For Poor People [Re: Onox]
#14220021 - 04/01/11 10:50 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thats where I learned how to do it lol. If you pre-dry the shrooms with a fan for at least 12 hrs, the filters don't seem to stick as much. But yeah, those fibers are pretty damn sharp lol.
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Oven drying. But temp on lowest setting crack the oven door. Takes a few hours and no potency loss.
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