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grod31
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Re: PF Tek, keeps producing compacted substrate after PCing. [Re: Spongiform]
#9501889 - 12/27/08 12:01 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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i use the clearish quart containers that they give soup in at Chinese food places. when making Polly fill lids they warp. i have tryd dozens of different Tye's sometimes they are fine sometimes they warp.there has only been a few times they warped to point that i couldn't use them.
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Re: PF Tek, keeps producing compacted substrate after PCing. [Re: grod31]
#9502170 - 12/27/08 01:10 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Oh, those are cheap as shit :-D I've got some but didn't think they would hold up to PC'ing. I use them to store coffee grains 1 quart at a time.
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roxes_kh
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Re: PF Tek, keeps producing compacted substrate after PCing. [Re: Spongiform]
#9502253 - 12/27/08 01:24 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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what I've tried and I'm starting to like is making cakes from wbs, work well for me
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Re: PF Tek, keeps producing compacted substrate after PCing. [Re: roxes_kh]
#9502469 - 12/27/08 02:00 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've tried rye, brown rice and wbs and honestly, once it's ground up it all looks the same.
I can't even tell the cakes apart once they're colonized. Yields might be different, I haven't any done sort of testing on that yet.
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Re: PF Tek, keeps producing compacted substrate after PCing. [Re: Spongiform]
#9504654 - 12/27/08 10:36 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't grind mine up I just prepare the wbs like normal, wait for full colonization and instead of casing I dunk and roll them....... the only thing is rinsing them can be a bitch
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Re: PF Tek, keeps producing compacted substrate after PCing. [Re: jscix]
#14887671 - 08/07/11 09:43 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have also heard that the substrate in brf cakes can compact like this when you don't turn down the heat enough on your pressure cooker/stockpot after operating pressure/pot full of steam is reached.
I'm having the same issue, with powdery verm (fine verm, I guess lol) though only on one batch of cakes. Trying again tonight, if I'm successful I'll post what I did differently from the last time.
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Re: PF Tek, keeps producing compacted substrate after PCing. [Re: LearyTheory]
#14887768 - 08/07/11 10:06 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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After filling the jar, take a wooden spoon or block of wood and whack the sides of the jar a few times. This will settle the mix. Add more if necessary and then top off with the dry verm layer. Tap again and top off the dry verm. If you put the jar lid rubber side up, the shape of the lid allows you to pile the verm up a bit above the edge of the glass. This should fix the settling problem. RR
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