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Best Dehydrated Gourmet Strain ???
    #19259557 - 12/11/13 10:50 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Folks - I have a problem in that my myco hobby exceeds my need from a table fare perspective :tongue:.  Some times I have excessive fruits that will go bad from lack of use, which is a waste.  I have a dehydrator and am pondering preserving some of this excess for culinary use between flushes. 

Perhaps my searching is handicapped, but I could really only find This Thread on the topic.  SO.. I get drying with chantereles\morels, but do any of you folks preserve any more of the commonly indoor cultivated species?  If so which ones tend to preserve and reconstitute the best, both from a flavor and texture perspective?  Im currently growing pearls and kings, but have many other gourmets in my library that I could pursue if there are any particular winners in this category.

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Re: Best Dehydrated Gourmet Strain ??? [Re: AbbeyRoad]
    #19259584 - 12/11/13 10:59 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Shiitake dry up great! In the last summer I sun dried them and finished them off in my dehydrator. They rehydrate really well.  I haven't tried oysters but I will be drying some here pretty soon.


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Re: Best Dehydrated Gourmet Strain ??? [Re: AbbeyRoad]
    #19259588 - 12/11/13 11:00 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Shiitake of course dries and reconstitutes very well.  A lot of people say oysters don't but Solarity has had luck with them, even sells them dried, check out this post.  If oysters can work I would think many other species could as well, but I have little experience I usually manage to eat most of mine :lol:


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Re: Best Dehydrated Gourmet Strain ??? [Re: Forrester]
    #19260144 - 12/11/13 01:19 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Forrester said:
Shiitake of course dries and reconstitutes very well.  A lot of people say oysters don't but Solarity has had luck with them, even sells them dried, check out this post.




Yes I do and I have a LOT of repeat business!

The secret is quality in = quality out. Drying will disguise the looks but unless you start with good quality fresh mushrooms you will not get a good result upon re-hydration.


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Re: Best Dehydrated Gourmet Strain ??? [Re: solarity]
    #19261605 - 12/11/13 05:38 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I'd like to do more research on this front, but one thing I've found was that when cooked a long time, as in a soup, reconstituted oyster mushrooms returned to almost what their fresh texture/taste would have been.  key is to cook them hard.

porcini and other boletes are known for developing new and stronger flavors when dried.

I like black trumpets both dried and fresh- different but equally good in my opinion.  Fresh they have a little more of that fruity flavor while dried they seem to get a little stronger in the cheesy department.  All a matter of taste.

Polypores like chickens, hens, stainers, berkleys do not reconstitute well at all.  has to do with the unique macro-molecular structure of the chitin- something happens when they dry such that they'll never return to their original texture.  of course, you can powderize dried mushrooms and add them to stocks etc. as flavoring.


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Re: Best Dehydrated Gourmet Strain ??? [Re: nycomyco]
    #19263030 - 12/11/13 09:47 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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I like black trumpets both dried and fresh- different but equally good in my opinion.  Fresh they have a little more of that fruity flavor while dried they seem to get a little stronger in the cheesy department.  All a matter of taste.




I loved them fresh, but haven't tried out my dried ones yet.  Making me want to now!


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