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mattfreedom2002
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cleaning and drying advice
#20979211 - 12/15/14 11:48 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hi everyone, so I´ve just picked a nice batch of mushrooms from some poo in some mountains in Peru (ooo that rhymed!) and I´ve got a couple under glasses now making spore prints.
In the mean time I wanted to know a few other things...
I hadn't learnt from my girlfriend about always putting the soft vegetables at the top of the bag and as a result my plastic bag full of mushrooms ended up getting pretty mushy. Is it possible for mushrooms to get too wet/humid?
As I picked them out of cow shit, do I need to clean them? I've picked off the large chunks but is a more serious clean required? And does cleaning run the risk of losing any potency?
Final question, I don't plan to take them for a couple of weeks, I guess it's best to dry them? If so, how do I go about doing this?
Thanks a lot in advance, Matt
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Mushrooms start decomposing soon after you pluck them, so it is possible they've lost potency by now. No need to clean them, just brush away any obvious poo. To start drying you want to put them in front of a fan for an hour or two, until they've clearly lost some moisture. If you don't dry them, out all the way and keep them that dry there's no chance they'll survive in storage for even a couple days; to get them crispy dry and safe to store you'll want to use a food dehydrator or silica gel, there's really no way around that. I've tried drying them in an oven on low and it didn't work, they need warm dry air being blown OVER them not just heat around them.
Best of luck!
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Also never store mushrooms in plastic bags. Paper bags FTW.
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Re: cleaning and drying advice (moved) [Re: psilocybeMAN]
#20979697 - 12/15/14 01:51 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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You can clean them by running them under some water if you'd prefer, I read that won't reduce the potency.
As for storing them, you would need to dry them - unless you make a tea from them and then store that instead. Quite simple, find a tea tek and follow it. Then freeze the tea in the freezer. When you want to consume the tea, take it out and let it thaw naturally and then drink away. You can heat it up if you'd prefer hot tea as opposed to iced mushroom tea. hehe
Alternatively probably best for you to lay them out on some news paper or similar and have a fan blowing over them for 12 - 24 hours, there after use some Silica Gel to further dry them. Can take upto 5 / 6 days to become cracker dry from the silica I have heard. Take a container of sorts, put some silica in it and then the mushrooms on top (not on the silica) and then ziplock and put in a fridge is what I have read and shall be trying once I am able to harvest. 
If you have a dehydrator, that will probably be a lot easier.
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Re: cleaning and drying advice (moved) [Re: PsyCLown89]
#20979918 - 12/15/14 02:38 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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I started out with a wild print and it took agar work to get it cleaned up, so i suggest jumping right to that. And yes, i would def dry them if your waiting a few weeks. if you have a dehydrator, use it. if not, get a box fan and throw them on a screen or something on top this method can take forever but it works
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Edited by PurePleasure (12/15/14 02:41 PM)
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Re: cleaning and drying advice (moved) [Re: PurePleasure]
#20980423 - 12/15/14 04:05 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thanks everyone for the advice! I don't have a fan, food dehydrator or silican... I'm travelling and currently in a hostel, are there any on the road techniques to drying them? I have a microwave or a frying pan? Or could I freeze them?
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Quote:
mattfreedom2002 said: Thanks everyone for the advice! I don't have a fan, food dehydrator or silican... I'm travelling and currently in a hostel, are there any on the road techniques to drying them? I have a microwave or a frying pan? Or could I freeze them?
Sorry partner but if you make them into tea/kool aid and freeze that it'll keep for a while. Just don't thaw and refreeze it.
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Re: cleaning and drying advice (moved) [Re: Nooner]
#20980731 - 12/15/14 05:02 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Set them on a solid countertop and put a lightbulb about 5 inches away from them.
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