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jivangilad
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Preserve mushrooms in ice?
#21799663 - 06/12/15 09:22 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have just a few mushrooms and I don't want to bother about drying them etc. I want to preserve maybe for a couple of months. I thought maybe to blend them with water and put in freezer. My reasoning is that ice should not exchange gases well. Does that make sense?
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xFrockx


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Re: Preserve mushrooms in ice? [Re: jivangilad]
#21799797 - 06/12/15 09:51 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Just dry them, it takes zero effort.
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StygianKnight
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Re: Preserve mushrooms in ice? [Re: xFrockx]
#21799959 - 06/12/15 10:36 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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As long as you don't mind drinking mushie slush water... yes, it will work fine like that.
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I have read of several people making shroom tea and freezing it for very long lengths of time with little or no potency loss.
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Re: Preserve mushrooms in ice? [Re: Ncogneato]
#21800185 - 06/12/15 11:43 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Check out blue honey.
I'm growing out some PE now to use for honey.
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Re: Preserve mushrooms in ice? [Re: 2shoes]
#21800629 - 06/13/15 03:24 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I would expect them to lose potency if you freeze them due to ice crystals forming and piercing cell walls.
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jivangilad
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Quote:
newbie2shoes said: Check out blue honey.
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If I understand it properly, I will need to dry it before, which is what I want to avoid.Quote:
xFrockx said: Just dry them, it takes zero effort.
What is your method of drying?Quote:
Ncogneato said:
I have read of several people making shroom tea and freezing it for very long lengths of time with little or no potency loss.
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StygianKnight said: As long as you don't mind drinking mushie slush water... yes, it will work fine like that.
Thanks.
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Re: Preserve mushrooms in ice? [Re: jivangilad]
#21801802 - 06/13/15 10:38 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Place on screen, wait a week or so. Not much more complicated than that. Unless you live in a rainforest, they will dry out.
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jivangilad
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Re: Preserve mushrooms in ice? [Re: xFrockx]
#21802122 - 06/13/15 11:09 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
xFrockx said: Place on screen, wait a week or so. Not much more complicated than that. Unless you live in a rainforest, they will dry out.
63% humidity, but pretty hot. In my conditions, also I cannot use fan. I think I should start to build drying chamber and get desiccants, but for this time, I will just freeze.
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Re: Preserve mushrooms in ice? [Re: jivangilad]
#21802499 - 06/13/15 01:10 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think tea will freeze fine. I've kept acidified (lemon teked) tea in the fridge for a week without any noticeable potency loss.
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xFrockx


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Re: Preserve mushrooms in ice? [Re: jivangilad]
#21802634 - 06/13/15 01:54 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Regardless of what I have read, I have always found dessicants optional. at 63% humidity and hot, you can dry them out to leather-dry (without a fan) and they will keep for over a year without any noticeable loss of potency compared to desiccant drying. If you want to save them for 3-5 years, maybe go cracker dry, but for a few months its definitely unnecessary.
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