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 using a food dehydrator? 
#2198774 - 12/24/03 12:37 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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is it safe to use a food dehydrator at its lowest heat setting, 95 degrees? i can't turn the heat off, it heats automatically and simultaneously while it fans. will i lose significant potency at 95 degrees?
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: lionhead]
#2198779 - 12/24/03 12:41 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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i guess is no, and if any very little. You figure your growing them around 80, but thats just my 2 cents.
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: lionhead]
#2198889 - 12/24/03 02:08 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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No, your fine.
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: lionhead]
#2198936 - 12/24/03 02:37 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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dude, just go to walmart and buy the 15$ food dehydrator and cut the wires to the heating element. simple and very effective. or thats what I hear
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: lionhead]
#2199090 - 12/24/03 04:21 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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if you will take a razor and split the stems le aving them conected at the cap and spliting the stem down the middle you will see a huge differance in the speed of drying.
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: lionhead]
#2199108 - 12/24/03 04:51 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've dried quite a few shrooms in my Nesco dehydrator with the heat set at 95. I've seen over ten different people, including myself, all trip balls taking average doses of shrooms dried at that temp.....so it seems to work just fine. Never had a problem with potency loss at all.
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: lionhead]
#2199154 - 12/24/03 06:07 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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what is the name and vrand of your dehydrator, i want one.
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: Segabo]
#2199181 - 12/24/03 06:31 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have a american harvest. It's a cheapo but has a huge range of heat choices. I usualy run mone on the herb setting
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: lionhead]
#2199318 - 12/24/03 09:01 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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what magash said.....I've seen them dried at full heat setting with no loss in potency..dried within 3-4 hours too....but I would recommend 95
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#2199747 - 12/24/03 02:52 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I use a fan hung over my fruits, fruits are in a cardboard box on top of screen. works awesome. No heat at all. I'll up load pics soon. 
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: discomfort]
#2199788 - 12/24/03 03:26 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I use to use a old box fan turned upside down setting on top of a old keg. basicly it was a table with a fan to draw air thru the top.
I took off the back guard and put some cage wire over it and let the fan run sucking air past the mush.
It worked but the motor on the box fans would only last a few months running like that.
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: lionhead]
#2200331 - 12/25/03 01:30 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've used a fan and air dried some fan is fast and less chance of rot, air drying does work, afer anything without a low temp heating element use something like dryright or silica gel, a dissecant
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: Granola]
#2200431 - 12/25/03 02:49 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: THEBOSS]
#2202852 - 12/26/03 10:42 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is my dryng chamber. This weekend I'm adding a desicant screen under my fruits.
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: discomfort]
#2203190 - 12/27/03 02:43 AM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: using a food dehydrator? [Re: THEBOSS]
#2203276 - 12/27/03 03:20 AM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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ANNO - any comments or suggestions on this subject ? will a cheapie dehydrator work fine ? or does dessicant work just as well ? and no i didn't do a search 
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