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jivangilad
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How many silica gel packets per musroom?
#22348319 - 10/08/15 12:33 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Mushrooms were leather dry. I have put them in a zip bag with silica gel packets. After two days they dont seem to have dried much. Should I add More packets? Should I reactivate those packets? Should I add more packets?
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: jivangilad]
#22348354 - 10/08/15 12:57 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Id say head over to goodwill get you a dehydrator for $5 and use the packets for storage rather than drying.
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: PhlacidWeenis]
#22348424 - 10/08/15 01:35 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Silica/desiccant has no purpose when it comes to drying mushrooms. Get a dehydrator. Then add the silica to the bag once they are completely dry.
I don't think that I would put fresh mushrooms in a zip lock bag. You should open the bag up
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jivangilad
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: tahoe]
#22348449 - 10/08/15 01:54 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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tahoe said: Silica/desiccant has no purpose when it comes to drying mushrooms.
I don't think that I would put fresh mushrooms in a zip lock bag. You should open the bag up
They were not fresh. but leather dry. There are many posts about drying with silica gel.
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: jivangilad]
#22348504 - 10/08/15 02:35 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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You can also just throw them in the oven at 250f for 15 minute intervals until cracker dry. If not, you want Damprid (calcium chloride), not silica gel packs.
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jivangilad
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: Sksoul]
#22348603 - 10/08/15 03:51 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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1. Do I need to separate the calcium chloride from mushrooms with a paper? Who long should it take to dry in an oven if the mushrooms are leather dry? I have a very limited access to oven.
Edited by jivangilad (10/08/15 03:52 AM)
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: jivangilad]
#22348605 - 10/08/15 03:55 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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A single unit is enough for a two quart jar. Put your DRIED shrooms in the jar and toss one unit. They will be fine. Story in a dry and dark place.
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: AkashicExplorer]
#22348635 - 10/08/15 04:17 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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AkashicExplorer said: A single unit is enough for a two quart jar. Put your DRIED shrooms in the jar and toss one unit. They will be fine. Story in a dry and dark place.
They are not completely dry. They are leather dry. I want to completely dry them with desiccant.
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: jivangilad]
#22361338 - 10/10/15 11:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I have a few zip locks with mushrooms. I have changed packets and 3 days later a few of them dried out completely and some not.
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jivangilad
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: jivangilad]
#22366825 - 10/12/15 06:26 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Those who were still not dry, I have put with calcium chloride, and they dried out quickly. I'll stick to calcium chloride next time
Edited by jivangilad (10/12/15 06:28 AM)
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: jivangilad]
#22366867 - 10/12/15 06:59 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Calcium chloride is for keeping cracker dry shrooms cracker dry. Don't dry them like a noob, go pony up and get a dehydrator or find a new hobby
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: bodhisatta]
#22373459 - 10/13/15 01:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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bodhisatta said: Calcium chloride is for keeping cracker dry shrooms cracker dry. Don't dry them like a noob, go pony up and get a dehydrator or find a new hobby
This is not the best way to do it, but that is what I have. It reminds me being in India, in a mountain Koday kanal where mushrooms grow. I met a old local man who loved mushrooms. Before the season ended he made me dry mushrooms in the air for a few days, then he cracker dried them in a pan over fire made by wood. made a powder of it manually in a mortar and mixed it with honey to preserve. It lasted me for a few months, and was still good.
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: jivangilad]
#22373519 - 10/13/15 01:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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You don't live in India you're on the internet asking questions, get a dehydrator
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: bodhisatta]
#22373540 - 10/13/15 01:59 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://www.amazon.com
I saw at least 3 under $40, and 3 under $30. They'd work just fine.
Edited by Mad Season (10/13/15 02:00 PM)
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: jivangilad]
#22373608 - 10/13/15 02:11 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
jivangilad said:
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bodhisatta said: Calcium chloride is for keeping cracker dry shrooms cracker dry. Don't dry them like a noob, go pony up and get a dehydrator or find a new hobby
This is not the best way to do it, but that is what I have. It reminds me being in India, in a mountain Koday kanal where mushrooms grow. I met a old local man who loved mushrooms. Before the season ended he made me dry mushrooms in the air for a few days, then he cracker dried them in a pan over fire made by wood. made a powder of it manually in a mortar and mixed it with honey to preserve. It lasted me for a few months, and was still good.
Nice story..
That's should be a great way to preserve the dried mushroom powder using honey...
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: micelio]
#22373797 - 10/13/15 02:44 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. A fan will get your shrooms pretty close to cracker dry if not all the way there. You can then put them in a decasant chamber for storage after thay. I use this set up to dry LARGE quantities at a time

Nothing more than a fan on one end with large holes to let air in and a lot of small holes to let air out the other sideside. Move them around a little once a day just because I'm not sure how even the airflow is but from fresh to cracker dry is about 3 days you can just slip it under the bed whole it's running
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: micelio]
#22373829 - 10/13/15 02:50 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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mmm blue honey
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jivangilad
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: Mad Season]
#22376466 - 10/13/15 11:28 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Mad Season said: http://www.amazon.com
I saw at least 3 under $40, and 3 under $30. They'd work just fine.
With shipping outside the US, it is 100 $, which unfortunately, I find it hard. Also I don't plan to grow mushrooms forever, just the amount I need for now.
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: jivangilad]
#22376499 - 10/13/15 11:36 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Then dry them in the oven, with the door cracked, on the lowest setting, with a fan blowing toward the cracked door. Turn em every 15-20 min to keep from burning. Fan drying and desiccate takes days to dry, the longer it takes, the more potency you lose.
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: jivangilad]
#22376518 - 10/13/15 11:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't plan to grow mushrooms forever, just the amount I need for now.
yeah right,
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Re: How many silica gel packets per musroom? [Re: micelio]
#22401160 - 10/19/15 04:06 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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So I have just built my food dehydrator. Very easy. Inside a box, covered with tin foil. A fan and a lamp. Only concern, is that it might burn, so I should be around when it works. How much time should it take to dehydrate fresh mushrooms in a food dehydrator?
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