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ChicagoMan
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Food dehydrator better or worse with heating element?
#23470762 - 07/23/16 09:59 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I can dry most cubes in 4-5 hours, PE at least 6-8 with heat.there's only 1 setting, on/off so disconnecting the element 190° variety I believe. (Sunbeam). Shouldn't be loosing any potency from heat that low as I understand. But if you know better please let me know...please and thank you!
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bodhisatta 
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Re: Food dehydrator better or worse with heating element? [Re: ChicagoMan]
#23470830 - 07/23/16 10:21 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Small fruits take 8 hours to cracker dry at 170F in a dehydrator. If the dehydrator has no element its useless for us
12 hours is average to cracker dry. Well over for big fruits
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Psychedel.EXE
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Re: Food dehydrator better or worse with heating element? [Re: bodhisatta]
#23470960 - 07/23/16 11:09 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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mo heat = mo betta!
Heat DOES NOT effect potency.
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Edited by Psychedel.EXE (07/23/16 11:22 PM)
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bodhisatta 
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Re: Food dehydrator better or worse with heating element? [Re: Psychedel.EXE]
#23470999 - 07/23/16 11:39 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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A dehydrator would melt before potency loss. Heat denatures proteins and disables enzymes so it shuts down degradation process. For Maximum potency retention dry to cracker dry as fast as possible with at least 160F
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Re: Food dehydrator better or worse with heating element? [Re: bodhisatta]
#23471640 - 07/24/16 08:27 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I dry all my shrooms at 160 F in a dehydrator. Zero potency loss. 2g dried in there feels exactly the same as 2g fan+desiccant dried.
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Re: Food dehydrator better or worse with heating element? [Re: jds] 1
#23471657 - 07/24/16 08:37 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fan dried shrooms would be less potent if anything. The faster to cracker dry the better. Oxidation happens when there's moisture content still in the cells/tissue. Heat also stops degradation by deactivating autolysis enzyme activity.
The slower the dry the worse off you are.
Also https://www.shroomery.org/forums/dosearch.php?where=body&tosearch=both&how=all&words=Dehydrator+heat&limit=25&forum=f2&showmain=1&expert=1&sort=d&way=d
Like years of this discussion happening twice a day
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Re: Food dehydrator better or worse with heating element? [Re: bodhisatta]
#23472642 - 07/24/16 03:27 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Stick a meat thermometer in the dehydrator tray and see what the temp is, if it is 175F or less you are fine if all you are drying is mushrooms. Most important is to dry quickly. Tear the bigger shrooms apart lengthwise so the stem pieces are about 5mm to 7mm thick. This helps them dry quicker and keeps the potency. The caps can be just plopped on. Highly recommended to make spore prints with the bigger ones, say a quarter size or better, only takes 12 hours or so extra time, then plop them on the dehydrator as usual.
I modified the crap out of my dehydrator because i dry a lot of stuff that is REALLY heat sensitive like heirloom plant seeds for with it. Mine can go for 0 to 165 degF. Also modified it with a better fan motor taken out of a junked microwave as well giving about 3x the original airflow.
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Re: Food dehydrator better or worse with heating element? [Re: Eywa_devotee]
#23472688 - 07/24/16 03:50 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Eywa_devotee said: if it is 175F or less you are fine if all you are drying is mushrooms.
is this where you're gonna say temps over 175 destroys actives?
click me
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Re: Food dehydrator better or worse with heating element? [Re: bodhisatta]
#23473572 - 07/24/16 08:39 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Trusted Cultivator said: A dehydrator would melt before potency loss.
 THIS. 1000x's this.
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