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xvx
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Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not?
#23484668 - 07/28/16 06:34 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I got my first food dehydrator today and I am happy! I have one question, though. Should I put the mushrooms on the trails as they are, or should I cut them in half or even little pieces? Does it effect potency in any way?
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: xvx]
#23484679 - 07/28/16 06:39 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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You can just fill them up whole in the trays. They'll shrink a good amount.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Grey]
#23484681 - 07/28/16 06:41 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Grey said: You can just fill them up whole in the trays. They'll shrink a good amount.
How much longer will it take to get them cracker dry?
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: xvx]
#23484688 - 07/28/16 06:45 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I dry mine for twelve hours. They're always done by then for me.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Grey]
#23484691 - 07/28/16 06:47 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Grey said: I dry mine for twelve hours. They're always done by then for me.
Okay, thank you. Awesome!
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: xvx]
#23484692 - 07/28/16 06:48 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Dont cut em but its preference. When you give a little squeeze and it snaps like crackers then there done times range from climate to machine i would speculate me four hours done.
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xvx
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: xvx]
#23484697 - 07/28/16 06:50 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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What about large fruit bodies, though? Should I just cut one tray so that I can just use it as a seperator? Big fruits don't fit in my current setup.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: xvx]
#23484709 - 07/28/16 07:02 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yea splitting large fruits in half id probably do.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: xvx]
#23484923 - 07/28/16 08:41 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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put em in whole. Never a problem. I took one of the trays and cut the mesh out to act as a spacer for the BIG mothers. That way I can put them in whole. Just make sure they're cracker dry when you pull them out.



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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Hugh Jorgan]
#23484933 - 07/28/16 08:44 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Lol. Yeah if the fruit is too big to fit, I just put it in anyways sure it can look like the leaning tower of Pisa, but after a few hours it shrinks enough for the trays to close.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Mad Season]
#23484994 - 07/28/16 09:04 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah Mad I have mashed quite a few down even with the spacer. Some of these caps grow as big as a CD.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Hugh Jorgan]
#23485140 - 07/28/16 09:55 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Just check them every hour or so as you are getting close to dry. You will know when they are dry when they crumble/snap when you squeeze them. Don't dry them beyond this, as they will start to cook, change colour and darken.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: AgarStudent]
#23485233 - 07/28/16 10:25 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Dry them an extra 12 hours if you want... That doesn't actually happen. It's better for them to be 24 hours overdried than 20 minutes underdried.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Inocuole]
#23485248 - 07/28/16 10:31 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Don't cut up your trays. Just mash them in there. Split larger mushrooms in half.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Bobabouy]
#23485264 - 07/28/16 10:36 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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mash em in. Pile them up even.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Mad Season]
#23485279 - 07/28/16 10:43 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I disagree. Mangle half your trays for maximum space. I used a hammer.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Inocuole]
#23485324 - 07/28/16 10:54 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Just cut the caps off and split the stems if really thick. Makes them dry faster. Faster drying= more potency.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Eywa_devotee]
#23485989 - 07/28/16 02:27 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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just harvested this monster. Should be fun stuffing it in the dehydrator
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xvx
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: Hugh Jorgan]
#23488131 - 07/29/16 02:52 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Looking gorgeous, man! Make sure to post a pic of the stuffed trays in this thread, I'd love to see that.
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Re: Drying with a food dehydrator - Cut or not? [Re: xvx]
#23488143 - 07/29/16 03:01 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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