|
NPoB
Curious

Registered: 01/24/16
Posts: 93
Loc: Mendocino County
Last seen: 14 days, 16 hours
|
slicing Boletes
#23849047 - 11/19/16 03:52 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
I'm not sure that this is the best place for this question but it did not really fit in with foraging or with cultivating. Boletes have always been a challenge for me to slice up nicely due to being irregularly shaped, fairly fragile and slippery. Small queens can work OK but something larger, a large king, tends to end up as irregular slices if coming from my hands. In an article on California Boletes, David Aurora shows a photo of an old-timer with a modified bread slicer used for uniformly slicing boletes. Those aren't made anymore and the new ones are (for me) expensive. It would be possible to make a surrogate but it would seem like a little sawing action would be required and holding the bolete in place without slicing myself or harming the blades seems to want more than just securing the cutting blades together with spacers and putting a handle on it? A light touch is needed to get full slices from a large bolete under the best of conditions so that gives me some concern. I can find the parts to build one that could make a few same-sized slices at once - for around $65 - but I was curious how other people approach this as someone has likely already found a winning solution that is simpler. I'd like to find a better way to slice boletes for drying and was wondering if anyone has a suggestion. Thanks!
|
Lucis
Nutritional Yeast

Registered: 03/28/15
Posts: 15,622
Last seen: 1 month, 29 days
|
Re: slicing Boletes [Re: NPoB]
#23864114 - 11/24/16 05:00 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Can you use a wire cheese cutter, maybe if it's large enough you can slice them like that.
Boletes are usually fairly soft to cut, I just think a good sharp knife would be fine, cut them in slices length wise and lay out to dry on some type of screen if you don't have a dehumidifier. Some people find cooking them in a little bit of butter and freezing to be a good way to store them, I have never done this though so can't speak from experience.
I used an old bamboo rice cooker for drying mushrooms in front of a fan, used that for years because I was not trying to spend any money, worked well, but not so well on larger collections.
-------------------- ©️
|
falcon



Registered: 04/01/02
Posts: 8,005
Last seen: 1 day, 5 hours
|
Re: slicing Boletes [Re: NPoB]
#23866546 - 11/25/16 04:23 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Sounds like you're cutting up kings that are past their prime. You could try cutting them in half and laying the large flat face of the slice you just made through the mushroom on the board and then making your slices through half a mushroom. If you're doing a large mushroom this will make them easier to handle and dry faster.
|
|