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ShroomGoddess
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Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms???
#26574203 - 04/02/20 10:57 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I know, it's crazy, right?
I found 2 1/8th's of cracker dry shrooms in my keepsake box from when I was 15 years old. These puppies are literally almost 20 years old!!!
So... Can I eat them?
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: ShroomGoddess] 1
#26574302 - 04/03/20 12:12 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Assuming they were “safe” when you got them 20 years ago and assuming they were kept dry in you box, without growing any mold on them I would say they are safe. The worst case scenario would be the actives have degraded.
Michael Poland talks about having a jar of shrooms given to him in his late twenties that he kept until around the time he wrote his book and he tripped off of them...
I would play it safe and maybe start small in case of mold or some other possible contamination. Do you have bad allergies?
Overall I’d assume you are good, but I am no expert.
Interested to see how this works out... good luck - be safe
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: ShroomGoddess] 1
#26574304 - 04/03/20 12:14 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I’ve heard of mushrooms over 100 years old that were found to still contain psilocybin, so good luck
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: DJ Ed]
#26574336 - 04/03/20 12:52 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thanks for the responses!
I never get allergies, so that's a positive.
I do worry about the mold. I mean, they 'look' fine. I took one of the 1/8ths back when I was 15. It was my first trip! But I didn't even remember that I had 2 more bags until I found them the other day. So who knows how they were stored immediately after I aquired them.
I'm still debating if I should take the risk.
Would making a tea help, I wonder?
I know how bad mold can be. Like, hospital-style bad. I wish I knew more about how these critters break down over time.
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: ShroomGoddess] 1
#26574347 - 04/03/20 01:03 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think you'll be grand.
As long as there no visible mild growing ie green and white blobs present.
Even fusty shrooms which havnt been dried correctly still do the job but to less of an extent.
I say check them over and if they look ok your good to eat or like u said make a tea from them.
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: BasilBush]
#26574373 - 04/03/20 01:26 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Post a pic. If they've been stored as you say - dry and in the dark, they may be fine, or the actives may've decomposed. There's only one way to find out, right?
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: Boarders]
#26574530 - 04/03/20 04:51 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Would you eat 20 your old “insert other fungus or edible thing in same condition as ur stuff “ ?
Sounds idiotic to me. Just find or grow your own. Why risk it. 20 years is a long time, even for food meant to be stored long term.
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: The Blind Ass]
#26574739 - 04/03/20 08:04 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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They’re probably not going to still be active or have any useful spores, but I would try to drop the spores on some wet agar just for fun.
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: SynKyd]
#26574798 - 04/03/20 08:55 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I bet they are inative. 20 years is a long time for instable compounds.. especially with roomtemp storage. 
But as long as they are not moldy they should be good to eat. I'd make tea, though.
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: Pandemoon]
#26574839 - 04/03/20 09:19 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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EAT UP
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: The Mycologist]
#26575110 - 04/03/20 11:41 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Seems fishy at best.
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: LosTresOjos]
#26575404 - 04/03/20 03:20 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I doubt there's gonna be any psilocybin left, but as long as they're not contaminated... sure?
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: The Blind Ass] 1
#26575413 - 04/03/20 03:25 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
The Blind Ass said: Would you eat 20 your old “insert other fungus or edible thing in same condition as ur stuff “ ?
Hell yes. If your Scotch isn't 20 years old at least why waste your time?
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: InfiniteDreams]
#26575439 - 04/03/20 03:39 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Alcohol is fermented and has unique properties that lend itself to an aging process.
Fungi’s , not so much.
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: The Blind Ass]
#26575482 - 04/03/20 03:57 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Alcohol left in the wrong conditions will deteriorate too. A 20yo vodka will likely be <80 proof
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: ShroomGoddess]
#26575498 - 04/03/20 04:04 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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As long as there no mold growing on the shrooms, yoire good to go!
I wonder what kind of trip u would have from shrooms aged for so long......
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#26575588 - 04/03/20 04:48 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
LogicaL Chaos said: I wonder what kind of trip u would have from shrooms aged for so long......
Not much of one, unless you consider his trips to the bathroom after eating decades-old fungus
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: Korean Jesus]
#26575776 - 04/03/20 06:18 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hell yes eat them!!!!! Please let us know how you go!
Dehydration is an age old way of preserving food... I’m confident they’ll be safe to eat if still cracker dry
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: Isishroom]
#26576795 - 04/04/20 07:26 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yes, yes. Consume and report back. ASAP. For the goood of the community.
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Re: Crazy question: can I take 20-year-old shrooms??? [Re: FrancoAmerican]
#26576856 - 04/04/20 08:27 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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So many assumptions the naysayers are making. Just because they were forgotten doesn't mean they were left out in the rain and blazing sun...
They must be moldy... they must have lost potency...
If they have simply been left in a dark, dry, temperate environment, after having been properly dehydrated in the first place. Well that is how we basically tell people to store shrooms anyway
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