Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate   Myyco.com Isolated Cubensis Liquid Culture For Sale   North Spore Boomr Bag   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
using an instapot to sterilize brown rice grain jars
    #27499119 -

So i cooked my brown rice for 10 mins as directed by tek, rinsed, strained it and let it dry on paper towel and let it cool down and put it in jars with a hole in the lid and 2 layers of microfilm over the hole and then put foil over the tops of them, so bam got that part outta the way now my question is can i sterelize these bad boys in this instapot? if so how much water do i put in the cooker and what setting should i put it on and what should i do from here? I also bought some perlite today if thats needed, and waiting for my coco coir to come in the mail

here's a pic of my jars and instapot..ive also made a ghetto spacer for the jars for when i put em in the cooker, i know it looks shot out but hey if it works, it works..any advice from here would be greatly appreciated! this is my first attempt at growing by the way..thanks in advance!


--------------------
Karma&GoodVibez0NlY

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: using an instapot to sterilize brown rice grain jars [Re: Calcoastking]
    #27499124 -

the pics are in my profile gallery, sorry i tried to upload them with my post but it wouldnt let me


--------------------
Karma&GoodVibez0NlY

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: using an instapot to sterilize brown rice grain jars [Re: Calcoastking]
    #27499241 -

You just copy the link it gives you into a post.



Fwiw the instapot is a gimmicky kitchen gadget not a sterilizer


--------------------
Everything you need in one spot.

My Q&A thread. Ask me questions here rather than in Private Message
Bod's chat thread

5g a day keeps the 5g away

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: using an instapot to sterilize brown rice grain jars [Re: bodhisatta]
    #27499317 -

Fellow nub here. It looks like you're kind of following broke Boi? If so, I'd probably just follow it completely and do the steam sterilization step in a big pot rather than trying to figure out the instapot.

Search for instapot, I know people have used them or atleast talked about them, but I think I remember reading that they don't get to the correct pressures.

Edit: I was curious, so I searched it.  This thread seems to have reputable people talking about using it: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26520616

Some say to stretch the time out due to lower pressure, some say it does hit 15 psi. 

I don't know man, I'm a direction follower, especially if it's the first time I'm doing something. Variation on a tek is going to make it difficult to troubleshoot.

Thanks,
PurpleHat

Edited by PurpleHat (10/10/21 10:50 AM)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: using an instapot to sterilize brown rice grain jars [Re: Calcoastking]
    #27499333 -

I don't know any teks that use perlite and coir. I'd be hesitant about any using instapaot and brown rice. But good luck.


--------------------
"The Rolling Stones will break up over Brian Jones' dead body"    John Lennon

I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either.

Simulacrum
The truth which conceals that there is none

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: using an instapot to sterilize brown rice grain jars [Re: PurpleHat] * 1
    #27499335 -

I've had nothing but good luck with my Instapot. They're smaller than a straight-up pressure cooker, and they take a little longer to sterilize things, but they work.

I place the metal stand thing in the bottom of my Instapot so the jars don't touch the bottom. Fill about an inch of water, then place the jars inside. Instapots cook at 12psi, not 15psi like a typical pressure cooker, so you are supposed to sterilize for 1.5x the time suggested for pressure cookers. So for grains, people recommend 90 minutes, but in my Instapot I cook for 135 minutes.


--------------------


Important Links.

Be kind to others.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: using an instapot to sterilize brown rice grain jars [Re: joze]
    #27499349 -

First time I ever grew I used BRF for 1/2 pint cakes and did a steam sterilize in a regular cooking pot and it worked

Got a PC after that and moved up to grain

What are you inoculating with?

If you're spawning to bulk you just need the coir, no perlite.

Perlite is used for fruiting Chambers and cakes

Coco coir is used as sub for bulk growing

I've never used an insta pot but sounds like it can work.

I'd try and grab a PC, a small one isn't expensive and should fit at least 6 jars. Maybe can find a new one


--------------------
Within You , Without You


:mushroom2::levitate::mushroom2:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: using an instapot to sterilize brown rice grain jars [Re: Enkidu]
    #27500267 -

Instant pots and knock offs run at 10 or 13 psi. The will work not as good as a canner but if it's that or steam sterilizing the instant pots a better option.

Mine runs 3 hours max and that's what I set it to when I used mine.

If you don't have a proper canner indo highly suggest doing pf cakes though. Running grains is a bit hit or miss and you can start agar and still air box work. Getting good clean cultures and making liquid innoculant, to pf cakes is really Al one needs to have to get a bunch of shrooms

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: using an instapot to sterilize brown rice grain jars [Re: Drboomer] * 1
    #27500543 -

Drboomer said:
If you don't have a proper canner indo highly suggest doing pf cakes though. Running grains is a bit hit or miss and you can start agar and still air box work.


I sterilize rye berries in my Instapot and haven't had a single jar come out contaminated. I don't know why I see people shit on Instapots so much.

I get that a real pressure cooker is better, it gets to 15psi. But as a person living in a small apartment, who does this as a hobby, I don't have the luxury of getting all the best and biggest equipment - and I feel like most users of this forum are probably like me. I use a shitty SAB and an Instapot, and I run grains in glass peanut butter jars with unmodified lids, and I have great results.


--------------------


Important Links.

Be kind to others.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: using an instapot to sterilize brown rice grain jars [Re: Calcoastking]
    #27657609 -

This study says the Instant Pot can sterilize:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0208769


--------------------
Curiosity killed the cat
Satisfaction brought it back

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate   Myyco.com Isolated Cubensis Liquid Culture For Sale   North Spore Boomr Bag   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* brown rice grain is next bilcapo 2,216 3 06/20/01 04:49 PM
by L3D
* What about Brown Rice? paranoiac21 1,618 11 08/09/01 06:59 PM
by puscle
* question about brown rice ShroomyZ 1,344 1 07/18/01 07:27 PM
by Anno
* Brown Rice and water Juggles 1,018 3 01/27/02 10:19 PM
by jihead
* Question about using whole brown rice- Please help Zypher 2,339 5 09/26/01 06:24 PM
by Zypher
* DAMMIT! Burnt Grain / (Drier Grain = normal?) Pic Zwieback0 3,100 18 11/04/02 03:33 AM
by On_the_Down-Low
* Re: Could i use JUST brown rice for substrate? Anonymous 12,691 5 05/24/00 08:13 PM
by Psychonaut
* Re: Whole Brown Rice? Anonymous 2,552 9 12/18/99 08:38 PM
by Anonymous

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: DERRAYLD, Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, the_chosen_one, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
5,841 topic views. 12 members, 923 guests and 106 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.029 seconds spending 0.009 seconds on 14 queries.