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FlyingTexan
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Can I overdry?
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I need to leave town for 24hrs and just did a flush. New to me, first flush, came out looking great. But should I put them in the fridge under paper towels for a day or put them in the dehydrator on a low setting? Can I over dry?
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TheStallionMang
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Straight to the dehydrator on high. 24 hrs there is optimal and if you go past that it's still fine
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FlyingTexan
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can we be a little more descriptive. I have a very nice dehydrator not some cheapo and I don't want to over do it? But 24hrs in there for all of them is fine?
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FlyingTexan
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I guess i need to be more specific myself. So 165 deg for 24hrs? It has a digital timer and everything
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FlyingTexan said: can we be a little more descriptive. I have a very nice dehydrator not some cheapo and I don't want to over do it? But 24hrs in there for all of them is fine?
I have a cheap oyster dehydrator from wally world. They last a good long while, and if you keep the spindle lubed for the fan it lasts even longer.
Some outdoor specimens are very large mushrooms. I will dry for 36hrs sometimes to not have to cut the mushroom up. I think the longer I ever ran it straight was 48hrs, I had 4 extra racks, and it was packed full all 8 racks.
Remember the dehydrator I have doesn't have a temp regulator, it just plugs in and runs, no on/off switch, whatever factory setting it has, it runs. I'm guessing its somewhere around 165°F, but that's a guess.
My opinion is some amount of time 'drying when there's no moisture left' is okay. Its like seinfeld, you can't over wet, you can't over dry.
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TheStallionMang
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FlyingTexan said: I guess i need to be more specific myself. So 165 deg for 24hrs? It has a digital timer and everything
165 for the entire time you're gone will be great. Don't set the timer to stop at 24 hrs because when it shuts off, they will begin to absorb moisture. You want to turn the dehydrator off when you get back and immediately put the fruits in an air tight jar with some desiccant packs to absorb the moisture that's in the air inside the jar
The general consensus is 24 hrs at max temp is long enough to get even the thickest of fruits 100% dry and you have to be somewhere over 200 degrees to overdo it so don't worry so much about it
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FlyingTexan
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Awesome thank you! I have mylar bags with packets waiting.
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TheStallionMang
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No problem and congrats on your good lookin first flush!
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FlyingTexan said: I guess i need to be more specific myself. So 165 deg for 24hrs? It has a digital timer and everything
165 for the entire time you're gone will be great. Don't set the timer to stop at 24 hrs because when it shuts off, they will begin to absorb moisture. You want to turn the dehydrator off when you get back and immediately put the fruits in an air tight jar with some desiccant packs to absorb the moisture that's in the air inside the jar
The general consensus is 24 hrs at max temp is long enough to get even the thickest of fruits 100% dry and you have to be somewhere over 200 degrees to overdo it so don't worry so much about it

I consider 24 hours the minimum, and typically pull the fruits and jar them in the 24-48 hour range.
I don't use desiccant packs, though. Instead, I heat jars before opening them, so they purge warm and potentially moist air when I crack the lid. And I start with the smallest practical size jars, and stuff them full as quickly as possible. So older fruits in the jar are getting heated and purged of any potential surface moisture multiple times. But I also smash my fruits into the jar, with zero concern for retaining their shape/appearance, because everything is getting ground to powder eventually anyway. If you're trying to keep fruit intact and store them long-term, I don't see any way around using desiccant packs or something similar.
Edited by B Traven (08/03/24 12:40 PM)
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