DERRAYLD said:

Do you have a small box fan/heater?

Just fanning on newspaper is asking for trouble, I've dried tonnage with fans and cardboard and I'll tell you one thing, you'd better move that shit fast and tell whomever takes it from you of the risks involved with the type of drying.

Potency loss is a major factor with ineffective drying.

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Kloakk said:

Use parchment paper(baking paper). Do you have a floor heated bathroom? If not use a fan or low setting in the oven with the door cracked. I've dried a lot of semilanceata on a bathroom floor

Wouldn't recommend this for bigger fruits tho.

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I don't have many heating options other than a hairdryer and that's not safe to run for as long as I need it. I think the oven sounds better in that case since it's safer and I actually did that with semilanceta after failing with a fan and paper and it worked better

What I just remembered is that I have a heating mat I bought when I was a complete noob, perhaps I can stick it in the dehydrator somehow and generate heat through that instead.

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What I just remembered is that I have a heating mat I bought when I was a complete noob, perhaps I can stick it in the dehydrator somehow and generate heat through that instead.

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dinosaurs said:

I'd be really careful with this and do a pilot batch before proceeding.  gas stoves handle this no problem but my electric stove completely ruined a test batch using the same method. 

not second-guessing any of the good advice given here, just be aware that this is a possibility and proceed with caution.

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chris77 said:

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What I just remembered is that I have a heating mat I bought when I was a complete noob, perhaps I can stick it in the dehydrator somehow and generate heat through that instead.

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dinosaurs said:

I'd be really careful with this and do a pilot batch before proceeding.  gas stoves handle this no problem but my electric stove completely ruined a test batch using the same method. 

not second-guessing any of the good advice given here, just be aware that this is a possibility and proceed with caution.

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Stove?

I have an electric OVEN.

Leave the door open halfway and point a fan at the oven.

Just like this, pile the cardboard and slide it in the oven.
The photo is literally before I slid the mushrooms into the oven.
In the past I ran dehydrators and the oven if I had  kgs of mush.

DERRAYLD said:

dinosaurs said:

I'd be really careful with this and do a pilot batch before proceeding.  gas stoves handle this no problem but my electric stove completely ruined a test batch using the same method. 

not second-guessing any of the good advice given here, just be aware that this is a possibility and proceed with caution.

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Stove?

I have an electric OVEN.

Leave the door open halfway and point a fan at the oven.

Just like this, pile the cardboard and slide it in the oven.
The photo is literally before I slid the mushrooms into the oven.
In the past I ran dehydrators and the oven if I had  kgs of mush.

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SkanskKorv said:

dinosaurs said:

I'd be really careful with this and do a pilot batch before proceeding.  gas stoves handle this no problem but my electric stove completely ruined a test batch using the same method. 

not second-guessing any of the good advice given here, just be aware that this is a possibility and proceed with caution.

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Yeah that's what I'm trying to do. But won't it work with just air drying with no heat in the dehydrator? I've never tried so that why I'm uncertain about it but technically it should work right?

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dinosaurs said:

ok.  test with a small batch before potentially ruining a large one.

(and make sure you're maintaining a fresh air source if your $kitchen_appliance_that_cooks_food is gas powered so you don't end up with carbon monoxide poisoning.)

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DERRAYLD said:

We acknowledge that, he is in a bind and currently doesn't have the financial means to justify buying a dehydrator to dry 20g of pans.

That being said, adding some heat to a dehydrator would be better than no heat.

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I agree, this isn't ideal but that was pointed out before. Desperate times require desperate solutions.

DERRAYLD said:

Use corrugated cardboard for drying.

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What's wrong with baking paper?
That is the only time fruits did not stick to it, just asking, never tried cardboard.