BeefExtreme said:

Ill fucking try it with the next round of yeti and trip report if you just let this thing die.  I have a ninja airfryer.  I use it for brussels and asparagus and things.

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Smellyhobbit said:

No no no you fucking chuds don't get it. No one can KNOW anything. Nothing is real. If a nerd with cystic acne doesn't publish it in a journal it's not fact, it's conjecture. You're all retarded, and that's a peer reviewed fact. I'm your peer, I reviewed it, and I'm publishing it here. So maybe just relax and start air frying your mushrooms or eating them fresh but watch out your teeth actually probably might maybe destroy the actives worse than time and temperature or something.

Fools.

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Smellyhobbit said:

Do it with us, coward.

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I get the vibe this was all over intellectualised drama to justify using the fams air fryer instead of just buying something designed and tested exactly for this.

You know, a thing for drying and preserving food while retaining as much of its "natural benefits" as possible, with obviously a small trade off for having the ability to store them long term with minimal losses, like beefy says, they'll keep for a long time.

What nobody is mentioning is that any losses or perceived inefficiencies are mostly eclipsed by the metric fuck tonnes of cube shrooms that can grow with little efforts once someone knows what they're doing, especially with culture selection and isolations.

And they grow sooooo fast, and so easy to produce, that needing to store and preserving is also moot since anyone can essentially have fresh shrooms on tap if they want that.

If you want stronger shrooms, or bored and want a challenge, grow some exotics.

So chiron and Dave, show ur dick pics, wouldn't you rather be harvesting the epic tubs you are so concerned about preserving correctly that its just turned into arguing past each other about all this stuff

You've both stopped engaging in any real conversations so there really isn't anything to gain here for anyone other than being entertaining, or infuriating to anyone reading now and till the end of time.....


Eww, that was exhausting, I feel kind of dirty now, and I just had a shower.

Smellyhobbit said:

Proud of you

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chopity said:

Im tripping and like abstract thoughts. In a way the guys using the dehydrators are the current innovators since its a relatively new invention.

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Actually, that's unironically a really good point right there. I was just talking with a friend who regaled me with stories about his buddy who used to pick field shrooms and sell them on Dead tour back in the late 80's. He mentioned helping this guy hang many lbs of shrooms from clotheslines all over an apartment where they just had a bunch of box fans running. I remember scoring shrooms for the first time around then, and scoring my first qp of cultivated shrooms a few years later. All of them were quite obviously air-dried, and also fully intact.

I did actually score a spore syringe and instruction booklet from Psilocybe Fanaticus about 25 years ago, a couple years before the Feds crawled up his butt. The core of PF tek remains the same, and has stood the test of time. But there was a lot of auxiliary stuff laid out in that booklet that hasn't. The drying method he laid out- that I followed religiously- was predicated on the idea that heat destroys potency. It involved building a frame and attaching a screen to it, putting fruits on top of the screen, and then sealing the whole thing up in thick plastic sheeting with a bunch of damprid in the bottom. It worked, and the fruits I got from that little adventure didn't last very long anyway.

When I started cultivating in earnest, I still somewhat bought into "heat kills potency." More to the point, though, I was cheap and stubborn and going for , and figured that an Excalibur would be the only dehydrator that could possibly fit the volume of fruits I was hoping to produce. Back then, I was also still keeping them intact, due to interest in bag appeal. So I got a bunch of these hanging weed drying racks and went all Wile E. Coyote in designing a whole drying room.

Then I realized that was silly, and bought a small cheap dehydrator.

So it's not just that dehydrators are a recent invention. It's that cheap effective dehydrators that can handle a large amount of material are an even MORE recent invention, and the idea that heat kills potency...well, we're still fighting it, aren't we?

I dunno, though. I'm just a stick in the mud who's been blindly using my dehydrator for years now. And my french press, and my toaster oven, and...

Chiron098 said:

I never went against dehydrators lol. And I can't buy one. Is not possible to buy one. Don't ask why, just is. Don't say go to Goodwill because Goodwill doesn't exist where I live.

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