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Nibin
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Drying shrooms
#5291809 - 02/12/06 03:29 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Due to space restrictions I can't fan dry my shrooms and have decided to put them directly in an airtight container with a load of silica gel.
Will that dry them out enough (to cracker state)? Or should I make a second drying chamber using calcium chloride?
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c_glidden
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Re: Drying shrooms [Re: Nibin]
#5291817 - 02/12/06 03:32 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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buy a food dehydrator... so much better and easier
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tiny_rabid_birds
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Re: Drying shrooms [Re: Nibin]
#5291820 - 02/12/06 03:33 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Dude, you have to fan them.. like seriously... you have to. It takes a massive amount of desiccant to dry mushies to cracker dry. Dessicants are really only good for finishing the job, like drying them past what the fans can't do.
I've heard of people sun-drying, but even then, i'm pretty sure a fan was used to circulate air. And if you can't fan dry, the I doubt you could sun dry.
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Re: Drying shrooms [Re: c_glidden]
#5291826 - 02/12/06 03:37 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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c_glidden said: buy a food dehydrator... so much better and easier
Go to Bed Bath n Beyond and buy the 60 dollar dehydrator. Keep the receipt and you can return it whenever you are done, no 30 day bullshit, i've had mine for 2 months and i'm returning it this week. Oh and its SOOOOOO much easier.
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Re: Drying shrooms [Re: Atheist]
#5291890 - 02/12/06 04:01 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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cheap bastard lol...
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Re: Drying shrooms [Re: xaxphaanes]
#5291906 - 02/12/06 04:09 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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dont want to make another thread with this one up so ill ask here. my friend harvested today and said he wants to trip tongiht, i told him dont pick them till i get there so i can weigh them fresh (figuring 30g wet= 3g dry) but he went and picked them anyway and there drying as we speak but now i cant get an accurate measuremnt on weight. is there anyway to dry them quick like in a oven set to 130?
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Re: Drying shrooms [Re: headbig]
#5291994 - 02/12/06 04:46 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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headbig what you just did is called threadjacking. Ask your question in your OWN thread please.
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Re: Drying shrooms [Re: coda]
#5292843 - 02/12/06 09:29 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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It is my understanding that heat will cause the mushroom to loose some of their potency. So if I used a food dehydrator, wont i loose potency? Unless of course, i used one that did not give off heat. But if I were to use one like that, I had might as well be simply setting a the shrooms on some cardboard or newspaper and pointing a fan at it. Is this correct or is there something I'm missing?
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Re: Drying shrooms [Re: Atheist]
#5292893 - 02/12/06 09:42 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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SpicyTunaRoll said:
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c_glidden said: buy a food dehydrator... so much better and easier
Go to Bed Bath n Beyond and buy the 60 dollar dehydrator. Keep the receipt and you can return it whenever you are done, no 30 day bullshit, i've had mine for 2 months and i'm returning it this week. Oh and its SOOOOOO much easier.
$40 at the walmart
And you don't have to worry about the heat till near 200, the dehydrator can be set at 95, and I place it on a timer....
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