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fungiamongi2
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When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator?????
#5371214 - 03/06/06 03:13 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ive got a couple monsters, caps the size of the top of a pint glass. it would crush the cap putting it straight into the nesco american harvest dehydrator i bought today so i was thinking of using some cardboard and extending the height of the shelf so these bigguns will fit. whatcha think?
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rod
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: fungiamongi2]
#5371243 - 03/06/06 03:22 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I,m guessing you got the 4 shelf model? Take 1 shelf and bust some of the bottom off,to extend for your bigguns, but as they dry, they will shrink.
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: fungiamongi2]
#5371244 - 03/06/06 03:22 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I just had a bunch of extra shelves and cut the middle out of them. That way I made each shelf have the size of 2.
It is so wonderful to have shrooms that big!
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fungiamongi2
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: dedjam]
#5371257 - 03/06/06 03:25 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah, the 4 shelfer.
I didnt really want to break a shelf out cause i want all the shelves for the rest of em that arent as big.
if i had a bunch of shelves, or if they werent more than 10 buck a pop, id do that
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: fungiamongi2]
#5371269 - 03/06/06 03:27 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I just cut the caps off and put them flat. Some of the curly ones can be hard to put in there.
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rod
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: fungiamongi2]
#5371273 - 03/06/06 03:28 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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then take a long narrow piece of card board, and make into a cylinder,to extend the height, but be careful with the heat setting.
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Delinquentes
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: rod]
#5371706 - 03/06/06 05:21 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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This is the only problem I DESIRE to have!
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: Delinquentes]
#5371732 - 03/06/06 05:31 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah, me too.. i just cut the shelf out by cutting all of the shelf pieces along the edge with a wire cutter. im not sure if not having that center piece in is going to mess with the way there airflow design is. i think i may need to cut the center out, and put it in. so basically right now there is a ring spacer
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: fungiamongi2]
#5371767 - 03/06/06 05:39 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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That will work fine. Good going, man!
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: fungiamongi2]
#5371870 - 03/06/06 06:11 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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http://www.nesco.com/products/?category=300&subcat=200&id=33
more expensive than just breaking a tray, but you might need to order extra trays one day anyway.
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: A0999]
#5371916 - 03/06/06 06:32 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I know you've already remedied your situation, but I've got another suggestion just for the hell of it.
You could have just used a regular fan to dry it for a couple of hours, then put it into the dehydrator once it shrunk up a bit.
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#5371920 - 03/06/06 06:35 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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 Either cut off the caps, or get a bigger model dehydrator
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tiny_rabid_birds
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: agar]
#5371922 - 03/06/06 06:37 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Holy hell. That's for dehydrating an entire field full of mushrooms...
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#5371995 - 03/06/06 07:06 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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It will do a cow's worth of beef jerky. 
It will also dry well over 1 TON of h/poo or compost at a go. 
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Re: When your mushrooms are way too big to fit in the dehydrator????? [Re: agar]
#5372065 - 03/06/06 07:28 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hmm.. I can't help but think that may be how you plan to package and distribute myco-nitro once it hits the commercial market.
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