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ssjwizard
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Vaccume Drier
#5443320 - 03/26/06 05:58 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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ok so i happen to be quite skilled in the ways of HVAC. now ive got some spare parts liein around and i know that heat is bad for dring mushrooms. not long ago i build a vaccume chamber for evaporating solvents out of my extractions. ok so with some small modifications(larger chamber) i could set up this unit to vaccume dry my mushrooms. now at the negative preasures generated(not realy neg but lower then normal atmospheric preasure) water boils around 100F, now this would allow dring of mushroms quickly at room tempratures. my only concern tho is this extreme drop in boiling point do i risk also boiling the psilocybin?
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Re: Vaccume Drier [Re: ssjwizard]
#5443498 - 03/26/06 08:45 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well, psilocybin has a melting point of roughly 200 degrees C, which is approaching 400 degrees F.
Are you likely to reduce the pressure enough to boil the psilocybin?
But I have bad news for you:
That doesn't matter.
You could take psilocybin crystals (assuming that possession of such a compound is legal in your location at the time), melt them down, and boil them, then recrystallize them with negligible losses, so long as you did so under an inert atmosphere.
This notion that heat destroys psilocybin/psilocin is bunkness... at least partly.
Oxygen oxidizes them, and heat increases the rate of reaction.
So the thing to worry about is the air, either over a long (long, long) period of time, or in the presence of excessive heat.
I hope this helps.
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Edited by Teon (03/26/06 01:36 PM)
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Re: Vaccume Drier [Re: ssjwizard]
#5443736 - 03/26/06 10:45 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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well if u make a vacumme chamber id use dry ice to freeze them ..i want to attempt to use a vaccume sealer the kind u can hook up to a jar and makes the marshmellows huge..throw my shrooms in that frozen with dry ice then throw the jar in a dehydrator for a few hours...and i belive then u will have freeze dried mushrooms
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Re: Vaccume Drier [Re: ssjwizard]
#5443748 - 03/26/06 10:51 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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ssjwizard said: i know that heat is bad for dring mushrooms.
Not at all. 
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ssjwizard
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ok so sounds like ill be alright then, when i get some time(probably in a few months) ill make up a new chamber to atach to my vaccume pump and give it a shot. should be able to dehydrate the mushies in a mater of a few hours this way and since its vaccume theres an absolute minimum amount of oxy and other gasses for a reaction to take place.
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Re: Vaccume Drier [Re: ssjwizard]
#5446418 - 03/27/06 06:32 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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haha exactlly bro... that was what i was thinking.... when i get a sealer like that.. ill also put a bunch of dri ice in there with the shrooms... the vacumm will suck the co2 out anyway WITH the water and theroeticlly will be so cold and vaporise before it turns to liquid agin ...that is freeze drying and no 02 in there to degrade the psyillocin
Edited by ZEPH (03/27/06 06:35 AM)
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