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pleezr
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few questions about rye, syringes, and fruiting
#563207 - 02/25/02 11:51 PM (22 years, 11 months ago) |
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figure i might posibly get these questions answered in one post
1. When steeping rye to get the correct moisture content, is it ok to have exploded kernals? i steeped for 45 min but i feel like too many exploded. This normal?
2. When casing a quart jar in the jar itself, am I too expect bigger more robust fruits due to the substrate layer being so thick? The thicker the substrate the better right? would one get less out of a quart jar of rye when casing IN the jar compared to casing in a tray?
3. I made a few syringes the last few days. Every syringe I have mad or bought has had some clumps of spores and or noticable spores floating in it. The syringes i made today were different. I scraped the spores in a shot glass then gently squirted about 4cc of water from the syringe in it, they acted like oil and water, the spores turned to like a oily stain floating in water. ya with me? I hope you understand what i mean. As i pulled all the spore water in the syringe I could not see nothing at all, this should have been one dark syringe! I need to know if i should toss this syringe, guess i could find out for myself. Any ideas?
thanks in advance!
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Anno
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Re: few questions about rye, syringes, and fruiting [Re: pleezr]
#563320 - 02/26/02 01:53 AM (22 years, 11 months ago) |
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1. No, there should be hardly exploded kernels. The steeping time or temperature were out of order.
3. This is normal.
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Richard_Simmons
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Re: few questions about rye, syringes, and fruiting [Re: pleezr]
#563532 - 02/26/02 07:58 AM (22 years, 11 months ago) |
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I know exactly what you mean about the syringes. Some look like there's pepper floating around and other times the spores just dissolve into nothingness. I have found that the spores that dissolve and become invisible actually colonize faster. I think they are much better spread out.
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Re: few questions about rye, syringes, and fruiting [Re: pleezr]
#563552 - 02/26/02 08:27 AM (22 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have about 10-15% rye explode as well but never encountered any problems. What I do is bring water to hard boil befor adding rye. Then I reduce to a very low simmer for 45 minutes. There seems to be less explosions that way.
I also use quart jars but I crumble the rys into a aluminum baking dish then case. Never had any probs.
Syringes seem fine.
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Maddoc
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Re: few questions about rye, syringes, and fruiting [Re: pleezr]
#563913 - 02/26/02 03:01 PM (22 years, 11 months ago) |
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Casing within the Quart jar itself is a VERY old method from the old OSS and OERIC book.
It is an obsolete method, and having a thicker rye layer does not mean greater fruitings. It is much better to case in another opaque container to avoid pin formation underneath the casing layer.
I dont know why people steep rye grain, I dont believe it to be necessary, 1 cup rye, 200ml (short of 1 cup) water, in jar, seal, PC for 1 hour, done. No need to steep, drain, fill jar etc. I just find it easier.
When making syringes, I quickly stir the water with spore in it within the shot glass with the needle tip to created a black spore suspension. However, not seeing spores doesnt mean their not there. It may be necsessary to suck up/squirt out the water into the shot glass several times.
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