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xaeviax
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Idea for drying shrooms
#5656902 - 05/21/06 03:59 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ive read a lot of people on here who dont have dehydrators and dont know what to do. I was watching the food network just a few days ago and I saw an episode where a guy was showing how to make beef jerky. When he got to the part where he had to dry the meat, he said not to use a dehydrator but to do this:
Get a few (3-4) AC filters (the blue ones that go over your vents). These filters have little ripples. What he did was take the strips of beef and layed them in these ripples. He then stacked them and put them on top of an area fan. He used bungee cords to strap the filters to the fan and left the fan on low.
I have not tried this and I dont know of anyone that has tried this with mushrooms. But it seems to me that if you can use a food dehydrator for beef and mushrooms that you can also use the filters for mushrooms since they work with beef.
This is just a thought and any comments or other ideas are welcome. Hope this helps someone.
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Atheist
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Re: Idea for drying shrooms [Re: xaeviax]
#5657114 - 05/21/06 04:46 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah it'd probably work, just finish with a desiccant to remove everything the fan didnt get.
I dunno if I read it right but it sounds like a homemade dehydrator.
Bottomline, dehydrators are ultimate. I bought one and returned it like a month later.
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Re: Idea for drying shrooms [Re: xaeviax]
#5657129 - 05/21/06 04:50 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Haha dude i seen that show too, as soon as he got to that drying method i had the same thought in my head. I never tried it, but seems like a great idea.
I dont see why it wouldnt work.....the fan provides constant airflow, there is no way any moisture will form, also dries pretty fast too.
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SpicyTunaRoll said: Yeah it'd probably work, just finish with a desiccant to remove everything the fan didnt get.
I dunno if I read it right but it sounds like a homemade dehydrator.
Bottomline, dehydrators are ultimate. I bought one and returned it like a month later.
There is no need for desiccant with this method, and its a little diff from a regular dehydrator. The guy on the show showed how to make a home-made dehydrator, and he said that it makes sort of like a DESERT evnvironment or w/e. But then he went on and said that even tho desert is great, the BEST places on earth to dry things would be up on the mountains, high altitude, where there is little oxygen. So he created this thing out of the AC filters and said it forms that kind of environment.
Edited by TMshroom (05/21/06 04:57 PM)
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Re: Idea for drying shrooms [Re: xaeviax]
#5657141 - 05/21/06 04:53 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Tour THRIFT STORES.
You can often find a decent/good/primo dehydrator, for far less than the cost of several new furnace filters. My thrift store Excalibur model cost $8 & does a perfect job.

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Re: Idea for drying shrooms [Re: TMshroom]
#5657142 - 05/21/06 04:53 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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liken the idea think i may try this when i harvest
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