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pimmp1969
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Preserving shrooms with dry ice
#5710019 - 06/04/06 01:35 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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would this fuck them up?? i dint have a fridge or freezer so could i jus put them in bags an drop them in a cooler with dry ice, add some every day would this mess up potency?
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Re: Preserving shrooms with dry ice [Re: pimmp1969]
#5710072 - 06/04/06 01:53 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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This would probably be fine, however they would be horrible consitency after you thawed them. But I think they would keep that way. Expensive ass way to do it though.
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Re: Preserving shrooms with dry ice [Re: pimmp1969]
#5710083 - 06/04/06 01:55 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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no it shouldn't... however it might make them mushy just like if you froze them. i guess the real question is why freeze them rather than just drying them? if your paranoid about preserving max potency once they are dried you can put some dry ice in the bottom of a loosely closed canning jar and let it melt and fill it w/ co2 to drive out all the O2.
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Re: Preserving shrooms with dry ice [Re: pimmp1969]
#5710160 - 06/04/06 02:27 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
pimmp1969 said: would this fuck them up??
Yes it would.
You cannot freeze fresh shrooms (maybe freeze dry if you have the technology))
The freezing process busts up the cell walls exposing the goodness and oxidising it so rendering them with no potency.
Once they are cracker dry you can keep them in the freezer if you wish but in my opinion this is just overkill
Correct me if i'm wrong on thisone guys but IMHO I've never heard of anyone succesfully retaining potency by freezing
Edited by orissacube (06/04/06 02:30 AM)
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Re: Preserving shrooms with dry ice [Re: orissacube]
#5710182 - 06/04/06 02:38 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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i know a dude that ALWAYS puts them in the freezer after they're dry. this guy also thinks that desiccant gives you cancer so he refuses to use it, uses fans instead, and puts them in the freezer only partially dry. i agree though, how would freezing shrooms help keep em nice and potent?
personally, i just dry with desiccant, bag em up, and keep em in a container with some silica gel packets (outside of the bag)
i would not use dry ice...does not sound like a good idea.
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musher_420
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I know that silica gel its self is basically harmless as sand. But I believe that the little crystals that go from blue to pink or from blue to white in order to indicate how much water it has absorbed are carcinogenic.
Best way to store mush is dry in an air tight container.
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Re: Preserving shrooms with dry ice [Re: musher_420]
#5714056 - 06/05/06 06:36 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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well calcium chloride is the moisture absorbing ingredient, but i think the color indicator is a different story. if that stuff is still calcium chloride there must be some difference. the stuff i have is just plaint white, no indicator except for when it all starts to clumb together.
but you never know. i still like desiccant way better than fans so i will continue to use it. if i end up getting cancer i will be sure to make a post titled "fuck desiccant" and you can all read about how im dying.
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> how would freezing shrooms help keep em nice and potent?
Heat speeds up chemical reactions, like the decomposition of psilocybin. The rule of thumb is that for every 10C the rate of reaction doubles.
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