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agar
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HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE 1
#6753298 - 04/06/07 07:18 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Find/buy 2 large capacity metal STOCK POTS. (preferably commercial grade) One large enough the other will fit in it. Suspended by its handles, or sitting on a trivet.
 
EXAMPLE OF STOCK POT
[url=http://cgi.ebay.com/80-quart-aluminum-stock-pot-20 gallons_W0QQitemZ230112866186QQihZ013QQcategoryZ20630QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem]ANOTHER EXAMPLE[/url]
The pots sizes are only limited by your budget. (or, scrounging ability) And, stove top or burner capacity.
Fill smaller stock pot with hydrated substrate. Suspend smaller pot into larger pot. (by its handles, or sitting on a trivet)
Fill larger pot with hot water just over 3/4 full.
Apply heat, lots to start, to get water to 160/165 range.
Once at 160/165 range, lower & maintain that. Use probe thermometer to test substrate temperature.
Once substrate is in the 155/160 range. Maintain for minimum 1 hour, preferably 2.
Remove inner pot & allow to cool overnight. Fill trays & add wbs/grain spawn.
If you have two (2) of the smaller pots. You can cycle in another batch, immediately.
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jahlove
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: agar]
#6753381 - 04/06/07 08:08 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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will this work over using a pillow case i hate pillow cases.and im guessing water is never introduced into the poo?
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agar
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: jahlove]
#6753416 - 04/06/07 08:25 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Substrate in smaller stock pot is hydrated first. Hot water in larger pot cannot enter the small pot.
I also dislike the pillow case method. Hot heavy wet bag of h/poo dripping poo juice. Is not a nice thing to deal with.
LOL, years back, used gunny sack, in 55 gallon hot water drum. Once done. Frigging hot sack was so heavy. I could not get it out of the drum.
Set up a tripod & used a come-a-long. To winch bag out of the barrel. Once bag was out of the barrel. Seam on gunny sack broke. 100 lbs of HOT wet steaming h/poo hit the floor.
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: agar]
#6753472 - 04/06/07 08:43 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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i would have helped clean it up...LOL
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: agar]
#6753507 - 04/06/07 08:53 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Oh man that paints a great picture! Stronger bag and an engine hoist? LOL!
BTW the ebay pots have got some funk.
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agar
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: Oatman2000]
#6753508 - 04/06/07 08:54 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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One other BAD thing about cloth bags of hot-wet h/poo. Hanging to drain/drip out excess moisture.
The smell will draw all the fungus gnats, in a 10 mile radius. Like FREE CRACK, draws crackheads to a ghetto drug house. I mean thousands of the bastards, like a locust swarm.
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cpw1971
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: Oatman2000]
#6753512 - 04/06/07 08:55 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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or you could get a big mash tun for homebrewing
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Akira
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: Oatman2000]
#6753513 - 04/06/07 08:55 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I need at least a 50 gallon pot...
Yeah I hate the pillow case too, last time the poo juice dripped all over my feet, my toes felt warm. That's why I switched over to the steam/cooler technique. This pot in pot seems like a very efficient way too though...
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agar
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: Oatman2000]
#6753523 - 04/06/07 09:00 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Oatman2000 said:
 i would have helped clean it up...LOL
Oat, only a truly dedicated mycologist, would even offer. Clean-up was NO FUN. Used a snow shovel & wheelbarrow. Hauled most of it to the compost pile.
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: agar]
#6753628 - 04/06/07 09:48 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm happy with my 3 electric roaster ovens I picked up for $10 each, and pillow cases. I do agree tho that hot dripping poo water on feet isn't much fun.
Then I realised I can just pull the tray from the oven and gently pour it over my oven rack above my sink.
Only thing I don't get is that the middle of my pillowcase will be reading 140 and the outside edges of water are at 170, even after letting it sit in this state for 24 hours just to see if it would equalize.
If I could scrounge up the pots tho, I'd probably change up to that.
I don't like pillowcases of poo over my sink overnight, and sometimes it ends up stinking to high heaven by the next morning.
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: Eraserhead]
#6753670 - 04/06/07 10:05 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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one idea that hasnt been mentioned in here yet, is one that rogerrabbit mentioned. most people have a pressure cooker...and most people have access to a hardware store taht carries heat resistant rubber tubing...
basically, you might see where this is going.
if not, you hook the heat resistant tubing up to a pressure cookers little nipple steam nozzle, run the hose to a box, and said box is your live steam pasturization box...which is basically a rubbermaid type box.
a pressure cooker should produce more than enough steam to pasturize your substrate.
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Re: HOW TO PASTEURIZE "LOTS" OF SUBSTRATE [Re: dysphoria]
#6754095 - 04/06/07 12:44 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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dysphoria, have you seen the tek for that?
sounds interesting.
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